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Shaping barrels: activity moves NG2+ glia

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NG2+ glia, the progenitors of myelinating oligodendrocytes, receive synaptic input, but why? A study now finds that sensory input regulates the proliferation and location of NG2+ glia in the mouse somatosensory cortex barrel field.

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Figure 1: Barrel structure and changes after whisker lesion at birth.

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  1. Leda Dimou and Magdalena Götz are at the Institute for Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Zentrum München, and the Physiological Genomics, Institute of Physiology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.,

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