Axotomy-induced neurotrophic withdrawal causes the loss of phenotypic differentiation and downregulation of NGF signalling, but not death of septal cholinergic neurons

Molecular Neurodegeneration

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lazo, Oscar M ^a   Mauna, Jocelyn C ^a,b   Pissani, Claudia A ^a   Inestrosa, Nibaldo C ^a   Bronfman, Francisca C ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CELL COUNT; CELL LABELING; CELL SURVIVAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FIMBRIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77449140472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17501326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1750-1326-5-5     Document Type: Article

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