Neuropoietic cytokines

Patterson, P. H., The emerging neuropoietic cytokine family first CDF/LIF, CNTF and IL-6 next ONC, MGF, GCSF , Curr. Opin. Cell Biol., 2, 94, 1992. 

Bazan, J.F. (1991). Neuropoietic cytokines in the hematopoietic fold. Neuron 1 197-208. 

Fann, M.J. and Patterson, P.H. (1994) Neuropoietic cytokines and activin A differentially regulate the phenotype of cultured sympathetic neurons. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91 43 7. 

CNTF and other neuropoietic cytokines activate several kinases that also are activated by receptor-linked tyrosine kinases. The mitogen-activated protein kinases ERKl and ERK2 and their target... 

The multitude of signal transduction pathways activated by the neuropoietic cytokines help to explain their pleiotrophic actions. 

Cerebral expression of IL-11 by ghal cells is important because IL-11 has been shown to have effects on neuronal electrophysiology, has overlapping functions with the neuroactive cytokine IL-6, and is part of the gpl30-associated neuropoietic family of cytokines. ... 

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