Neural progenitor cells and their role in the development and evolutionary expansion of the neocortex

2D and 3D Stem Cell Models of Primate Cortical Development Identify Species-Specific Differences in Progenitor Behavior Contributing to Brain Size

(2016) Tomoki Otani et al.   Cell Stem Cell

The evolution of basal progenitors in the developing non-mammalian brain

(2016) Tadashi Nomura et al.   DEVELOPMENT

A restricted period for formation of outer subventricular zone defined by Cdh1 and Trnp1 levels

(2016) Maria Ángeles Martínez-Martínez et al.   Nature Communications

An essential role of SVZ progenitors in cortical folding in gyrencephalic mammals

(2016) Tomohisa Toda et al.   Scientific Reports

Intermediate Progenitor Cohorts Differentially Generate Cortical Layers and Require Tbr2 for Timely Acquisition of Neuronal Subtype Identity

(2016) Anca B. Mihalas et al.   Cell Reports

Non-canonical features of the Golgi apparatus in bipolar epithelial neural stem cells

(2016) Elena Taverna et al.   Scientific Reports

Cortical Folding: When, Where, How, and Why?

(2015) Georg F. Striedter et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Molecular Identity of Human Outer Radial Glia during Cortical Development

(2015) Alex A. Pollen et al.   CELL

Human-Chimpanzee Differences in a FZD8 Enhancer Alter Cell-Cycle Dynamics in the Developing Neocortex

(2015) J. Lomax Boyd et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Early Neurogenesis

(2015) Volker Hartenstein et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Discrete domains of gene expression in germinal layers distinguish the development of gyrencephaly

(2015) C. de Juan Romero et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Evolution of the mammalian dentate gyrus

(2015) Robert F. Hevner   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Cortical evolution 2015: Discussion of neural progenitor cell nomenclature

(2015) Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

S-phase duration is the main target of cell cycle regulation in neural progenitors of developing ferret neocortex

(2015) Miguel Turrero García et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Neural Precursor Lineages Specify Distinct Neocortical Pyramidal Neuron Types

(2015) William A. Tyler et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Fixed single-cell transcriptomic characterization of human radial glial diversity

(2015) Elliot R Thomsen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Single-cell analysis reveals transcriptional heterogeneity of neural progenitors in human cortex

(2015) Matthew B Johnson et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The Outer Subventricular Zone and Primate-Specific Cortical Complexification

(2015) Colette Dehay et al.   NEURON

Extracellular and Intracellular Signaling for Neuronal Polarity

(2015) Takashi Namba et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion

(2015) M. Florio et al.   SCIENCE

Pathophysiological analyses of cortical malformation using gyrencephalic mammals

(2015) Kosuke Masuda et al.   Scientific Reports

Sustained Pax6 Expression Generates Primate-like Basal Radial Glia in Developing Mouse Neocortex

(2015) Fong Kuan Wong et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Cell Biology of Neurogenesis: Toward an Understanding of the Development and Evolution of the Neocortex

(2014) Elena Taverna et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Deterministic Progenitor Behavior and Unitary Production of Neurons in the Neocortex

(2014) Peng Gao et al.   CELL

Role of radial glial cells in cerebral cortex folding

(2014) Víctor Borrell et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Neural progenitors, neurogenesis and the evolution of the neocortex

(2014) M. Florio et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Transcriptional landscape of the prenatal human brain

(2014) Jeremy A. Miller et al.   NATURE

Radial glia require PDGFD–PDGFRβ signalling in human but not mouse neocortex

(2014) Jan H. Lui et al.   NATURE

Palindromic GOLGA8 core duplicons promote chromosome 15q13.3 microdeletion and evolutionary instability

(2014) Francesca Antonacci et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Microinjection of membrane-impermeable molecules into single neural stem cells in brain tissue

(2014) Fong Kuan Wong et al.   Nature Protocols

Growth and folding of the mammalian cerebral cortex: from molecules to malformations

(2014) Tao Sun et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Pioneering Axons Regulate Neuronal Polarization in the Developing Cerebral Cortex

(2014) Takashi Namba et al.   NEURON

Evolutionarily Dynamic Alternative Splicing of GPR56 Regulates Regional Cerebral Cortical Patterning

(2014) B.-I. Bae et al.   SCIENCE

Control of Outer Radial Glial Stem Cell Mitosis in the Human Brain

(2014) Bridget E.L. Ostrem et al.   Cell Reports

An Adaptive Threshold in Mammalian Neocortical Evolution

(2014) Eric Lewitus et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Trnp1 Regulates Expansion and Folding of the Mammalian Cerebral Cortex by Control of Radial Glial Fate

(2013) Ronny Stahl et al.   CELL

A Conserved RhoGAP Limits M Phase Contractility and Coordinates with Microtubule Asters to Confine RhoA during Cytokinesis

(2013) Esther Zanin et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Regulation of cerebral cortex size and folding by expansion of basal progenitors

(2013) Miki Nonaka-Kinoshita et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Distinctive population ofGfap-expressing neural progenitors arising around the dentate notch migrate and form the granule cell layer in the developing hippocampus

(2013) Tatsunori Seki et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Multiplex Genetic Fate Mapping Reveals a Novel Route of Neocortical Neurogenesis, Which Is Altered in the Ts65Dn Mouse Model of Down Syndrome

(2013) W. A. Tyler et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

(2013) Kay Prüfer et al.   NATURE

Cerebral organoids model human brain development and microcephaly

(2013) Madeline A. Lancaster et al.   NATURE

Scratch regulates neuronal migration onset via an epithelial-mesenchymal transition–like mechanism

(2013) Yasuhiro Itoh et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

TAG-1–assisted progenitor elongation streamlines nuclear migration to optimize subapical crowding

(2013) Mayumi Okamoto et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Precursor Diversity and Complexity of Lineage Relationships in the Outer Subventricular Zone of the Primate

(2013) Marion Betizeau et al.   NEURON

Cell Cycle-Dependent Rho GTPase Activity Dynamically Regulates Cancer Cell Motility and Invasion In Vivo

(2013) Yoshinori Kagawa et al.   PLoS One

Multifarious functions of PDGFs and PDGFRs in tumor growth and metastasis

(2013) Yihai Cao   TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Amplification of progenitors in the mammalian telencephalon includes a new radial glial cell type

(2013) Gregor-Alexander Pilz et al.   Nature Communications

RhoGAPs Attenuate Cell Proliferation by Direct Interaction with p53 Tetramerization Domain

(2013) Jie Xu et al.   Cell Reports

OSVZ progenitors in the human cortex: an updated perspective on neurodevelopmental disease

(2012) Bridget E LaMonica et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Emerging roles of neural stem cells in cerebral cortex development and evolution

(2012) Víctor Borrell et al.   Developmental Neurobiology

Comparative Analysis of the Subventricular Zone in Rat, Ferret and Macaque: Evidence for an Outer Subventricular Zone in Rodents

(2012) Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptomes of germinal zones of human and mouse fetal neocortex suggest a role of extracellular matrix in progenitor self-renewal

(2012) S. A. Fietz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

(2012) M. Meyer et al.   SCIENCE

Development and Evolution of the Human Neocortex

(2011) Jan H. Lui et al.   CELL

Abundant Occurrence of Basal Radial Glia in the Subventricular Zone of Embryonic Neocortex of a Lissencephalic Primate, the Common Marmoset Callithrix jacchus

(2011) Iva Kelava et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Oblique Radial Glial Divisions in the Developing Mouse Neocortex Induce Self-Renewing Progenitors outside the Germinal Zone That Resemble Primate Outer Subventricular Zone Progenitors

(2011) A. Shitamukai et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A new approach to manipulate the fate of single neural stem cells in tissue

(2011) Elena Taverna et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

A new subtype of progenitor cell in the mouse embryonic neocortex

(2011) Xiaoqun Wang et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Time-Lapse Imaging Reveals Symmetric Neurogenic Cell Division of GFAP-Expressing Progenitors for Expansion of Postnatal Dentate Granule Neurons

(2011) Takashi Namba et al.   PLoS One

Neural stem and progenitor cells shorten S-phase on commitment to neuron production

(2011) Yoko Arai et al.   Nature Communications

A Role for Intermediate Radial Glia in the Tangential Expansion of the Mammalian Cerebral Cortex

(2010) Isabel Reillo et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Cortical progenitor expansion, self-renewal and neurogenesis—a polarized perspective

(2010) Simone A Fietz et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Neurogenic radial glia in the outer subventricular zone of human neocortex

(2010) David V. Hansen et al.   NATURE

OSVZ progenitors of human and ferret neocortex are epithelial-like and expand by integrin signaling

(2010) Simone A Fietz et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Neural Progenitor Nuclei IN Motion

(2010) Elena Taverna et al.   NEURON

Diversity of Human Copy Number Variation and Multicopy Genes

(2010) Peter H. Sudmant et al.   SCIENCE

The human brain in numbers: a linearly scaled-up primate brain

(2009) Suzana Herculano-Houzel   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Evolution of the neocortex: a perspective from developmental biology

(2009) Pasko Rakic   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Polycomb Limits the Neurogenic Competence of Neural Precursor Cells to Promote Astrogenic Fate Transition

(2009) Yusuke Hirabayashi et al.   NEURON

Myosin II is required for interkinetic nuclear migration of neural progenitors

(2009) J. Schenk et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Making bigger brains-the evolution of neural-progenitor-cell division

(2008) J. L. Fish et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Live Imaging at the Onset of Cortical Neurogenesis Reveals Differential Appearance of the Neuronal Phenotype in Apical versus Basal Progenitor Progeny

(2008) Alessio Attardo et al.   PLoS One

Platelet-Derived Growth Factor-D Overexpression Contributes to Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition of PC3 Prostate Cancer Cells

(2008) Dejuan Kong et al.   STEM CELLS