Electrical Synapse Formation Depends on Interaction of Mutually Growing Neurites
- 29 July 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 221 (4609) , 466-468
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6867723
Abstract
A neuron's competence to form electrical synapses depends on its growth status. Experiments in situ and in cell culture with identified neurons of the snail Helisoma demonstrate that active neurite outgrowth from both potential partners must be spatially and temporally coincident for electrical synapse formation to occur.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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