Np65-mediated synaptic ratio
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Structure of excitatory synapses and GABA
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receptor localization at inhibitory synapses are
regulated by Neuroplastin-65
Rodrigo Herrera-Molina
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, Isabella Sarto-Jackson
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, Carolina Montenegro-Venegas
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,
Martin Heine
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, Karl-Heinz Smalla
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, Constanze I. Seidenbecher
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, Philip W. Beesley
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,
Eckart D. Gundelfinger
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, and Dirk Montag
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From the
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Department of Neurochemistry and Molecular Biology, the
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Special Laboratory for
Molecular Biology Techniques, the
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Research Group Molecular Physiology, and the
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Neurogenetics Special Laboratory of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology,
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the Center of Behavioral Brain Sciences (CBBS), and
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Faculty of Medicine, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
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the Center for Brain Research, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the
Nervous System, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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the School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK
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Programa de BiologĂa Celular y Molecular, Instituto de Ciencias BiomĂ©dicas, Facultad de
Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Chile
*Running title: Np65-mediated synaptic ratio
To whom correspondence should be addressed: PD Dr. Dirk Montag, Neurogenetics Special
Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestrasse 6, 39118 Magdeburg, Germany.
Tel.: (+49) 391-6263-94241; Fax: (+49) 391-6263-94249; e-mail: montag@LIN-magdeburg.de
Keywords: Synapses, GABA
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receptors, Neurons, Cell adhesion, Synaptic plasticity,
Neuroplastin, Synapse formation and maintenance, Cell adhesion molecule CAM, Ig-superfamily