Enhancement of dopaminergic properties and protection mediated by neuronal activation of Ras in mouse ventral mesencephalic neurones

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1971-1981

  Chakrabarty, Koushik ^a   Serchov, Tsvetan ^a   Mann, Stefan A ^a   Dietzel, Irmgard D ^a   Heumann, Rolf ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dopaminergic neurones; Neuroprotection; Neurospheres; Nurr1; Parkinson's disease; synRas

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAS PROTEIN; VALINE; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; EMBRYO; MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SODIUM CURRENT; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-ASSOCIATED DEATH PROTEIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOPAMINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDOPAMINE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RAS PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 34147204403     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05457.x     Document Type: Article

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