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dendritic spines
dendritic spines
Image of the Day: Lysosomes Go Traveling
The Scientist
Staff | Aug 8, 2017
To chew up waste in far-reaching dendritic spines, lysosomes are trafficked sometimes hundreds of microns away from the cell bodies of neurons in rats.
Cortical Computing
Abby Olena | Oct 28, 2013
A study shows that dendrites not only transmit information between neurons, but also process some of that information.