Cationic lipid-mediated NGF gene transfection increases neurofilament phosphorylation

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 13-20

  Yang, K ^a   Xue, J J ^a   Qiu, Y H ^a   Perez Polo, J R ^b   Whitson, J ^a   Faustinella, F ^c   Kampfl, A ^a   Zhao, X ^a   Iwamoto, Y ^a   Mu, X S ^a   Clifton, G ^a   Hayes, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cationic lipid; Cell culture; Gene transfer; Nerve growth factor; Neurofilament; Septo hippocampal system

Indexed keywords

CATION; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIPID; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FETUS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIPIDS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; CUCUMBER MOSAIC VIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS;

EID: 0030608484     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(96)00142-8     Document Type: Article

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