Can molecular motors drive distance measurements in injured neurons?

Injury to nerve axons induces diverse responses in neuronal cell bodies, some of which are influenced by the distance from the site of injury. This suggests that neurons have the capacity to estimate the distance of the injury site from their cell body. Recent work has shown that the molecular motor...

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Main Authors: Naaman Kam, Yitzhak Pilpel, Mike Fainzilber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2718615?pdf=render