The role of nerve growth factor in a model of visceral inflammation

Mice lacking nerve growth factor display perinatal loss of sensory and sympathetic neurons yet develop basal forebrain cholinergic neurons

Craig Crowley, Susan D. Spencer, Merry Nishimura et al. · Cell · 1994 · 1.1K citations

Developmental Biology, Neurophysiology, Neuroanatomy +13

Changes of nerve growth factor synthesis in nonneuronal cells in response to sciatic nerve transection.

Rolf Heumann, Sigrun I. Korsching, C. E. Bandtlow et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1987 · 1K citations · Full text

Peripheral Nerve Injury, Intact Sciatic Nerve, Peripheral Nerve +16

Severe sensory and sympathetic neuropathies in mice carrying a disrupted Trk/NGF receptor gene

Richard J. Smeyne, Rüdiger Klein, Andreas Schnapp et al. · Nature · 1994 · 979 citations

Knockout Mouse, Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Physiology +12

Differential regulation of mRNA encoding nerve growth factor and its receptor in rat sciatic nerve during development, degeneration, and regeneration: role of macrophages.

Rolf Heumann, Dan Lindholm, C. E. Bandtlow et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1987 · 703 citations · Full text

Peripheral Nerve Injury, Peripheral Nerve, Cellular Physiology +17

Nerve growth factor contributes to the generation of inflammatory sensory hypersensitivity

Clifford J. Woolf, Bared Safieh‐Garabedian, Peter J. Crilly et al. · Neuroscience · 1994 · 682 citations

Inflammation, Autoimmune Disease, Allergy +13