Hippocampus Showing CA2 Inhibitory Neurons (IMAGE)

The Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University

Hippocampus Showing CA2 Inhibitory Neurons

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This is a mouse hippocampus with the CA2 region stained light blue. In the researchers' mouse model of schizophrenia, this region showed significant depletion of CA2 inhibitory neurons (shown here as white/magenta spots) and was accompanied by a deficit in social memory.

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Vivien Chevaleyre

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