title: Axon guidance: push and pull with ephrins and GDNF.
abstract: The pathfinding of motor axons is an important model system for understanding binary axon guidance decisions. Recent work has shown that GDNF attracts motor neuron growth cones, and interacts synergistically with ephrinAs on growth cone directionality.
authors.affiliation: MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL, UK. uwe.drescher@kcl.ac.uk
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Drescher
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology*; D002645:Chickens; D036342:Ephrins / Q000378:metabolism*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000502:physiology; D051100:Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor / Q000378:metabolism*; D051097:Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D036342:Ephrins; D051100:Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor; D051097:Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors