Concept information
Preferred term
Neurites
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Narrower concepts
Note
- do not confuse with the French "nevrite" or other vernac "nevrit-" which means "neuritis"
Scope note
- In tissue culture, hairlike projections of neurons stimulated by growth factors and other molecules. These projections may go on to form a branched tree of dendrites or a single axon or they may be reabsorbed at a later stage of development. "Neurite" may refer to any filamentous or pointed outgrowth of an embryonal or tissue-culture neural cell.
History note
- 92
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016501
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