Publisher's Synopsis
The development of the nervous system of invertebrates and vertebrates involves a complex series of mechanisms acting in concert to ensure that the correct structures are innervated appropriately. While many of them remain mysterious, a number of powerful techniques have recently become available which may help elucidate them.;These mechanisms are remarkably diverse. This book reviews some of the progress that has been made in unravelling them. It focuses on the problems that remain unsolved and the possible problems in solving them. It is unusual in that, although a multi-author symposium, individual authors were asked to write broad-minded reviews of their fields. It is aimed at the advanced student of neurobiology as well as at more established workers in the field, bringing together concepts and findings made by workers researching both the nervous system and non-neural cells.;Readership: postgraduate students and research workers in neurobiology and developmental biology. Medical and biological sciences libraries.
