Translational Roots for Mental Retardation?

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Science 27 October 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5492, p. 737
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5492.737

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Translational Roots for Mental Retardation?

Marcia Barinaga

A flurry of findings points to protein translation in the dendrites of neurons as a key feature leading to the changes at synapses that are vital to learning (see main text). And one recent discovery suggests that when this translation goes awry, it can lead to mental retardation.

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