Regulation of synaptic connectivity by glia.

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Published in Nature on November 11, 2010

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Cagla Eroglu1, Ben A Barres

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1: Cell Biology Department, Box 3709, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. c.eroglu@cellbio.duke.edu

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