title: Principles of glutamatergic synapse formation: seeing the forest for the trees.
abstract: General principles regarding glutamatergic synapse formation in the central nervous system are beginning to emerge. These principles concern the specific roles that dendrites and axons play in the induction of synaptic differentiation, the modes of presynaptic and postsynaptic assembly, the time course of synapse formation and maturation, and the roles of synaptic activity in these processes.
authors.affiliation: Rappaport Institute and the Departmentof Anatomy and Cell Biology, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, PO Box 9649, Bat Galim, Haifa 31096, Israel. noamz@netvision.net.il
authors.forename: N E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Ziv
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Garner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003712:Dendrites / Q000502:physiology; D018698:Glutamic Acid / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D017729:Presynaptic Terminals / Q000502:physiology; D017470:Receptors, Glutamate / Q000502:physiology; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D017470:Receptors, Glutamate; D018698:Glutamic Acid