2021
Regulation of prefrontal patterning and connectivity by retinoic acid
Shibata M, Pattabiraman K, Lorente-Galdos B, Andrijevic D, Kim SK, Kaur N, Muchnik SK, Xing X, Santpere G, Sousa AMM, Sestan N. Regulation of prefrontal patterning and connectivity by retinoic acid. Nature 2021, 598: 483-488. PMID: 34599305, PMCID: PMC9018119, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03953-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrefrontal cortexRetinoic acidGranular layer 4Neocortex of humansRetinoic acid signalingCerebral cortexRetinoic acid receptorsMotor cortexMotor areaMediodorsal thalamusFetal developmentCortical expansionAcid receptorsGenetic deletionDendritic spinogenesisLayer 4Synthesizing enzymesCortexAcid signalingNeural developmentMiceCritical roleSignalingThalamusSpinogenesis
2020
Variation of Human Neural Stem Cells Generating Organizer States In Vitro before Committing to Cortical Excitatory or Inhibitory Neuronal Fates
Micali N, Kim SK, Diaz-Bustamante M, Stein-O’Brien G, Seo S, Shin JH, Rash BG, Ma S, Wang Y, Olivares NA, Arellano JI, Maynard KR, Fertig EJ, Cross AJ, Bürli RW, Brandon NJ, Weinberger DR, Chenoweth JG, Hoeppner DJ, Sestan N, Rakic P, Colantuoni C, McKay RD. Variation of Human Neural Stem Cells Generating Organizer States In Vitro before Committing to Cortical Excitatory or Inhibitory Neuronal Fates. Cell Reports 2020, 31: 107599. PMID: 32375049, PMCID: PMC7357345, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.107599.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeural stem cellsNeuronal fateProliferative neural stem cellsStem cellsPluripotent linesTelencephalic fateRNA sequencingLineage tracingHuman neural stem cellsGlutamatergic excitatory neuronsMonkey brain sectionsNeuronal trajectoriesCell imagingCortical excitatoryCerebral cortexFateExcitatory neuronsBrain sectionsHuman telencephalonNeuropsychiatric disordersAcute transitionPluripotencyCellsCortexSequencing