Axon Guidance: Stretching Gradients to the Limit

Neural Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 521-527

  Goodhill, Geoffrey J ^a   Baier, Herwig ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LIGAND;

ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; CHEMICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS TISSUE; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; REVIEW; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; AXONS; LIGANDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NERVE TISSUE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0032039243     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976698300017638     Document Type: Article

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