Search Results - "O’Leary, Dennis D.M."
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A transcription factor code defines nine sensory interneuron subtypes in the mechanosensory area of the spinal cord
Published in PloS one (04-11-2013)“…Interneurons in the dorsal spinal cord process and relay innocuous and nociceptive somatosensory information from cutaneous receptors that sense touch,…”
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Sensory cortex limits cortical maps and drives top-down plasticity in thalamocortical circuits
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-08-2013)“…Primary somatosensory cortex (S1) contains a map of the body that mirrors maps in hindbrain and thalamus. During development, peripheral changes alter the map…”
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Lhx2 specifies regional fate in Emx1 lineage of telencephalic progenitors generating cerebral cortex
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-11-2009)“…The authors show that the LIM homeodomain transcription factor Lhx2 is responsible for the fate decision of cortical progenitors to generate neocortex or…”
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Patterning centers, regulatory genes and extrinsic mechanisms controlling arealization of the neocortex
Published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology (01-02-2002)“…The adult mammalian neocortex, the major region of the cerebral cortex, is divided into functionally specialized areas, defined by distinct architecture and…”
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EphB Forward Signaling Controls Directional Branch Extension and Arborization Required for Dorsal-Ventral Retinotopic Mapping
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (01-08-2002)“…We report that EphB receptors direct unique axonal behaviors required for mapping the dorsal-ventral (D-V) retinal axis along the lateral-medial (L-M) axis of…”
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Ephrin-A5 (AL-1/RAGS) Is Essential for Proper Retinal Axon Guidance and Topographic Mapping in the Mammalian Visual System
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (01-02-1998)“…Ephrin-A5 (AL-1/RAGS), a ligand for Eph receptor tyrosine kinases, repels retinal axons in vitro and has a graded expression in the superior colliculus (SC),…”
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Extension of Long Leading Processes and Neuronal Migration in the Mammalian Brain Directed by the Chemoattractant Netrin-1
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (01-11-1999)“…Long distance cell migration occurs throughout the developing CNS, but the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. We show that the…”
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APP binds DR6 to trigger axon pruning and neuron death via distinct caspases
Published in Nature (19-02-2009)“…Naturally occurring axonal pruning and neuronal cell death help to sculpt neuronal connections during development, but their mechanistic basis remains poorly…”
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Topographically Specific Effects of ELF-1 on Retinal Axon Guidance In Vitro and Retinal Axon Mapping In Vivo
Published in Cell (06-09-1996)“…Topographic maps, which maintain the spatial order of neurons in the order of their axonal connections, are found throughout the nervous system. In the visual…”
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Axon retraction and degeneration in development and disease
Published in Annual review of neuroscience (01-01-2005)“…The selective elimination of axons, dendrites, axon and dendrite branches, and synapses, without loss of the parent neurons, occurs during normal development…”
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Fgf10 Regulates Transition Period of Cortical Stem Cell Differentiation to Radial Glia Controlling Generation of Neurons and Basal Progenitors
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (16-07-2009)“…Radial glia (RG), the progenitors of cortical neurons and basal progenitors (BPs), differentiate from neuroepithelial cells (NCs) with stem cell properties. We…”
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Molecular gradients and development of retinotopic maps
Published in Annual review of neuroscience (01-01-2005)“…Gradients of axon guidance molecules have long been postulated to control the development of the organization of neural connections into topographic maps. We…”
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In Vivo Expression of a Light-Activatable Potassium Channel Using Unnatural Amino Acids
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (16-10-2013)“…Optical control of protein function provides excellent spatial-temporal resolution for studying proteins in situ. Although light-sensitive exogenous proteins…”
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Role for Lhx2 in corticogenesis through regulation of progenitor differentiation
Published in Molecular and cellular neuroscience (01-09-2013)“…The neocortex represents the brain region that has undergone a major increase in its relative size during the course of mammalian evolution. The larger cortex…”
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COUP-TFI regulates the balance of cortical patterning between frontal/motor and sensory areas
Published in Nature neuroscience (01-10-2007)“…We used cortex-specific deletion of the transcription factor gene COUP-TFI (also known as Nr2f1) in mice to demonstrate previously unknown fundamental roles…”
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Generation and analysis of an improved Foxg1-IRES-Cre driver mouse line
Published in Developmental biology (01-04-2016)“…Foxg1 expression is highly restricted to the telencephalon and other head structures in the early embryo. This expression pattern has been exploited to…”
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EMX2 Regulates Sizes and Positioning of the Primary Sensory and Motor Areas in Neocortex by Direct Specification of Cortical Progenitors
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (05-08-2004)“…Genetic studies of neocortical area patterning are limited, because mice deficient for candidate regulatory genes die before areas emerge and have other…”
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Cloning and Cortical Expression of Rat Emx2 and Adenovirus-mediated Overexpression to Assess its Regulation of Area-specific Targeting of Thalamocortical Axons
Published in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. 1991) (01-06-2003)“…A goal of this study was to use recombinant adenovirus (AdV) to ectopically express Emx2 in the embryonic neocortex as a gain-of-function approach to study its…”
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Multiple EphB receptors mediate dorsal–ventral retinotopic mapping via similar bi-functional responses to ephrin-B1
Published in Molecular and cellular neuroscience (01-11-2014)“…The projection from the retina to the superior colliculus in mice is organized in a retinotopic map that develops through the formation and guidance of…”
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Formation of the Cortical Subventricular Zone Requires MDGA1-Mediated Aggregation of Basal Progenitors
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (26-01-2016)“…The subventricular zone (SVZ) provides a specialized neurogenic microenvironment for proliferation and aggregation of basal progenitors (BPs). Our study…”
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