title: Electric fields, contact guidance and the direction of nerve growth.
abstract: Nerve orientation in response to electrical guidance cues in one direction and contact guidance cues in an orthogonal direction has been studied. Where neurites had a free choice between following contact guidance cues or electrical cues, the direction of nerve growth was determined predominantly by the vector of the applied electric field.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000196:embryology*; D002450:Cell Communication; D002465:Cell Movement; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D014982:Xenopus laevis