Gap junctions modulate survival-promoting effects of fibroblast growth factor-2 on cultured midbrain dopaminergic neurons

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 44-55

  SiuYi Leung, Doreen ^a   Unsicker, Klaus ^a   Reuss, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OLEAMIDE; PROTEIN CX26; PROTEIN CX32; PROTEIN CX45; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EMBRYO; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034928352     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mcne.2001.1002     Document Type: Article

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