Prenatal and perinatal development of the somatostatin-immunoreactive neurons in the human prefrontal cortex.

doi:10.1016/0304-3940(91)90082-5

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Prenatal and perinatal development of the somatostatin-immunoreactive neurons in the human prefrontal cortex.

Neuroscience letters - 1 Apr 1991

Kostović I, Stefulj-Fucić A, Mrzljak L, Jukić S, Delalle I

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The earliest somatostatin-immunoreactive (SS-Ir) perikarya of the human fetal frontal cortex appear in the transient subplate zone at 22 weeks of gestation. Around 32 weeks of gestation there is an increase in the number of SS-Ir neurons at the interface between the subplate zone and the cortical...

Topics

Cerebral Cortex
Female
Fetus
Gestational Age
Humans
Neurons
Phenotype
Pregnancy
Somatostatin

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