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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2012

Signaling in dendritic spines and spine microdomains.

Yao Chen, Bernardo L Sabatini

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Kinetochore proteins control microtubule dynamics in postmitotic neurons to regulate the formation of dendritic spines.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  8. Introduction: What Are Dendritic Spines?Advances in neurobiology · 2023
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  13. The Subcortical-Allocortical- NeocorticalFrontiers in synaptic neuroscience · 2021
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  16. The Nebulin Family LIM and SH3 Proteins Regulate Postsynaptic Development and Function.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020
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  18. Neuronal sub-compartmentalization: a strategy to optimize neuronal function.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yao ChenHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States.
Bernardo L Sabatini

Funding

FUNDAMENTAL NEUROBIOLOGYT32NS007484 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI REGEHR, WADE G · 2000 to 2014
$5.9M
Dendritic Ca signals in striatal medium spiny neuronsR01NS046579 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI SABATINI, BERNARDO L · 2004 to 2016
$5.0M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNINDS NIH HHS R01 NS046579NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS007484
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The specialized morphology of dendritic spines creates an isolated compartment that allows for localized biochemical signaling. Recent studies have revealed complexity in the function of the spine head as a signaling domain and indicate that (1) the spine is functionally subdivided into multiple independent microdomains and (2) not all biochemical signals are equally compartmentalized within the spine. Here we review these findings as well as the developments in fluorescence microscopy that are making possible direct monitoring of signaling within spines and, in the future, within sub-spine microdomains.

Indexed as

AnimalsDendritic SpinesMembrane MicrodomainsModels, BiologicalSignal TransductionSynapses

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PMID22459689
PMCPMC3391315

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