8.  Response of Cells to Nerve Growth Factor (NGF)
Channel: UMass Amherst Libraries
Date: 2017-09-25

EXPERTS
Biologist - Rita Levi-Montalcini, Washington University

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRANT
DB28

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Photographer – Peter Yanover
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DESCRIPTION
Cultured sympathetic or sensory ganglion produce a halo of nerve fibers. The growth of these fibers is stimulated by the protein Nerve Growth Factor (NGF).  

NOTES
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Washington University - awarded a Nobel Prize for this work