image: A pyramidal neuron in the hippocampus. Inhibiting LIMK1 prevented the loss of thin spines in hippocampal neurons in a mouse model of amyloid beta accumulation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 26, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.W. Henderson at Birmingham School of Medicine in Birmingham, AL; and colleagues was titled, "Pharmacologic inhibition of LIMK1 provides dendritic spine resilience against amyloid-β." view more
Credit: B.W. Henderson <i>et al., Science Signaling</i> (2019)