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.
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Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Kosik
Kenneth S
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