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Shatz & Brott: Complement-Mediated Synaptic Pruning

Traces the pathway from astrocytic complement activation through C4d-LilrB2 neuronal binding to cofilin-actin rod formation and autonomous dendritic spine collapse—the terminal event in synaptic attrition.

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