Article
Cultured basal forebrain cholinergic neurons from postnatal rats show both overlapping and non-overlapping responses to the neurotrophins.
Brain research - 12 Jun 1995
Nonomura T, Nishio C, Lindsay R M, Hatanaka H
Abstract excerpt
Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons respond in vitro and in vivo to nerve growth factor (NGF) and to brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). It is not clear to what extent the neurons that respond to these two factors, or to neurotrophin-3 or -4/5 (NT-3; NT-4/5) are identical or only partially...
Topics
- Acetylcholinesterase
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Cell Division
- Cell Survival
- Cells, Cultured
- Choline O-Acetyltransferase
- Immunohistochemistry
- Nerve Growth Factors
- Neurons
- Parasympathetic Nervous System
- Phenotype
- Prosencephalon
- Rats