nerve growth factor

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nerve growth factor

[′nərv ‚grōth ‚fak·tər]

(neuroscience)

A multimeric protein that promotes nerve cell growth and may protect some types of nerve cells from damage, including nerve cells in the cholinergic system.

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Regional CNS uptake of blood-borne nerve growth factor.

Nerve Growth Factor for the Treatment of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3: An Open-label Study

Nerve growth factor and brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNAs are regulated in distinct cell populations of rat heart after ischaemia and reperfusion.

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in cardiometabolic physiology and diseases/Kardiyometabolik fizyoloji ve hastaliklarda beyinden turemis norotrofik faktor (BDNF)

Nerve growth factor production in sheep antral follicles.

Expression of neurotrophin 4 and its receptor tyrosine kinase B in reproductive tissues during the follicular and luteal phases in cows

Honegger P, Lenoir D (1982) Nerve growth factor (NGF) stimulation of cholinergic telencephalic neurons in aggregating cell cultures.

Induction of NGF synthesis in astrocytes by onjisaponins of Polygala tenuifolia, constituents of kampo (Japanese herbal) medicine, Ninjin-Yoei-To

Top 10 Countries for Nerve Growth Factor Research (ranked by number of senior NGF researchers)

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Upon addition of nerve growth factor (NGF), PC12 cells begin to differentiate and develop axonal projections and electrical excitability (Das and Barone 1999; Fujita et al.

Chlorpyrifos affects phenotypic outcomes in a model of mammalian neurodevelopment: critical stages targeting differentiation in PC12 cells

While the untreated group lost cholinergic neurons, the connections were restored in treated monkeys, whose neurons released nerve growth factor.

Monkey brain cell transplants may lead to Alzheimer's treatment, study finds

While working with the only defined neurotrophic factor known at that time, nerve growth factor (NGF), he observed biological activity that allowed the survival of cultured embryonic neurons that could not be attributed to the presence of nerve-growth factor (NGF).

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6 December 2011 - AnaptysBio Inc, a US-based therapeutic antibody company, said on Monday that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal had published the results of a research programme that led to the discovery of new fully-human antibodies against human nerve growth factor (NGF) using AnaptysBio's SHM-XEL platform.

AnaptysBio describes new technology for discovery, optimisation of human antibodies

All the growth factors we've tested - oncomodulin, inosine, brain-derived neurotropic factor, nerve growth factor - act through Mst3b.

Scientists identify master enzyme for regenerating nerve fibers in live animals

Nerve growth factor (NGF) is a secreted protein which induces the differentiation and survival of particular target neurons.