Neural development. Chemoattractants for navigating axons.

Curr Biol

School of Biological and Medical Sciences, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

Published: December 1994

Newly identified proteins that seem to act as diffusible attractants for circumferentially growing axons in the vertebrate embryonic spinal cord are related to a protein that directs circumferential axon growth in the nematode.

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