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Summary of axon guidance molecules:<br />

• They often exist in a gradient, either diffusible<br />

or membrane bound<br />

• They can be attractive to one set of neurons and<br />

repulsive to another set dependent on the<br />

combination of factors present in any given neuron<br />

• Let’s return to the retino-tectal projection to<br />

explore this model further

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