NEUROGENESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurogenesis mean? 

• NEUROGENESIS (noun)
  The noun NEUROGENESIS has 1 sense:

1. the development of nerve tissues

  Familiarity information: NEUROGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROGENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The development of nerve tissues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("neurogenesis" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

 Context examples 

This protein plays a role in both neutral amino acid transport and neurogenesis in the brain.

(Large Neutral Amino Acids Transporter Small Subunit 1, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in neurogenesis.

(GDNF Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in neurogenesis.

(Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule L1, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in neurogenesis.

(NTN1 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in transcriptional regulation, neurogenesis and HIV infection.

(PC4 and SFRS1-Interacting Protein Isoform 1, NCI Thesaurus)

It is involved in melanogenesis, neurogenesis and skeletal muscle development.

(PAX3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes ephrin type-B receptor 1 protein is involved in developmental processes and may play a role in neurogenesis.

(EPHB1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes ephrin type-B receptor 2 protein, plays a role in the mediation of developmental events and may also be involved in neurogenesis.

(EPHB2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

They play a role in various biological processes, including fertilization, neurogenesis, myogenesis, embryonic TGF-alpha release and inflammatory response.

(ADAM Type Metalloprotease Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene plays a role in both neurogenesis and Peyer patch morphogenesis.

(ARTN Gene, NCI Thesaurus)