Isolation and characterization of a new immortal rat astrocyte with a high expression of NGF mRNA

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-212

  Morikawa, Masayuki ^a,b   Asai, Kiyofumi ^a   Kokubo, Minoru ^a   Fujita, Kaori ^a   Yoneda, Kazuhiro ^a   Yamamoto, Naoki ^a   Inoue, Yuichiro ^a,b   Iida, Junzo ^b   Kishimoto, Toshifumi ^b   Kato, Taiji ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Glial fibrillary acidic protein; Immortalization; Nerve growth factor; SV40 T antigen

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ANTIGEN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUCLADESINE; CARBACHOL; DOPAMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOPRENALINE; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL GROWTH; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SERUM; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO; KARYOTYPING; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035135980     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(00)00217-0     Document Type: Article

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