Enhanced neurotrophic activity in Alzheimer's disease cortex is not associated with down-regulation of metallothionein-III (GIF)

Brain Research

Volumn 649, Issue 1-2, 1994, Pages 297-304

  Erickson, Jay C ^a   Sewell, Andrew K ^b   Jensen, Laran T ^b   Winge, Dennis R ^b   Palmiter, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cadmium exchange assay; Cortical neuron culture; Growth inhibitory factor (GIF); Human brain extract; Metallothionein; MT III, recombinant; Neurotrophic factor

Indexed keywords

BRAIN EXTRACT; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CADMIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

EID: 0028263925     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)91076-6     Document Type: Article

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