Cux1 Enables Corpus Callosum Connections

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Channel: Cell Press · 2016 · Science & Technology

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For more details, see the paper by Rodríguez-Tornos et al., Neuron 89(3), at http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(15)01122-8.

Marta Nieto and her group present their findings that Cux1 regulation of Kv1 is necessary for a developmental postnatal switch in the firing response of layer II/III neurons of the cerebral cortex. This firing mode is required for callosal innervation.

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