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For a Long Time There Was a Dogma in the Field

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For a long time there was a dogma in the field that axons and their terminal cannot synthesize proteins. There is a lot of evidence that this is not correct and that local protein translation occurs in axon, growth cones and synapse. Explain why axonal transport is not always sufficient to deliver proteins to the sites where they are needed.

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Axons can be extremely long compared to ...

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