Functional and ultrastructural investigation of mouse and human dendritic spines

Dendritic spines are the physical site of the majority of excitatory synaptic connections in the mammalian brain. Their complex morphological attributes and protein composition have inspired decades of theoretical and experimental work on how classes of dendritic spines differentially sculpt input p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vardalaki, Dimitra
Other Authors: Harnett, Mark T.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152571