Marzella, P. L.; Clark, Graeme M.; Shepherd, R. K.; Bartlett, P. F.; Kilpatrick, T. J.
(Monduzzi Editore, 1997)
The survival of auditory neurones depends on the continued supply of trophic factors. Early post-natal spiral ganglion cells (SGC) in a dissociated cell culture were used as a model of auditory innervation to test the trophic factors leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) for their ability, individually or in combination, to promote neuronal survival.