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Analysis of Dendritic Spine Morphology in Cultured CNS Neurons
Published on: July 13, 2011
Molecular morphogens for dendritic spines
1Dept of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3209, Durham, NC 27710, USA. ehlers@neuro.duke.edu
Trends in Neurosciences
|January 30, 2002
Abstract:
Three protein components of the postsynaptic density--Shank, Homer and SPAR--have been found to regulate the structural and molecular organization of dendritic spines. These new studies reveal linkages between receptor complexes, the actin cytoskeleton and signaling molecules that help shape spines.

