Single-cell transcriptomics of the developing lateral geniculate nucleus reveals insights into circuit assembly and refinement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2018, Pages E1051-E1060

  Kalish, Brian T ^a,b   Cheadle, Lucas ^a   Hrvatin, Sinisa ^a   Nagy, M Aurel ^a   Rivera, Samuel ^a   Crow, Megan ^c   Gillis, Jesse ^c   Kirchner, Rory ^d   Greenberg, Michael E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Lateral geniculate nucleus; LGN; Refinement; Retinogeniculate; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; AXON; BRAIN; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENICULATE BODIES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RETINA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRIPTOME; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 85041199110     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717871115     Document Type: Article

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