Electric fields, contact guidance and the direction of nerve growth.
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.
D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000196:embryology*; D002450:Cell Communication; D002465:Cell Movement; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D014982:Xenopus laevis