Development of survival responsiveness to brain-derived neurotrophic factor, neurotrophin 3 and neurotrophin 4/5, but not to nerve growth factor, in cultured motoneurons from chick embryo spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 7903-7911

  Becker, Elena ^b   Soler, Rosa M ^a   Yuste, Victor J ^a   Giné, Eva ^a   Sanz Rodríguez, César ^a,c   Egea, Joaquim ^a   Martín Zanca, Dionisio ^b   Comella, Joan X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE LA PRINCESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Chicken; Motoneuron; Neurotrophin; Neurotrophism; TrkB; TrkC nervous system

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032189428     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-19-07903.1998     Document Type: Article

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