Student Authors
Jeannette OsterlohAcademic Program
NeuroscienceUMass Chan Affiliations
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience ProgramFreeman Lab
Neurobiology
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2009-11-26Keywords
Animals; Axons; Cell Differentiation; Dendrites; Drosophila; Drosophila Proteins; Metamorphosis, Biological; Neurons; SOXB2 Transcription FactorsNeuroscience and Neurobiology
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The pruning of unneeded axons and dendrites is crucial for circuitry maturation, but poorly understood on the molecular level. During Drosophila metamorphosis, the transcription factor Sox14 acts as a context-dependent mediator of death, axonal or dendritic pruning. Its transcriptional target Mical acts specifically in dendrite pruning.Source
Nat Neurosci. 2009 Dec;12(12):1479-80. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1038/nn1209-1479Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/33176PubMed ID
19935724Related Resources
Link to Article in PubMedae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/nn1209-1479