Genetic Background Affects Human Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Promoter Activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bai, Xianshu ^a   Saab, Aiman S ^a   Huang, Wenhui ^a   Hoberg, Isolde K ^a   Kirchhoff, Frank ^a   Scheller, Anja ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DNA METHYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HISTONE METHYLATION; INBRED STRAIN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BREEDING; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSGENES;

MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84879477475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066873     Document Type: Article

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