Ghrelin stimulates synaptic formation in cultured cortical networks in a dose-dependent manner

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 186, Issue , 2013, Pages 43-48

  Stoyanova, Irina I ^a   le Feber, Joost ^a   Rutten, Wim L C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dissociated cortical neurons; Ghrelin; GHSR1; Newborn rats; Synaptogenesis

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; GHRELIN RECEPTOR 1; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL CULTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

DISSOCIATED CORTICAL NEURONS; GHRELIN; GHSR1; NEWBORN RATS; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; GHRELIN; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 84883619772     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: 18731686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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