New neurons use Slit-Robo signaling to migrate through the glial meshwork (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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New neurons use Slit-Robo signaling to migrate through the glial meshwork (1 of 1)

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3-D reconstruction of electron microscopic images of regenerated neurons (red) surrounded by glial cells (blue) in the post-stroke brain. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 12th, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Kaneko at Nagoya City University in Nagoya, Japan, and colleagues was titled, " New neurons use Slit-Robo signaling to migrate through the glial meshwork and approach a lesion for functional regeneration."

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Sawamoto Lab, Nagoya City University and National Institute for Physilogical Sciences

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