11682 IUPAC Gold Book - ciliary neurotrophic factor 10.1351/goldbook.11682 11682 current 1 Polypeptide hormone and nerve growth factor that promotes neurotransmitter synthesis and neurite outgrowth in certain neural populations including astrocytes. astrocytes https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11614 nerve growth factor https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11914 neurite https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11922 neurotransmitter https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11955 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 857 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11682/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11682/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11682/plain Citation: 'ciliary neurotrophic factor' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11682 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-23T11:15:47+00:00