Labyrinthine Turing pattern formation in the cerebral cortex.
I propose that the labyrinthine patterns of the cortices of mammalian brains may be formed by a Turing instability of interacting axonal guidance species acting together with the mechanical strain imposed by the interconnecting axons.
Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, CSIC, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva, Granada, Spain. julyan@lec.ugr.es
Julyan H E
JH
Cartwright
D000818:Animals; D001370:Axonal Transport; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000196:embryology*; D006801:Humans; D008322:Mammals / Q000196:embryology*; D008954:Models, Biological; D009024:Morphogenesis