Neurotrophins

A neurotrophic factor involved in regulating the survival of visceral and proprioceptive sensory neurons. It is closely homologous to nerve growth factor beta and brain-derived ...

neurotrophins

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Factors which enhance the growth potentialities of sensory and sympathetic nerve cells.

neurotrophin 3 receptor

Medical; Health care; Medicine

A protein-tyrosine kinase receptor that is specific for neurotrophin 3. It is widely expressed in nervous tissue and may play a role in mediating the effects of neurotrophin 3 on ...

neurotrophin receptors

Medical; Health care; Medicine

Cell surface receptors that bind nerve growth factor; (NGF) and a NGF-related family of neurotrophic factors that includes neurotrophins, brain-derived neurotrophic factor and ...

medial longitudinal fasciculus

Biology; Neuroscience

Axon tract that carries excitatory projections from the abducens nucleus to the contralateral oculomotor nucleus; important in coordinating conjugate eye movements.

commissures

Biology; Neuroscience

Axon tracts that cross the midline of the brain. See also anterior commissure.

postganglionic axons

Biology; Neuroscience

Axons that link visceral motor neurons in autonomic ganglia to their targets.

climbing fibers

Biology; Neuroscience

Axons that originate in the inferior olive, ascend through the inferior cerebellar peduncle, and make terminal arborizations that invest the dendritic tree of Purkinje cells.