Publication Date:
1987-10-02
Description:
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a potent polypeptide mitogen originally isolated from the adult male mouse submaxillary gland. It also acts as a gastrointestinal hormone. EGF-immunoreactive material has recently been identified within neuronal fibers and terminals in rodent brain. In the present study, EGF was found to enhance survival and process outgrowth of primary cultures of subneocortical telencephalic neurons of neonatal rat brain in a dose-dependent manner. This effect was observed with EGF concentrations as low as 100 picograms per milliliter (0.016 nanomolar) and was dependent on the continuous presence of EGF in the medium. Similar effects were observed with basic fibroblast growth factor, but several other growth-promoting substances, including other mitogens for glial elements, were without effect. Thus EGF, in addition to its mitogenic and hormonal activities, may act as a neurite elongation and maintenance factor for select neurons of the rodent central nervous system.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Morrison, R S -- Kornblum, H I -- Leslie, F M -- Bradshaw, R A -- NS19319/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS19964/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- T32-CA0905A/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Oct 2;238(4823):72-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Chemistry, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92717.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3498986" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Animals, Newborn
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Brain/*cytology
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Cell Survival/drug effects
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Cells, Cultured
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Epidermal Growth Factor/*physiology
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Growth Substances/pharmacology
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Rats
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
