These 6 Cell Types Revealed How to Classify Cells across the Brain (IMAGE)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

These 6 Cell Types Revealed How to Classify Cells across the Brain

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Patterns of cell-to-cell communication are the core feature that makes possible rigorous distinctions among neuron types across the mouse brain. This discovery by CSHL researchers was made through analysis of the gene activity profiles of these 6 known inhibitory cell types.

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Huang Lab, CSHL

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