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  • noun biochemistry Any of a class of proteins involved in axon guidance

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  • Meantime, a second paper published last month by a team including researchers at Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, Calif., reported that a protein called netrin-1 appears to regulate production of beta amyloid.

    A Prenatal Link to Alzheimer's? 2009

  • (Shh) transgene, a morphogen during embryonic development and embryonic and adult stem cell growth, improved their survival and angiogenic potential in the ischemic heart via iNOS/netrin/PKC pathway.

    Elites TV 2010

  • From the latest set of findings with the model organism, Sherwood believes that integrin helps the anchor cell orient itself toward the basement membranes, and that it also directs netrin to build the puncta in the proper place to ease an opening through.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • Interestingly, netrin is also the signal that encourages developing neuron cells to branch out and make new connections.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • Together, these molecules, called integrin and netrin, may be a valuable new target in the efforts to halt cancer's spread via metastasis.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • Our results also suggest that axon guidance is an important target of regulation in HVC, and that semaphorin-related (not netrin-related) signaling is a major candidate mediator of axon guidance for HVC neurons.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Peter V. Lovell et al. 2008

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