Molecular Architecture of Synaptic Actin Cytoskeleton in Hippocampal Neurons Reveals a Mechanism of Dendritic Spine Morphogenesis

The high resolution structure of the cytoskeleton in dendritic spines and their precursors, dendritic filopodia, was characterized by platinum replica electron microscopy. The unexpected features of the actin architecture of these protrusions dramatically change the existing paradigm of cytoskeletal organization of elongated membrane protrusions.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Molecular Biology of the Cell

• Publication date

  2010-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1091/mbc.E09-07-0596PMID 19889835PMCID 2801710
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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