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Axonal Growth and Targeting

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The growth and guidance of axons is an undertaking of both great complexity and great precision, involving processes at a range of length and time scales. Correct axonal guidance involves directing the tips of individual axons and their branches, interactions between branches of a single axon, and interactions between axons of different neurons. In this chapter, we describe examples of models operating at and between each of these scales.

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  1. Electronics and Computer Science, Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    Duncan Mortimer

  2. The Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, QLD, 4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Hugh D. Simpson

  3. The School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, QLD, 4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Geoffrey J. Goodhill

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Mortimer, D., Simpson, H.D., Goodhill, G.J. (2012). Axonal Growth and Targeting. In: Le Novère, N. (eds) Computational Systems Neurobiology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3858-4_14

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