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Axon guidance: proteins turnover in turning growth cones
Gianluca Gallo1, Paul Letourneau
1Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, 6-145 Jackson Hall, 321 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|August 27, 2002
Abstract:
Accurate navigation by a neuronal growth cone requires the modulation of the growth cone's responsiveness to spatial and temporal changes in expression of guidance cues. These adaptations involve local protein synthesis and turnover in growth cones and distal axons.