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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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2016
2016
Neural repair: Redirecting regeneration
In zebrafish, components of the extracellular matrix help to direct regenerating motor axons to their original targets. 
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… 
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
Ca2+ Mobilized by Caffeine from the Inositol 1,4,5‐Trisphosphate‐Insensitive Pool of Ca2+ in Somatic Regions of Sympathetic Neurons Does Not Evoke [3H]Norepinephrine Release
Abstract: The effects of electrical stimulation, muscarinic and serotonergic agonists, and caffeine on [3H]inositol 1,4,5… 
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… 
1986
1986
Action potentials, macroscopic and single channel currents recorded from growth cones of Aplysia neurones in culture.
Action potentials, macroscopic ionic currents and single channel currents were recorded from growth cones of Aplysia right upper… 
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… 
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…