Salk Institute
Newborn neurons in the adult brain can settle in the wrong neighborhood
Published in Blood Weekly, November 27th, 2008
In a paper published in the Nov. 11 issue of PLoS Biology, the team, led by Fred H. Gage, Ph.D., professor in the Laboratory of Genetics, discovered that a protein called cdk5 is necessary for both correct elaboration of highly branched and complex antennae, known as dendrites, which are extended by neurons, and the proper migration of cells bearing...
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