Chemical, biological, and immunological characterization of mono- and diiodo-thyrotropin releasing factor

Biological characterization and optical

Biological characterization and optical imaging of brain-derived neurotrophic factor-green fluorescent protein suggest an activity-dependent local release of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in neurites of cultured hippocampal neurons

✍ Masami Kojima; Nobuyuki Takei; Tadahiro Numakawa; Yasuyuki Ishikawa; Shingo Suzu 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 565 KB

## Abstract To visualize the release dynamics of the brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) involved in neural plasticity, we constructed a plasmid encoding green fluorescent protein (GFP) fused with BDNF. First, several biological studies confirmed that this fusion protein (BDNF‐GFP) mimics the