Artur Mayerhofer

Several factors regulate nerve growth factor (NGF), which is formed from pro-NGF by intracellular and extracellular enzymatic cleavage. The close proximity between mast cells expressing the protease tryptase and NGF-producing smooth muscle-…

The initiation of follicular growth in the mammalian ovary is a gonadotropin-independent phenomenon. Although some of the intraovarian signaling molecules that control the later phases of this process have been recently identified, the fact…