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Metabolism > Biological Transport > Cytoplasmic Streaming > Axonal Transport
Cell Physiological Phenomena > Cytoplasmic Streaming > Axonal Transport
Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena > Nervous System Physiological Phenomena > Axonal Transport

Preferred term

Axonal Transport  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Axoplasmic Transport
  • Axoplasmic Transports
  • Transport, Axoplasmic
  • Transports, Axoplasmic

Scope note

  • The directed transport of ORGANELLES and molecules along nerve cell AXONS. Transport can be anterograde (from the cell body) or retrograde (toward the cell body). (Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 3d ed, pG3)

History note

  • 96; was AXOPLASMIC FLOW 1972-95 (Prov 1969-71)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D001370

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