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  2. In Drosophila, most neurogenetic research is carried out in vivo. Mammalian research demonstrates that primary cell culture techniques provide a powerful model to address cell autonomous and non-autonomous proces...

    Authors: Manuela M Moraru, Boris Egger, Diarra B Bao and Simon G Sprecher

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:14

    Content type: Methodology

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  3. In contrast to mammals, amphibians, such as adult urodeles (for example, newts) and anuran larvae (for example, Xenopus) can regenerate their spinal cord after injury. However, the cellular and molecular mechanis...

    Authors: Marcia Gaete, Rosana Muñoz, Natalia Sánchez, Ricardo Tampe, Mauricio Moreno, Esteban G Contreras, Dasfne Lee-Liu and Juan Larraín

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:13

    Content type: Research article

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  4. A fundamental requirement for development of diverse brain regions is the function of local organizers at morphological boundaries. These organizers are restricted groups of cells that secrete signaling molecu...

    Authors: Benjamin Mattes, Sabrina Weber, João Peres, Qing Chen, Gary Davidson, Corinne Houart and Steffen Scholpp

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:12

    Content type: Research article

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  5. Cortical GABAergic interneurons (INs) are generated in the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) and migrate tangentially into cortex. Because most, if not all, migrating MGE-derived INs express the neuregulin (NRG...

    Authors: Hao Li, Shen-Ju Chou, Tadashi Hamasaki, Carlos G Perez-Garcia and Dennis DM O'Leary

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:10

    Content type: Research article

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  6. The assembly of neural circuits requires the concerted action of both genetically determined and activity-dependent mechanisms. Calcium-regulated transcription may link these processes, but the influence of sp...

    Authors: Scott A Wilke, Benjamin J Hall, Joseph K Antonios, Laura A DeNardo, Stefanie Otto, Bo Yuan, Fading Chen, Elissa M Robbins, Katie Tiglio, Megan E Williams, Zilong Qiu, Thomas Biederer and Anirvan Ghosh

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:9

    Content type: Research article

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  8. The sequestration of Muscleblind splicing regulators results in myotonic dystrophy. Previous work on Muscleblind has largely focused on its roles in muscle development and maintenance due to the skeletal and c...

    Authors: Kerri A Spilker, George J Wang, Madina S Tugizova and Kang Shen

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:7

    Content type: Research article

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  9. Establishing correct neuronal circuitry is crucial to proper function of the vertebrate nervous system. The abundance of chondroitin sulfate (CS) proteoglycans in embryonic neural environments suggests that ma...

    Authors: Jessica CF Kwok, Ying-Lai Yuen, Wai-Kit Lau, Fu-Xing Zhang, James W Fawcett, Ying-Shing Chan and Daisy KY Shum

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:6

    Content type: Research article

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  12. The number of neurons generated by neural stem cells is dependent upon the regulation of cell proliferation and by programmed cell death. Recently, novel neural stem cells that amplify neural proliferation thr...

    Authors: Yanrui Jiang and Heinrich Reichert

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:3

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Tangential migration presents the primary mode of migration of cortical interneurons translocating into the cerebral cortex from subpallial domains. This migration takes place in multiple streams with the most...

    Authors: Konstantinos Zarbalis, Youngshik Choe, Julie A Siegenthaler, Lori A Orosco and Samuel J Pleasure

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:2

    Content type: Research article

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  14. In the decapod crustacean brain, neurogenesis persists throughout the animal's life. After embryogenesis, the central olfactory pathway integrates newborn olfactory local and projection interneurons that repla...

    Authors: Silvia Sintoni, Jeanne L Benton, Barbara S Beltz, Bill S Hansson and Steffen Harzsch

    Citation: Neural Development 2012 7:1

    Content type: Research article

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  15. Various members of the family of BTB/POZ zinc-finger transcription factors influence patterns of dendritic branching. One such member, Broad, is notable because its BrZ3 isoform is widely expressed in Drosophila ...

    Authors: Janet A Scott, Darren W Williams and James W Truman

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:39

    Content type: Research article

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  17. The phylogenetically conserved transcription factor Lola is essential for many aspects of axon growth and guidance, synapse formation and neural circuit development in Drosophila. To date it has been difficult, h...

    Authors: Michael A Gates, Ramakrishnan Kannan and Edward Giniger

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:37

    Content type: Research article

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  18. Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)7 evokes both inductive and axon orienting responses in dorsal interneurons (dI neurons) in the developing spinal cord. These events occur sequentially during the development of...

    Authors: Jeanette C Perron and Jane Dodd

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:36

    Content type: Research article

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  19. The size and cell number of each brain region are influenced by the organization and behavior of neural progenitor cells during embryonic development. Recent studies on developing neocortex have revealed the p...

    Authors: Lynn Wang, Krista K Bluske, Lauren K Dickel and Yasushi Nakagawa

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:35

    Content type: Research article

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  20. The dopaminergic (DA) neurons present in the central brain of the Drosophila larva are spatially arranged in stereotyped groups that define clusters of bilaterally symmetrical neurons. These clusters have been cl...

    Authors: Jorge Blanco, Rahul Pandey, Martin Wasser and Gerald Udolph

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:34

    Content type: Research article

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  21. The mechanisms that consolidate neural circuitry are a major focus of neuroscience. In the mammalian cochlea, the refinement of spiral ganglion neuron (SGN) innervation to the inner hair cells (by type I SGNs)...

    Authors: Meagan Barclay, Allen F Ryan and Gary D Housley

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:33

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  23. Neuronal output is shaped by a balance of excitation and inhibition. How this balance is attained in the central nervous system during development is not well understood, and is complicated by the fact that, in v...

    Authors: Florentina Soto, Adam Bleckert, Renate Lewis, Yunhee Kang, Daniel Kerschensteiner, Ann Marie Craig and Rachel OL Wong

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:31

    Content type: Research article

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  25. The ventral midbrain contains a diverse array of neurons, including dopaminergic neurons of the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (SN) and neurons of the red nucleus (RN). Dopaminergic and RN n...

    Authors: Sandra Blaess, Gabriela O Bodea, Anna Kabanova, Soline Chanet, Emilie Mugniery, Amin Derouiche, Daniel Stephen and Alexandra L Joyner

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:29

    Content type: Research article

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  26. An essential stage of neural development involves the assembly of neural circuits via formation of inter-neuronal connections. Early steps in neural circuit formation, including cell migration, axon guidance, ...

    Authors: Joori Park, Philip Louis Knezevich, William Wung, Shanté Nicole O'Hanlon, Akshi Goyal, Kelli Leilani Benedetti, Benjamin James Barsi-Rhyne, Mekala Raman, Natalyn Mock, Martina Bremer and Miri Kerensa VanHoven

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:28

    Content type: Research article

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  27. Development of specific neuronal morphology requires precise control over cell motility processes, including axon formation, outgrowth and branching. Dynamic remodeling of the filamentous actin (F-actin) cytos...

    Authors: Erica F Andersen, Namrata S Asuri and Mary C Halloran

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:27

    Content type: Research article

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  28. Cytoplasmic dynein and its regulatory proteins have been implicated in neuronal and non-neuronal cell migration. A genetic model for analyzing the role of cytoplasmic dynein specifically in these processes has...

    Authors: Kassandra M Ori-McKenney and Richard B Vallee

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:26

    Content type: Research article

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  29. The cerebellum is composed of a diverse array of neuronal subtypes. Here we have used a candidate approach to identify Zac1, a tumor suppressor gene encoding a zinc finger transcription factor, as a new player in...

    Authors: Seung-Hyuk Chung, Hassan Marzban, Kimberly Aldinger, Rajiv Dixit, Kathleen Millen, Carol Schuurmans and Richard Hawkes

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:25

    Content type: Research article

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  32. Long-distance axonal growth relies on the precise interplay of guidance cues and cell adhesion molecules. While guidance cues provide positional and directional information for the advancing growth cone, cell ...

    Authors: Pascal Joset, Andrin Wacker, Régis Babey, Esther A Ingold, Irwin Andermatt, Esther T Stoeckli and Matthias Gesemann

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:22

    Content type: Research article

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  33. Neurons form specific connections with targets via synapses and patterns of synaptic connectivity dictate neural function. During development, intrinsic neuronal specification and environmental factors guide b...

    Authors: Meredith A Clifford, Jessleen K Kanwal, Rhonda Dzakpasu and Maria J Donoghue

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:21

    Content type: Research article

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  34. The concept of an equivalence group, a cluster of cells with equal potential to adopt the same specific fate, has served as a useful paradigm to understand neural cell type specification. In the Drosophila eye, a...

    Authors: Mark Charlton-Perkins, S Leigh Whitaker, Yueyang Fei, Baotong Xie, David Li-Kroeger, Brian Gebelein and Tiffany Cook

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:20

    Content type: Research article

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  36. In the developing vertebrate peripheral nervous system, the survival of sympathetic neurons and the majority of sensory neurons depends on a supply of nerve growth factor (NGF) from tissues they innervate. Alt...

    Authors: Sean L Wyatt, Bodo Spori, Tom N Vizard and Alun M Davies

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:18

    Content type: Research article

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  40. The dorsal root ganglion (DRG) is composed of well-characterized populations of sensory neurons and glia derived from a common pool of neural crest stem cells (NCCs), and is a good system to study the mechanis...

    Authors: Ze-Lan Hu, Ming Shi, Ying Huang, Min-Hua Zheng, Zhe Pei, Jia-Yin Chen, Hua Han and Yu-Qiang Ding

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:14

    Content type: Research article

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  41. Postnatal olfactory bulb (OB) neurogenesis involves the generation of granule and periglomerular cells by neural stem cells (NSCs) located in the walls of the lateral ventricle (LV). Recent studies show that N...

    Authors: María E Fernández, Simona Croce, Camille Boutin, Harold Cremer and Olivier Raineteau

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:13

    Content type: Methodology

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  42. While the diversity and spatio-temporal origin of olfactory bulb (OB) GABAergic interneurons has been studied in detail, much less is known about the subtypes of glutamatergic OB interneurons.

    Authors: Eleanor Winpenny, Mélanie Lebel-Potter, Maria E Fernandez, Monika S Brill, Magdalena Götz, Francois Guillemot and Olivier Raineteau

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:12

    Content type: Research article

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  43. Neuronal phenotypes associated with hemizygosity of individual genes within the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome locus hold potential towards understanding the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and autism. Included among...

    Authors: Claude M Schofield, Ruby Hsu, Alison J Barker, Caitlyn C Gertz, Robert Blelloch and Erik M Ullian

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:11

    Content type: Research article

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  44. In recent years, mapping of overlapping and abutting regulatory gene expression domains by chromogenic two-color in situ hybridization has helped define molecular subdivisions of the developing vertebrate brain a...

    Authors: Gilbert Lauter, Iris Söll and Giselbert Hauptmann

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:10

    Content type: Methodology

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  45. The transcription factor Foxg1 is an important regulator of telencephalic cell cycles. Its inactivation causes premature lengthening of telencephalic progenitor cell cycles and increased neurogenic divisions, ...

    Authors: Martine N Manuel, Ben Martynoga, Mike D Molinek, Jane C Quinn, Corinne Kroemmer, John O Mason and David J Price

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:9

    Content type: Research article

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  46. Most retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) convey contrast and motion information to visual brain centers. Approximately 2% of RGCs are intrinsically photosensitive (ipRGCs), express melanopsin and are necessary for l...

    Authors: David S McNeill, Catherine J Sheely, Jennifer L Ecker, Tudor C Badea,, Duncan Morhardt, William Guido and Samer Hattar

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:8

    Content type: Research article

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  47. In the adult visual system, functionally distinct retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) within each eye project to discrete targets in the brain. In the ferret, RGCs encoding light increments or decrements project to ...

    Authors: Colenso M Speer, Chao Sun and Barbara Chapman

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:7

    Content type: Research article

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  48. Insm1 is a zinc-finger transcription factor transiently expressed throughout the developing nervous system in late progenitors and nascent neurons. Insm1 is also highly expressed in medulloblastomas and other ...

    Authors: Jason N Rosenbaum, Anne Duggan and Jaime García-Añoveros

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:6

    Content type: Research article

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  49. The Drosophila olfactory system exhibits very precise and stereotyped wiring that is specified predominantly by genetic programming. Dendrites of olfactory projection neurons (PNs) pattern the developing antennal...

    Authors: Joy S Tea and Liqun Luo

    Citation: Neural Development 2011 6:5

    Content type: Research article

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University of Oregon, USA
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Stanford University, USA
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Stanford University, USA

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