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Presynaptic Unsilencing: Searching for a Mechanism
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Presynaptic Unsilencing: Searching for a Mechanism

Deniz Atasoy and Ege T Kavalali
Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol.50(3), pp.345-346
05/04/2006
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.018
PMID: 16675387
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2006.04.018View
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Abstract

Nascent synaptic networks have a high incidence of silent synapses. In this issue of Neuron, Shen et al. show that a brief burst of action potentials rapidly awaken silent synapses by increasing the availability of synaptic vesicles for fusion through BDNF-triggered presynaptic actin remodeling mediated by the small GTPase Cdc42.

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