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Striatal extracts promote the survival and phenotypic expression of rat fetal dopaminergic neurons in vitro.
Neuroscience letters - 29 Sept 2000
Zhou J, Shen Y, Tang Z, Xu L, Bradford H F, Yu Y
Abstract excerpt
To begin to identify novel protein(s) that acts on nigral dopaminergic (DA) neurons, we characterized trophic effects of DA-depleted striatum on survival of fetal DA neurons in the present study. Treatment of ventral mesencephalic cultures with the striatal extracts delayed DA cell death in a dose-dependent manner. This effect was partially dependent on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), but not glial cell...
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