Hormonal Influence in Brain Developments (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

Hormonal Influence in Brain Developments

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In a fruit fly in which the signaling of a steroid hormone was blocked in experiments at the University of Oregon, glial cells (magenta) no longer needed at a particular stage of brain developments are over-produced by neural stems cells (green).

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Image courtesy of Mubarak Hussain Syed

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