Drebrin From Structure and Function to Physiological and Pathological Roles /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shirao, Tomoaki (Editor), Sekino, Yuko (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1006
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurochemistry.; Neurology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Biomedicine.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Biology.

This book is the first comprehensive review of drebrin, which plays pivotal roles in various cellular events, via forming unique actin cytoskeletons, including synapse formation and in synaptic function. Particularly the loss of drebrin from dendritic spines is used as a marker of dementia in neurol...