Intermediate targets and segmental pathfinding

Netrins are diffusible chemotropic factors for commissural axons in the embryonic spinal cord

1994 • 1,311 citations

Netrin-1 Is Required for Commissural Axon Guidance in the Developing Vertebrate Nervous System

1996 • 1,253 citations

Deleted in Colorectal Cancer (DCC) Encodes a Netrin Receptor

1996 • 982 citations

The semaphorin genes encode a family of transmembrane and secreted growth cone guidance molecules

1993 • 930 citations

Roundabout Controls Axon Crossing of the CNS Midline and Defines a Novel Subfamily of Evolutionarily Conserved Guidance Receptors

1998 • 882 citations

Spatial regulation of axonal glycoprotein expression on subsets of embryonic spinal neurons

1988 • 739 citations

Mutations affecting growth cone guidance in drosophila: Genes necessary for guidance toward or away from the midline

1993 • 677 citations

Subplate Neurons Pioneer the First Axon Pathway from the Cerebral Cortex

1989 • 639 citations

Axonal guidance during development of the great cerebral commissures: Descriptive and experimental studies, in vivo, on the role of preformed glial pathways

1982 • 572 citations

Requirement for subplate neurons in the formation of thalamocortical connections

1990 • 560 citations

cAMP-Dependent Growth Cone Guidance by Netrin-1

1997 • 550 citations

UNC-6, a laminin-related protein, guides cell and pioneer axon migrations in C. elegans

1992 • 503 citations

Genetic Analysis of Netrin Genes in Drosophila: Netrins Guide CNS Commissural Axons and Peripheral Motor Axons

1996 • 459 citations

Fasciclin IV: Sequence, expression, and function during growth cone guidance in the grasshopper embryo

1992 • 369 citations

Earliest sensory nerve fibres are guided to peripheral targets by attractants other than nerve growth factor

1983 • 356 citations

Dosage-Sensitive and Complementary Functions of Roundabout and Commissureless Control Axon Crossing of the CNS Midline

1998 • 300 citations

The Conserved Immunoglobulin Superfamily Member SAX-3/Robo Directs Multiple Aspects of Axon Guidance in C. elegans

1998 • 280 citations

Pioneer growth cone steering decisions mediated by single filopodial contacts in situ

1990 • 268 citations

commissureless Controls Growth Cone Guidance across the CNS Midline in Drosophila and Encodes a Novel Membrane Protein

1996 • 260 citations

Pathfinding by Peripheral Pioneer Neurons in Grasshoppers

1982 • 238 citations

Chemotropic effect of specific target epithelium in the developing mammalian nervous system

1986 • 235 citations

Pioneer axons lose directed growth after selective killing of guidepost cells

1983 • 229 citations

Orientation of commissural axons in vitro in response to a floor plate-derived chemoattractant

1990 • 227 citations

Peripheral pathways are pioneered by an array of central and peripheral neurones in grasshopper embryos

1982 • 218 citations

Postnatally Induced Formation of the Corpus Callosum in Acallosal Mice on Glia-Coated Cellulose Bridges

1983 • 201 citations

Retinal axon divergence in the optic chiasm: uncrossed axons diverge from crossed axons within a midline glial specialization

1995 • 147 citations

Guidance of Peripheral Pioneer Neurons in the Grasshopper: Adhesive Hierarchy of Epithelial and Neuronal Surfaces

1984 • 135 citations

Transient Pioneer Neurons Are Essential for Formation of an Embryonic Peripheral Nerve

1989 • 124 citations

Embryogenesis of peripheral nerve pathways in grasshopper legs

1983 • 121 citations

Homing behaviour of axons in the embryonic vertebrate brain

1986 • 114 citations

Olivocochlear innervation of inner and outer hair cells during postnatal maturation: Evidence for a waiting period

1996 • 106 citations

Mathematical guidance for axons

1998 • 86 citations

Crossed and uncrossed retinal axons respond differently to cells of the optic chiasm midline in vitro

1995 • 83 citations

Chemosuppression of Retinal Axon Growth by the Mouse Optic Chiasm

1996 • 69 citations

Transmembrane grasshopper Semaphorin I promotes axon outgrowth in vivo

1997 • 61 citations

Discrete roles for secreted and transmembrane semaphorins in neuronal growth cone guidance in vivo

1999 • 55 citations

Development of the anterior commissure in the opossum: Midline extracellular space and glia coincide with early axon decussation

1997 • 35 citations