Molecular pathways underlying projection neuron production and migration during cerebral cortical development

C Ohtaka-Maruyama, H Okado - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Glutamatergic neurons of the mammalian cerebral cortex originate from radial glia (RG)
progenitors in the ventricular zone (VZ). During corticogenesis, neuroblasts migrate toward …

Extracellular and intracellular signaling for neuronal polarity

T Namba, Y Funahashi, S Nakamuta… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Neurons are one of the highly polarized cells in the body. One of the fundamental issues in
neuroscience is how neurons establish their polarity; therefore, this issue fascinates many …

RND2 attenuates apoptosis and autophagy in glioblastoma cells by targeting the p38 MAPK signalling pathway

Y Xu, Q Sun, F Yuan, H Dong, H Zhang, R Geng… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Springer
Background Inhibition of p38 MAPK signalling leads to glioblastoma multiform (GBM)
tumourigenesis. Nevertheless, the molecular mechanism that induces p38 MAPK signalling …

FOXG1 orchestrates neocortical organization and cortico-cortical connections

F Cargnin, JS Kwon, S Katzman, B Chen, JW Lee… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
The hallmarks of FOXG1 syndrome, which results from mutations in a single FOXG1 allele,
include cortical atrophy and corpus callosum agenesis. However, the etiology for these …

Genetic and phenotypic dissection of 1q43q44 microdeletion syndrome and neurodevelopmental phenotypes associated with mutations in ZBTB18 and HNRNPU

C Depienne, C Nava, B Keren, S Heide, A Rastetter… - Human genetics, 2017 - Springer
Subtelomeric 1q43q44 microdeletions cause a syndrome associating intellectual disability,
microcephaly, seizures and anomalies of the corpus callosum. Despite several previous …

Linking cell polarity to cortical development and malformations

J Hakanen, N Ruiz-Reig, F Tissir - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cell polarity refers to the asymmetric distribution of signaling molecules, cellular organelles,
and cytoskeleton in a cell. Neural progenitors and neurons are highly polarized cells in …

RP58 knockdown contributes to hypoxia‐ischemia‐induced pineal dysfunction and circadian rhythm disruption in neonatal rats

H Yang, Z Zhang, X Ding, X Jiang, L Tan… - Journal of Pineal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hypoxia‐ischemia (HI) of the brain not only impairs neurodevelopment but also causes
pineal gland dysfunction, which leads to circadian rhythm disruption. However, the …

From trans to cis: transcriptional regulatory networks in neocortical development

M Shibata, FO Gulden, N Sestan - Trends in Genetics, 2015 - cell.com
Transcriptional mechanisms mediated by the binding of transcription factors (TFs) to cis-
acting regulatory elements (CREs) in DNA play crucial roles in directing gene expression …

Further evidence that de novo missense and truncating variants in ZBTB18 cause intellectual disability with variable features

JS Cohen, S Srivastava, KD Farwell Hagman… - Clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Identification of rare genetic variants in patients with intellectual disability (ID) has been
greatly accelerated by advances in next generation sequencing technologies. However, due …

Up-regulated miR-155 is associated with poor prognosis in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and promotes cell proliferation targeting ZNF238

C Liang, Y Li, LN Wang, XL Zhang, JS Luo, CJ Peng… - …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the most common malignancies in
children. Our aim was to identify a novel miRNA that can predict prognosis of childhood ALL …