Dendritic Actin Cytoskeleton: Structure, Functions, and Regulations
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Dendritic Actin Cytoskeleton: Structure, Functions, and Regulations
Actin is a versatile and ubiquitous cytoskeletal protein that plays a major role in both the establishment and the maintenance of neuronal polarity. For a long time, the most prominent roles that were attributed to actin in neurons were the movement of growth cones, polarized cargo sorting at the axon initial segment, and the dynamic plasticity of dendritic spines, since those compartments cont...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1662-5102
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2017.00147