Rapid phosphorylation of Elk-1 transcription factor and activation of MAP kinase signal transduction pathways in response to visual stimulation

Molecular and Cellular Neurosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 405-414

  Kaminska, Bozena ^a,b   Kaczmarek, Leszek ^a,b   Zangenehpour, Shahin ^b   Chaudhuri, Avi ^b  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ONCOGENE C JUN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 0032794221     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1999.0757     Document Type: Article

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