Nerve growth and guidance /
edited by C.D. McCaig.
- London : Portland, 1996.
- xii,174 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.
- Frontiers in neurobiology ; 2 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview: axon growth and axon guidance / C. D. McCaig -- Protein tyrosine phosphorylation in the growth cone / P. W. Grabham, D. -Y. Wu and D. J. Goldberg -- The role of protein tyrosine kinases in transducing signals from cell adhesion molecules to promote neurite outgrowth / T. J. Baldwin, F. S. Walsh and P. Doherty -- Microtubule function in growth cones / M. S. Bush, M. Johnstone and P. R. Gordon-Weeks -- Functional domains and intracellular signalling: clues to growth cone dynamics / R. W. Davenport -- Mechanisms of growth cone guidance by proteoglycans / D. M. Snow, P. B. Atkinson, T. D. Hassinger, S. B. Kater and P. C. Letourneau -- Mechanisms of growth cone collapse by central nervous system myelin-associated neurite growth inhibitors / C. E. Bandtlow -- Developmental aspects of axon growth and its inhibition in the vertebrate nervous system / D. Shewan and J. Cohen -- Electric embryos: the embryonic epithelium as a generator of developmental information / K. R. Robinson and M. A. Messerli -- Nerve growth and nerve guidance in a physiological electric field / C. D. McCaig and L. Erskine.