Protein neuroligin helps make synapses

Monday, June 22, 2009 - 15:56 in Biology & Nature

DAVIS, Calif., June 22 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined a protein called neuroligin, implicated in some forms of autism, is critical to the construction of a working synapse.

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