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Alternative energy for neuronal motors

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Neurons use molecular motors to power the transport of cargoes along their axonal extensions. Fresh evidence challenges the view that cellular organelles called mitochondria are the main energy providers for this process.

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Figure 1: On-board energy generators.

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  1. Giampietro Schiavo is at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, London WC2A 3LY, UK.,

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  2. Mike Fainzilber is in the Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel.,

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Schiavo, G., Fainzilber, M. Alternative energy for neuronal motors. Nature 495, 178–179 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/495178a

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