A Second Career for a Growth Factor Receptor: Keeping Nerve Axons on Target
Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 15:35
in Biology & Nature
Neurons constituting the optic nerve wire up to the brain in a highly dynamic way. Using the mouse visual system, a team of Salk Institute for Biological Studies investigators led by Dennis O'Leary, Ph.D., identified an unanticipated factor that helps keep retinal axons from going astray.