Development of the Nervous System Ch9: hypothesis that axons growing from one topographic surface to another are guided to specific targets that are arranged in the same way as the axons' cell bodies are arranged on the original surface. The growing axons are guided to their destinations by two intersecting signal gradients

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hypothesis that axons growing from one topographic surface to another are guided to specific targets that are arranged in the same way as the axons' cell bodies are arranged on the original surface. The growing axons are guided to their destinations by two intersecting signal gradients

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Topographic gradient hypothesis

Development of the Nervous System Ch9

Hypothesis that axons growing from one topographic surface to another are guided to specific targets that are arranged in the same way as the axons' cell bodies are arranged on the original surface. The growing axons are guided to their destinations by two intersecting signal gradients

Topographic gradient hypothesis

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