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Wnts send axons up and down the spinal cord

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Certain Wnts attract ascending somatosensory axons up the spinal cord toward the brain. A study in this issue shows that other Wnts guide corticospinal axons down the spinal cord, not by an attractive mechanism but by repulsion through the receptor Ryk.

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Figure 1: Wnts guide axons up and down the spinal cord.

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