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  1. The vertebrate retina consists of six major classes of neuronal cells. During development, these cells are generated from a pool of multipotent retinal progenitor cells (RPCs) that express the gene Vsx2. Fate-...

    Authors: Sruti Patoori, Nathalie Jean-Charles, Ariana Gopal, Sacha Sulaiman, Sneha Gopal, Brian Wang, Benjamin Souferi and Mark M. Emerson

    Citation: Neural Development 2020 15:5

    Content type: Research article

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  2. Recent studies of synapse form and function highlight the importance of the actin cytoskeleton in regulating multiple aspects of morphogenesis, neurotransmission, and neural plasticity. The conserved actin-ass...

    Authors: Elizabeth M. McNeill, Cheryl Thompson, Brett Berke, Vivian T. Chou, Jannette Rusch, April Duckworth, Jamin DeProto, Alicia Taylor, Julie Gates, Frank Gertler, Haig Keshishian and David Van Vactor

    Citation: Neural Development 2020 15:4

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  3. Leucine-rich repeats and immunoglobulin-like domains 1 (Lrig1) regulates stem cell quiescence. As a marker, it identifies stem cells in multiple organs of the mouse. We had detected Lrig1 expression in cultured I...

    Authors: Hyung-song Nam and Mario R. Capecchi

    Citation: Neural Development 2020 15:3

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Microglia are increasingly shown to be key players in neuron development and synapse connectivity. However, the underlying mechanisms by which microglia regulate neuron function remain poorly understood in par...

    Authors: Fenge Li, Danye Jiang and Melanie A. Samuel

    Citation: Neural Development 2019 14:12

    Content type: Review

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  7. Axons are the slender, cable-like, up to meter-long projections of neurons that electrically wire our brains and bodies. In spite of their challenging morphology, they usually need to be maintained for an orga...

    Authors: Ines Hahn, André Voelzmann, Yu-Ting Liew, Beatriz Costa-Gomes and Andreas Prokop

    Citation: Neural Development 2019 14:11

    Content type: Review

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  11. In the developing neural tube in chicken and mammals, neural stem cells proliferate and differentiate according to a stereotyped spatiotemporal pattern. Several actors have been identified in the control of th...

    Authors: Manon Azaïs, Eric Agius, Stéphane Blanco, Angie Molina, Fabienne Pituello, Jean-Marc Tregan, Anaïs Vallet and Jacques Gautrais

    Citation: Neural Development 2019 14:7

    Content type: Short Report

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  12. Purkinje cells play a central role in establishing the cerebellar circuit. Accordingly, disrupting Purkinje cell development impairs cerebellar morphogenesis and motor function. In the Car8wdl mouse model of here...

    Authors: Lauren N. Miterko, Joshua J. White, Tao Lin, Amanda M. Brown, Kevin J. O’Donovan and Roy V. Sillitoe

    Citation: Neural Development 2019 14:6

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Functioning of the adult nervous system depends on the establishment of neural circuits during embryogenesis. In vertebrates, neurons that make up motor circuits form in distinct domains along the dorsoventral...

    Authors: Ozge Yildiz, Gerald B. Downes and Charles G. Sagerström

    Citation: Neural Development 2019 14:5

    Content type: Research article

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  14. The cerebellum is a foliated posterior brain structure involved in coordination of motor movements and cognition. The cerebellum undergoes rapid growth postnataly due to Sonic Hedgehog (SHH) signaling-dependen...

    Authors: Alexandre Wojcinski, Morgane Morabito, Andrew K. Lawton, Daniel N. Stephen and Alexandra L. Joyner

    Citation: Neural Development 2019 14:4

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Mammalian motor circuits display remarkable cellular diversity with hundreds of motor neuron (MN) subtypes innervating hundreds of different muscles. Extensive research on limb muscle-innervating MNs has begun...

    Authors: Catarina Catela, Edgar Correa, Kailong Wen, Jihad Aburas, Laura Croci, G. Giacomo Consalez and Paschalis Kratsios

    Citation: Neural Development 2019 14:2

    Content type: Research article

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  17. Waardenburg syndrome (WS) is the consequence of an inherited autosomal dominant mutation which causes the early degeneration of intermediate cells of cochlear stria vascularis (SV) and profound hearing loss. P...

    Authors: Yi Du, Li-li Ren, Qing-qing Jiang, Xing-jian Liu, Fei Ji, Yue Zhang, Shuo-long Yuan, Zi-Ming Wu, Wei-Wei Guo and Shi-Ming Yang

    Citation: Neural Development 2019 14:1

    Content type: Research article

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  18. The dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the mouse has become a model system for understanding thalamic circuit assembly. While the development of retinal projections to dLGN has been a topic of extensi...

    Authors: Guela Sokhadze, Tania A. Seabrook and William Guido

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:27

    Content type: Research article

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  19. Cone and rod photoreceptors are two of the primary cell types affected in human retinal disease. Potential strategies to combat these diseases are the use of gene therapy to rescue compromised photoreceptors o...

    Authors: Nathalie Jean-Charles, Diego F. Buenaventura and Mark M. Emerson

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:26

    Content type: Research article

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  20. Neural stem cells generate all of the neurons and glial cells in the central nervous system, both during development and in the adult to maintain homeostasis. In the Drosophila optic lobe, neuroepithelial cells p...

    Authors: Esteban G. Contreras, Boris Egger, Katrina S. Gold and Andrea H. Brand

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:25

    Content type: Research article

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  21. Despite conserved developmental processes and organization of the vertebrate central nervous system, only some vertebrates including zebrafish can efficiently regenerate neural damage including after spinal co...

    Authors: Yona Goldshmit, Jean Kitty K. Y. Tang, Ashley L. Siegel, Phong D. Nguyen, Jan Kaslin, Peter D. Currie and Patricia R. Jusuf

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:24

    Content type: Research article

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  22. Ex vivo, whole-mount explant culture of the rodent retina has proved to be a valuable approach for studying retinal development. In a limited number of recent studies, this method has been coupled to live fluo...

    Authors: Anthony P. Barrasso, Shang Wang, Xuefei Tong, Audrey E. Christiansen, Irina V. Larina and Ross A. Poché

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:23

    Content type: Methodology

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  23. Proper patterning of dendritic and axonal arbors is a critical step in the formation of functional neuronal circuits. Developing circuits rely on an array of molecular cues to shape arbor morphology, but the u...

    Authors: Rommel A. Santos, Ariel J. C. Fuertes, Ginger Short, Kevin C. Donohue, Hanjuan Shao, Julian Quintanilla, Parinaz Malakzadeh and Susana Cohen-Cory

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:22

    Content type: Research article

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  24. Homeodomain (HD) transcription factor (TF) NKX2–1 critical for the regional specification of the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE) as well as promoting the GABAergic and cholinergic neuron fates via the inducti...

    Authors: Magnus Sandberg, Leila Taher, Jianxin Hu, Brian L. Black, Alex S. Nord and John L. R. Rubenstein

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:21

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  26. Glial cell ensheathment of specific components of neuronal circuits is essential for nervous system function. Although ensheathment of axonal segments of differentiated neurons has been investigated, ensheathm...

    Authors: Evan L. Nichols, Lauren A. Green and Cody J. Smith

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:19

    Content type: Research article

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  28. In the peripheral nervous system (PNS), specialized glial cells called Schwann cells produce myelin, a lipid-rich insulating sheath that surrounds axons and promotes rapid action potential propagation. During ...

    Authors: Rebecca L. Cunningham, Amy L. Herbert, Breanne L. Harty, Sarah D. Ackerman and Kelly R. Monk

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:17

    Content type: Research article

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  29. In principle, the development of sensory receptive fields in cortex could arise from experience-independent mechanisms that have been acquired through evolution, or through an online analysis of the sensory ex...

    Authors: Arani Roy, Ian K. Christie, Gina M. Escobar, Jason J. Osik, Marjena Popović, Neil J. Ritter, Andrea K. Stacy, Shen Wang, Jozsef Fiser, Paul Miller and Stephen D. Van Hooser

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:16

    Content type: Review

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  31. About 20–30 distinct Retinal Ganglion Cell (RGC) types transmit visual information from the retina to the brain. The developmental mechanisms by which RGCs are specified are still largely unknown. Brn3a is a m...

    Authors: Vladimir Vladimirovich Muzyka, Matthew Brooks and Tudor Constantin Badea

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:15

    Content type: Research article

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  32. Previous work aimed at understanding the gene regulatory networks (GRNs) governing caudal hindbrain formation identified morphogens such as Retinoic Acid (RA) and Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs), as well as t...

    Authors: Priyanjali Ghosh, Jennifer M. Maurer and Charles G. Sagerström

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:13

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  36. Throughout life, neural circuits change their connectivity, especially during development, when neurons frequently extend and retract dendrites and axons, and form and eliminate synapses. In spite of their cha...

    Authors: Nai-Wen Tien and Daniel Kerschensteiner

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:9

    Content type: Review

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  37. Generation of neurons in the embryonic neocortex is a balanced process of proliferation and differentiation of neuronal progenitor cells. Canonical Wnt signalling is crucial for expansion of radial glial cells...

    Authors: Olga Chodelkova, Jan Masek, Vladimir Korinek, Zbynek Kozmik and Ondrej Machon

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:8

    Content type: Short Report

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  39. More than 30 years of studies into Drosophila melanogaster neurogenesis have revealed fundamental insights into our understanding of axon guidance mechanisms, neural differentiation, and early cell fate decisions...

    Authors: Matthew Q. Clark, Aref Arzan Zarin, Arnaldo Carreira-Rosario and Chris Q. Doe

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:6

    Content type: Review

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  40. Brain function requires precise neural circuit assembly during development. Establishing a functional circuit involves multiple coordinated steps ranging from neural cell fate specification to proper matching ...

    Authors: Hongjie Li, S. Andrew Shuster, Jiefu Li and Liqun Luo

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:5

    Content type: Review

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  41. Activity in neurons drives afferent competition that is critical for the refinement of nascent neural circuits. In ferrets, when an eye is lost in early development, surviving retinogeniculate afferents from t...

    Authors: Samuel Wilson Failor, Arash Ng and Hwai-Jong Cheng

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:4

    Content type: Research article

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  42. Most oligodendrocytes of the spinal cord originate from ventral progenitor cells of the pMN domain, characterized by expression of the transcription factor Olig2. A minority of oligodendrocytes is also recogni...

    Authors: Marie-Amélie Farreny, Eric Agius, Sophie Bel-Vialar, Nathalie Escalas, Nagham Khouri-Farah, Chadi Soukkarieh, Cathy Danesin, Fabienne Pituello, Philippe Cochard and Cathy Soula

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:3

    Content type: Research article

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  43. Radial glial stem cells within the developing nervous system generate a variety of post-mitotic cells, including neurons and glial cells, as well as the specialised multi-ciliated cells that line the walls of ...

    Authors: Diana Vidovic, Raul Ayala Davila, Richard M. Gronostajski, Tracey J. Harvey and Michael Piper

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:2

    Content type: Short Report

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  44. After publication of the original article [1] it was realised that there were errors in figures 2a,b,f,g, which arose as a result of preparing figures from data collected and analysed at the same time as the w...

    Authors: Olivier Clément, Isabel Anne Hemming, Ivan Enghian Gladwyn-Ng, Zhengdong Qu, Shan Shan Li, Michael Piper and Julian Ik-Tsen Heng

    Citation: Neural Development 2018 13:1

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Neural Development 2017 12:8

  45. The multiplex, lattice mosaic of cone photoreceptors in the adult fish retina is a compelling example of a highly ordered epithelial cell pattern, with single cell width rows and columns of cones and precisely...

    Authors: Mikiko Nagashima, Jeremy Hadidjojo, Linda K. Barthel, David K. Lubensky and Pamela A. Raymond

    Citation: Neural Development 2017 12:20

    Content type: Research article

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  46. Patterning of the telencephalic neuroepithelium is a tightly regulated process controlled by transcription factors and signalling molecules. The cortical primordium is flanked by two signalling centres, the he...

    Authors: Geeta Godbole, Achira Roy, Ashwin S. Shetty and Shubha Tole

    Citation: Neural Development 2017 12:19

    Content type: Short report

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  47. The axons of Olfactory Sensory Neurons (OSNs) project to reproducible target locations within the Olfactory Bulb (OB), converting odorant experience into a spatial map of neural activity. We characterized the ...

    Authors: Xin Shao, Vanisha Lakhina, Puneet Dang, Ryan P. Cheng, Christina L. Marcaccio and Jonathan A. Raper

    Citation: Neural Development 2017 12:18

    Content type: Research

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  48. Cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) inhibitors play an important role in regulating cell cycle progression, cell cycle exit and cell differentiation. p27KIP1 (p27), one of the major CDK inhibitors in the retina, has be...

    Authors: Mariko Ogawa, Fuminori Saitoh, Norihiro Sudou, Fumi Sato and Hiroki Fujieda

    Citation: Neural Development 2017 12:17

    Content type: Research article

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  49. Amacrine interneurons that modulate synaptic plasticity between bipolar and ganglion cells constitute the most diverse cell type in the retina. Most are inhibitory neurons using either GABA or glycine as neuro...

    Authors: Nathalie Bessodes, Karine Parain, Odile Bronchain, Eric J. Bellefroid and Muriel Perron

    Citation: Neural Development 2017 12:16

    Content type: Research article

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  50. After axon severing, neurons recover function by reinitiating axon outgrowth. New outgrowth often originates from the remaining axon stump. However, in many mammalian neurons, new axons initiate from a dendrit...

    Authors: Kavitha S. Rao and Melissa M. Rolls

    Citation: Neural Development 2017 12:15

    Content type: Research

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Chris Doe
University of Oregon, USA
Julia Kaltschmidt
Stanford University, USA
Kang Shen
Stanford University, USA

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