Nerve growth factor increases the synthesis and release of acetylcholine and the expression of vesicular acetylcholine transporter in primary cultured rat embryonic septal cells

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 381-387

  Oosawa, Hiromi ^a   Fujii, Takeshi ^a   Kawashima, Koichiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Cholinergic neurons; Nerve growth factor; Septum; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0033178646     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19990801)57:3<381::AID-JNR10>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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