Newly discovered mechanisms control the number of cerebral cells at the embryonic development stage
Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 04:14
in Biology & Nature
A group of researchers of the Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas Alberto Sols (a mixed centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas and the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) have discovered the participation of a protein denoted DREAM in the activation of genes that are necessary for the progenitor cells of embryonic brains to differentiate themselves into astrocytes. The study, published in the latest June issue of the prestigious magazine The Journal of Neuroscience [28 (26): 6703-6713 (2008)], has been directed by Dr Mario Vallejo, and constitutes part of the doctoral thesis of Beatriz Cebolla and Antonio Fernandez-Perez, co-authors of the article...