Genetic dissection of structural and functional components of synaptic plasticity. I. Fasciclin II controls synaptic stabilization and growth.

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Genetic dissection of structural and functional components of synaptic plasticity. I. Fasciclin II controls synaptic stabilization and growth.

Neuron - 1 Oct 1996

Schuster C M, Davis G W, Fetter R D, Goodman C S

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The glutamatergic neuromuscular synapse in Drosophila forms and differentiates into distinct boutons in the embryo and grows by sprouting new boutons throughout larval life. We demonstrate that two axons form approximately 18 boutons on muscles 7 and 6 by hatching and grow to approximately 180 bo...

Topics

Alleles
Animals
Animals, Genetically Modified
Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal
Drosophila
Embryo, Nonmammalian
Homozygote
Larva
Muscles
Mutagenesis, Insertional
Neuromuscular Junction
Neuronal Plasticity
Synapses

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