Ceramide activates microglia to enhance the production/secretion of brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) without induction of deleterious factors in vitro
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 80 (4) , 697-705
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.0022-3042.2001.00752.x
Abstract
In analyzing the regulation of neurotrophin production/secretion from microglia, C8‐ceramide (d‐erythro‐sphingosine, N‐octanoyl‐) was found to induce secretion of brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (B...Keywords
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