Single-cell atlas of early human brain development highlights heterogeneity of human neuroepithelial cells and early radial glia

UC Eze, A Bhaduri, M Haeussler, TJ Nowakowski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The human cortex comprises diverse cell types that emerge from an initially uniform
neuroepithelium that gives rise to radial glia, the neural stem cells of the cortex. To …

Genetic regulation of vertebrate forebrain development by homeobox genes

RF Leung, AM George, EM Roussel, MC Faux… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Forebrain development in vertebrates is regulated by transcription factors encoded by
homeobox, bHLH and forkhead gene families throughout the progressive and overlapping …

[HTML][HTML] Generation of functional hippocampal neurons from self-organizing human embryonic stem cell-derived dorsomedial telencephalic tissue

H Sakaguchi, T Kadoshima, M Soen, N Narii… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The developing dorsomedial telencephalon includes the medial pallium, which goes on to
form the hippocampus. Generating a reliable source of human hippocampal tissue is an …

Tangential migration of glutamatergic neurons and cortical patterning during development: Lessons from Cajal‐Retzius cells

M Barber, A Pierani - Developmental neurobiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Tangential migration is a mode of cell movement, which in the developing cerebral cortex, is
defined by displacement parallel to the ventricular surface and orthogonal to the radial glial …

Transcription factors lhx1/5-1 and pitx are required for the maintenance and regeneration of serotonergic neurons in planarians

KW Currie, BJ Pearson - Development, 2013 - journals.biologists.com
In contrast to most adult organisms, freshwater planarians can regenerate any injured body
part, including their entire nervous system. This allows for the analysis of genes required for …

Single-cell transcriptomics of the early developing mouse cerebral cortex disentangle the spatial and temporal components of neuronal fate acquisition

MX Moreau, Y Saillour, AW Cwetsch, A Pierani… - …, 2021 - journals.biologists.com
In the developing cerebral cortex, how progenitors that seemingly display limited diversity
end up producing a vast array of neurons remains a puzzling question. The prevailing model …

hPSC modeling reveals that fate selection of cortical deep projection neurons occurs in the subplate

MZ Ozair, C Kirst, BL van den Berg, A Ruzo, T Rito… - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cortical deep projection neurons (DPNs) are implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Although recent findings emphasize post-mitotic programs in projection neuron fate …

Evolution and development of the mammalian cerebral cortex

Z Molnár, JH Kaas, JA De Carlos, RF Hevner… - Brain Behavior and …, 2014 - karger.com
Comparative developmental studies of the mammalian brain can identify key changes that
can generate the diverse structures and functions of the brain. We have studied how the …

Combining information from genome-wide association and multi-tissue gene expression studies to elucidate factors underlying genetic variation for residual feed …

S de Las Heras-Saldana, SA Clark, N Duijvesteijn… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are extensively used to identify
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) underlying the genetic variation of complex traits …

[HTML][HTML] Overexpression of NEUROG2 and NEUROG1 in human embryonic stem cells produces a network of excitatory and inhibitory neurons

C Lu, X Shi, A Allen, D Baez-Nieto, A Nikish… - The FASEB …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Overexpression of mouse neurogenin (Neurog) 2 alone or in combination with mouse
Neurog2/1 in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced pluripotent stem …