Publication Date:
1982-05-21
Description:
Certain toxic lectins, including ricin, are retrogradely transported along neuronal processes to the cell body where they inactivate ribosomes, resulting in neuronal death. This process of "suicide transport" suggests a powerful new experimental strategy for solving neurobiological problems.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wiley, R G -- Blessing, W W -- Reis, D J -- HL07378/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL18974/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 May 21;216(4548):889-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6177039" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Abrin
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Animals
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*Axonal Transport
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*Lectins
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Mice
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Nerve Degeneration/drug effects
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Neurons/*drug effects
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*Plant Lectins
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*Plant Proteins
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Retrograde Degeneration
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Ribosome Inactivating Proteins, Type 2
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*Ricin
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
