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Chemokine signaling guides axons within the retina in zebrafish.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 16 Feb 2005
Li Qin, Shirabe Komei, Thisse Christine, Thisse Bernard, Okamoto Hitoshi, Masai Ichiro, Kuwada John Y
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Chemokines are a large family of secreted proteins that play an important role in the migration of leukocytes during hematopoiesis and inflammation. Chemokines and their receptors are also widely distributed in the CNS. Although recent investigations are beginning to elucidate chemokine function within the CNS, relatively little is known about the CNS function of this important class of molecules. To better...
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