References & Links

Electronic Journals

 

Dickson BJ, Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance, Accessed: 10 April 2010, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria. <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12471249>

 

Electronic Books

 

D.H.Sanes et al., Development of the Nervous System, Accessed: 2 April 2010, 2nd Ed., Elsevier Academic Press 2006, London, United Kingdom. <See Source>

 

Internet sources

 

Chemical gradient steers nerve growth in spinal cord, 2003, Innovations Report, Accessed: 26 April 2010, Chicago, United States of America. <https://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/studies/report-24181.html>

 

Youtube Video

Showing growth cone movement in response to Ephrins, a guidance molecule.

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Books

 

Sanes D.H. et al., Development of the Nervous System, 2nd Ed., Elsevier Academic Press 2006, London, United Kingdom.

 

Bear M. F., Connors B. W., Paradiso M. A., Neuroscience - Exploring the Brain, 3rd Ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2006, Philadelphia, United States of America.

 

Larry R Squire, Fundamental Neuroscience, 2nd Ed., Elsevier Academic Press 2003, London, United Kingdom.

 

Richard Rapport, M.D., Nerve Endings - The Discovery of the Synapse, 1st Ed., 2005, W. W. Norton & Company Inc., New York, United States of America.