11914 IUPAC Gold Book - nerve growth factor 10.1351/goldbook.11914 11914 current initialism: NGF 1 One of a family of proteins known as neurotropins that function as signaling molecules to induce axon growth, branching, elongation and survival of neurons. axon https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11627 PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 886 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11914/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11914/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11914/plain Citation: 'nerve growth 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.11914 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. 2026-05-15T01:30:09+00:00