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Barbara Carletti1, Ferdinando Rossi

  • 1Department of Neuroscience and Rita Levi Montalcini Centre for Brain Repair, National Institute of Neuroscience, University of Turin, Italy. barbara.carletti@unito.it

The Neuroscientist : a Review Journal Bringing Neurobiology, Neurology and Psychiatry
|October 4, 2007
PubMed
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Genetic fate mapping studies have reshaped understanding of cerebellar development, revealing new origins for cerebellar cortex neurons and their generation sequence. This review integrates these findings with transplantation data to connect progenitor potential with developmental timing.

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