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Thalamic control of neocortical area formation in mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 8 May 2013
Vue Tou Yia, Lee Melody, Tan Yew Ei, Werkhoven Zachary, Wang Lynn, Nakagawa Yasushi
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The mammalian neocortex undergoes dramatic transformation during development, from a seemingly homogenous sheet of neuroepithelial cells into a complex structure that is tangentially divided into discrete areas. This process is thought to be controlled by a combination of intrinsic patterning mechanisms within the cortex and afferent axonal projections from the thalamus. However, roles of thalamic afferents in...
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