Publication Date:
2017-02-04
Description:
Prenatal thalamic waves regulate cortical area size prior to sensory processing Nature Communications, Published online: 3 February 2017; doi:10.1038/ncomms14172 How sensory maps are formed in the brain is only partially understood. Here the authors describe spontaneous calcium waves that propagate across different sensory nuclei in the embryonic thalamus; disrupting the wave pattern triggers thalamic gene expression changes and eventually alters the size of cortical areas.
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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