title: Rethinking Functional Segregation: Gradients of Gene Expression in Area CA1.
abstract: An emerging view, based on gene expression patterns, is that discrete cell types occupy different regions in the hippocampus. In this issue of Neuron, Cembrowski et al. (2016) challenge this concept by identifying gradients of gene expression that suggest a molecular continuum of excitatory neurons and provide insights for organizational motifs at hippocampal poles.
authors.affiliation: Scientific Computing, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max von Laue Strasse 4, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Synaptic Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max von Laue Strasse 4, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
authors.forename: Georgi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tushev
authors.affiliation: Synaptic Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Max von Laue Strasse 4, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Electronic address: erin.schuman@brain.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Erin M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Schuman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D056547:CA1 Region, Hippocampal / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000502:physiology*