Tbr2-positive intermediate (basal) neuronal progenitors safeguard cerebral cortex expansion by controlling amplification of pallial glutamatergic neurons and attraction of subpallial GABAergic interneurons

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1816-1826

  Sessa, Alessandro ^a   Mao, Chai An ^b   Colasante, Gaia ^a   Nini, Alessandro ^a   Klein, William H ^b   Broccoli, Vania ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal progenitors; Cell migration; Cerebral cortex; Intermediate neural progenitors; Interneurons; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR4; EOMESODERMIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; CXCL12 PROTEIN, MOUSE; EOMES PROTEIN, MOUSE; STROMAL CELL DERIVED FACTOR 1; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MIGRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GLUTAMATERGIC TRANSMISSION; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL MOTION; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHEMOKINE CXCL12; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INTERNEURONS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

EID: 77955859627     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.575410     Document Type: Article

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