... in all of these conditions [22]. In the trau-matically injured brain, however, the synthesis of MT1and MT2, as well as the synthesis of GIF, are up-regu-lated by reactive astrocytes in the vicinity ... fineprocesses of these cells. Astrocytic synthesis of GIFis mainly found in the cortex, brainstem and spinalcord [6].Additionally however, there are also consistentreports of neuronal synthesis of GIF, ... partly explaining the vast neuronal lossin the AD brain. Further investigation of the increasedneurotrophic activity of the AD brain revealed that itcorrelated with the loss of a specific neuroinhibitoryfactor,...