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Nature Neuroscience 12, 669 - 671 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0609-669

Neurogenesis in G minor

Anne-Marie Marzesco1, Felipe Mora-Bermudez1 & Wieland B Huttner1

  1. The authors are at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.
    e-mail: huttner@mpi-cbg.de


The orientation of the mitotic spindle determines whether divisions of the polarized neural progenitors in the ventricular zone cause their expansion or lead to neurogenesis. A guanine nucleotide exchange factor for the small GTPase RhoA is now shown to tip this balance in favor of neurogenesis.

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