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The human brain has about 100 billion neurons, linked in intricate ways, that the Spanish neuroanatomist Ramón y Cajal compared to “the impenetrable jungles where many investigators have lost themselves.” During the last two decades...

(a) Experimental workflow started with the isolation, sectioning and microdissection of the primary visual cortex from a transgenic mouse. The tissue samples were converted into a single-cell suspension, single cells were isolated by FACS, poly(A)-RNA from each cell was reverse ...