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Phorbol esters and PKC signaling regulate proliferation, vimentin cytoskeleton assembly and glutamine synthetase activity of chick embryo cerebrum astrocytes in culture.
Brain research. Developmental brain research - 27 Jun 1995
Mangoura D, Sogos V, Dawson G
Abstract excerpt
We have recently shown that expression of specific protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms correlates with cell fate in neural chicken embryo cells. Therefore we investigated the effects of PKC activation by phorbol esters on acquisition of the astrocytic phenotype, using cultured embryonic cortical astrocytes, derived from 15-day-old chick embryos (E15CH), as a model. Short term treatment with the phorbol ester...
Topics
- Animals
- Astrocytes
- Biomarkers
- Calcium
- Carcinogens
- Cell Division
- Cell Size
- Cells, Cultured
- Cerebral Cortex
- Chick Embryo
- Cytoskeleton
