In Vivo Imaging of Migrating Neurons in the Mammalian Forebrain

Abstract

in this issue). Those precursors are unusual in that theyexhibit neuronal characteristics as shown by their expression ofneuronal markers. In addition, unlike other immature neurons,precursor cells of the SVZ migrate tangentially without the aid ofradial glial cells along a tangential pathway, called the rostral migra-tory stream (RMS), to populate the olfactory bulb where they differ-entiate into local interneurons.Although the temporal sequence of physiological maturation ofnewborn neurons has been recently described (Belluzzi