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Article: Scientists pinpoint molecules that generate synapses.
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- Pain & Central Nervous System Week
- Article date:
- August 16, 2004
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2004 AUG 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have found a family of molecules that play a key role in the formation of synapses, the junctions that link neurons to each other. The molecules initiate the development of these connections, forming the circuitry of the mammalian nervous system.
Scientists from Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis described the findings in the journal Cell.
"This is very basic work, far from any clinical applications at this point," said author Joshua R. Sanes, professor of molecular and cellular biology in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Still, one can think of lots of cases, from ...