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To understand the mechanism of axonal guidance, the behavior of growing axons has been studied in several in vitro systems (Gundersen and Barrett, 1979; Lumsden and Davies, 1983; Kapfhammer et al., 1986; for review see Bray and Hollenbeck, 1988).
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Walter, J., Bonhoeffer, F. (1991). Guidance of Chick Retinal Axons in Vitro. In: Finlay, B.L., Innocenti, G., Scheich, H. (eds) The Neocortex. NATO ASI Series, vol 200. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0652-6_18
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