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SUBMITTER: Lawrence Shapiro
PROVIDER: EMPIAR-10234 | biostudies-other |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature 20190410 7755
Neurite self-recognition and avoidance are fundamental properties of all nervous systems<sup>1</sup>. These processes facilitate dendritic arborization<sup>2,3</sup>, prevent formation of autapses<sup>4</sup> and allow free interaction among non-self neurons<sup>1,2,4,5</sup>. Avoidance among self neurites is mediated by stochastic cell-surface expression of combinations of about 60 isoforms of α-, β- and γ-clustered protocadherin that provide mammalian neurons with single-cell identities<sup>1, ...[more]