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Science 303 (5655): 179-181

Copyright © 2004 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

NEUROSCIENCE:
Calcium and CREST for Healthy Dendrites

Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis, Takaki Komiyama, Liqun Luo

Neuroscientists have long pondered how neurons form their elegant arbors of dendrites. In their Perspective, Jefferis et al. discuss new work that identifies a calcium-responsive transcription co-activator called CREST as a key player in dendrite formation during development (Aizawa et al.).

The authors are in the Department of Biological Sciences and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. E-mail: lluo{at}stanford.edu

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