Posts Tagged ‘semaphorin’
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A pyramidal neuron in the mouse cerebral cortex is labeled using the Golgi technique. “With this discovery, we’re able to understand how semaphorins regulate the number of synapses and their distribution in the part of the brain involved in conscious thought,” says David Ginty, who adds that it’s a “major step forward, we believe, in our understanding of the assembly of neural circuits that underlie behavior.” (Credit: Tracy Tran/JHU)
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—Neuroscientists have discovered that an older mammal’s brain shrewdly revisits and reuses molecular cues from prenatal development to control the complex design of its circuits. Continue…
