title: How to survive a nerve-wracking journey.
abstract: When the axons that carry signals to muscles are growing, they rely on help from Frizzled3-a protein that is known to perform a number of other important functions in cells-to reach their final destination.
authors.affiliation: Andrea Yung is in the Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States andreayung@fas.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yung
authors.forename: Lisa V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Goodrich
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology*; D051157:Frizzled Receptors / Q000502:physiology*; D009046:Motor Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000166:cytology*
chemical_list: D051157:Frizzled Receptors
keywords: axon growth; cell death; limb innervation; muscle atrophy; neural crest; planar cell polarity (PCP)