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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins > Nerve Growth Factors > Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Biological Factors > Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins > Nerve Growth Factors > Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Intercellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins > Nerve Growth Factors > Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Nerve Tissue Proteins > Nerve Growth Factors > Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

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Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor  

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Entry terms

  • BDNF

Scope note

  • A member of the nerve growth factor family of trophic factors. In the brain BDNF has a trophic action on retinal, cholinergic, and dopaminergic neurons, and in the peripheral nervous system it acts on both motor and sensory neurons. (From Kendrew, The Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology, 1994)

History note

  • 97; was BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR 1986-96

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019208

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