Synchronized Formation and Remodeling of Postsynaptic Densities: Long-Term Visualization of Hippocampal Neurons Expressing Postsynaptic Density Proteins Tagged with Green Fluorescent Protein

@article{Ebihara2003SynchronizedFA,
  title={Synchronized Formation and Remodeling of Postsynaptic Densities: Long-Term Visualization of Hippocampal Neurons Expressing Postsynaptic Density Proteins Tagged with Green Fluorescent Protein},
  author={Tatsuhiko Ebihara and Izumi Kawabata and Shinichi Usui and Kenji Sobue and Shigeo Okabe},
  journal={The Journal of Neuroscience},
  year={2003},
  volume={23},
  pages={2170 - 2181},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:17868397}
}
The presence of signaling mechanisms that can induce synchronized addition or elimination of PSD proteins throughout dendritic arborization of a single neuron is suggested.
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