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The young of rats and mice are immature at birth. After birth, their brains grow in size and there is also a marked proliferation of cells which become differentiated into neurones with short axons (micro-neurones). The proliferation of similar cells has now been demonstrated in the hippocampus of postnatal guinea-pigs even though these rodents are born with nearly full-size brains.
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ALTMAN, J., DAS, G. Postnatal Neurogenesis in the Guinea-pig. Nature 214, 1098–1101 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2141098a0
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