Taurine induces proliferation of neural stem cells and synapse development in the developing mouse brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Shivaraj, Mattu Chetana ^a   Marcy, Guillaume ^a   Low, Guoliang ^a   Ryu, Jae Ryun ^a   Zhao, Xianfeng ^b   Rosales, Francisco J ^b   Goh, Eyleen L K ^a,c,d  

^a DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; SYNAPSIN I; TAURINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SLICE; CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EMBRYO; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPSE; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL PROLIFERATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; SYNAPSES; TAURINE;

EID: 84865182152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042935     Document Type: Article

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