Functional recovery from peripheral nerve injury and repair depends on a multitude of
factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic to neurons. Neuronal survival after axotomy is a …

The development of neurons and virtually all other cell types in the organism depends upon
interactions with molecules in their environment. Studics of individual cell types have …

A new type of s elf-a ssembling peptide (sapeptide) scaffolds that serve as substrates for
neurite outgrowth and synapse formation is described. These peptide-based scaffolds are …

CNS white matter from higher vertebrates and cultured differentiated oligodendrocytes are
nonpermissive substrates for neurite growth and fibroblast spreading. Membrane proteins of …

Visual excitation in retinal rod cells is mediated by a cascade that leads to the amplified
hydrolysis of cyclic GMP (cGMP) and the consequent closure of cGMP-activated cation …

Table 2 lists most of the extracellular matrix and related receptors identified to date. The
wide range of binding affinities of these receptors for their ligands may be important to their …

Peripheral nerve injury results in axonal degeneration and in phenotypic changes of the
surrounding Schwann cells, whose presence is critical for nerve regeneration. Using …

A number of experimental paradigms have been used to demonstrate that NCAM, N-
cadherin, and L1 stimulate axonal growth. The molecular basis of this response has been …

Drosophila neuroglian is an integral membrane glycoprotein that is expressed on a variety
of cell types in the Drosophila embryo, including expression on a large subset of glial and …

Schwann cells have a unique role in regulating the growth of axons during regeneration and
presumably during development. Here we show that Schwann cells are the best substrate …