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Nature Neuroscience 11, 735 - 736 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0708-735

Catecholaminergic neuron survival: getting hooked on GDNF

Carlos F Ibáñez1

  1. The author is at the Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Berzelius väg 35, Box 285, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
    e-mail: carlos.ibanez@ki.se


Pascual et al. conditionally delete glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) expression in adult mice. They report that GDNF is indispensable for the survival of adult catecholaminergic neurons.

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