GDNF expression is increased in denervated human skeletal muscle

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-90

  Lie, D Chichung ^a   Weis, Joachim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor; Neurogenic atrophy

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; GROWTH STIMULATION; HEREDITARY SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE REGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CELLS, CULTURED; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA;

EID: 0345487009     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00434-0     Document Type: Article

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