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Developmental neuroscience

proposal by Sperry that growing axons find their targets by matching chemical labels carried by neurons and their target cells.

In developmental neuroscience, chemoaffinity hypothesis refers to proposal by Sperry that growing axons find their targets by matching chemical labels carried by neurons and their target cells. This meaning comes from Sperry (1963) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Sperry, R. W. (1963). Chemoaffinity in the Orderly Growth of Nerve Fiber Patterns and Connections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 50(4), 703-710. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.50.4.703

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