Turkish Journal of Biology
DOI
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Abstract
The neuronal differentiation process has been studied in great detail from many aspects. In the PC12 system, NGF was found to induce neuronal differentiation as measured by neurite extensions and neuronal marker expression. This effect was seen to be mainly conducted through the Ras/MAPK pathway; however, additional pathways are suspected to play a significant role in this cellular response. One such pathway is Smad signaling - NGF was previously reported to induce the expression of the TGF-\beta signal, although the physiological relevance of this was not completely understood. In this study, we analyzed the expression profiles of several TGF-\beta pathway components, in an attempt to understand the potential role of this pathway in NGF-induced differentiation of PC12 cells.
Keywords
PC12, TGF-\beta, Smad, NGF, gene expression profiling, neuronal differentiation
First Page
189
Last Page
195
Recommended Citation
KURNAZ, IŞIL AKSAN (2005) "A Gene Expression Study of the TGF-\beta Signaling Pathway Components in Differentiating PC12 Cells," Turkish Journal of Biology: Vol. 29: No. 4, Article 1. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/biology/vol29/iss4/1
