title: Functions and mechanisms of retrograde neurotrophin signalling.
abstract: Neuronal connections are established and refined through a series of developmental programs that involve axon and dendrite specification, process growth, target innervation, cell death and synaptogenesis. Many of these developmental events are regulated by target-derived neurotrophins and their receptors, which signal retrogradely over long distances from distal-most axons to neuronal cell bodies. Recent work has established many of the cellular and molecular events that underlie retrograde signalling and the importance of these events for both development and maintenance of proper neural connectivity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2185, USA.
authors.forename: Larry S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Zweifel
authors.forename: Rejji
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kuruvilla
authors.forename: David D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Ginty
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors / Q000502:physiology*; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D009414:Nerve Growth Factors