Commercial mouse and human nerve growth factors contain nerve growth factor prohormone isoforms

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 75-81

  Reinshagen, M ^a   Geerling, I ^a   Lakshmanan, J ^b,c   Rohm, H ^a   Lutz, M P ^a   Soinila, S ^d   Eysselein, V E ^b   Adler, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Vysya College   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglia; Immunoblotting; Nerve growth factor; Prohormone processing; Target neuron

Indexed keywords

HORMONE PRECURSOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MICE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0030804609     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(97)00082-4     Document Type: Article

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