New building blocks for the dendritic spine.
Two recent studies by Sheng and associates (Pak et al., 2001; Sala et al., 2001) provide an elegant molecular analysis of the role of a spine-specific protein, SPAR, and the synaptic proteins Shank and Homer, in regulating dendritic spine morphology, and the possible functional consequences of this regulation.[1]References
- New building blocks for the dendritic spine. Segal, M. Neuron (2001) [Pubmed]
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