title: A Back Door to Cortical Development.
abstract: The mammalian cortex develops in an "inside-out" manner, as neural stem and progenitor cells lining the ventricles build the brain from within. Bifari et al. (2017), in this issue of Cell Stem Cell, find a small set of cortical neurons that appear to originate from radial glia-like progenitors in the meninges, suggesting an outside-in contribution to corticogenesis.
authors.affiliation: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) Dresden, and CRTD - Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany. Electronic address: gerd.kempermann@dzne.de.
authors.forename: Gerd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kempermann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002540:Cerebral Cortex; D002552:Cerebral Ventricles; D009457:Neuroglia; D009474:Neurons; D013234:Stem Cells