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Pattern formation in the cerebellum /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Armstrong, Carol (Author), Hawkes, Richard (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, 2014.
Series:Colloquium digital library of life sciences.
Colloquium series on the developing brain ; # 11.
Subjects:
Cerebellum > Differentiation.
Pattern formation (Biology)
Body Patterning.
Cerebellum > embryology.
Purkinje cell
Purkinje cell clusters
Purkinje cell phenotype
afferent topography
cerebellar architecture
cerebellar cortex
cerebellar progenitors
climbing fibers
granule cell
mossy fibers
parasagittal stripes
pattern formation
rhombic lip
transverse zones
ventricular zone
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Description
Abstract:Pattern formation has fascinated biologists since the time of Aristotle, but only recently have new tools begun to reveal the underlying mechanisms that create these patterns during development. In particular, the central nervous system is dynamically patterned and highly modular, ranging from nuclear cell clusters in the brain stem and spinal cord to the elaborate cytoarchitecture of the neocortex. Similar developmental processes divide brain structures such as the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, superior colliculus, and cerebellum into these sub-compartments. The way neural modules form and the mechanisms that establish connectivity between these modules is one of the most complex problems in neuroscience and also one of the most important. This monograph focuses on pattern formation in the developing cerebellum.
Item Description:Part of: Colloquium digital library of life sciences.
Series from website.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 119 pages) : illustrations.
Also available in printing.
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-118).
ISBN:9781615044573
ISSN:2159-5208 ;
DOI:10.4199/C00096ED1V01Y201310DBR011
Access:Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.