Dorsal-to-ventral neocortical expansion is physically primed by ventral streaming of early embryonic preplate neurons
Kanako Saito, Mayumi Okamoto, Yuto Watanabe, Namiko Noguchi, Arata Nagasaka, Yuta Nishina, Tomoyasu Shinoda, Akira Sakakibara, Takaki Miyata
The paper identifies a preplate neuron stream that physically drives neocortical ventral expansion and somatotopic map formation through mechanical forces.
Cell Reports · Nov 1, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience