Errant gardeners: Glial-cell-dependent synaptic pruning and neurodevelopmental disorders

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 658-670

  Neniskyte, Urte ^a   Gross, Cornelius T ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBELLUM; EPILEPSY; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOTHALAMIC SYSTEM; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; GLIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE TRACT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 85031751357     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2017.110     Document Type: Review

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