NGF, nerve growth factor, 4803

N. diseases: 616; N. variants: 11
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our findings suggest that proNGF is an important factor involving AD pathogenesis. 19680737 2010
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Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Drug treatment strategies to enhance production of NGF in the CNS may be useful in the treatment of AD. 11230869 2001
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE According to much research, neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease (AD) are correlated with alternations of neurotrophic factors such as nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, and glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor. 29114922 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE This change along with an increased TrkA/p75<sup>NTR</sup> ratio of nerve growth factor receptors in the hippocampus may contribute to increased density of immature neurons that we observed at the progressive stage of AD-like pathology in OXYS rats. 30415068 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Nerve growth factor (NGF) deficiency has been suggested as a possible cause of the neural degeneration characteristic of Alzheimer's disease, and trypsin and gamma-NGF are the two enzymes that have been shown to be capable of processing beta-NGF precursor to active, mature beta-NGF in vitro, therefore, the specificity of purified recombinant ABPP Kunitz inhibitor was analyzed with respect to these two proteases. 1696210 1990
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Nerve growth factor is a therapeutic candidate for Alzheimer's disease. 28031222 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this study, we observed whether NGF can affect cholinergic neurons to change amyloid-β precursor protein (APP) metabolism process and reduce amyloidosis in AD brains. 24813062 2014
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Neurotrophins, including nerve-growth factor and brain-derived neurotrophic factor, have been implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD). 28498887 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE The released NGF exhibits a substantial neuroprotective effect in differentiated rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells against amyloid-beta (Aβ)-induced cytotoxicity, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease. 31482695 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE The cross-talk between NGF and insulin pathways downstream the insulin receptor suggests novel potential therapeutic targets to slow cognitive decline in AD and diabetes-related brain insulin resistance. 29736736 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Correlation analysis confirms that neurotrophic factors (i.e., NGF, BDNF) play a great role in AD while are absent in LOBD pathophysiology. 28670271 2017
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Initial efforts attempted to use NGF agonistically for Alzheimer's disease and neuropathies. 31026504 2020
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this article, we examine whether and how the progressive neurodegenerative phenotype of AD11 mice could be prevented or ameliorated by pharmacological treatments with NGF or the cholinergic agonist galantamine, at a relatively early phase of Alzheimer's disease-like neurodegeneration. 12205295 2002
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE In a multicenter phase 2 trial, 49 participants with mild to moderate AD were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive stereotactically guided intracerebral injections of AAV2-NGF or sham surgery. 29582053 2018
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Treatment of degenerating basal forebrain cholinergic neurons with nerve growth factor (NGF) in Alzheimer's disease has long been contemplated, but an effective and safe delivery method has been lacking. 18439998 2008
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE But while NGF distinctly promoted neurite branching and elongation, Abeta was less effective in neurite elongation and counts of small processes and of growth cones remained clearly elevated after 24-h stimulation; these peculiarities might be linked to aberrant neuronal connections reported for an animal model of Alzheimer disease. 16001231 2005
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE This chapter reviews the development of neurotrophic factor gene therapy for neurodegenerative diseases focusing on the therapeutic potential of nerve growth factor in Alzheimer's disease, currently the subject of a phase I clinical trial. 14699979 2004
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this article the authors summarize the development and implementation of nerve growth factor gene delivery as a potential means of reducing cell loss in AD. 15769074 2002
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE In a previous study, AD patient's own fibroblasts genetically modified to produce NGF were transplanted directly into the brain and protected cholinergic neurons from degeneration and improved cognitive function in AD patients. 22526467 2012
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) holds a great therapeutic promise for Alzheimer's disease, diabetic neuropathies, ophthalmic diseases, dermatological ulcers. 26371475 2015
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) is a therapeutic candidate for Alzheimer's disease, based on its well known actions on basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. 30391352 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Further, gradual dysregulation of neurotrophic factors like NGF and brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) have been reported during AD development thus intensifying further research in targeting these factors as disease modifying therapies against AD. 30804738 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE A demonstration that neutralizing NGF activity could have consequences beyond a direct interference with the cholinergic system came from studies in the AD11 mouse model, in which the expression of a highly specific anti-NGF antibody determines a neurodegeneration that encompasses several features of human AD. 20566851 2010
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE NGF deficiency in the basal forebrain precedes degeneration of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in Alzheimer's disease, contributing to memory decline. 31301255 2019
CUI: C0002395
Disease: Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer's Disease
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Amyloid beta-induced nerve growth factor dysmetabolism in Alzheimer disease. 19606067 2009