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- Title
Branching out: mechanisms of dendritic arborization.
- Authors
Yuh-NungJan; Jan, Lily Yeh; Jan, Yuh-Nung
- Abstract
Type-specific dendrite morphology is a hallmark of the neuron and has important functional implications in determining what signals a neuron receives and how these signals are integrated. During the past two decades, studies on dendritic arborization neurons in Drosophila melanogaster have started to identify mechanisms of dendrite morphogenesis that may have broad applicability to vertebrate species. Transcription factors, receptor-ligand interactions, various signalling pathways, local translational machinery, cytoskeletal elements, Golgi outposts and endosomes have been identified as contributors to the organization of dendrites of individual neurons and the placement of these dendrites in the neuronal circuitry. Further insight into these mechanisms will improve our understanding of how the nervous system functions and might help to identify the underlying causes of some neurological and neurodevelopmental disorders.
- Publication
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010, Vol 11, Issue 5, p316
- ISSN
1471-003X
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/nrn2836