Antegrade vs. Anterograde — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Antegrade and Anterograde
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Definitions
Antegrade➦
Moving or directed forward
Anterograde➦
Directed forwards in time.
Anterograde➦
(medicine) 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.
Anterograde➦
(medicine) 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.
Anterograde➦
Of amnesia; affecting time immediately following trauma
