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Alvarez-Buylla, Arturo |
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University of California, San Francisco |
| Primary Field
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Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience |
| Secondary Field
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Cellular and Developmental Biology |
 Election Citation
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Arturo Alvarez-Buylla investigates cellular and molecular mechanisms by which neural stem cells in the adult brain produce new neurons and glial cells.
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Research Interests
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The Alvarez-Buylla laboratory is interested in the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which neural stem cells, in the walls of the forebrain ventricles and in the hippocampus of the adult brain, produce new neurons and glial cells. They are investigating how neural stem cells differ in the types of neurons they produce depending on their locations within this ventricular niche. They are asking whether neuronal and glial birth and addition continue in the postnatal human brain. In other work, the laboratory is interested in the functional contribution of new neurons, produced by endogenous stem cells or introduced by transplantation, to plasticity and repair. |
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