Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Zbtb20 promotes astrocytogenesis during neocortical development

  • Motoshi Nagao,
  • Toru Ogata,
  • Yasuhiro Sawada,
  • Yukiko Gotoh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11102
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Astrocytes in the brain are derived from neural precursor cells (NPCs). Here, Motoshi Nagao and colleagues show that the transcription repressor Zbtb20 regulates astrocyte specification in the mouse neocortex.