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🧪Rita Levi-Montalcini

Nerve growth factor — discovering how neurons survive and wire.

Also called: NGF · Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini
Kurt Hagblom , Firma Hagblom-Foto, restored by Adam Cuerden · Public domain
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trophic survival signalsFocus
97/100Research
86/100Awareness
75/100Complexity
73/100Clinical
65/100Debate

Rita Levi-Montalcini sits at the centre of trophic survival signals — studied across molecules, circuits, behaviour and clinic.

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  • Research97
  • Awareness86
  • Complexity75
  • Clinical weight73
  • Plasticity64
  • Live debate65

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Sources & research

  1. The nerve growth factor: thirty-five years laterLevi-Montalcini R · 1987 · EMBO JournalDOIPubMed
  2. Rita Levi-Montalcini and the discovery of NGFAloe L · 2011 · Archives Italiennes de BiologiePubMed

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