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Descriptor English: Axon Guidance
Descriptor Spanish: Orientación del Axón
Descriptor guía axonal
Entry term(s) guía de neuritas
guía neuronal
Scope note: Mecanismo por el que un proceso neuronal crece en dirección a una diana guiado por el CONO DE CRECIMIENTO. Las proteínas de superficie celulares que actúan sobre el axón en crecimiento ofrecen pistas que guían el crecimiento local de este.
Descriptor Portuguese: Orientação de Axônios
Descriptor French: Guidage axonal
Entry term(s): Axon Pathfinding
Axonal Pathfinding
Neural Guidance
Neural Pathfinding
Neurite Guidance
Neuronal Guidance
Neuronal Pathfinding
Pathfinding, Axon
Tree number(s): G04.152.912.750.500
G07.345.500.325.377.687.750.750
G08.686.784.170.450.500.750.750
G11.561.620.750.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000071437
Scope note: The mechanism by which a neuronal process outgrows toward a target led by the GROWTH CONE. Local guidance cues are provided by cell surface proteins that act on the growing axon.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Axons (1979-2016)
Neurites (1991-2016)
Neurons (1978-2016)
Public MeSH Note: 2017
History Note: 2017
Related: Axon Fasciculation MeSH
Growth Cones MeSH
DeCS ID: 56758
Unique ID: D000071437
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2016/07/08
Revision Date: 2016/05/31
Axon Guidance - Preferred
Concept UI M000614637
Scope note The mechanism by which a neuronal process outgrows toward a target led by the GROWTH CONE. Local guidance cues are provided by cell surface proteins that act on the growing axon.
Preferred term Axon Guidance
Entry term(s) Axon Pathfinding
Axonal Pathfinding
Neural Guidance
Neural Pathfinding
Neurite Guidance
Neuronal Guidance
Neuronal Pathfinding
Pathfinding, Axon



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