Basic fibroblast growth factor in rat brain: localization to glial gap junctions correlates with connexin43 distribution

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1989 • 1,948 citations

Glutamate Induces Calcium Waves in Cultured Astrocytes: Long-Range Glial Signaling

1990 • 1,820 citations

Structural Characterization and Biological Functions of Fibroblast Growth Factor

1987 • 1,299 citations

Fibroblast growth factor promotes survival of dissociated hippocampal neurons and enhances neurite extension.

1986 • 741 citations

Primary structure of bovine pituitary basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF) and comparison with the amino-terminal sequence of bovine brain acidic FGF.

1985 • 710 citations

Basic fibroblast growth factor supports the survival of cerebral cortical neurons in primary culture.

1986 • 696 citations

Distribution of basic fibroblast growth factor in the 18-day rat fetus: localization in the basement membranes of diverse tissues.

1990 • 533 citations

Antisera directed against connexin43 peptides react with a 43-kD protein localized to gap junctions in myocardium and other tissues.

1989 • 516 citations

Astroglial and fibroblast growth factors have neurotrophic functions for cultured peripheral and central nervous system neurons.

1987 • 495 citations

Increased basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) immunoreactivity at the site of focal brain wounds

1988 • 382 citations

Brain-Derived Acidic Fibroblast Growth Factor: Complete Amino Acid Sequence and Homologies

1985 • 335 citations

Translocation of bFGF to the nucleus is G1 phase cell cycle specific in bovine aortic endothelial cells.

1990 • 324 citations

The brain fibroblast growth factor (FGF) is localized in neurons

1986 • 276 citations

Possible involvement of protein kinase C and calcium ion in growth factor-induced expression of c-myc oncogene in Swiss 3T3 fibroblasts.

1986 • 241 citations

Glutamate receptors activate Ca2+ mobilization and Ca2+ influx into astrocytes.

1990 • 239 citations

On the organization of astrocytic gap junctions in rat brain as suggested by LM and EM immunohistochemistry of connexin43 expression

1990 • 232 citations

LM and EM immunolocalization of the gap junctional protein connexin 43 in rat brain

1990 • 203 citations

Basic fibroblast growth factor in atria and ventricles of the vertebrate heart.

1989 • 171 citations

Mitogens for glial cells: a comparison of the response of cultured astrocytes, oligodendrocytes and schwann cells

1981 • 137 citations

The mitogenic signaling pathway but not the plasminogen activator-inducing pathway of basic fibroblast growth factor is mediated through protein kinase C in fetal bovine aortic endothelial cells.

1989 • 133 citations

Expression of basic fibroblast growth factor in the nervous system of early avian embryos

1990 • 128 citations

Protein kinase C in astrocytes: a determinant of cell morphology

1986 • 82 citations

Ultrastructural localization of fibroblast growth factor in neurons of rat brain

1987 • 77 citations

Effects of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) on choline acetyltransferase activity and astroglial reaction in adult rats after partial fimbria transection

1989 • 62 citations

Fibroblast Growth Factor Release by Bovine Endothelial Cells and Human Astrocytoma Cells in Culture is Density Dependent

1989 • 59 citations

Immunocytochemical mapping of basic fibroblast growth factor in the developing and adult rat adrenal gland

1990 • 58 citations

Biochemical and ultrastructural evidence for the association of basic fibroblast growth factor with cardiac gap junctions.

1991 • 57 citations

Fibroblast growth factor stimulates protein kinase C in quiescent 3T3 cells without Ca²⁺ mobilization or inositol phosphate accumulation

1990 • 48 citations

Membrane conductance oscillations in astrocytes induced by phorbol ester

1987 • 45 citations

High molecular weight forms of basic fibroblast growth factor recognized by a new anti‐bFGF antibody

1990 • 41 citations

Characterization of two Preparations of Antibodies to Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor which Exhibit Distinct Patterns of Immunolocalization

1990 • 34 citations

High molecular weight immunoreactive basic fibroblast growth factor-like proteins in rat pituitary and brain

1988 • 33 citations

Calcium protects pituitary basic fibroblast growth factors from limited proteolysis by co-purifying proteases

1990 • 19 citations