Promotion of rat brain-derived progenitor cell neurogenesis by liquiritigenin treatment: Underlying mechanisms

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 481, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 139-143

  Liu, Rui Ting ^b   Zou, Li Bo ^c   Fu, Jie Ying ^c   Lu, Qiu Jun ^a  

^a Genova Beijing Biopharmaceutical Research Institute   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHENYANG PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor ; Liquiritigenin; Neurogenesis; Notch 2; Progenitor cells

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; LIQUIRITIGENIN; MESSENGER RNA; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RNA INTERFERENCE; STEM CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 77955331179     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.06.065     Document Type: Article

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