A new organotypic model of synaptic competition reveals activity-dependent localization of C1q
Ryuta Koyama, Yuwen Wu, Allison R. Bialas, Andrew David Thompson, Christina A. Welsh, Arnaud Frouin, Chinfei Chen, Beth Stevens
The paper develops an organotypic coculture model to study activity-dependent synaptic competition and shows C1q localizes to less active synapses.
bioRxiv · Mar 20, 2017 · PreprintNeuroscience