Age-dependent differences in the effects of GDNF and NT-3 on the development of neurons and glia from neural crest-derived precursors immunoselected from the fetal rat gut: Expression of GFRα-1 in vitro and in vivo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 385-406

  Chalazonitis, Alcmène ^a   Rothman, Taube P ^a   Chen, Jingxian ^a   Gershon, Michael D ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Enteric nervous system; GDNF; GFR 1; GFR 2; Gut; Hirschsprung's disease; Intestine; Nestin; Neural crest; NT 3; PCNA; Ret; TrkC

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS (ANATOMY); GLIA CELL; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; INTESTINE INNERVATION; MITOGENICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STEM CELL;

EID: 0032535234     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9090     Document Type: Article

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