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Published on: April 20, 2018
Classics never get old: neurotransmitters shape human cortical interneuron migration
Antonela Bonafina1, Míriam Javier-Torrent1, Laurent Nguyen1
1Laboratory of Molecular Regulation of Neurogenesis, GIGA-Stem Cells and GIGA-Neurosciences, Interdisciplinary Cluster for Applied Genoproteomics (GIGA-R), University of Liège, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium.
Abstract:
While key developmental functions of neurotransmitters have been described in rodent neural progenitors, there is a lack of understanding of their roles in the human fetal brain. A new study published in The EMBO Journal demonstrates that human cortical interneurons that are moving in fused brain organoids express a large repertoire of neurotransmitter receptors whose activation fine tunes selective migration strategies.
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