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Definition of Neurotropic
1. Adjective. (of a virus, toxin, or chemical) tending to attack or affect the nervous system preferentially.
Definition of Neurotropic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to neurotropism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Neurotropic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Neurotropic
1. Having an affinity for or growing towards, neural tissue. Rabies virus, which localises in neurons, is referred to as neurotropic, can also be used to refer to chemicals. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neurotropic
Literary usage of Neurotropic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1921)
"They do not insist that the neurotropic organism invades only the central nervous
system, and therefore there is no reason why that organism can not be ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"The evidence in support of the special sense function of the fusiform cell is
based on: (a) The fact that it colors readily with neurotropic dyes, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"The evidence in support of the special sense function of the fusiform cell is
based on: (a) The fact that it colors readily with neurotropic dyes, ..."
4. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"Second, zoonotic neurotropic diseases such as rabies occur at a relatively serious
frequency in some populations of wild and domestic animals. ..."
5. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"What is especially significant is that even neurotropic stains lost this property
entirely if sulfonic acids were introduced, a fact demonstrated in the ..."
6. Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy by Derek S. Linton (2005)
"I myself have found that a diphtheria poison with a strongly marked paralytic
effect loses its neurotropic effect after treatment with iodine trichloride. ..."
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