MicroRNA-124: micromanager of neurogenesis.
In a recent issue of Nature Neuroscience, Cheng et al. (2009) demonstrate that miR-124, the most abundant of the microRNAs in the adult brain, positively modulates the transitory progression of adult subventricular zone (SVZ) neurogenesis.
Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
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