P. Welker

A new role for neurotrophins: Involvement of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-4 in hair cycle control (1999)

Botchkarev, V.A., Botchkareva, N.V., Welker, P., Metz, M., Lewin, G.R., Subramaniam, A., ...

Neurotrophins exert many biological effects not directly targeted at neurons, including modulation of keratinocyte proliferation and apoptosis in vitro. Here we exploit the cyclic growth and...

Effects of nerve growth factor (NGF) and other fibroblast-derived growth factors on immature human mast cells (HMC-1).

Welker, P, Grabbe, J, Grützkau, A, Henz, B M

We have previously shown that fibroblast and keratinocyte supernatants up-regulate expression of mast cell characteristics in the human immature mast cell line HMC-1. This effect could not be induced...

Nerve growth factor-β induces mast-cell marker expression during in vitro culture of human umbilical cord blood cells

Welker, P, Grabbe, J, Gibbs, B, Zuberbier, T, Henz, B M

Nerve growth factor-β (NGF) is known as a growth factor for human basophils and murine mast cells and has recently been shown to also up-regulate mast cell characteristics in human leukaemic mast...