2001
Independent parcellation of the embryonic visual cortex and thalamus revealed by combinatorial Eph/ephrin gene expression
Šestan N, Rakic P, Donoghue M. Independent parcellation of the embryonic visual cortex and thalamus revealed by combinatorial Eph/ephrin gene expression. Current Biology 2001, 11: 39-43. PMID: 11166178, DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00043-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsVisual cortical areasVisual cortexCortical plateCortical areasReciprocal connectionsDistinct visual cortical areasLateral geniculate nucleusEphA family membersPulvinar projectionsHigher association areasCytoarchitectonic differentiationThalamic nucleiGeniculate nucleusThalamusAssociation areasThalamocortical systemRhesus monkeysExtrastriate cortexCortexReceptor tyrosine kinasesEph receptor tyrosine kinasesMolecular patternsFamily membersTyrosine kinaseStriate
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