Nancy Y. Ip

TL;DR: In this article, a method of enhancing the differentiation of neuronal precursor cells into NGF-dependent neuronal cells, which method includes treating precursor cells with a combination of a member of the FGF family and a members of the CTNF family to enhance their effectiveness and survival in transplantation therapy for the treatment of diseases such as Parkinson's disease.

TL;DR: Chip-based authentication of medicinal plants may be useful as inexpensive and rapid tool for quality control and safety monitoring of herbal pharmaceuticals and neutraceuticals.

TL;DR: These two distinct classes of neurotrophic factors, utilizing distinct signaling pathways, can interact to effect the growth and differentiation of neuronal progenitors during neuropoiesis in a way analogous to that exhibited by the cytokines during hematopoiesis.

TL;DR: A novel reverse signaling pathway transduced by ephrin-B1 is identified, which is independent of tyrosine phosphorylation but involves the activation of JNK through TAK1 and MKK4/MKK7 and leads to changes in cell morphology.

TL;DR: The results show that Mst3 regulates neuronal migration through modulating the activity of RhoA, a Rho-GTPase critical for actin cytoskeletal reorganization, and collectively suggest that Cdk5–Mst3 signaling regulates neurons migration via RHoA-dependent actin dynamics.