title: Cellular strategies of axonal pathfinding.
abstract: Axons follow highly stereotyped and reproducible trajectories to their targets. In this review we address the properties of the first pioneer neurons to grow in the developing nervous system and what has been learned over the past several decades about the extracellular and cell surface substrata on which axons grow. We then discuss the types of guidance cues and their receptors that influence axon extension, what determines where cues are expressed, and how axons respond to the cues they encounter in their environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosciences, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6058, USA. raperj@mail.med.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Raper
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mason
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*; D002633:Chemotaxis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D017933:Peripheral Nervous System / Q000502:physiology*