Lipid Rafts in the Maintenance of Synapses, Dendritic Spines, and Surface AMPA Receptor Stability

By H. Hering, Chih-Chun Lin, M. Sheng. Journal of Neuroscience, 2003

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Subfields: Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology

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• Compartmentalizing the neuronal plasma membrane from axon initial segments to synapses. (2009, background): “Depletion of cholesterol/sphingolipid leads to loss of AMPARs, spines and synapses, supporting a requirement of lipid rafts for synapse formation and maintenance (Hering et al., 2003).”
• Thematic review series: Brain Lipids. Cholesterol metabolism in the central nervous system during early development and in the mature animal Published, JLR Papers in Press, May 16, 2004. DOI 10.1194/jlr.R400004-JLR200 (2004, background): “concentration of cholesterol in the distal axons needed for the maintenance of synapse integrity (173).”
• Aβ Oligomer-Induced Aberrations in Synapse Composition, Shape, and Density Provide a Molecular Basis for Loss of Connectivity in Alzheimer's Disease (2007, background): “As with other synaptic proteins, ADDL binding sites are presumably enriched at synapses by mechanisms involving postsynaptic densities (Sheng, 2001) and possibly lipid rafts (Hering et al., 2003).”