Figure 1: Turning of nerve growth cones induced by a gradient of netrin-1. Figure 3: Zig-zag pathfinding of the growth cone. Figure 4: Heterologous desensitization between netrin-1 and BDNF. Figure 5: ...
During development of the nervous system, the tip of a growing axon, the growth cone (GC), must respond accurately to stimuli that direct its growth. This axonal navigation depends on extracellular ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 16 (Apr. 18, 2006), pp. 6218-6223 (6 pages) Most mammals have two types of cone photoreceptors, which ...
Neurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered new ways by which nerves are guided to grow in highly directed ways to wire the brain during embryonic development. Their finding, detailed in a paper ...