Levi-Montalcini, Rita

Rita Levi-Montalcini and Stanley Cohen Physiology/Medicine Nerve growth factor... 

Nerve growth factor, NGF, was the first member of a family of growth factors of nerve cells. It was discovered by the Italian neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini. Its active form... 

Changeux, J. P. In 1988-1989 Fidia Research Foundation Rita Levi-Montalcini Neuroscience Award Lecture Raven New York, 1990 Vol. 4, pp 22-168. 

Aloe L (2004). Rita Levi-Montalcini the discovery of nerve growth factor and modern neurobiology. Trends Cell Biol. 14 395-399. 

Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini Growth factors... 

Cohen, Stanley Harold (b. 1922) American biochemist who worked on DNA-cutting enzymes. He helped to isolate nerve growth factor, went on to isolate epidermal growth factor and to show how this substance interacted with cells to produce a range of effects. Cohen shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini. 

Rita Levi-Montalcini with biochemist Stanley Cohen went on to develop an immunotoxin to nerve growth factor and discovered that it severely suppressed growth and development of sympathetic noradrenergic neurons. For this and related findings, they were awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine. 

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