Neurotrophic factor protection against ethanol toxicity in rat cerebellar granule cell cultures requires phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-125

  Heaton, Marieta Barrow ^a   Kim, Danny S ^b   Paiva, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Ethanol; Fetal alcohol syndrome; Granule cells; Nerve growth factor; Neuroprotection; Phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BRAIN DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; WORTMANNIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; GRANULE CELL; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANDROSTADIENES; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ETHANOL; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 0034666156     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01398-7     Document Type: Article

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