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.

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