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Neurotrophic factors. Neurotrophin autocrine loops
1School of Biological and Medical Sciences, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|July 1, 1995
Abstract:
Developing neurons depend on neurotrophins supplied by the tissues they innervate. Before and after this period of target-dependent survival, brain-derived neurotrophic factor also has autocrine actions on some neurons.