title: Muscles get dendrites into shape.
abstract: Sensory neurons interact with muscles in many contexts, but muscle-derived signals that pattern sensory dendrites have not been extensively characterized. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Liang et al. (2015) report a signaling system in which positional cues from muscle are transduced to hypodermal cells to direct sensory dendrite outgrowth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Electronic address: jzp2@uw.edu.
authors.forename: Jay Z
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Parrish
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000378:metabolism*; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D003712:Dendrites / Q000378:metabolism*; D019812:Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans / Q000378:metabolism*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009132:Muscles / Q000378:metabolism*; D011509:Proteoglycans / Q000378:metabolism*; D012518:Sarcomeres / Q000378:metabolism*; D040521:Subcutaneous Tissue / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D019812:Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011509:Proteoglycans