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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 583–596 (1 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/nrn2189
Initiation to end point: the multiple roles of fibroblast growth factors in neural development
Abstract
From a wealth of experimental findings, derived from both in vitro and in vivo experiments, it is becoming clear that fibroblast growth factors regulate processes that are central to all aspects of nervous system development. Some of these functions are well known, whereas others, such as the roles of these proteins in axon guidance and synaptogenesis, have been established only recently. The emergent picture is one of remarkable economy, in which this family of ligands is deployed and redeployed at successive developmental stages to sculpt the nervous system.
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