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Cell Biology

Bioengineering the human spinal cord

BACH2 in TRegs limits the number of adipose tissue regulatory T cells and restrains type 2 immunity to fungal allergens

Human photoreceptors switch from autonomous axon extension to cell-mediated process pulling during synaptic marker redistribution

Growth Factors as Axon Guidance Molecules: Lessons From in vitro Studies

ATG9A regulates proteostasis through reticulophagy receptors FAM134B and SEC62 and folding chaperones CALR and HSPB1

Plasticity of Synaptic Transmission in Human Stem Cell-Derived Neural Networks

Environmental Elasticity Regulates Cell-type Specific RHOA Signaling and Neuritogenesis of Human Neurons

Calpain-Mediated Proteolysis of Talin and FAK Regulates Adhesion Dynamics Necessary for Axon Guidance

Guidance of Axons by Local Coupling of Retrograde Flow to Point Contact Adhesions

Regulation of ECM degradation and axon guidance by growth cone invadosomes

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