Mitogenic effects of tetrahydrobiopterin in PC12 cells

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 149-155

  Anastasiadis, Panagiotis Z ^a,e   States, J Christopher ^b   Imerman, Bruce A ^a   Louie, Marisa C ^a   Kuhn, Donald M ^c   Levine, Robert A ^a,d  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Surgical Research 4D   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROBIOPTERIN; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; METHOTREXATE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SEPIAPTERIN; SEPIAPTERIN REDUCTASE; TETRAHYDROBIOPTERIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GROWTH REGULATION; GROWTH STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MITOGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA CELL; PHOSPHATE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SECOND MESSENGER; SKIN FIBROBLAST;

ANIMALS; BIOPTERIN; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CYCLIC AMP; FIBROBLASTS; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MITOGENS; PC12 CELLS; RATS;

EID: 0030029394     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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