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Nature 400, 315-316 (22 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/22427

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Neurobiology:  Discriminating migrations

Pasko Rakic1

Many brain structures, like some frontier countries, are composed exclusively of immigrants. In the mammalian brain, for example, virtually all neurons migrate from their origin, near the cerebral ventricles, to the distant territories where they establish permanent residence.

  1. Pasko Rakic is in the Section of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA.
    e-mail: Email: pasko.rakic@yale.edu