2000
Radial Unit Hypothesis of Neocortical Expansion
Rakic P. Radial Unit Hypothesis of Neocortical Expansion. Novartis Foundation Symposia 2000, 228: 30-45. PMID: 10929315, DOI: 10.1002/0470846631.ch3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRadial unit hypothesisSpecies-specific sizeFamily of genesMutations of genesVentricular zoneMammalian evolutionFounder cellsNatural selectionRegulatory genesCell divisionMorphoregulatory moleculesPostmitotic cellsTransgenic animalsCortical plateCell deathNeocortical expansionGenesBasic organizationGlial scaffoldingColumnar unitsCortical cellsCerebral cortexCellsCortical developmentSynaptic connections
1999
Molecular Evidence for the Early Specification of Presumptive Functional Domains in the Embryonic Primate Cerebral Cortex
Donoghue M, Rakic P. Molecular Evidence for the Early Specification of Presumptive Functional Domains in the Embryonic Primate Cerebral Cortex. Journal Of Neuroscience 1999, 19: 5967-5979. PMID: 10407035, PMCID: PMC6783094, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-14-05967.1999.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCortical platePresumptive visual cortexPrimate cerebral cortexLigand ephrin-A5Appropriate synaptic connectionsCortical cellsThalamocortical connectionsCerebral cortexMonkey neocortexCortical developmentPrimate neocortexVisual cortexSynaptic connectionsEphrin-A3Ephrin-A2Extrastriate cortexEarly gene expressionEmbryonic neocortexEphrin-A5Molecular patternsNeocortexCortexEphA6Primate corticogenesisPosterior region
1998
Changes in cell-cycle kinetics during the development and evolution of primate neocortex
Kornack D, Rakic P. Changes in cell-cycle kinetics during the development and evolution of primate neocortex. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 1998, 95: 1242-1246. PMID: 9448316, PMCID: PMC18732, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.3.1242.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCell divisionCell division cycleCell cycle kineticsProgenitor cell divisionCell cycle lengthCell cycle durationEvolutionary modificationsEvolutionary expansionCerebral ventricular zoneDevelopmental basisCell productionPrimate neocortexS-phase labelingAnthropoid primatesProgenitor cellsFetal rhesus monkeysNeurogenetic periodVentricular zoneNeocortical sizeCortical cellsNeurogenesisCortical developmentMonkey cortexTotal roundsCortical layers