Article
A selective tachykinin receptor agonist promotes differentiation but not survival of rat chromaffin cells in vitro.
Experimental brain research - 1 Jan 1993
Barker R, Dunnett S, Fawcett J
Abstract excerpt
Rat chromaffin cells display phenotypic plasticity postnatally. In the presence of glucocorticoids, they retain a chromaffin cell phenotype, whilst in the presence of nerve growth factor and the absence of glucocorticoids they adopt a sympathetic neuronal phenotype. The tachykinins have some of t...
Topics
- Adrenal Glands
- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Survival
- Chromaffin System
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Hexamethonium Compounds
- Immunohistochemistry
- In Vitro Techniques
- Nerve Growth Factors
- Neurites
- Neurokinin A
- Peptide Fragments
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred Strains
- Receptors, Neurotransmitter
- Receptors, Tachykinin