title: Norman K. Wessells: a life in science.
abstract: "In its triple role as locomotory organelle, as a site of deposition of new surface material for the elongating axon, and a source of microspikes (sensory probes), the growth cone becomes the key to axon elongation" Yamada et al. (1971).
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell and Development Biology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. kfbarald@umich.edu
authors.forename: Kate F
authors.initials: KF
authors.lastname: Barald
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology; D015509:Developmental Biology / Q000266:history*; D020439:Growth Cones / Q000502:physiology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology