Potentiation of Transmitter Release by Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor Requires Somatic Signaling

Improved patch-clamp techniques for high-resolution current recording from cells and cell-free membrane patches

1981 • 18,584 citations

Culturing nerve cells

1998 • 1,304 citations

Association and Activation of Jak-Tyk Kinases by CNTF-LIF-OSM-IL-6 β Receptor Components

1994 • 972 citations

Ciliary neurotrophic factor prevents the degeneration of motor neurons after axotomy

1990 • 840 citations

Association of Transcription Factor APRF and Protein Kinase Jak1 with the Interleukin-6 Signal Transducer gp130

1994 • 822 citations

Potentiation of developing neuromuscular synapses by the neurotrophins NT-3 and BDNF

1993 • 753 citations

CNTF and LIF act on neuronal cells via shared signaling pathways that involve the IL-6 signal transducing receptor component gp130

1992 • 693 citations

Molecular cloning, expression and regional distribution of rat ciliary neurotrophic factor

1989 • 624 citations

The Receptor for Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor

1991 • 604 citations

Survival effect of ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) on chick embryonic motoneurons in culture: comparison with other neurotrophic factors and cytokines

1990 • 591 citations

Disruption of the CNTF gene results in motor neuron degeneration

1993 • 566 citations

Control of Embryonic Motoneuron Survival in Vivo by Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor

1991 • 448 citations

Spontaneous release of transmitter from growth cones of embryonic neurones

1983 • 436 citations

Purification, Cloning, and Expression of Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor (CNTF)

1989 • 429 citations

Cholinergic Neuronotrophic Factors: Intraocular Distribution of Trophic Activity for Ciliary Neurons

1979 • 414 citations

Synthesis and localization of ciliary neurotrophic factor in the sciatic nerve of the adult rat after lesion and during regeneration.

1992 • 365 citations

Fast Axonal Transport in Squid Giant Axon

1982 • 347 citations

Ciliary neurotrophic factor induces cholinergic differentiation of rat sympathetic neurons in culture.

1989 • 347 citations

Regulation of ciliary neurotrophic factor expression in myelin-related Schwann cells in vivo

1992 • 309 citations

Proliferation and differentiation of embryonic chick sympathetic neurons: Effects of ciliary neurotrophic factor

1989 • 297 citations

The development of the action potential mechanism of amphibian neurons isolated in culture.

1976 • 257 citations

Retrograde axonal transport of ciliary neurotrophic factor is increased by peripheral nerve injury

1993 • 230 citations

Initial events in the formation of neuromuscular synapse: rapid induction of acetylcholine release from embryonic neuron.

1986 • 189 citations

Ciliary neurotrophic factor enhances neuronal survival in embryonic rat hippocampal cultures.

1991 • 182 citations

Characterization of a Pathway for Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor Signaling to the Nucleus

1993 • 177 citations

Immunolocalization of ciliary neuronotrophic factor in adult rat sciatic nerve

1992 • 167 citations

Studies of nerve-muscle interactions in Xenopus cell culture: analysis of early synaptic currents

1989 • 166 citations

Ciliary neurotrophic factor enhances neuronal survival in embryonic rat hippocampal cultures

1991 • 164 citations

Activity-Dependent Synaptic Competition in Vitro: Heterosynaptic Suppression of Developing Synapses

1991 • 159 citations

Hebbian Depression of Isolated Neuromuscular Synapses in Vitro

1992 • 128 citations

Diffusional transport of macromolecules in developing nerve processes

1992 • 117 citations

Recombinant Human and Rat Ciliary Neurotrophic Factors

1991 • 96 citations

Cross-linking identifies leukemia inhibitory factor-binding protein as a ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor component.

1993 • 95 citations

Quantal transmitter secretion from myocytes loaded with acetylcholine

1992 • 94 citations

Ciliary neurotrophic factor supports target-deprived preganglionic sympathetic spinal cord neurons

1989 • 85 citations

The molecular biology of the CNTF receptor

1993 • 53 citations

The timing of protein synthesis required for the development of the sodium action potential in embryonic spinal neurons

1983 • 46 citations

Early cross-striation formation in twitching Xenopus myocytes in culture.

1988 • 46 citations

RNA synthesis dependence of action potential development in spinal cord neurones

1983 • 39 citations

The Cholinergic Stimulating Effects of Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor and Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Are Mediated by Protein Kinase C

1993 • 29 citations

Distribution of synaptic specializations along isolated motor units formed in Xenopus nerve-muscle cultures

1987 • 28 citations

Induction of cytoplasmic factors that bind to the 3' AU‐rich region of human Interferon β mRNA during early development of Xenopus laevis

1993 • 7 citations