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Neural Plasticity
Volume 2016, Article ID 4258171, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4258171
Research Article

The Activator Mastoparan-7 Promotes Dendritic Spine Formation in Hippocampal Neurons

Valerie T. Ramírez,1 Eva Ramos-Fernández,1 and Nibaldo C. Inestrosa1,2,3,4

1Centro de Envejecimiento y Regeneración (CARE), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 8331150 Santiago, Chile
2Center for Healthy Brain Ageing, School of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
3Centro UC Síndrome de Down, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
4Centro de Excelencia en Biomedicina de Magallanes (CEBIMA), Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile

Received 23 May 2015; Revised 26 July 2015; Accepted 27 August 2015

Academic Editor: Xin-Ming Ma

Copyright © 2016 Valerie T. Ramírez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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