TGF-β signaling protects retinal neurons from programmed cell death during the development of the mammalian eye

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 14246-14258

  Braunger, Barbara M ^a   Pielmeier, Stefan ^a   Demmer, Cora ^a   Landstorfer, Victoria ^a   Kawall, Daniela ^a   Abramov, Natalie ^a   Leibinger, Marco ^b   Kleiter, Ingo ^c   Fischer, Dietmar ^b   Jägle, Herbert ^a   Tamm, Ernst R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MICE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; RETINAL NEURONS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84882944672     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0991-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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