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Molecular Aspects of Commissural Axon Guidance

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During development of the nervous system, growing axons must navigate through their environment to find their correct target. Accurate pathfinding of axons is essential for the establishment of functional neuronal circuits. How do axons know where to go? What provides them with the necessary information? Which part of the axon actually makes the directional decision? These are questions scientists have been trying to answer over decades of axon guidance research. Few of them have been solved; many of them remain a mystery.

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Stoeckli, E.T., Niederkofler, V. (2010). Molecular Aspects of Commissural Axon Guidance. In: Feldmeyer, D., Lübke, J. (eds) New Aspects of Axonal Structure and Function. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1676-1_1

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