Axon guidance: Starting and stopping with slit

Authors
Guthrie, S
Citation
S. Guthrie, Axon guidance: Starting and stopping with slit, CURR BIOL, 9(12), 1999, pp. R432-R435
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Experimental Biology
Journal title
CURRENT BIOLOGY
ISSN journal
09609822 → ACNP
Volume
9
Issue
12
Year of publication
1999
Pages
R432 - R435
Database
ISI
SICI code
0960-9822(19990617)9:12<R432:AGSASW>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
As developing axons navigate, they exhibit various behaviours: extending an d branching, pausing, changing direction, retracting. Now, the Slit protein has been discovered to have striking positive and negative effects on axon growth and guidance. (C) Elsevier Science Ltd ISSN 0960-9822.