A Local Rebalancing Act Leads to Global Benefit

Ju Lu; Yi Zuo

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.001

A Local Rebalancing Act Leads to Global Benefit

Neuron. 2017 Nov 15;96(4):712-713. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.001.

Authors

Ju Lu¹, Yi Zuo²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
² Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. Electronic address: yizuo@ucsc.edu.

PMID: 29144967
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.001

Abstract

Barnes et al. (2017) reveal that in the visual cortex of sensory-deprived mice, dendritic spine enlargement correlates with recent spine loss from the same dendritic branch. Such branch-specific homeostatic plasticity highlights dendritic branches as key computational units.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Dendrites
Dendritic Spines
Homeostasis
Mice
Neurons*
Visual Cortex*