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Abstract
We investigated the effects of interleukin-2 (IL-2) on the survival and morphology of primary cultured neurons from fetal rat brain. Addition of recombinant human IL-2 significantly supported the survival of brain neurons in high cell density culture, but did not show any effect on the neuronal survival in low cell density culture. In addition, IL-2 significantly promoted the neurite elongation and branching of hippocampal neurons in low cell density culture. These results suggest that IL-2 supports neuronal survival indirectly and promotes neuritogenesis by directly acting on brain neurons.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8275319 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(93)91080-c
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Res ISSN: 0006-8993 Impact factor: 3.252