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Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain: Prospects for Brain Repair

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Book cover Isolation, Characterization and Utilization of CNS Stem Cells

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Abstract

It was once generally thought that the scaffolding needed to build the brain was disassembled as brain histogenesis came to an end. Thus, neuronal precursors were thought to be depleted and the support mechanisms for neuronal migration and differentiation were thought to disappear with development. As Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1991) put it, “once the development was ended, the founts of growth and regeneration…. dried up irrevocably”.

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Alvarez-Buylla, A. (1997). Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain: Prospects for Brain Repair. In: Gage, F.H., Christen, Y. (eds) Isolation, Characterization and Utilization of CNS Stem Cells. Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80308-6_6

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