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Rita Levi-Montalcini · Nerve growth factor — discovering how neurons survive and wire.

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  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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