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by hos234 2504 days ago
Maybe Glial cells are playing a role - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618222427.h...
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> In cell culture studies, they added neurons to astrocytes that overexpressed ephrin-B1 and were able to see synapse removal, with the astrocytes "eating up" the synapses... "We think that astrocytes expressing too much of ephrin-B1 can attack neurons and remove synapses"

Yeah that would be a problem. Maybe Glial cells play a role, maybe they don't, opinions vary. https://streamable.com/1vi7r