Coupling Diffusion Imaging with Histological and Gene Expression Analysis to Examine the Dynamics of Cortical Areas across the Fetal Period of Human Brain Development

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2620-2631

  Huang, Hao ^a,b,c   Jeon, Tina ^a   Sedmak, Goran ^d,e   Pletikos, Mihovil ^d,e   Vasung, Lana ^e   Xu, Xuming ^d   Yarowsky, Paul ^f   Richards, Linda J ^g   Kostović, Ivica ^e   Šestan, Nenad ^d   Mori, Susumu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

development; diffusion tensor imaging; gene expression; histology; human fetal brain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEOCORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE;

DEVELOPMENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN FETAL BRAIN;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS;

EID: 84885945619     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs241     Document Type: Article

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