Revisiting chemoaffinity theory: Chemotactic implementation of topographic axonal projection

Honda Naoki

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005702

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Revisiting chemoaffinity theory: Chemotactic implementation of topographic axonal projection

Honda Naoki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: n-honda@sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6816-9126

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Revisiting chemoaffinity theory: Chemotactic implementation of topographic axonal projection

Honda Naoki

Published: August 8, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005702
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Honda Naoki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: n-honda@sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo, Kyoto, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6816-9126

Competing Interests

The author has declared that no competing interests exist.

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Chemoattractant axon guidance
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