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Hoxa2- and rhombomere-dependent development of the mouse facial somatosensory map.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 8 Sept 2006
Oury Franck, Murakami Yasunori, Renaud Jean-Sebastien, Pasqualetti Massimo, Charnay Patrick, Ren Shu-Yue, Rijli Filippo M
Abstract excerpt
In the mouse trigeminal pathway, sensory inputs from distinct facial structures, such as whiskers or lower jaw and lip, are topographically mapped onto the somatosensory cortex through relay stations in the thalamus and hindbrain. In the developing hindbrain, the mechanisms generating such maps remain elusive. We found that in the principal sensory nucleus, the whisker-related map is contributed by rhombomere...
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