Specific function of B-Raf in mediating survival of embryonic motoneurons and sensory neurons

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 137-142

  Wiese, Stefan ^a   Pei, Geng ^a   Karch, Christoph ^a   Troppmair, Jakob ^b   Holtmann, Bettina ^a   Rapp, Ulf R ^b   Sendtner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RAF PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MICE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0035146138     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/83960     Document Type: Article

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