In article <777qba$rvc$1 at denws02.mw.mediaone.net> Richard Norman,
rsnorman at mw.mediaone.net writes:
>Eliminated whole cells usually involves the phenomenon of
>apoptosis, or "programmed cell death". I am not sure how
>much is know about the mechanism of selective synaptic
>degeneration. But check any modern text on neurobiology
>for background and references.
>
The following URL is always a good place to search for biomedical
information:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
If you do a search for "constantine-paton", you will find a lot of papers
on reorganization of synapses during development, which will reference
papers by other authors, etc.
Cheers,
Matt Jones