Growth Cone Form Is Behavior-Specific and, Consequently, Position-Specific along the Retinal Axon Pathway
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Growth cone form is behavior-specific and, consequently, position-specific along the retinal axon pathway.
Video time-lapse microscopy has made it possible to document growth cone motility during axon navigation in the intact brain. This approach prompted us to reanalyze the hypothesis, originally derived from observations of fixed tissue, that growth cone form is position-specific. The behaviors of Dil-labeled retinal axon growth cones were tracked from retina through the optic tract in mouse brain...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-03-01086.1997