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Neurites

"Neurites" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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In tissue culture, hairlike projections of neurons stimulated by growth factors and other molecules. These projections may go on to form a branched tree of dendrites or a single axon or they may be reabsorbed at a later stage of development. "Neurite" may refer to any filamentous or pointed outgrowth of an embryonal or tissue-culture neural cell.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Neurites" by people in this website by year, and whether "Neurites" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 33 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 1997
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