Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
"Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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)
| Descriptor ID |
D019208
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.276.860.100 D12.776.467.860.100 D12.776.641.600.100 D23.529.850.100
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| Concept/Terms |
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor- Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
- Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor
- Factor, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic
- Neurotrophic Factor, Brain-Derived
- BDNF
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| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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