It seems likely that multiple signaling pathways, some involving kinases, function cooperatively to define precise sites of synapse formation between axons and dendrites, and to determine ...

In particular, Joseph von Gerlach speculated that axons and dendrites were fused and formed ... did not include the 'valve-like' effect of the synapses, which is responsible for the one-way ...

Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA ...

Central to this activity are synapses, the junctions where branches of neurons connect, similar to electrical wires. Here, an axon from one neuron links to a dendrite of another. At these synapses ...

"In neuronal axons, where mitochondria have been primarily ... The actin cytoskeleton is a network of protein filaments localized near synapses in dendrites that help to define and remodel ...