Choreographing the axo-dendritic dance

Peter Scheiffele; Takatoshi Iijima

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2012.10.020

Choreographing the axo-dendritic dance

Dev Cell. 2012 Nov 13;23(5):923-4. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2012.10.020.

Authors

Peter Scheiffele¹, Takatoshi Iijima

Affiliation

¹ Biozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. peter.scheiffele@unibas.ch

PMID: 23153491
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2012.10.020

Abstract

The assembly of neuronal synapses in the brain relies on a sophisticated bidirectional signal exchange between synaptic partners. In a recent issue of Neuron, Ito-Ishida and colleagues (2012) uncover a morphogenetic program underlying the formation of presynaptic terminals.

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