Metallothionein-IIA promotes neurite growth via the megalin receptor

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 171-180

  Fitzgerald, Melinda ^a   Nairn, Pia ^a   Bartlett, Carole A ^a   Chung, Roger S ^c   West, Adrian K ^c   Beazley, Lyn D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Metallothionein; Neuroregeneration; Retinal ganglion cells

Indexed keywords

MEGALIN; MEGALIN ANTIBODY; MEGALIN RECEPTOR; METALLOTHIONEIN II; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; MALE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES; CELLS, CULTURED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; LDL-RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 2; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; NEURITES; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34848813494     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1032-y     Document Type: Article

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