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Growth Cones

Known as: Growth Cone 
Bulbous enlargement of the growing tip of nerve axons and dendrites. They are crucial to neuronal development because of their pathfinding ability… 
National Institutes of Health

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2009
2009
The adrenergic innervation of the urinary bladder in the cat and man in the normal state and after parasympathetic denervation.
The adrenergic innervation of the feline and human urinary bladder was studied with the histochemical fluorescence method of… 
2005
2005
The cochlear amplifier and Ca2+ current–driven active stereocilia motion
Despite 20 years of study, the mechanism underlying the cochlear amplifier remains contentious. In this issue, a novel in vitro… 
2004
2004
Cerebral neuroblastoma
A cerebral neuroblastoma removed surgically from a female child is presented. Electron microscopy showed numerous neuronal… 
Review
1994
Review
1994
A potential role for altered protein phosphorylation in the mediation of developmental neurotoxicity.
Protein phosphorylation represents a major post-translational mechanism through which numerous physiological processes are… 
1990
1990
Regenerating axons and their growth cones observed by scanning electron microscopy.
A predenervated sciatic nerve segment, which had been treated by repeated freezing and thawing to kill Schwann cells, was grafted… 
1989
1989
On the Mechanism of Nerve Galvanotropism.
The mechanism whereby nerves turn towards the cathode in a small applied electric field has been investigated. The distribution… 
1986
1986
Positional specificity of corneal nerves during development.
The developing avian cornea is enclosed within a nerve ring from which numerous neurites extend into the cornea as radially… 
1984
1984
Molecular biology of the nerve growth cone: a perspective.
As so vividly described by Cajal, the nerve growth cone is the amoeboid, leading edge of the growing neurite. It occurs only… 
1982
1982
Modified growth cones in mouse neuroblastoma cultures; an electron microscopic study.
Growth cones of differentiated neuroblastoma cells in monolayer cultures were studied by electron microscopy. Morphological… 
1981
1981
Effects of local anesthetics on nerve growth in culture.
The effects of the tertiary amine local anesthetics, procaine, lidocaine, and tetracaine, on 8-day-old chick embryo dorsal root…