title: Signaling at the growth cone: the scientific progeny of Cajal meet in Madrid.
abstract: I had the good fortune to behold for the first time that fantastic ending of the growing axon. In my sections of the spinal cord of the three day chick embryo, this ending appeared as a concentration of protoplasm of conical form, endowed with amoeboid movements. It could be compared with a living battering ram, soft and flexible, which advances, pushing aside mechanically the obstacles which it finds in its path, until it reaches the region of its peripheral termination. This curious terminal club, I christened the growth cone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, MCP Hahnemann University, 2900 Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19129, USA. peter.w.baas@drexel.edu
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Baas
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003599:Cytoskeleton / Q000502:physiology*; D020439:Growth Cones / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*