Abstract
Explants from rat fetal retina were placed in culture and assayed for fiber outgrowth. In contrast to results obtained with lower vertebrates, nerve growth factor (NGF) does not seem to play a role in this system: NGF is not able to stimulate fiber outgrowth and antibodies to NGF do not block the spontaneously occurring fiber outgrowth. However, an extract prepared from pig brain is able to stimulate fiber outgrowth in a dose-dependent manner. It is suggested that such an extract can be used as a source of putative neurotrophic factors exhibiting in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) an action similar to that of NGF in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) of mammals and in the CNS of lower vertebrates like fishes and amphibia.
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