Motor neurons and the generation of spinal motor neuron diversity

Netrin 1 and Dcc signalling are required for confinement of central axons within the central nervous system

(2014) C. Laumonnerie et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Reconstruction of phrenic neuron identity in embryonic stem cell-derived motor neurons

(2014) C. B. Machado et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Evolving Hox Activity Profiles Govern Diversity in Locomotor Systems

(2014) Heekyung Jung et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Dlk1 Promotes a Fast Motor Neuron Biophysical Signature Required for Peak Force Execution

(2014) D. Muller et al.   SCIENCE

Gli Protein Activity Is Controlled by Multisite Phosphorylation in Vertebrate Hedgehog Signaling

(2014) Pawel Niewiadomski et al.   Cell Reports

Concocting Cholinergy

(2014) Artur Kania   PLoS Genetics

Isl1 Directly Controls a Cholinergic Neuronal Identity in the Developing Forebrain and Spinal Cord by Forming Cell Type-Specific Complexes

(2014) Hyong-Ho Cho et al.   PLoS Genetics

Production of RNA for Transcriptomic Analysis from Mouse Spinal Cord Motor Neuron Cell Bodies by Laser Capture Microdissection

(2014) Urmi Bandyopadhyay et al.   Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments

Generating spinal motor neuron diversity: a long quest for neuronal identity

(2013) Cédric Francius et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Elucidation of target muscle and detailed development of dorsal motor neurons in chick embryo spinal cord

(2013) Nobumi Kobayashi et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Na+/K+ ATPase  1 and  3 Isoforms Are Differentially Expressed in  - and  -Motoneurons

(2013) I. J. Edwards et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Synergistic binding of transcription factors to cell-specific enhancers programs motor neuron identity

(2013) Esteban O Mazzoni et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Saltatory remodeling of Hox chromatin in response to rostrocaudal patterning signals

(2013) Esteban O Mazzoni et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Hox Genes: Choreographers in Neural Development, Architects of Circuit Organization

(2013) Polyxeni Philippidou et al.   NEURON

GDE2 Promotes Neurogenesis by Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-Anchor Cleavage of RECK

(2013) S. Park et al.   SCIENCE

Mapping Neuronal Diversity One Cell at a Time

(2013) H. Wichterle et al.   SCIENCE

Specificity of Monosynaptic Sensory-Motor Connections Imposed by Repellent Sema3E-PlexinD1 Signaling

(2013) Kaori Fukuhara et al.   Cell Reports

Genetic and Functional Modularity of Hox Activities in the Specification of Limb-Innervating Motor Neurons

(2013) Julie Lacombe et al.   PLoS Genetics

Ret Is a Multifunctional Coreceptor that Integrates Diffusible- and Contact-Axon Guidance Signals

(2012) Dario Bonanomi et al.   CELL

Gene Regulatory Logic for Reading the Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Gradient in the Vertebrate Neural Tube

(2012) Nikolaos Balaskas et al.   CELL

Onecut transcription factors act upstream of Isl1 to regulate spinal motoneuron diversification

(2012) A. Roy et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Polycomb repressive complex 1 activities determine the columnar organization of motor neurons

(2012) M. G. Golden et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Wnt7A Identifies Embryonic  -Motor Neurons and Reveals Early Postnatal Dependence of  -Motor Neurons on a Muscle Spindle-Derived Signal

(2012) S. Ashrafi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Genetic Evidence for a Contribution of EphA:EphrinA Reverse Signaling to Motor Axon Guidance

(2012) I. Dudanova et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Breathless without Hox

(2012) Valérie Castellani et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Sustained Hox5 gene activity is required for respiratory motor neuron development

(2012) Polyxeni Philippidou et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Foxp-Mediated Suppression of N-Cadherin Regulates Neuroepithelial Character and Progenitor Maintenance in the CNS

(2012) David L. Rousso et al.   NEURON

Establishment of Motor Neuron-V3 Interneuron Progenitor Domain Boundary in Ventral Spinal Cord Requires Groucho-Mediated Transcriptional Corepression

(2012) Keith J. Todd et al.   PLoS One

The Onecut Transcription Factor HNF-6 Regulates in Motor Neurons the Formation of the Neuromuscular Junctions

(2012) Emilie Audouard et al.   PLoS One

Apoptosis of limb innervating motor neurons and erosion of motor pool identity upon lineage specific Dicer inactivation

(2012) Jun-An Chen   Frontiers in Neuroscience

SnapShot: Spinal Cord Development

(2011) William A. Alaynick et al.   CELL

Crossing the Border: Molecular Control of Motor Axon Exit

(2011) Arlene Bravo-Ambrosio et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Pool-Specific Regulation of Motor Neuron Survival by Neurotrophic Support

(2011) F. Lamballe et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

MicroRNA miR-9 Modifies Motor Neuron Columns by a Tuning Regulation of FoxP1 Levels in Developing Spinal Cords

(2011) G. Otaegi et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Motor antagonism exposed by spatial segregation and timing of neurogenesis

(2011) Marco Tripodi et al.   NATURE

Ephrin-Mediated cis-Attenuation of Eph Receptor Signaling Is Essential for Spinal Motor Axon Guidance

(2011) Tzu-Jen Kao et al.   NEURON

Anatomical Coupling of Sensory and Motor Nerve Trajectory via Axon Tracking

(2011) Liang Wang et al.   NEURON

GDE2 Regulates Subtype-Specific Motor Neuron Generation through Inhibition of Notch Signaling

(2011) Priyanka Sabharwal et al.   NEURON

Mir-17-3p Controls Spinal Neural Progenitor Patterning by Regulating Olig2/Irx3 Cross-Repressive Loop

(2011) Jun-An Chen et al.   NEURON

Eph and ephrin signaling: Lessons learned from spinal motor neurons

(2011) Tzu-Jen Kao et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Npn-1 Contributes to Axon-Axon Interactions That Differentially Control Sensory and Motor Innervation of the Limb

(2011) Rosa-Eva Huettl et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Sonic Hedgehog Dependent Phosphorylation by CK1α and GRK2 Is Required for Ciliary Accumulation and Activation of Smoothened

(2011) Yongbin Chen et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Motor Neuron Diversity in Development and Disease

(2010) Kevin C. Kanning et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Retrograde influence of muscle fibers on their innervation revealed by a novel marker for slow motoneurons

(2010) J. V. Chakkalakal et al.   DEVELOPMENT

GDP-bound Gαi2 regulates spinal motor neuron differentiation through interaction with GDE2

(2010) Goran Periz et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Examining the combinatorial model of motor neuron survival by expression profiling of trophic factors and their receptors in the embryonicGallus gallus

(2010) Wendy X.W. Gu et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Identification of novel spinal cholinergic genetic subtypes disclose Chodl and Pitx2 as markers for fast motor neurons and partition cells

(2010) Anders Enjin et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Guidance of Postural Motoneurons Requires MAPK/ERK Signaling Downstream of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1

(2010) P. Soundararajan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Global Control of Motor Neuron Topography Mediated by the Repressive Actions of a Single Hox Gene

(2010) Heekyung Jung et al.   NEURON

Monosynaptic Rabies Virus Reveals Premotor Network Organization and Synaptic Specificity of Cholinergic Partition Cells

(2010) Anna E. Stepien et al.   NEURON

Motor Axon Pathfinding

(2010) D. Bonanomi et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Foxp1 and Lhx1 Coordinate Motor Neuron Migration with Axon Trajectory Choice by Gating Reelin Signalling

(2010) Elena Palmesino et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

‘Runxs and regulations’ of sensory and motor neuron subtype differentiation: Implications for hematopoietic development

(2009) Stefano Stifani et al.   BLOOD CELLS MOLECULES AND DISEASES

The Antioxidant Enzyme Prdx1 Controls Neuronal Differentiation by Thiol-Redox-Dependent Activation of GDE2

(2009) Ye Yan et al.   CELL

Islet-to-LMO stoichiometries control the function of transcription complexes that specify motor neuron and V2a interneuron identity

(2009) M.-R. Song et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Wnt won the war: Antagonistic role of Wnt over Shh controls dorso-ventral patterning of the vertebrate neural tube

(2009) Fausto Ulloa et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Detailed Expression Pattern of Foxp1 and Its Possible Roles in Neurons of the Spinal Cord during Embryogenesis

(2009) Yoshihiro Morikawa et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE

Runx transcription factors: Lineage-specific regulators of neuronal precursor cell proliferation and post-mitotic neuron subtype development

(2009) Chrissandra J. Zagami et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

Gamma motor neurons express distinct genetic markers at birth and require muscle spindle-derived GDNF for postnatal survival

(2009) Neil A Shneider et al.   Neural Development

Motor Neurons with Axial Muscle Projections Specified by Wnt4/5 Signaling

(2009) Dritan Agalliu et al.   NEURON

Retinoid Signaling and Neurogenin2 Function Are Coupled for the Specification of Spinal Motor Neurons through a Chromatin Modifier CBP

(2009) Seunghee Lee et al.   NEURON

Dynamic expression of the Onecut transcription factors HNF-6, OC-2 and OC-3 during spinal motor neuron development

(2009) C. Francius et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Neurotrophic Modulation of Motor Neuron Development

(2009) Thomas W. Gould et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Breathing with Phox2b

(2009) V. Dubreuil et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Gamma and alpha motor neurons distinguished by expression of transcription factor Err3

(2009) A. Friese et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PHOX2B in respiratory control: Lessons from congenital central hypoventilation syndrome and its mouse models

(2009) Jeanne Amiel et al.   RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROBIOLOGY

Regulation of Boundary Cap Neural Crest Stem Cell Differentiation After Transplantation

(2009) Hakan Aldskogius et al.   STEM CELLS

Hox Repertoires for Motor Neuron Diversity and Connectivity Gated by a Single Accessory Factor, FoxP1

(2008) Jeremy S. Dasen et al.   CELL

Wnt signaling determines ventral spinal cord cell fates in a time-dependent manner

(2008) W. Yu et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Pattern formation in the vertebrate neural tube: a sonic hedgehog morphogen-regulated transcriptional network

(2008) E. Dessaud et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Cux2 (Cutl2) integrates neural progenitor development with cell-cycle progression during spinal cord neurogenesis

(2008) A. Iulianella et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A Regulatory Network to Segregate the Identity of Neuronal Subtypes

(2008) Seunghee Lee et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

The Neurotrophic Effects of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor on Spinal Motoneurons Are Restricted to Fusimotor Subtypes

(2008) T. W. Gould et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Developmental neuroscience: Hox and Fox

(2008) Samuel L. Pfaff   NATURE

FoxP1: conducting the Hox symphony in spinal motor neurons

(2008) Silvia Arber   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Early Motor Neuron Pool Identity and Muscle Nerve Trajectory Defined by Postmitotic Restrictions in Nkx6.1 Activity

(2008) Natalia V. De Marco Garcia et al.   NEURON

Specification of Motor Axon Trajectory by Ephrin-B:EphB Signaling: Symmetrical Control of Axonal Patterning in the Developing Limb

(2008) Victor Luria et al.   NEURON

Coordinated Actions of the Forkhead Protein Foxp1 and Hox Proteins in the Columnar Organization of Spinal Motor Neurons

(2008) David L. Rousso et al.   NEURON

Suppression of interneuron programs and maintenance of selected spinal motor neuron fates by the transcription factor AML1/Runx1

(2008) N. Stifani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Segregation of Axial Motor and Sensory Pathways via Heterotypic Trans-Axonal Signaling

(2008) B. W. Gallarda et al.   SCIENCE