Sentences with phrase «guide axon growth»
Eager to establish himself, he chose a natural extension of the work he did with Tessier - Lavigne: identifying the molecular cues that guide axon growth toward and away from the brain.
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The way that an axon guides and finds its proper target is through so - called growth cones located at the tips of axons.
Although Wnts were better known because of their role as morphogens — proteins that pattern bodily structures and determine cell fates — Zou recently showed how members of the Wnt family served to guide pathfinding axons up and down the spinal cord by attracting or repelling receptors on the growth cones of sensory or motor nerves.