Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Active intermixing of indirect and direct neurons builds the striatal mosaic

  • Andrea Tinterri,
  • Fabien Menardy,
  • Marco A. Diana,
  • Ludmilla Lokmane,
  • Maryama Keita,
  • Fanny Coulpier,
  • Sophie Lemoine,
  • Caroline Mailhes,
  • Benjamin Mathieu,
  • Paloma Merchan-Sala,
  • Kenneth Campbell,
  • Ildiko Gyory,
  • Rudolf Grosschedl,
  • Daniela Popa,
  • Sonia Garel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07171-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Striatal projection neurons exist as two distinct classes and are anatomically mixed in the brain. Here, Tinterri and colleagues show the developmental mechanism of this cellular mosaicism that relies on an intrinsic transcription factor for cell type specification and intermixed cellular migration.