Glial growth factor rescues Schwann cells of mechanoreceptors from denervation-induced apoptosis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 6697-6706

  Kopp, Diane M ^a   Trachtenberg, Joshua T ^a,b   Thompson, Wesley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Glial growth factor; Golgi tendon organ; Mechanoreceptor; Neuregulin; Pacinian corpuscle; Schwann calk denervation

Indexed keywords

NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEURITE PROMOTING FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; TENDON RECEPTOR;

EID: 0030844901     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-17-06697.1997     Document Type: Article

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