Article
Transforming growth factor type beta 1 modulates the effects of basic fibroblast growth factor on growth and phenotypic expression of rat astroblasts in vitro.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 Sept 1990
Labourdette G, Janet T, Laeng P, Perraud F, Lawrence D, Pettmann B
Abstract excerpt
In a search of the growth factors possibly involved in brain ontogenesis we have examined the effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) on the growth and phenotypic expression of rat astroblasts in primary culture. Along TGF-beta 1 elicited only a slight negative effect on the growth of these cells. However, this factor was found to modulate the mitogenic effects of other growth factors. On...
Topics
- Animals
- Astrocytes
- Bromodeoxyuridine
- Cell Division
- Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
- Fibroblast Growth Factors
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Glutamate-Ammonia Ligase
- Kinetics
- Phenotype
