title: Neural development. Chemoattractants for navigating axons.
abstract: Newly identified proteins that seem to act as diffusible attractants for circumferentially growing axons in the vertebrate embryonic spinal cord are related to a protein that directs circumferential axon growth in the nematode.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological and Medical Sciences, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Davies
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D002630:Chemotactic Factors / Q000502:physiology*; D015801:Helminth Proteins / Q000502:physiology; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D000075388:Netrin-1; D000075385:Netrins; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins
chemical_list: D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D002630:Chemotactic Factors; D015801:Helminth Proteins; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D000075385:Netrins; D025521:Tumor Suppressor Proteins; C078146:UNC-6 protein, C elegans; D000075388:Netrin-1; C088894:netrin-2