Simulated microgravity conditions enhance differentiation of cultured PC12 cells towards the neuroendocrine phenotype

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Animal

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 316-325

  Lelkes, Peter I ^a   Galvan, Daniel L ^b   Thomas Hayman, G ^a   Goodwin, Thomas J ^c   Chatman, Dawn Y ^c   Cherian, Sunu ^a   Garcia, Raul M G ^a   Unsworth, Brian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Differentiation; PC12 cells; PCR; PNMT; Rotating wall vessel bioreactor; Simulated microgravity; TH

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL STRAIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; SIMIAN T-LYMPHOTROPIC VIRUS 3;

EID: 0032441307     PISSN: 10712690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11626-998-0008-y     Document Type: Article

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