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Literature summary for 3.4.21.68 extracted from

  • Schonfeld-Dado, E.; Segal, M.
    Activity deprivation induces neuronal cell death: mediation by tissue-type plasminogen activator (2011), PLoS ONE, 6, e25919.
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Inhibitors

Inhibitors Comment Organism Structure
plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 PAI-1, endogenous inhibitor of tPA in the cell Rattus norvegicus

Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Rattus norvegicus
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Source Tissue

Source Tissue Comment Organism Textmining
brain
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Rattus norvegicus
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neuronal cell
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Rattus norvegicus
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Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
Tissue-type plasminogen activator
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Rattus norvegicus
tPA
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Rattus norvegicus

General Information

General Information Comment Organism
physiological function tPA is a pivotal player in slowly progressing activity deprivation-induced neurodegeneration, e.g. induced by blockade of neuronal activity using tetrodotoxin, TTX. Neurons degenerate slowly and die in a manner resembling neurodegenerative diseases-induced neuronal cell death. Transfection of an endogenous tPA inhibitor, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1, protected the TTX-exposed neurons from dying Rattus norvegicus