Nerve growth factors and the control of neurotransmitter phenotype selection in the mammalian central nervous system

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-43

  Zhou, Jiawei ^a   Bradford, Henry F ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACIDIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; ANTIBODY; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FORSKOLIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; ISOBUTYLMETHYLXANTHINE; LEVODOPA; METENKEPHALIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NEUROTROPHIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; RECEPTOR; SUBSTANCE P; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 0030839575     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0082(97)00030-0     Document Type: Review

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