Beschreibung:
There has been an explosion of knowledge in developmental neuroscience over the last two decades. This volume contains the editor's selection of chapters from the new Encyclopedia of Neuroscience that address key features of the development of nervous systems. They are organized into three sections - Neural Induction, Pattern Formation, and Cell Specification; Axon Guidance and Synaptogenesis; and Neurogenesis, Neurotrophism and Regeneration. Topics covered include events in neural development that occur from early to late - from the first induction and segregation of neural cells and tissues from non-neural epithelia, through the axial patterning of neural anlagen and the specification of neural cell types, to axon guidance and the organization of axonal connections, adult versus embryonic neurogenesis, and nervous system degeneration and repair.
Section 1: Neural Induction, Pattern Formation, and Cell Specification