Adaptation is not required to explain the long-term response of axons to molecular gradients

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 4545-4552

  Xu, Jun ^a   Rosoff, William J ^a   Urbach, Jeffrey S ^b   Goodhill, Geoffrey J ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axon guidance; Chemotaxis; Computational model; Dorsal root ganglion; Nerve growth factor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GROWTH CONE; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTOR BINDING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AXONS; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27744535277     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02029     Document Type: Article

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