Axon guidance by growth-rate modulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5202-5207

  Mortimer, Duncan ^a   Pujic, Zac ^a   Vaughan, Timothy ^a   Thompson, Andrew W ^a   Feldner, Julia ^a   Vetter, Irina ^a   Goodhill, Geoffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Computational neuroscience; Growth cone; Nerve growth factor; Neural development

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; IMAGING; MODULATION; NERVE FIBER; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURITES; RATS; TROPISM;

EID: 77950443579     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909254107     Document Type: Article

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