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Put Them Out to Pasture? What Are Old Granule Cells Good for, Anyway…?
Author(s) -
Aimone James B.,
Deng Wei,
Gage Fred H.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
hippocampus
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.767
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1098-1063
pISSN - 1050-9631
DOI - 10.1002/hipo.20867
Subject(s) - dentate gyrus , neurogenesis , neuroscience , granule (geology) , psychology , population , biology , medicine , hippocampus , paleontology , environmental health
In this issue, Alme and colleagues propose a novel hypothesis that young adult‐born neurons represent the functional population of the dentate gyrus, and that old granule cells “retire” from relevance. Here, we present several implications of this interesting theory for the function of both neurogenesis and the dentate gyrus. © 2010 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.