Osteonectin is a Schwann cell-secreted factor that promotes retinal ganglion cell survival and process outgrowth

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2611-2623

  Bampton, Edward T W ^a,b   Ma, Chi Him ^a   Tolkovsky, Aviva M ^b   Taylor, Jeremy S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glia; Growth factor; Rat; Visual system

Indexed keywords

K 252A; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; OSTEONECTIN; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CULTURE MEDIUM; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RAT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SCHWANN CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL SURVIVAL; NEURITES; OSTEONECTIN; RATS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCHWANN CELLS; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 20644455120     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04128.x     Document Type: Article

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