Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Transplanted interneurons improve memory precision after traumatic brain injury

  • Bingyao Zhu,
  • Jisu Eom,
  • Robert F. Hunt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13170-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The brain’s capacity to produce new neurons in response to injury is limited. Here, the authors transplant GABAergic progenitor cells and show that they synaptically incorporate into the damaged hippocampus and rescue memory problems and post-traumatic seizures caused by traumatic brain injury.