Elliott Mufson on The neurotrophin receptor p75NTR modulates long-term depression and regulates the expression of AMPA receptor subunits in the hippocampus.
COMMENT Rosch and colleagues in the May 17 issue of PNAS provide intriguing new data implicating p75NTR in activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. The authors use two strains of p75NTR mutants (p75NTRexonIV-/- and p75NTRexonII-/-) to investigate the emerging ...