Nervous system: Cellular boundary key to neuronal function
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A molecule responsible for the proper formation of a key portion of the nervous system finds its way to the proper place not because it is actively recruited, but instead because it can't go anywhere else. Researchers have identified a distal axonal cytoskeleton as the boundary that makes sure AnkyrinG clusters where it needs to so it can perform properly.