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Neurotrophins: more to NGF than just survival
1Bute Medical Buildings, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, KY16 9TS, Scotland. md2@st-and.ac.uk.
Current Biology : CB
|June 6, 2000
Abstract:
NGF's role in neuronal survival has tended to mask other potential functions. But now the generation of mice lacking both Bax - required for the death of NGF-deprived neurons - and NGF or its receptor has shown that NGF plays a key role in establishing cutaneous innervation and regulating neuropeptide expression.