How neurons get their branching shapes
Monday, August 31, 2015 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
For more than a hundred years, people have known that dendritic arbors—the projections that neurons use to receive information from other neurons—differ in size and shape depending on neuron type. Now, researchers have discovered a factor helps shape dendritic arbors. The work reveals how the protein centrosomin prevents dendrites from branching out.