Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Contact, publication, and social network information about Harvard faculty and fellows.

Nerve Degeneration

"Nerve Degeneration" 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.

Loss of functional activity and trophic degeneration of nerve axons and their terminal arborizations following the destruction of their cells of origin or interruption of their continuity with these cells. The pathology is characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases. Often the process of nerve degeneration is studied in research on neuroanatomical localization and correlation of the neurophysiology of neural pathways.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Nerve Degeneration" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Nerve Degeneration" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 455 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 24 publications in 2005
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
Related Networks
People
Explore
_
Similar Concepts
_
Top Journals 
_
Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.