Translation of the focus toward excellence in translational science: Comment on "TDP-43 repression of nonconserved cryptic exons is compromised in ALS-FTD"

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 493-495

  Pochet, Roland ^a,b   Nicaise, Charles ^c   Mitrecic, Dinko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c University of Namur   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ATG4B PROTEIN, HUMAN; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TDP-43 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TDP-43 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXON; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; ANIMAL; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; MOUSE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; EXONS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84948760879     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2015.56.493     Document Type: Article

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