Neurophilia

Neurophilia is a biomedical term used to describe a substance that has an affinity for nervous tissue. It is often used in neuroscience to classify a type of tangential cell migration. Neurophilic migration is (heterotypic) cellular migration in which the cells migrate in close apposition to axonal fascicles as opposed to chain migration (homotypic) when the cells migrate in close contact to each other without using a glial or neuronal scaffold.cite journal | author = Ono Katsuhiko | coauthors = Kawamura Koki | month = August | year = 1990 | title = Mode of neuronal migration of the pontine stream in fetal mice. | journal = Anatomy and Embryology | volume = 182 | issue = 1 | pages = 11–19 | doi = 10.1007/BF00187523 | pmid = 2240591 | url = http://www.springerlink.com/content/k7532h46qh532687/fulltext.pdf | format = PDF | accessdate = 2006-10-06] cite journal | first = P. | last = Rakic | date = September 15, 1990 | title = Principles of neural cell migration. | journal = Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences | volume = 46 | issue = 9 | pages = 882–891 | doi = 10.1007/BF01939380 | pmid = 2209797 | url = http://www.springerlink.com/content/uk6747v248662552/fulltext.pdf | format = PDF | accessdate = 2006-10-06] cite journal | first = Kathleen T. | last = Yee | coauthors = Horst H. Simon, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and Dennis D. M. O'Leary | month = November | year = 1999 | title = Extension of long leading processes and neuronal migration in the mammalian brain directed by the chemoattractant netrin-1. | journal = Neuron | volume = 24 | issue = 3 | pages = 607–622 | doi = 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81116-2 | pmid = 10595513 | url = http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=GatewayURL&_origin=inwardhub&_urlversion=4&_method=citationSearch&_piikey=S0896627300811162&_referrer=www.blackwell-synergy.com&_version=1&md5=aff6d1de1fdf77d5f7f38d1fbd0668d3 | accessdate = 2006-10-06]

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