Commercial recombinant human β-nerve growth factor and adult rat dorsal root ganglia contain an identical molecular species of nerve growth factor prohormone

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2127-2133

  Reinshagen, Max ^a   Geerling, Irmlind ^a   Eysselein, Viktor E ^b   Adler, Guido ^a   Huff, Kenneth R ^b   Moore, Geoffrey Philip ^c   Lakshmanan, Jayaraman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deglycosylation; Dorsal root ganglia; Nerve growth factor; Prohormone

Indexed keywords

HORMONE PRECURSOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR BETA SUBUNIT; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECOMBINANT NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; COLON; DEGLYCOSYLATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; CHEMILUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; COLON; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034006042     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2000.0742127.x     Document Type: Article

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