ADJECTIVE
- (of a virus, toxin, or chemical) tending to attack or affect the nervous system preferentially
How To Use neurotropic In A Sentence
- This neurotropic effect of NGF offers an explanation of how nerve fibres can find their way through the tangle of nerves in the brain. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1986 - Presentation Speech
- The likely explanation is thought to be a local, highly neurotropic, measles virus.
- These findings were taken as a definitive confirmation of the accepted concept of the virus as a strictly neurotropic agent, i.e. capable of multiplying in nerve cells exclusively. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1954 - Presentation Speech
- Between 20 and 30 percent of women carry a variation of this gene, called "brain-derived neurotropic factor Met," which past research has shown is a risk factor for mood disorders. Is There a PMS Gene?
- JC virus, a human neurotropic polyomavirus, is the etiologic infectious agent of this disease.
- The lady's sting seemed to have delivered a neurotropic toxin. Trumps of Doom
- The cultivation of the French neurotropic virus was readily achieved by Haagen and myself and later by Lloyd, Ricci, and myself by the use of chick embryo tissue. Max Theiler - Nobel Lecture
- Alternatively, in these cases NGF may subserve other functions which may somehow be linked with the poisonous action of snake venom, one can envisage the possibility that a highly specific neurotropic molecule such as NGF is utilized by reptiles as a carrier of other neurotoxins devoid of specific receptors in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
- C. bantiana has been reported as a neurotropic agent causing cerebral phaeohyphomycosis in the form of brain abscesses.
- Initial serological tests pointed to St Louis encephalitis virus (the American sister of the neurotropic flaviviruses, which caused encephalitis epidemics in America in the 1930s, but is not normally found this far north).