TrkB and neurotrophin-4 are important for development and maintenance of sympathetic preganglionic neurons innervating the adrenal medulla

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 7272-7284

  Schober, Andreas ^a   Wolf, Nicole ^a   Huber, Katrin ^a   Hertel, Richard ^a   Krieglstein, Kerstin ^a   Minichiello, Liliana ^c   Kahane, Nitza ^b   Widenfalk, Johan ^d   Kalcheim, Chaya ^b   Olson, Lars ^d   Klein, Rüdiger ^c   Lewin, Gary R ^e   Unsicker, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenal chromaffin cells; Knock out mice; Neurotrophin receptors; Neurotrophins; NT 4; Spinal cord neurons

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PREGANGLIONIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; ZONA FASCICULATA; ZONA GLOMERULOSA;

EID: 17344367304     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-18-07272.1998     Document Type: Article

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