Synaptic Competition Shapes Neuronal Dendrites

Synaptic Competition Shapes Neuronal Dendrites. Intra-neuronal Competition for Synaptic Partners Conserves the Amount of Dendritic Building Material. Brain development requires correct targeting of multiple thousand synaptic terminals onto staggeringly complex dendritic arbors. The mechanisms by which input synapse numbers are matched to dendrite size, and by which synaptic inputs from different transmitter systems