GDNF selectively induces microglial activation and neuronal survival in CA1/CA3 hippocampal regions exposed to NMDA insult through Ret/ERK signalling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Boscia, Francesca ^a   Esposito, Carla Lucia ^b   Di Crisci, Antonella ^a   de Franciscis, Vittorio ^b   Annunziato, Lucio ^a   Cerchia, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; PROTEIN RET; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID; RET PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROGLIA; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 68149139689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006486     Document Type: Article

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