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GDNF–Induced Activation of the Ret Protein Tyrosine Kinase Is Mediated by GDNFR-α, a Novel Receptor for GDNF

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In this paper, the expression cloning and characterization of GDNFR-α, a novel glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked cell surface receptor for glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), was reported.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1996-06-28 and is currently open access. It has received 1164 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor & GDNF family of ligands.

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Nigrostriatal rAAV-mediated GDNF overexpression induces robust weight loss in a rat model of age-related obesity.

TL;DR: Nigrostriatal GDNF overexpression resulted in significantly greater weight loss than rats treated in hypothalamus and activation of phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (p-ERK) in a small population of corticotrophin-releasing factor neurons located specifically in the medial parvocellullar division of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus likely accounted for the observed metabolic effects leading to weight loss in obese rats.
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Effect of GDNF on neuroblast proliferation and photoreceptor survival: additive protection with docosahexaenoic acid.

TL;DR: Results show that GDNF stimulated the cell cycle progression, leading to neuroblast proliferation at early stages of development, and delayed the onset of apoptosis later on, improving differentiation and acting as a trophic factor for photoreceptors.
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Growth and guidance cues for regenerating axons: where have they gone?

TL;DR: Current knowledge with respect to the response of adult CNS neurons to axonal injury, interventions for enhancing the survival and regeneration of injured neurons, and the expression of developmental axon guidance cues in the injured mature CNS are addressed, with specific focus on the retino-tectal projection.
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Mechanism and Function of Signaling by the TGFβ Superfamily

TL;DR: This review will focus on recent developments in the understanding of TGFβ signaling and on the multiple roles these factors play in controlling inductive interactions and patterning during development.
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Neuroprotective Mechanism of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor in Mesencephalic Neurons

TL;DR: Findings indicate that GDNF has no effect on necrosis but exerts protection against apoptosis by activation of phosphatidylinositol 3‐kinase and the subsequent up‐regulation of Bcl‐2 and BCl‐x, which suppresses accumulation of oxygen radicals followed by caspase‐3 activation.
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Improved tools for biological sequence comparison.

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Signal transduction by receptors with tyrosine kinase activity

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An analysis of 5'-noncoding sequences from 699 vertebrate messenger RNAs

TL;DR: 5'-Noncoding sequences have been compiled from 699 vertebrate mRNAs and GCCA/GCCATGG emerges as the consensus sequence for initiation of translation in vertebrates.
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A new method for predicting signal sequence cleavage sites.

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