Topic: adult-born hippocampal neurons

In the adult mammalian brain, there are dormant neuronal precursors located in various cortical and subcortical areas. Unlike progenitors of the canonical neurogenic niches, dormant precursors emerge prenatally and maintain a state of post-mitotic quiescence until they mature in response to yet unknown stimuli. Several reports indicated that the maturation of dormant precursors is rather slow and staggered across adulthood. Here, we directly compared the maturation rate of cortical dormant precursors to that of age-matched adult-born hippocampal neurons, derived from adult neurogenesis. To thi