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A single sensory neuron connects to many target cells. The requirement of a transcriptional mechanism for long-term memory raises the question: What is the unit of long-term information storage? Is it a single synapse, as with short-term facilitation. Or the entire neuron? Is there a mechanism for restricting synaptic facilitation to some synaptic connections? |