成長のカルシウムトランジエントによるアクソン延長と経路のインビボ調節

T M Gomez1, N C Spitzer

  • 1Department of Biology and Center for Molecular Genetics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0357, USA. tgomez@biomail.ucsd.edu

Nature
|February 9, 1999
PubMed
まとめ

成長は,発達中の神経系における軸索の成長を制御する. 細胞内カルシウム濃度 ([Ca2+]i) の一時的な上昇は,生体内で成長の運動性と軸索拡張を調節する.

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