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Neurons that bloom in adulthood show off fancy patterns

Late-blossoming neurons show intriguing features that might endow them with advanced capabilities.
Coloured micrograph of cells with a band of red across the middle, green dotted with red above and blue dotted with red below.

Tissue from the hippocampus includes cell nuclei (red), glial cells (green) and neurofilaments (blue). Roughly half of the neurons in this brain region form during adulthood. Credit: Thomas Deerinck, NCMIR/SPL

The hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning and memory, is known to include cells that arise during both infancy and adulthood. Now, experiments on rats have revealed key differences between those two classes of cell — differences that could endow the late-blooming cells with important capabilities.

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Nature 582, 463 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01823-6

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