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Science 17 August 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5840, pp. 907 - 908
DOI: 10.1126/science.1147570
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Synapses Here and Not Everywhere

David M. Miller

Local degradation of synaptic proteins determines which neuronal connections persist and which are eliminated during development.

The author is in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, 465 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37232-8240, USA. E-mail: david.miller{at}vanderbilt.edu

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