Piergiorgio Strata
Piergiorgio Strata e Germana Pareti curano questo paper leggibile cliccando QUI.
Di seguito l’abstract:
At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the landscape of emerging experimental
embryology in the United States was dominated by the Canadian Frank Rattray Lillie, who combined his
qualities as scientist and director with those of teacher at the University of Chicago. In the context of his
research on chick development, he encouraged the young Marian Lydia Shorey to investigate the
interactions between the central nervous system and the peripheral structures. The results were
published in two papers which marked the beginning of a new branch of embryology, namely
neuroembryology. These papers inspired ground-breaking enquiry by Viktor Hamburger which opened a
new area of the research by Rita Levi-Montalcini, in turn leading to the discovery of the nerve growth
factor, NGF.