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    • Developmental mechanism of the periodic membrane skeleton in axons 

      Zhong, Guisheng; He, Jiang; Zhou, Ruobo; Lorenzo, Damaris; Babcock, Hazen P; Bennett, Vann; Zhuang, Xiaowei (eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2014)
      Actin, spectrin, and associated molecules form a periodic sub-membrane lattice structure in axons. How this membrane skeleton is developed and why it preferentially forms in axons are unknown. Here, we studied the developmental ...
    • Trafficking and Turnover in Neuronal Axons 

      Ashrafi, Ghazaleh (2014-10-21)
      Neurons are metabolically active cells that depend on mitochondria for ATP production and calcium homeostasis. Within a single neuron, the demand for mitochondrial function is highly variable both spatially and temporally. ...