nerve growth factor
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
a functional protein complex required for the survival, growth and specialization of certain types of neurons in vertebrates.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "They (trypsin-like serine proteases) are also thought to be involved in the processing or activation of other biologically important proteins such as nerve growth factor (NGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) (3–5)."
- "Nerve growth factor is the prototypical member of the neurotrophin family."
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Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
brain-derived neurotrophic factor
neurotrophin-3
neurotrophin-4