A hydrophilic peptide comprising 18 amino acid residues of the prosaposin sequence has neurotrophic activity in vitro and in vivo

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2197-2200

  Kotani, Yasunori ^a   Matsuda, Seiji ^a   Wen, Tong Chun ^a   Sakanaka, Masahiro ^a   Tanaka, Junya ^a   Maeda, Nobuji ^a   Kondoh, Keiji ^a   Ueno, Shu Ichi ^a   Sano, Akira ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active sequence; Hippocampal neurons; ischemia; Neurotrophic activity; Prosaposin

Indexed keywords

PROSAPOSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROPHILICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029996085     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1996.66052197.x     Document Type: Article

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