Neurotrophins promote the survival and development of neurons in the cerebellum of hypothyroid rats in vivo

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 631-646

  Neveu, Isabelle ^a   Arenas, Ernest ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RIBONUCLEASE; THYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RECEPTOR, TRKC; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SYNAPSES; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0030011451     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.133.3.631     Document Type: Article

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