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Importantly, the appearance of the plasma membrane of the majority of spines appeared continuous suggesting that they were sealed and that their cytoplasmic contents were intact.

Interestingly, the vast majority of spines in the proximal compartment in the δ2/GFP-ho group (mean percentage 78.4±2.5 SE, n = 1198) expressed GluRδ2.

Hippocampal neurons were cultured until 14 21 day in vitro (DIV), corresponding to the time when the majority of spines undergo morphological and functional maturation.

While the majority of spines is stable, a small fraction is permanently retracted or newly formed, even in the adult brain [ 20].

In the adult rodent brain, a small fraction of dendritic spines undergoes a certain turnover with spines being newly gained or lost, while the majority of spines is stable over long periods of time [ 20, 25, 58, 63].

Interestingly, the great majority of spines' heads were devoid of contacts with TH-positive fibers and this might be related with the different nature of fibers that synapse on spines' heads.

Vast majority of spine fractures in thoracolumbar region are unstable and often associated with neurological deficit.

While a majority of dendritic spines are maintained throughout life, many spines are eliminated and new spines are formed that could reflect memories lost or, through new contacts, gained (Grutzendler et al, 2002; Trachtenberg et al, 2002).

Under control conditions (control-shRNA), the majority of dendritic spines show a mature mushroom-shaped morphology, whereas the knock-down of Shank2 presented thin filopodia-like immature spines in the majority of cells (Fig.  2A).

It has been shown that the majority of persistent spines predominantly forms functional synapses with presynaptic boutons [52].

It is important to note that these results are only correlative and based on analysis of time points 24 h apart; one cannot exclude the possibility that the majority of dendritic spines emerge from transient filopodia that were not visible during the imaging period or directly emerge from the dendritic shaft.