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Use "neurotrophins" in a sentence
"It turns out that there are numerous chemical growth factors, including several that act in the nervous system, where they are known as neurotrophins."
"But there's also a number of these proteins or molecules called neurotrophins, and some of them are produced in the brain, such as the brain- derived neurotrophin factor or BDNF, and some of them are produced in the periphery, such as IGF1 or insulin-like growth factor 1 produced in the muscles and other regions of the periphery."
"These neurotrophins also influence the process of neuroplasticity, controlling where new nerve branches go, pruning the old, unused ones, and deciding which neurons to connect with others in a neural circuit.15"