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Cortical neurons arise in symmetric and asymmetric division zones and migrate through specific phases

Stephen C Noctor1, Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño, Lidija Ivic

  • 1Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 630 W. 168th Street, New York, New York 10032, USA. scn8@columbia.edu

Nature Neuroscience
|January 3, 2004
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