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NGF

American  
  1. nerve growth factor.


NGF British  

abbreviation

  1. nerve growth factor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Since 2019, there’s been a 41% increase of female golfers, the NGF reports, and every year since 2020, roughly 3.3 million people have hit the course for the first time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025

And NGF levels have been shown to spike in laboratory animals that are experiencing inflammation or peripheral nerve injury2.

From Nature • Sep. 10, 2019

U.S. regulators early this decade placed a partial hold on NGF trials after some patients developed a fast-moving form of the degenerative joint condition osteoarthritis.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2018

“Green-grass golf participation remains an essential measure of golf’s vitality, and we will continue to measure and report on it the way we always have,” NGF president and CEO Joe Beditz said in the report.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 22, 2017

What seems to happen is that NGF activates trkA receptors in a way that eventually leads to a degradation of the follicular wall, which aids in follicular rupture from the ovary.

From Scientific American • Sep. 5, 2012