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Descriptor English: Growth Cones
Descriptor Spanish: Conos de Crecimiento
Descriptor conos de crecimiento
Scope note: Dilataciones, en forma de bulbo, de los extremos en crecimiento de los axones y dendritas de las neuronas. Son cruciales para el desarrollo neuronal debido a su capacidad para crecer en una dirección determinada y a su papel en la sinaptogénesis. 
Descriptor Portuguese: Cones de Crescimento
Descriptor French: Cônes de croissance
Entry term(s): Growth Cone
Tree number(s): A11.284.180.075.249
A11.284.180.225.340
A11.284.180.610.345
A11.671.240.340
A11.671.501.145.375
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020439
Scope note: Bulbous enlargement of the growing tip of nerve axons and dendrites. They are crucial to neuronal development because of their pathfinding ability and their role in synaptogenesis.
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Axons (1968-1998)
Neurites (1991-1998)
Public MeSH Note: 99
History Note: 99
Related: Axon Guidance MeSH
Neurites MeSH
DeCS ID: 33679
Unique ID: D020439
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1998/06/10
Revision Date: 2016/02/26
Growth Cones - Preferred
Concept UI M0030082
Scope note Bulbous enlargement of the growing tip of nerve axons and dendrites. They are crucial to neuronal development because of their pathfinding ability and their role in synaptogenesis.
Preferred term Growth Cones
Entry term(s) Growth Cone



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