Biosynthetic capacity of C6 cells engineered with a glial fibrillary acidic protein-tyrosine hydroxylase transgene

Medical Science Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 423-425

  Trejo, Francisco ^a   Vergara, Paula ^c   Brenner, Michael ^b   Segovia, José ^d  

^a Programa Mulîidisciplinario de Biomedicina Molecular

^b Biofisica Y Neurociencias Del Centra de Investigation   (Mexico)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d Departamento de Fisiologia Biofisica Y Neurociencias Del Centra de Investigaciön Y de Estudios Avanzados Del IPN Av Instituto Politécnico Nacional   (Mexico)

Author keywords

C6 cells; Dopamine; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; L DOPA; Parkinson's Disease; Transgene; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LEVODOPA; TYROSINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GLIOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; RAT; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032797947     PISSN: 02698951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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