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Serotonin neurons in a dish

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A method for generating serotonin raphe neurons in vitro will aid the study of genetic variants and drugs that modulate serotonin activity.

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Figure 1: Specification of serotonin neurons in vivo and in vitro.

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  1. Stéphane Nedelec is at INSERM/UEVE UMR-861, I-STEM, AFM, Evry, France.

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  1. Patricia Gaspar is at the Institut du Fer à Moulin, INSERM UMRS-839, Paris, France,

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Gaspar, P., Nedelec, S. Serotonin neurons in a dish. Nat Biotechnol 34, 41–42 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3455

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