Nourishing Interneurons (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Nourishing Interneurons

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This is an illustration of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons delivering lifesaving chemical messengers to newborn neurons via tentacle-like synapses.

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Mingxi Max Song and Gerald Sun

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