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SUBMITTER: Deppmann CD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3612357 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Deppmann Christopher D CD Mihalas Stefan S Sharma Nikhil N Lonze Bonnie E BE Niebur Ernst E Ginty David D DD
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20080306 5874
We report that developmental competition between sympathetic neurons for survival is critically dependent on a sensitization process initiated by target innervation and mediated by a series of feedback loops. Target-derived nerve growth factor (NGF) promoted expression of its own receptor TrkA in mouse and rat neurons and prolonged TrkA-mediated signals. NGF also controlled expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-4, which, through the receptor p75, can kill neighboring n ...[more]