Activin and basic fibroblast growth factor regulate neurogenesis of murine embryonal carcinoma cells

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1679-1688

  Ameerun, Robert F ^a   De Winter, Johan P ^a   Van den Eijnden van Raaij, Adriana J M ^a   Den Hertog, Jeroen ^a   De Laat, Siegfried W ^a   Tertoolen, Leon G J ^a  

^a HUBRECHT INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL AGGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; EMBRYO; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CALCIUM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, REPORTER; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; INHIBINS; MICE; NEURITES; NEURONS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; TUMOR STEM CELLS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0029844432     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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