Molecular Bases of Axonal Growth and Pathfinding

Editorials.- Axonal pathfinding - special.- Axonal growth and pathfinding: from phenomena to molecules.- Role of morphogenetic genes and transcription factors in axon tract formation.- Analysis of axon tract formation in the zebrafish brain: the role of territories of gene expression and their boundaries.- Pax-2 in the chiasm.- Eph receptors and their ligands.- Functional guidance components and their cellular distribution in retinotectal co-cultures.- Genetic analysis of the role of Eph receptors in the development of the mammalian nervous system.- The Eph family: a multitude of receptors that mediate cell recognition signals.- Ephrins and their receptors: a repulsive topic?.- Multiple roles of Eph-like kinases and their ligands during development.- Regulation of topographic projection by the Eph family receptor Bsk (EphA5) and its ligands.- A link between axon guidance and axon fasciculation suggested by studies of the tyrosine kinase receptor EphA5/REK7 and its ligand EphrinA5/AL-1.- Roles of Eph receptors and ephrins in neural crest pathfinding.- Semaphorins and other repulsive guidance cues.- Axon guidance and somites.- Neurotrophins as in vitro growth cone guidance molecules for embryonic sensory neurons.- Patterning neuronal connections by chemorepulsion: the semaphorins.- How do wiring molecules specify cortical connections?.- Extracellular matrix components.- Dual role of Cajal-Retzius cells and reelin in cortical development.- Guidance of circumferentially growing axons by the floor plate in the vertebrate central nervous system.- The tenascin gene family in axon growth and guidance.- Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans as mediators of axon growth and pathfinding.- Modeling an extracellular environment for axonal pathfinding and fasciculation in the central nervous system.- Synaptic differentiation: the role of agrin in the formation and maintenance of the neuromuscular junction.- Neuronal extracellular proteases facilitate cell migration, axonal growth, and