Enhanced survival and morphological features of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in vitro: Role of neurotrophins and other potential cortically derived cholinergic trophic factors

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 406, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 156-170

  Ha, Dun H ^a   Robertson, Richard T ^a   Roshanaei, Mohsen ^a   Weiss, John H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Antibody neutralization; Cell culture; Choline acetyltransferase; Coculture

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FOREBRAIN; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0033526128     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990405)406:2<156::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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