Evidence for active acetylcholine metabolism in human amniotic epithelial cells: Applicable to intracerebral allografting for neurologic disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-56

  Sakuragawa, Norio ^a   Misawa, Hidemi ^b   Ohsugi, Keiko ^a   Kakishita, Kouji ^a   Ishii, Takashi ^a   Thangavel, Ramasamy ^a   Tohyama, Jun ^a   Elwan, Mohamed ^a   Yokoyama, Yasunobu ^c   Okuda, Osamu ^a,d   Arai, Hajime ^a,d   Ogino, Ikuko ^d   Sato, Kiyoshi ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Ctr Molec Biol Cytogenet S   (Japan)

^d JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Choline acetyltransferase; Human amniotic epithelial cells

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYSOSOME STORAGE DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMNIOTIC FLUID; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PLACENTA; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0030764188     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00570-3     Document Type: Article

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