Folate stimulates ERK1/2 phosphorylation and cell proliferation in fetal neural stem cells

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 226-232

  Zhang, Xu Mei ^a   Huang, Guo Wei ^a   Tian, Zhi Hong ^a   Ren, Da Lin ^a   Wilson, John X ^b  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Extracellular signal regulated kinase; Folate; Neural stem cells; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

1,4 DIAMINO 1,4 BIS(2 AMINOPHENYLTHIO) 2,3 DICYANOBUTADIENE; FOLIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEMISPHERE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; FETAL STEM CELLS; FOLIC ACID; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 71049120954     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/147683009X423418     Document Type: Article

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