The response of human and rat fetal ventral mesencephalon in culture to the brain-derived neurotrophic factor treatment

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Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16

NT-3, BDNF, and NGF in the developing rat nervous system: Parallel as well as reciprocal patterns of expression

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Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +13

Ciliary neurotrophic factor prevents the degeneration of motor neurons after axotomy

Michael Sendtner, Georg W. Kreutzberg, H. Thoenen · Nature · 1990 · 834 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +14

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor increases survival and differentiated functions of rat septal cholinergic neurons in culture

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Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +11

Promotion of central cholinergic and dopaminergic neuron differentiation by brain-derived neurotrophic factor but not neurotrophin 3.

Beat Knüsel, John Winslow, Arnon Rosenthal et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1991 · 609 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +9