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Retrograde regulation in the CNS; neuron-specific interpretations of TGF-beta signaling
Subhabrata Sanyal1, Susy M Kim, Mani Ramaswami
1Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and ARL Division of Neurobiology, Box 210106, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Abstract:
Retrograde signals influence neuronal survival, differentiation, synaptogenesis, and plasticity. Several recent papers describe novel roles for the well-studied TGF-beta pathway in retrograde synaptic signaling. While each dissects spatial and molecular aspects of TGF-beta signaling in a specific synaptic context, together these studies demonstrate that a specific retrograde signal may be interpreted in diverse, neuron-specific ways. Thus, a neuron's intrinsic properties and its other extrinsic signaling inputs determine its cellular and genomic response to TGF-beta.
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