Activin facilitates neuronal development in the rat amygdala

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Trudeau, V L ^a   Theodosis, D T ^b   Poulain, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

Author keywords

Activin; Amygdala; Growth associated protein 43; Learning; Memory; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN; NEUROMODULIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH REGULATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ACTIVINS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ATROPHY; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHIBINS; MALE; NEURITES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030690971     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00796-9     Document Type: Article

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