Summary: Synapse formation and
stabilization
Aixa Alfonso
aalfonso@uic.edu
Assigned reading:
· Massoulie and Millard (2009) Current
Opinion in Pharmacology. 9:316-325
· Specht and Triller (2008) BioEssays
30.11-12: 1062-1074
· Arikkath and Reichardt (2008) Trends in
Neuroscience 31:487- 494
· Renner, Specht and Triller (2008) Current
Opinion in Neurobiology 18:532-540
· Sanes (2003) J. Biol. Chem. 278:12601-
12604
Plasticity, i.e. how cellular and brain circuits can
be modified by experience, can be studied at
different levels of complexity
· Molecules
· Synapses

Source: Alford, Simon - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago

Collections: Biology and Medicine