"Nerve Degeneration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Loss of functional activity and trophic degeneration of nerve axons and their terminal arborizations following the destruction of their cells of origin or interruption of their continuity with these cells. The pathology is characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases. Often the process of nerve degeneration is studied in research on neuroanatomical localization and correlation of the neurophysiology of neural pathways.
| Descriptor ID |
D009410
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.737
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| Concept/Terms |
Nerve Degeneration- Nerve Degeneration
- Degeneration, Nerve
- Degenerations, Nerve
- Nerve Degenerations
- Neuron Degeneration
- Degeneration, Neuron
- Degenerations, Neuron
- Neuron Degenerations
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Human Striatal Dopaminergic and Regional Serotonergic Synaptic Degeneration with Lewy Body Disease and Inheritance of APOE e4. Am J Pathol. 2017 Apr; 187(4):884-895.