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What is fasciculation, and what enables it?
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When axons growing together stick together and travel as a group due to cell-adhesion molecules (CAMs) on the surface binding to each other.
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What is the protein slit used for? How does robo play in?
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It is a chemorepellant in brain wiring. Robo is the slit receptor. Without the cell expressing robo, slit will not be active.
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What is the protein netrin used for?
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It is a chemoattractant in brain wiring.
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To what does agrin bind in the neuromuscular junction?
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To MuSK
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What happens in the neuromuscular junctions of knockout mice for either agrin or MuSK?
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They don't form
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With the agrin-MuSK interaction, what protein aids the clustering of ACH receptors on the muscle?
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Rapsyn
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What does neuregulin do?
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Stimulates the formation of AcH receptors.
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