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Heike Blockus1, Franck Polleux2

  • 1Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10027, USA; Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, New York, NY, USA.

Developmental Cell
|May 23, 2018
PubMed
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The activation speed of EphB2, a receptor tyrosine kinase, determines if dendritic filopodia form synapses with axons. This finding offers new insights into neural circuit development and connectivity.

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