PEDF: A pigment epithelium-derived factor with potent neuronal differentiative activity

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 411-414

  Tombran Tink, Joyce ^a,b   Chader, Gerald G ^b   Johnson, Lincoln V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETTER; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RETINOBLASTOMA;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; NEURONS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RATS; RETINA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0025772716     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(91)90248-D     Document Type: Letter

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