Axon degeneration in the adult brain is usually pathological, but a new study finds that mis-sprouting cholinergic axons in the healthy mouse brain are eliminated by a degenerative process that is triggered by myelin via p75NTR.
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Carter, B. Degeneration keeps axons on the straight and narrow. Nat Neurosci 13, 526–528 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0510-526
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