Neural development: Balancing the pruning programmes

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 18, 4 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrn.2016.169 Author: Sian Lewis The genetic programmes involved in axonal pruning during development are poorly elucidated but are shown to involve a balance between the anti-apoptotic protein DUSP16 and the pro-degenerative protein PUMA.
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