Nerve Growth Factor

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Activating transcription factor 3 induction in sympathetic neurons after axotomy: response to decreased neurotrophin availability. 
  • Activation of Gz attenuates Rap1-mediated differentiation of PC12 cells. 
  • Activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway through p75NTR: a common mechanism for the neurotrophin family. 
  • ApoE4 impairs hippocampal plasticity isoform-specifically and blocks the environmental stimulation of synaptogenesis and memory. 
  • Bradykinin and nerve growth factor release the capsaicin receptor from PtdIns(4,5)P2-mediated inhibition. 
  • Chlorpyrifos affects phenotypic outcomes in a model of mammalian neurodevelopment: critical stages targeting differentiation in PC12 cells. 
  • Diabetic cystopathy correlates with a long-term decrease in nerve growth factor levels in the bladder and lumbosacral dorsal root Ganglia. 
  • Differences between the effect of anisotropic and isotropic laminin and nerve growth factor presenting scaffolds on nerve regeneration across long peripheral nerve gaps. 
  • Distinction between differentiation, cell cycle, and apoptosis signals in PC12 cells by the nerve growth factor mutant delta9/13, which is selective for the p75 neurotrophin receptor. 
  • Diverse neurotoxicants converge on gene expression for neuropeptides and their receptors in an in vitro model of neurodifferentiation: effects of chlorpyrifos, diazinon, dieldrin and divalent nickel in PC12 cells. 
  • Erbin suppresses the MAP kinase pathway. 
  • Herpes simplex virus mediated nerve growth factor expression in bladder and afferent neurons: potential treatment for diabetic bladder dysfunction. 
  • Human carbonic anhydrase-8 AAV8 gene therapy inhibits nerve growth factor signaling producing prolonged analgesia and anti-hyperalgesia in mice. 
  • Hypothermic reperfusion after cardiac arrest augments brain-derived neurotrophic factor activation. 
  • Immunoneutralization of nerve growth factor in lumbosacral spinal cord reduces bladder hyperreflexia in spinal cord injured rats. 
  • Influence of terminal nerve branch size on motor neuron regeneration accuracy. 
  • Knockout of the norepinephrine transporter and pharmacologically diverse antidepressants prevent behavioral and brain neurotrophin alterations in two chronic stress models of depression. 
  • Modeling the developmental neurotoxicity of nicotine in vitro: cell acquisition, growth and viability in PC12 cells. 
  • NGF inhibits M/KCNQ currents and selectively alters neuronal excitability in subsets of sympathetic neurons depending on their M/KCNQ current background. 
  • NGF is essential for hippocampal plasticity and learning. 
  • Nerve growth factor specifically stimulates translation of eukaryotic elongation factor 1A-1 (eEF1A-1) mRNA by recruitment to polyribosomes in PC12 cells. 
  • Nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and neurotrophin-3 levels in human amniotic fluid. 
  • Nerve growth factor: structure, function and therapeutic implications for Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Nerves Regulate Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Heart Regeneration. 
  • Neurofilament cytoskeleton disruption does not modify accumulation of trophic factor mRNA. 
  • Nicotine is a developmental neurotoxicant and neuroprotectant: stage-selective inhibition of DNA synthesis coincident with shielding from effects of chlorpyrifos. 
  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activates ERK in primary sensory neurons and mediates inflammatory heat hyperalgesia through TRPV1 sensitization. 
  • Plasma carnitine in HIV-associated neuropathy. 
  • Polyphosphoester microspheres for sustained release of biologically active nerve growth factor. 
  • Prenatal choline supplementation increases NGF levels in the hippocampus and frontal cortex of young and adult rats. 
  • Severity of HIV-associated neuropathy is associated with plasma HIV-1 RNA levels. 
  • Sustained release of proteins from electrospun biodegradable fibers. 
  • Targeting of neurotrophic factors, their receptors, and signaling pathways in the developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphates in vivo and in vitro. 
  • The role of bladder afferent pathways in bladder hyperactivity induced by the intravesical administration of nerve growth factor. 
  • Tissue-engineered scaffolds are effective alternatives to autografts for bridging peripheral nerve gaps. 
  • Transcriptional profiles for glutamate transporters reveal differences between organophosphates but similarities with unrelated neurotoxicants. 
  • Unc-51-like kinase 1/2-mediated endocytic processes regulate filopodia extension and branching of sensory axons. 
  • Unrelated developmental neurotoxicants elicit similar transcriptional profiles for effects on neurotrophic factors and their receptors in an in vitro model. 
  • p38 MAPK activation by NGF in primary sensory neurons after inflammation increases TRPV1 levels and maintains heat hyperalgesia.