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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...