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Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

"Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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)


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 415 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 30 publications in 2013
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