Akiyoshi Uezu is senior research associate of cell biology and neurobiology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
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Akiyoshi Uezu
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Duke University
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Scientists have discovered more than 100 new proteins at junctions in the brain that dampen neuronal activity.
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