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Kyushu University

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At an early stage of mouse development, the mitral cells connect to multiple glomeruli. As development progresses, excess branches are pruned away, and eventually each mitral cell establishes a single branch to only one glomerulus innervating for a single odor.

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Kyushu University/Imai Lab

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