Expression analysis of the long non-coding RNA antisense to Uchl1 (AS Uchl1) during dopaminergic cells’ differentiation in vitro and in neurochemical models of Parkinson’s disease

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Carrieri, Claudia ^a   Forrest, Alistair R R ^b   Santoro, Claudio ^c   Persichetti, Francesca ^c   Carninci, Piero ^b   Zucchelli, Silvia ^a,c   Gustincich, Stefano ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Antisense transcription; Dopaminergic cells; Long non coding RNA; Nurr1; Parkinson s disease

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOWN REGULATION; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; MURINAE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84927615971     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00114     Document Type: Article

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