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1Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute, 76100, Rehovot, Israel.
Neuron
|August 15, 2001
Abstract:
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.