The UPF3B gene, implicated in intellectual disability, autism, ADHD and childhood onset schizophrenia regulates neural progenitor cell behaviour and neuronal outgrowth

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 4673-4687

  Jolly, Lachlan A ^a,b   Homan, Claire C ^a,c   Jacob, Reuben ^c   Barry, Simon ^b   Gecz, Jozef ^a,b,c  

^a SA Pathology ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL COUNT; CELL EXPANSION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PURKINJE CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRATUM PYRAMIDALE; UPF3B GENE; VIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SCHIZOPHRENIA, CHILDHOOD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84887562180     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt315     Document Type: Article

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