Transplant of Human Neurons in the Hippocampus of a Mouse (IMAGE)

University of Bonn

Transplant of Human Neurons in the Hippocampus of a Mouse

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the surrounding nerve cells in the mouse brain have connected to engrafted neurons. A green fluorescent rabies virus was used to infect the transplanted neurons (red), from where it spread backwards to surrounding synaptically connected neurons in the host brain (green).

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© Foto: Dr. Jonas Doerr

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