کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4349815 1296958 2007 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Differential expression of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha-2 isoforms in rat urinary bladder and intestine
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب (عمومی)
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Differential expression of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family receptor alpha-2 isoforms in rat urinary bladder and intestine
چکیده انگلیسی
Neurturin (NTN) is a member of the glial cell line-derived (GDNF) family of neurotrophic factors, which act via a receptor complex composed of a signal transducing receptor, c-Ret and a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked ligand binding receptor, GFRα. Different members of the GDNF family bind preferentially to one of four different GFRα receptors; NTN binds preferentially to the GFRα-2 receptor. Recent evidence has shown that three alternatively spliced isoforms of GFRα-2 occur in rodent tissues, including the rat brain, myenteric plexus and kidney, and several mouse tissues. Here we have examined the occurrence of GFRα-2 isoforms in the adult male rat urinary bladder by RT-PCR, in parallel with samples from the muscularis externa of the rat ileum. In contrast to the ileum, only a single GFRα-2 isoform, the smallest isoform, known as GFRα-2c, was detected in the rat urinary bladder. This differential expression of GFRα-2 transcripts in bladder and intestine may be related to differences in the roles of NTN in the two tissues and its actions on the neurons that innervate them.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Neuroscience Letters - Volume 415, Issue 3, 30 March 2007, Pages 215-218
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