The biological effects of endogenous nerve growth factor on adult sensory neurons revealed by a trka-igg fusion molecule

Nature Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 774-779

  McMahon, Stephen B ^a   Bennett, David L H ^a   Priestley, John V ^a,b   Shelton, David L ^c  

^a Department of Physiology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CAPSAICIN; CARRAGEENAN; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFLAMMATION; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RATS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029085192     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0895-774     Document Type: Article

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