Article
Ciliary neurotrophic factor arrests muscle and motoneuron degeneration in androgen-insensitive rats.
Journal of neurobiology - 1 Nov 1995
Forger N G, Wong V, Breedlove S M
Abstract excerpt
Steroid hormones and neurotrophic factors exert profound and widespread effects on the developing nervous system, including regulation of the size, connectivity, and survival of neurons. Androgenic control of the survival of motoneurons in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus (SNB) of rats h...
Topics
- Animals
- Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor
- Female
- Genetic Linkage
- Male
- Motor Neurons
- Nerve Degeneration
- Nerve Growth Factors
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Neuromuscular Junction
- Penis
- Phenotype
- Rats
- Rats, Mutant Strains
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptors, Androgen
- X Chromosome