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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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Axon
Axon GuidanceMicrobiologicalNeuritesNeurogenesis

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Review
2011
Review
2011
The growth cone cytoskeleton in axon outgrowth and guidance.
Axon outgrowth and guidance to the proper target requires the coordination of filamentous (F)-actin and microtubules (MTs), the… 
Review
2009
Review
2009
The trip of the tip: understanding the growth cone machinery
The central component in the road trip of axon guidance is the growth cone, a dynamic structure that is located at the tip of the… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Signaling at the growth cone: ligand-receptor complexes and the control of axon growth and guidance.
The guidance of axons during the establishment of the nervous system is mediated by a variety of extracellular cues that govern… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Smn, the spinal muscular atrophy–determining gene product, modulates axon growth and localization of β-actin mRNA in growth cones of motoneurons
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a common autosomal recessive form of motoneuron disease in infants and young adults, is caused by… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Neuropilin Is a Semaphorin III Receptor
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Neuropilin Is a Receptor for the Axonal Chemorepellent Semaphorin III
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Collapsin-induced growth cone collapse mediated by an intracellular protein related to UNC-33
COLLAPSIN1, a member of the newly recognized semaphorin family2á¤-4, contributes to axonal pathfinding during neural development… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Developmental mechanisms that generate precise patterns of neuronal connectivity
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Collapsin: A protein in brain that induces the collapse and paralysis of neuronal growth cones
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Actions of cytochalasins on the organization of actin filaments and microtubules in a neuronal growth cone
Actions of cytochalasin B (CB) on cytoskeletons and motility of growth cones from cultured Aplysia neurons were studied using a… 
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