Structure-function studies on PEDF: A noninhibitory serpin with neurotrophic activity

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 425, Issue , 1997, Pages 223-237

  Becerra, S Patricia ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DEGLYCOSYLATION; GRANULE CELL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROTROPISM; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; RETINOBLASTOMA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0031455819     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5391-5_21     Document Type: Article

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