Kinship and Descent: Redefining the Stem Cell Compartment in the Adult Hippocampus.
March 29th, 2008 | by admin |Kinship and Descent: Redefining the Stem Cell Compartment in the Adult Hippocampus.
Identifying multipotent, self-renewing neural stem cells (NSCs) within the adult hippocampus in vivo has been somewhat elusive. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Suh et al. (2007) show that Sox2-expressing cells in the subgranular zone (SGZ) of the dentate gyrus not only have NSC characteristics but also display an unexpected degree of heterogeneity.
Tropepe V.
Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G5, Canada; Centre for the Analysis for Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G5, Canada.