The ability to exert complex locomotor behaviors requires precise guidance of sensory and motor fibers to the extremities resulting in the formation of precise peripheral networks. The axon guidance receptor Neuropilin-1 plays a critical role for fasciculation, guidance decisions, and coupling of growth of these heterotypic fiber systems, mediating axon-environment, axon-axon, and axon-Schwann cell interactions. Validation and characterization of the expression patterns of candidate genes previously predicted by a whole-genome expression analysis of differentially projecting sensory and motor neurons further contributes to the decipherment of molecular mechanisms that govern sensory-motor network formation.
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The ability to exert complex locomotor behaviors requires precise guidance of sensory and motor fibers to the extremities resulting in the formation of precise peripheral networks. The axon guidance receptor Neuropilin-1 plays a critical role for fasciculation, guidance decisions, and coupling of growth of these heterotypic fiber systems, mediating axon-environment, axon-axon, and axon-Schwann cell interactions. Validation and characterization of the expression patterns of candidate genes previo...
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