Davies A M
School of Biological and Medical Sciences, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9TS, Scotland, UK.
Curr Biol. 1997 Jan 1;7(1):R38-40. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00016-9.
In the fifty years since its discovery, a substantial body of work has established that nerve growth factor plays a key role in promoting the survival of neurons during development; the recent demonstration that it can also promote cell death therefore comes as a surprise.