Axon guidance: following the Eph plan.
Recently discovered 'Eph' family receptors and their ligands appear likely to provide the 'cytochemical tags' that Sperry speculated enable axons projecting from the retina to find their correct targets in the brain.
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Galton Laboratory, Department of Biology, University College London, UK.
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D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D012160:Retina / Q000166:cytology*; D015398:Signal Transduction
D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases