Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 4 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/Signaling.1.029
Kinetin/N6-furfuryladenine: A New Neurodegenerative Disease Lead from an Old Plant Cytokine
Tamara Maiuri1, Ray Truant1,*
- 1Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, L8N3Z5
Corresponding Author
Ray Truant, truantr@mcmaster.ca
Received Date: August 25, 2020
Accepted Date: November 02, 2020
Maiuri T, Truant R. Kinetin/N6-furfuryladenine: A New Neurodegenerative Disease Lead from an Old Plant Cytokine. J Cell Signal 2020;1(4):195-199.
Copyright: © 2020 Maiuri T, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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