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Life or death: developing cortical interneurons make their own decision
Author(s) -
Song Juan,
Christian Kimberly M,
Ming Guoli,
Song Hongjun
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1038/emboj.2012.290
Subject(s) - biology , neuroscience
Establishing the right amount of cortical interneurons is a developmental balancing act. Novel in‐vivo data suggest intrinsic, cell‐autonomous mechanisms rather than competition for external survival signals to control endogenous interneuron death.