A conversation with rita levi-montalcini

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 72, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-13

  Chao, Moses V ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE GROWTH; NEUROSCIENCE; NOTE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMALS; EMBRYOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; ITALY; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; NEUROSCIENCES; NOBEL PRIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956970126     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: 15451585     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physiol-021909-135857     Document Type: Note

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