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Development of the nervous system at a glance
The strongest research directions include Vertebrate brain development and Patterning. Use the connected concepts below as starting points, not as a keyword checklist.
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Vertebrate brain development
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Patterning
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Neuronal migration
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Synapse formation
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Overview
- Nervous system
- Embryonic development
- Neuroscience
- Developmental biology
- Nematodes Nematode
- Fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster
- Mammals
- Holoprosencephaly
- Neurological disorders Neurological disorder
- Limb paresis Paresis
- Paralysis
- Seizures Seizure
- Humans Human
- Rett syndrome
- Down syndrome
- Intellectual disability
Vertebrate brain development
- Vertebrate
- Central nervous system
- Ectoderm
- Germ layer
- Neuroectoderm
- Neural plate
- Neural groove
- Neural tube
- Neurulation
- Primary brain vesicles
- Forebrain
- Prosencephalon
- Midbrain
- Mesencephalon
- Hindbrain
- Rhombencephalon
- Telencephalon
- Cerebral cortex
- Basal ganglia
- Diencephalon
- Thalamus
- Hypothalamus
- Colliculi Inferior colliculus
- Metencephalon
- Pons
- Cerebellum
- Myelencephalon
- Medulla Medulla oblongata
- Central canal
- Spinal cord
Induction
- Epidermis
- Mesoderm
- Endoderm
- Notochord
- Vertebral column
- Neural folds
- Basal plate Basal plate (neural tube)
- Alar plate
- Neural canal
- Explant cultures Explant culture
- Xenopus
- Body plan
- Noggin Noggin (protein)
- Chordin
- BMP4
- TGF-β TGF beta
- Pluripotent stem cells
Regionalization
- Cephalic flexure
- Cerebral hemispheres Cerebral hemisphere
- Optical vesicle
Patterning
- Chordates
- Patterning Pattern formation
- BMPs Bone morphogenetic protein
- Follistatin
- Sonic hedgehog
- Floor plate Floor plate (biology)
- Patched
- Smoothened
- Transcription factors Transcription factor
- GLI1
- GLI2
- GLI3
- Morphogen
- Interneurons Interneuron
- Motor neuron
- Sr/Thr kinases Serine/threonine protein kinase
- SMAD SMAD (protein)
- FGF Fibroblast growth factor
- Retinoic acid
- Hox genes
- 5′ Directionality (molecular biology)
- Facial nerve
- Trigeminal nerve
Neurogenesis
- Neurogenesis
- Progenitor cells
- Epigenetic modifications Epigenetics
- Gene expression
- DNA cytosine methylation DNA methylation
- 5-methylcytosine
- 5-methylcytosine demethylation DNA demethylation
- DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs) DNA methyltransferase
- TET enzymes
- 5-hydroxymethylcytosine
- Base excision repair
Neuronal migration
- Time-lapse microscopy
- Ventricular zone
- Neocortex
- Radial glial cells Radial glial cell
- Postmitotic Mitosis
- Cajal–Retzius cells Cajal–Retzius cell
- Subplate
- Pia Pia mater
- Soma Soma (biology)
- Nucleokinesis Nucleokinesis?action=edit&redlink=1
- Microtubule Microtubules
- Centrosome
- Astrocytes Astrocyte
- Neurons Neuron
- Radial glial Radial glia
- Ganglionic eminence
- Rostral migratory stream
- Subventricular zone
- Olfactory bulb
- Axon
- GnRH-expressing neurons GnRH Neuron
- Calcium signaling
- Actin
- Microtubule
- Cytoskeletal Cytoskeleton
- Cell adhesion proteins Cell adhesion protein
- Cortical intermediate zone
Neurotrophic factors
Synapse formation
- Basal lamina
- Agrin
- Rapsyn
- Dendritic filopodia
- Neuroligins Neuroligin
- Neuronal migration
- Differentiation Cellular differentiation
- Axon guidance
- Activity-dependent mechanisms Activity-dependent plasticity
- Netrins Netrin
- Semaphorins Semaphorin
- Cadherins Cadherin
- Visual system
- Auditory system
- Motor system
- Hippocampus
- Retina
- Retinal ganglion cells
- Neurotransmitter
- Acetylcholine
- Glutamate
- Retinotopic
- Superior colliculus
- Lateral geniculate nucleus
- Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
- Retinotopy
- Microglia
- Cochlea
- Inner hair cells
- Spiral ganglion
Mapping
- Brain mapping
- C. elegans Caenorhabditis elegans
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| single-cell RNA sequencing allow researchers to profile gene expression in individual neural progenitors | instance of | Techniques | 0.80 | text |
| neurons | instance of | Techniques | 0.80 | text |
| revealing previously unknown cellular diversity during development | instance of | Techniques | 0.80 | text |
| holoprosencephaly | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
| and a wide variety of neurological disorders including limb paresis | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
| paralysis | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
| balance | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
| vision disorders | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
| and seizures | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
| and in humans other disorders such as Rett syndrome | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
| Down syndrome | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
| intellectual disability | instance of | Defects in neural development can lead to malformations | 0.80 | text |
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.Development of the nervous system
Nodes198
Edges197
Triples29
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010101
Components1
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