neurotropic
IPA: nʊrˈɑtrʌpɪk
adjective
- (pharmacology) Of or pertaining to neurotropism.
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Examples of "neurotropic" in Sentences
- The lady's sting seemed to have delivered a neurotropic toxin.
- The first immunizations of humans using mouse-adapted neurotropic virus alone were reported by Sellard and Laigret (1932).
- This neurotropic effect of NGF offers an explanation of how nerve fibres can find their way through the tangle of nerves in the brain.
- The first strong evidence for a NGF neurotropic effect was obtained from experiments of daily micro-injections of NGF into the floor of the fourth ventricle.
- The cultivation of the French neurotropic virus was readily achieved by Haagen and myself and later by Lloyd, Ricci, and myself by the use of chick embryo tissue.
- Between 20 and 30 percent of women carry a variation of this gene, called "brain-derived neurotropic factor Met," which past research has shown is a risk factor for mood disorders.
- These findings were taken as a definitive confirmation of the accepted concept of the virus as a strictly neurotropic agent, i.e. capable of multiplying in nerve cells exclusively.
- I have to admit that Shirley wasn't quite what I expected -- but then, based on his work I was expecting a seven-foot semen-crusted blood-spattered drugsucking maniac with a hook for a hand and a ring of cranial jacks circling a skull surgically expanded to fit a brain swollen by neurotropic abuse.
- Alternatively, in these cases NGF may subserve other functions which may somehow be linked with the poisonous action of snake venom, one can envisage the possibility that a highly specific neurotropic molecule such as NGF is utilized by reptiles as a carrier of other neurotoxins devoid of specific receptors in the central and peripheral nervous systems.
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