Connexin 32 increases the proliferative response of Schwann cells to neuregulin-1 (Nrg1)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3567-3572

  Freidin, Mona ^a   Asche, Samantha ^a   Bargiello, Thaddeus A ^b   Bennett, Michael V L ^b   Abrams, Charles K ^a  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; CMTX; Cx32 knockout; Glial growth factor 2; Myelin

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 32; FORSKOLIN; NEU DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEURITE PROMOTING FACTOR; NEURITE PROMOTING FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MITOGENESIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHWANN CELL; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNEXINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUREGULIN-1; SCHWANN CELLS;

MUS;

EID: 62549145825     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0813413106     Document Type: Article

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