Axon Growth and Guidance

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bagnard, Dominique (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 621
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

The complexarchitectureofneuronal networks togetherwith the extraordinary associated functions make the nervous system a fascinating biological structure. The considerable work performed to explore this cellular machinery is nowadays successfulbecause the mysteryofnervous system developmentisbeing u...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular Mechanisms of Axonal Growth
• Netrins and Their receptors
• Eph Receptors and Ephrin Ligands in Axon Guidance
• Role of Semaphorins during Axon Growth and Guidance
• Slits and Their Receptors
• Neurotrophic Factors: Are They Axon Guidance Molecules?
• The Role of Cell Adhesion Molecules in Axon Growth and Guidance
• Neurotransmitters and the Development of Neuronal Circuits
• The Hedgehog, TGF-?/BMP and Wnt Families of Morphogens in Axon Guidance
• The Role of Cyclic Nucleotides in Axon Guidance
• Membrane Lipid Rafts and Their Role in Axon Guidance
• The Role of Glial Cells in Axon Guidance, Fasciculation and Targeting.