anterograde

adj 2

Definitions

adj

1

Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.

Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.

2

Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.

Movement of mitochondria and other cell parts from a neuron's cell body toward the synapse is called anterograde transport.

Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.

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