Dendritic Spines (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dendritic Spines

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Nerve cells lacking fragile X mental retardation protein have too many dendritic spines, small signal-receiving spindles coming off the main tendril (top). But treatment with a drug called JQ1 reduces the number of spines (bottom). Scale bar is 10 micrometers.

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Credit: Korb et al./ Cell 2017

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