Highlights•Growth cone formation requires a precise actin and microtubule organization.•
Modulating cytoskeleton stability affects growth cone formation and axon elongation.• …

Growth cones are highly motile structures at the end of neuronal processes, capable of
receiving multiple types of guidance cues and transducing them into directed axonal growth …

The finding that astrocytes possess glutamate-sensitive ion channels hinted at a previously
unrecognized signaling role for these cells. Now it is reported that cultured hippocampal …

The BLAST algorithm was developed as a way to perform DNA and protein sequence
similarity searches by an algorithm that is faster than FASTA but considered to be equally as …

Actions of cytochalasin B (CB) on cytoskeletons and motility of growth cones from cultured
Aplysia neurons were studied using a rapid flow perfusion chamber and digital video light …

Retrograde actin flow works in concert with cell adhesion to generate traction forces that are
involved in axon guidance in neuronal growth cones. Myosins have been implicated in …

Development of the Nervous System presents a broad and basic treatment of the
established and evolving principles of neural development as exemplified by key …

Hypocretin (orexin) is synthesized by neurons in the lateral hypothalamus and has been
reported to increase food intake and regulate the neuroendocrine system. In the present …

We have used multimode fluorescent speckle microscopy (FSM) and correlative differential
interference contrast imaging to investigate the actin–microtubule (MT) interactions and …

A new orexigenic peptide called hypocretin (orexin) has recently been described in neurons
of the lateral hypothalamus and perifornical area. The medial and lateral hypothalamus …