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PARsing the events of myelination

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A recent paper in Science reports that for Schwann cells to initiate myelination, the Par-3 polarity protein must interact with the neurotrophin receptor p75NTR and relocate it to membrane domains of glia-axon contact.

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Figure 1: Par-3 and p75NTR signaling in myelination.

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