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Mart Saarma

professor, University of Helsinki
Verified email at helsinki.fi
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The GDNF family: signalling, biological functions and therapeutic value

MS Airaksinen, M Saarma - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002 - nature.com
Members of the nerve growth factor (NGF) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF)
families — comprising neurotrophins and GDNF-family ligands (GFLs), respectively — …

GDNF family neurotrophic factor signaling: four masters, one servant?

MS Airaksinen, A Titievsky, M Saarma - Molecular and Cellular …, 1999 - Elsevier
Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), and related factors neurturin (NTN), artemin
(ART), and persephin (PSP), are members of the GDNF family of neurotrophic factors (Fig. …

Novel functions and signalling pathways for GDNF

H Sariola, M Saarma - Journal of cell science, 2003 - journals.biologists.com
… 3) (reviewed by Sariola and Saarma, 1999). Metanephric development is initiated in 61%
of RET-deficient embryos (Schuchardt et al., 1994), which suggests that other, non-Ret …

Regulation of cell fate decision of undifferentiated spermatogonia by GDNF

…, M Lakso, JG Pichel, H Westphal, M Saarma… - Science, 2000 - science.org
The molecular control of self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells has remained enigmatic.
Transgenic loss-of-function and overexpression models now show that the dosage of glial …

The K+/Cl co-transporter KCC2 renders GABA hyperpolarizing during neuronal maturation

…, H Lahtinen, K Lamsa, U Pirvola, M Saarma… - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
… The intracellular sharp microelectrodes were filled with 3 M potassium methylsulphate plus
10 mM KCl, or with a mixture of potassium methylsulphate (3 M) and potassium acetate (2 M) …

Functional receptor for GDNF encoded by the c-ret proto-oncogene

…, V Pachnis, U Arumäe, H Sariola, M Saarma… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
… The locustwine is an established regulator of M-phase progression. The similarity in phenotype
between boule and twine suggests that boule, and by analogy DAZ in humans, controls …

GDNF signalling through the Ret receptor tyrosine kinase

…, D Smith, B Ponder, F Costantini, M Saarma… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
… Similar analysis indicated that Xenopus oocytes injected with GDNF RNA express a protein
of M, 20K, in good agreement with the predicted size of mature GDNF". bj, Coexpression of …

[HTML][HTML] Psychedelics promote plasticity by directly binding to BDNF receptor TrkB

…, ER Korpi, P Permi, KS Mineev, M Saarma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Psychedelics produce fast and persistent antidepressant effects and induce neuroplasticity
resembling the effects of clinically approved antidepressants. We recently reported that …

Defects in enteric innervation and kidney development in mice lacking GDNF

…, J Drago, A Grinberg, EJ Lee, SP Huang, M Saarma… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
GLIAL-CELL-LINE-DERIVED neurotrophic factor (GDNF) has been isolated as a neurotrophic
factor for midbrain dopaminergic neurons 1 . Because of its neurotrophic activity on a wide …

Multiple promoters direct tissue-specific expression of the rat BDNF gene

…, K Palm, M Metsis, T Reintam, V Paalme, M Saarma… - Neuron, 1993 - cell.com
M HCI for IO min, acetylated for 20 min with 0.25% acetic anhydride in 0.1 M ethanolamine,
… C for40 min, treated with RNAase (10 ug/ml) in 0.5 M NaCI, 20 mM Tris-HCI (pH 7.5), 2 mM …