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ReviewThe European journal of neuroscience2006

Comparative aspects of cerebral cortical development.

Zoltán Molnár, Christine Métin, Anastassia Stoykova, Victor Tarabykin, David J Price, Fiona Francis, Gundela Meyer, Colette Dehay, Henry Kennedy

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In one paragraph

Review in The European journal of neuroscience, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
119citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

119 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 267 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 9 institutions in 4 countries.

Zoltán MolnárDepartment of Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK. zoltan.molnar@anat.ox.ac.uk
Christine Métin
Anastassia Stoykova
Victor Tarabykin
David J Price
Fiona Francis
Gundela Meyer
Colette Dehay
Henry Kennedy
Institut Cellule Souche et Cerveau · FRInstitut Cochin · FRMax Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry · DEMax Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine · DEPitié-Salpêtrière Hospital · FRUniversidad de La Laguna · ESUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRUniversity of Edinburgh · GBUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0300200Wellcome Trust 063974/B/01/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review aims to provide examples of how both comparative and genetic analyses contribute to our understanding of the rules for cortical development and evolution. Genetic studies have helped us to realize the evolutionary rules of telencephalic organization in vertebrates. The control of the establishment of conserved telencephalic subdivisions and the formation of boundaries between these subdivisions has been examined and the very specific alterations at the striatocortical junction have been revealed. Comparative studies and genetic analyses both demonstrate the differential origin and migratory pattern of the two basic neuron types of the cerebral cortex. GABAergic interneurons are mostly generated in the subpallium and a common mechanism governs their migration to the dorsal cortex in both mammals and sauropsids. The pyramidal neurons are generated within the cortical germinal zone and migrate radially, the earliest generated cell layers comprising preplate cells. Reelin-positive Cajal-Retzius cells are a general feature of all vertebrates studied so far; however, there is a considerable amplification of the Reelin signalling with cortical complexity, which might have contributed to the establishment of the basic mammalian pattern of cortical development. Based on numerous recent observations we shall present the argument that specialization of the mitotic compartments may constitute a major drive behind the evolution of the mammalian cortex. Comparative developmental studies have revealed distinct features in the early compartments of the developing macaque brain, drawing our attention to the limitations of some of the current model systems for understanding human developmental abnormalities of the cortex. Comparative and genetic aspects of cortical development both reveal the workings of evolution.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionAnimalsCell DifferentiationCerebral CortexHumansModels, NeurologicalNeuronsReelin ProteinReelin Protein

Identifiers

PMID16519657
PMCPMC1931431
OpenAlexW2113254344

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