Growth cone guidance by floor plate cells in the spinal cord of zebrafish embryos.

doi:10.1016/0896-6273(92)90201-n

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Growth cone guidance by floor plate cells in the spinal cord of zebrafish embryos.

Neuron - 1 May 1992

Bernhardt R R, Nguyen N, Kuwada J Y

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The spinal cord of early zebrafish embryos contains a small number of neuronal classes whose growth cones all follow stereotyped, cell-specific pathways to their targets. Two classes of spinal neurons make cell-specific turns at or near the ventral midline of the spinal cord, which is occupied by...

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Animals
Axons
Functional Laterality
Lasers
Microscopy, Electron
Mutation
Neurons
Spinal Cord
Zebrafish

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