Caption: A GABA neuron made from human stem cells in the lab of University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Su-Chun Zhang. GABA neurons are the brain cells whose degradation causes Huntington's disease, a condition characterized by severely degraded motor function, among other things. Zhang and his colleagues have shown that the severe motor deficits observed in a mouse model of Huntington's can be corrected by implanting the lab made cells.
Date: 201w
Image credit: Su-Chun Zhang
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