Developmental motoneuron cell death and neurotrophic factors

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 301, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-84

  Sendtner, Michael ^a   Pei, Geng ^a   Beck, Marcus ^a   Schweizer, Ulrich ^a   Wiese, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lumbar spinal cord; Motoneuron cell death; Neurotrophic factors; Rat

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CHICK EMBRYO; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; FOWL; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RODENT; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CILIARY NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROTEINS; RATS; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; X-LINKED INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN;

EID: 0033912318     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410000217     Document Type: Review

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