Definition of "neurotropic" [neurotropic]

• Tending to affect or attack nervous tissue: a neurotropic venom. (adjective)

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• "Between 20 and 30 percent of women carry a variation of this gene, called "brain-derived neurotropic factor Met," which past research has shown is a risk factor for mood disorders."
• "I have to admit that Shirley wasn't quite what I expected -- but then, based on his work I was expecting a seven-foot semen-crusted blood-spattered drugsucking maniac with a hook for a hand and a ring of cranial jacks circling a skull surgically expanded to fit a brain swollen by neurotropic abuse."
• "This neurotropic effect of NGF offers an explanation of how nerve fibres can find their way through the tangle of nerves in the brain."