Ultrastructurally planar growth cones during neocortical axon navigation
Yu Nakanishi, Masafumi Tsuboi, Hiroki Kawai, Koyo Shibayama, Kenta Yamauchi, Sasikarn Looprasertkul, KyungEun Lee, Hajime Komaki, Takamitsu Egashira, Shogo Suga, Tomonari Murakami, Kenichi Ohki, Hiroyuki Hioki, Nobuhiko Ohno, Hidenobu Mizuno, Yusuke Hirabayashi
The paper reconstructs growth cones of callosal projection neurons in the developing mouse brain and finds they have a planar, dorsoventrally oriented morphology with filopodia that precede accelerated axon growth.
bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience