It's possible, Feigin says, that
axon guidance signals — and indeed cell adhesion signals — «are actually being used by tumor cells» to gain advantages over healthy cells.
Not exact matches
My lab is investigating the normal cellular functions of
signaling pathways implicated in neurological disease, with an emphasis on
axon growth and
guidance.
In the 1990s, scientists found the first of those
signaling systems, a family of ephrin proteins that are present in graded fashion in the brain and are involved in
axon guidance.