{"id":8541,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neurite\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:49","slug":"neurite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neurite\/","title":{"rendered":"Neurite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A process growing out of a neurone. &nbsp;Due to difficulty in distinguishing a&nbsp;dendrite from an axon in culture, the term neurite is used for both. &nbsp;The growth of neurites is promoted,for example, by cell adhesion molecules and nerve growth factor (NGF).<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"axon\">Axon<\/a>, <a href=\"cell_adhesion_molecules_-cams-\">Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs)<\/a>, <a href=\"dendrite\">Dendrite<\/a>, <a href=\"filopodia\">Filopodia<\/a>, <a href=\"growth_cone\">Growth cone<\/a>, <a href=\"muscle_spindle\">Muscle spindle<\/a>, <a href=\"nerve_growth_factor_-ngf-\">Nerve growth factor (NGF)<\/a>, <a href=\"neuron\">Neuron<\/a>, <a href=\"notch\">Notch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A process growing out of a neurone. &nbsp;Due to difficulty in distinguishing a&nbsp;dendrite from an axon in culture, the term neurite is used for both. &nbsp;The growth of neurites is promoted,for example, by cell adhesion molecules and nerve growth factor (NGF). See Axon, Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), Dendrite, Filopodia, Growth cone, Muscle spindle, Nerve growth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neurite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neurite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}