Cortical development: layers of complexity

Curr Biol. 1997 Apr 1;7(4):R231-4. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00108-4.

Abstract

Studies of spontaneous mutant mice with neurological phenotypes, particularly the cloning and analysis of the genes responsible, are shedding light on the complex processes that lead to formation of the deceptively simple layered structure of the cerebral cortex.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cerebral Cortex / abnormalities
  • Cerebral Cortex / anatomy & histology*
  • Cerebral Cortex / embryology
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Embryonic and Fetal Development
  • Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
  • Mice
  • Mice, Neurologic Mutants
  • Neurons / cytology*