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.
Cartwright
Julyan H E
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Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalográficos, CSIC, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Fuentenueva, Granada, Spain. julyan@lec.ugr.es
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