2009
Decision by division: making cortical maps
Rakic P, Ayoub AE, Breunig JJ, Dominguez MH. Decision by division: making cortical maps. Trends In Neurosciences 2009, 32: 291-301. PMID: 19380167, PMCID: PMC3601545, DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2009.01.007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeuronal fate determinationFate determinationFinal mitotic divisionEvolutionary expansionCell determinationMitotic divisionProtomap hypothesisEarly specificationLatest compendiumBiological basisProliferative zoneNeuronal classesNewborn neuronsBroad spectrumDivisionGenesHuman neocortexCortical malformationsNeuronsRadial unitsCompendiumMigrationCerebral wall
2001
Requirement of the JIP1 scaffold protein for stress-induced JNK activation
Whitmarsh A, Kuan C, Kennedy N, Kelkar N, Haydar T, Mordes J, Appel M, Rossini A, Jones S, Flavell R, Rakic P, Davis R. Requirement of the JIP1 scaffold protein for stress-induced JNK activation. Genes & Development 2001, 15: 2421-2432. PMID: 11562351, PMCID: PMC312784, DOI: 10.1101/gad.922801.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsJIP1 scaffold proteinSignal transduction pathwaysScaffold proteinTransduction pathwaysMAP kinase signal transduction pathwayJNK activationStress-induced JNK activationKinase signal transduction pathwayC-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) signal transduction pathwayExposure of cellsHomologous recombinationEnvironmental stressPrimary hippocampal neuronsC-JunAnoxic stressJIP1ProteinPathwayJNKExcitotoxic stressHippocampal neuronsActivationGenesStressCritical component
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 connectionsProgrammed Cell Death in Mouse Brain Development
Kuan C, Flavell R, Rakic P. Programmed Cell Death in Mouse Brain Development. Results And Problems In Cell Differentiation 2000, 30: 145-162. PMID: 10857188, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48002-0_6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCell death machineryMouse brain developmentCell deathDeath machineryNematode Caenorhabditis elegansBasic cellular eventsIdeal experimental systemVertebrate nervous systemBrain developmentCaenorhabditis elegansNormal human brain developmentNerve growth factorGenetic pathwaysTrophic theoryRecent geneSpecific genesCellular eventsGenetic studiesNeural developmentHuman brain developmentTargeted disruptionHigher primatesMechanistic understandingEssential roleGenes