11786 IUPAC Gold Book - glial-derived neurotrophic factor 10.1351/goldbook.11786 11786 current initialism: GDNF 1 Protein that promotes and guides the growth of neurons and facilitates the survival of mature neurons by suppressing cell death. PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 870 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11786/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11786/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11786/plain Citation: 'glial-derived 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.11786 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. 2026-05-10T17:40:22+00:00