Activin promotes astrocytic differentiation of a multipotent neural stem cell line and an astrocyte progenitor cell line from murine central nervous system

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 284, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 143-146

  Satoh, Motonobu ^a   Sugino, Hiromu ^b   Yoshida, Touho ^a  

^a Institute for Fermentation Osaka   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activin; Astrocyte progenitor; Astrocytic differentiation; Cell line; Central nervous system stem cell; Leukemia inhibitory factor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE; CELL TYPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE I; ACTIVIN RECEPTORS, TYPE II; ACTIVINS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROWTH INHIBITORS; INHIBINS; INTERLEUKIN-6; LEUKEMIA INHIBITORY FACTOR; LYMPHOKINES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD4 PROTEIN; STEM CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0034724985     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00981-2     Document Type: Article

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