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Neurites

Known as: Extrasomatic region of neuron, Appendage of neuron, neuronal cell projection 
In tissue culture, hairlike projections of neurons stimulated by growth factors and other molecules. These projections may go on to form a branched… 
National Institutes of Health

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AxonDendritesneuron projection membrane

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Cell appendage
Contactin 2Growth ConesMicrobiologicalNerve Fibers

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2000
2000
Evolutionary neural topiary: growing and sculpting artifical neurons to order
Designing artificial systems with ever more biologicallyplausible 'brains' continues apace and permits investigations into the… 
1999
1999
Recent progress of the research on novel microbial metabolites
Abstract 
1999
1999
Synapsins as major neuronal Ca 2 + / S 100 A 1-interacting proteins
The mammalian S100A1 protein can activate the invertebrate myosin-associated giant protein kinase twitchin in a Ca#+dependent… 
1997
1997
Effects of Inhibition on Neural Network Development Through Activity-dependent Neurite Outgrowth
Abstract Empirical studies have demonstrated that electrical activity of the neuron can directly affect the outgrowth of its… 
1994
1994
Cell adhesion molecules regulating neurite growth from amacrine and rod photoreceptor cells [published erratum appears in J Neurosci 1994 Oct;14(10):following table of contents]
A great deal is now known about the cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) that are responsible for promoting the growth of ganglion cell… 
1990
1990
Role of the cAMP‐dependent protein kinase and protein kinase C in regulating the morphological differentiation of PC12 cells
The cell line A126‐1B2 is a PC12‐derived mutant that is resistance to the toxic effects of dibutyryladenosine 3′:5′‐cyclic… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Unmyelinated cutaneous afferent neurons activate two types of excitatory amino acid receptor in the spinal cord of Xenopus laevis embryos
The trunk and tail skin of Xenopus laevis embryos near the time of hatching is innervated by the mechanoreceptive free nerve… 
1981
1981
Control of neurite extension by embryonic heart explants.
The dynamics of neurite outgrowth elicited by embryonic chick heart explants in sympathetic, spinal, ciliary and Remak's ganglia… 
1981
1981
A Gradient of Molecules in Avian Retina with Dorsoventral Polarity
Marshall Nirenberg pursued many lines of research in neurobiology in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the expression of… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Migration of Schwann cells and wrapping of neurites in vitro: a function of protease activity (plasmin) in the growth medium.
In vitro conditions were defined under which Schwann cells, from a population of dissociated embryonic chicken spinal cord cells… 
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