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Nature Neuroscience 10, 17 - 18 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0107-17

PARsing the events of myelination

Carla Taveggia1 & James L Salzer1

  1. Carla Taveggia and James L. Salzer are in the Department of Cell Biology and the Molecular Neurobiology Program, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. e-mail: salzer@saturn.med.nyu.edu


A recent paper in Science reports that for Schwann cells to initiate myelination, the Par-3 polarity protein must interact with the neurotrophin receptor p75NTR and relocate it to membrane domains of glia-axon contact.

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