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Generation of functional inhibitory neurons in the adult rat hippocampus.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 1 Feb 2003
Liu ShuHong, Wang Jian, Zhu DongYa, Fu YangPing, Lukowiak Ken, Lu You Ming
Abstract excerpt
Several thousand new neurons are produced each day in the adult mammalian hippocampus, among which only excitatory granule cells (GCs) have thus far been identified. In the present study, we used mutant Semliki Forest Virus vectors to express enhanced green fluorescent protein in the hippocampus, and observed that approximately 14% of newly generated neurons in the dentate gyrus of adult rats are GABAergic basket...
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