Investigation into the formation of vertebrate skeletal muscles and skeletal muscle fibers has
accelerated in the last five years. These studies have revealed unexpected complexity in the …

TINS-November 1985 489 major focus of interest for understanding the extrinsic factors that
regulate neuron death. The reason for this stems primarily from the multitude of reports …

The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shopping" to all biologists,
biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …

The major goal of developmental neurobiology is to understand how the nervous system is
put together. A central theme that has emerged from research in this field over the last …

Neuritic regression and cell death (neurodegeneration) are common features of both normal
nervous system development and neurodegenerative disorders. Growth factors and …

Previous studies of denervated and cultured muscle have shown that the expression of the
neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) in muscle is regulated by the muscle's state of …

To elucidate mechanisms that may control development of the gross anatomical nerve
pattern, motoneuron outgrowth into the chick hindlimb was examined using orthograde …

2.2. Axonal outgrowth 2.3. Formation of neuromuscular junctions 2.4. Developmental death
of motoneurons 2.5. Postnatal elimination of synaptic terminals 3. Methodological …

Abstract Treatment of chick embryos in ovo with IGF‐I during the period of normal,
developmentally regulated neuronal death (embryonic days 5–10) resulted in a dose …

The developmental regulation of myoblasts committed to fast, mixed fast/slow, and slow
myogenic cell lineages was determined by analyzing myotube formation in high density and …