krisvleminckx.bsky.social
@krisvleminckx.bsky.social
Cell and Developmental Biologist @Ghent
University | Xenopus aficionado | Human genetic disease modeling | Cancer and Rare Diseases
Ghent, Belgium
Reposted
During embryonic development, we need to build brains that contain a huge diversity of different types of neurons and glia. Single-cell studies tell us that there are more than 3000 kinds of neurons in the brain, and as many as 120-130 in the eye.

www.jneurosci.org/content/40/2...
Mouse Retinal Cell Atlas: Molecular Identification of over Sixty Amacrine Cell Types
Amacrine cells (ACs) are a diverse class of interneurons that modulate input from photoreceptors to retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), rendering each RGC type selectively sensitive to particular visual fe...
www.jneurosci.org
January 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The first couple seems to have read the Kamasutra for frogs....
January 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Congrats Cara and team. I also very much liked the🧵.... Still have a secret affection for these adhesion proteins 😏
January 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Congrats Peter!
December 4, 2024 at 10:04 PM