Looking into growth cones

Disruption of the Dictyostelium Myosin Heavy Chain Gene by Homologous Recombination

1987 • 984 citations

Cytoskeletal dynamics and nerve growth

1988 • 855 citations

Actions of cytochalasins on the organization of actin filaments and microtubules in a neuronal growth cone.

1988 • 851 citations

Exchange of actin subunits at the leading edge of living fibroblasts: possible role of treadmilling.

1985 • 637 citations

Axonal growth in response to experimentally applied mechanical tension

1984 • 368 citations

Growth of neurites without filopodial or lamellipodial activity in the presence of cytochalasin B.

1984 • 352 citations

Neuronal Cytomechanics: The Actin-Based Motility of Growth Cones

1988 • 331 citations

Growth cone morphology varies with position in the developing mouse visual pathway from retina to first targets

1987 • 302 citations

Direct evidence that growth cones pull

1989 • 287 citations

Collapse of growth cone structure on contact with specific neurites in culture

1987 • 284 citations

Nanometre-level analysis demonstrates that lipid flow does not drive membrane glycoprotein movements

1989 • 281 citations

Stages in axon formation: observations of growth of Aplysia axons in culture using video-enhanced contrast-differential interference contrast microscopy.

1986 • 235 citations

The Neuronal Growth-Associated Protein GAP-43 Induces Filopodia in Non-Neuronal Cells

1989 • 216 citations

The organization of myosin and actin in rapid frozen nerve growth cones.

1989 • 215 citations

Differences in the organization of actin in the growth cones compared with the neurites of cultured neurons from chick embryos.

1983 • 214 citations

Analysis of microspike movements on the neuronal growth cone

1985 • 205 citations

“Pull” and “push” in neurite elongation: Observations on the effects of different concentrations of cytochalasin B and taxol

1987 • 202 citations

Fluorescence Digital Imaging Microscopy in Cell Biology

1985 • 172 citations

Pioneer growth cone steering along a series of neuronal and non- neuronal cues of different affinities

1986 • 168 citations

Progressive and spatially differentiated stability of microtubules in developing neuronal cells.

1989 • 165 citations

New Observations on Cell Architecture and Dynamics by Video-Enhanced Contrast Optical Microscopy

1985 • 134 citations

Growth cone configuration and advance: a time-lapse study using video- enhanced differential interference contrast microscopy

1988 • 128 citations

Nerve growth factor-induced changes in the intracellular localization of the protein kinase C substrate B-50 in pheochromocytoma PC12 cells.

1989 • 117 citations

Centripetal transport of cytoplasm, actin, and the cell surface in lamellipodia of fibroblasts

1988 • 115 citations

A specific sorting signal is not required for the polarized secretion of newly synthesized proteins from cultured intestinal epithelial cells.

1988 • 110 citations

On the crawling of cells.

1984 • 105 citations

Rapidly transported organelles containing membrane and cytoskeletal components: their relation to axonal growth.

1987 • 95 citations

Dynamics of the endoplasmic reticulum and other membranous organelles in growth cones of cultured neurons

1989 • 89 citations

Modulation of cellular morphology and locomotory activity by antibodies against myosin.

1988 • 88 citations

Polarized compartmentalization of organelles in growth cones from developing optic tectum.

1985 • 68 citations

Recycling of plasmalemma in chick tectal growth cones

1987 • 67 citations

Detection of single fluorescent microtubules and methods for determining their dynamics in living cells

1988 • 51 citations

Micropruning: the mechanism of turning of Aplysia growth cones at substrate borders in vitro.

1988 • 43 citations

Micropruning: the mechanism of turning of Aplysia growth cones at substrate borders in vitro

1988 • 40 citations

A developmentally regulated chicken neuronal protein associated with the cortical cytoskeleton

1989 • 37 citations

Nerve growth in the absence of growth cone filopodia and the effects of a small applied electric field

1989 • 36 citations

The distribution and movement of organelles in maturing growth cones: correlated video-enhanced and electron microscopic studies

1988 • 12 citations