Ligand-Induced Cell Adhesion in Synapse Formation
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Construction of the neural netwoks depends largely on precise contacts between neurons and non-neuronal cells. Numerous studies have described different types of adhesive interactions between cells in the nervous system. These include adhesive contacts between neural cell bodies, axonal attachments to glial cells, axon fasciculation, connection between preand postsynaptic specializations as well as to cells outside the nervous system. Although some of the molecules that mediate each of these types of neural adhesive contacts have been characterized, some remain unknown.
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