Cortical development: the art of generating cell diversity.
The fascinating question of how the enormous diversity of neuronal and glial cells in the cerebral cortex is generated during development was recently discussed at a meeting on cortical development and stem cells in Greece. What emerged from this meeting is an equally fascinating answer, namely that precursor diversity at rather early stages of development anticipates later cell type diversity.
Götz
Magdalena
M
GSF, National Research Centre for Environment and Health, Institute for Stem Cell Research, Neuherberg/Munich, Germany. magdalena.goetz@gsf.de
Sommer
Lukas
L
D000818:Animals; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000196:embryology / Q000254:growth & development*; D002923:Cilia / Q000502:physiology; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008871:Microvilli / Q000502:physiology; D009024:Morphogenesis; D009457:Neuroglia / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology