Comparative molecular neuroanatomy of mammalian neocortex: What can gene expression tell us about areas and layers?

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 343-354

  Watakabe, Akiya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortex; Corticothalamic; Layer; Nurr1; Primate; Pyramidal cell type

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; LATEXIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 6; PLEXIN; PLEXIN D1; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; SEMAPHORIN; SEMAPHORIN 3E; SEROTONIN 2C RECEPTOR; TRACER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ER81; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR OTX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MAMMALS; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 63849268427     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2008.01085.x     Document Type: Review

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