04 May 2024
Fuse and Rewire
Mitochondria (the energy-source organelles of a cell) fusing in newly developing neurons in adulthood plays a key role in synaptic plasticity – the strengthening and weakening of connections between neurons that underlies memory formation
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- Image from work by Sandra M.V. Kochan and colleagues
- Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Neuron, April 2024
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