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NG2 cells and cortical astrogenesis. NG2 cells divide monthly as indicated in A and are known to become reactive and contribute to the glial scar in B. (C) Many early lines of evidence on NG2 cells pointed to them as an astrocyte precursor cell in the adult cortex. Recent fate-mapping studies have shown that may not be the case.74 (D) It is also unsure whether they can become reactive astrocytes under severe conditions as was previously believed and then proliferated.74
