Dendritic spines are small protrusions studding neuronal dendrites, first described in 1888
by Ramón y Cajal using his famous Golgi stainings. Around 50 years later the advance of …

The introduction of high-resolution time lapse imaging and molecular biological tools has
changed dramatically the rate of progress towards the understanding of the complex …

Recent studies show that dendritic spines are dynamic structures. Their rapid creation,
destruction and shape-changing are essential for short-and long-term plasticity at excitatory …

Dendritic spines, small bulbous postsynaptic compartments emanating from neuronal
dendrites, have been thought to serve as basic units of memory storage. Despite their small …

The majority of fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system takes
place at protrusions along dendrites called spines. Dendritic spines are highly …

In excitatory neurons, most glutamatergic synapses are made on the heads of dendritic
spines, each of which houses the postsynaptic terminal of a single glutamatergic synapse …

Most excitatory synapses in the CNS form on dendritic spines, tiny protrusions from the
dendrites of excitatory neurons. As such, spines are likely loci of synaptic plasticity. Spines …

Dendritic spines are tiny protrusions that receive excitatory synaptic input and
compartmentalize postsynaptic responses. Heterogeneous in size and shape, and …

Dendritic spines are small protrusive structures on dendritic surfaces, and function as
postsynaptic compartments for excitatory synapses. Plasticity of spine structure is associated …

Dendritic spines are the postsynaptic components of most excitatory synapses in the
mammalian brain. Spines accumulate rapidly during early postnatal development and …