The researchers examined behaviors of red cone filopodia. Through time-lapse imaging, they discovered that red cones extend these filopodia to neighboring red cones, briefly make contact, and then ...

Filopodia help cells move but also aid cancer spread. Scientists have revealed how fascin proteins build these structures, paving the way for better cancer treatments. Some of the body's cells remain ...

How, then, to deal with the stability-plasticity dilemma—particularly as brains age and, as it were, fill up? Research by Dimitra Vardalaki, Kwanghun Chung and Mark Harnett at the Massachusetts ...

Filopodia, which extend from antenna-like neural protrusions called dendrites, can apparently be recruited to help form new memories. DIMITRA VARDALAKI AND MARK HARNETT ...

Filopodia, on the other hand, can be captured to form new memories.” “This paper is, as far as I know, the first real evidence that this is how it actually works in a mammalian brain,” said ...

Citations D. Vardalaki, K. Chung and M.T. Harnett. Filopodia are a structural substrate for silent synapses in adult neocortex. Nature. Published online November 30, 2022. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022 ...

Filopodia did not, confirming the silence of their synapses. Silent synapses are, however, useless unless they can be switched on at the appropriate moment.

Thin filopodia extend from dendrites, and they've been difficult to see, until advanced imaging techniques came along. The researchers were surprised to see filopodia everywhere, an unexpected and ...

These putative silent synapses were located at the tips of thin dendritic protrusions, known as filopodia, which were more abundant by an order of magnitude than previously believed (comprising about ...

Filopodia, thin membrane protrusions that extend from dendrites, have been seen before, but neuroscientists didn’t know exactly what they do.