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PLOS BIOLOGY
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 756-770Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000098
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- Science Foundation Ireland [01/F1/B006]
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [BFU2006-00408]
- Medical Research Council (MRC) [G0300200, G0700377]
- Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale
- Government of Ireland Scholarship
- Irish Research Council of Science, Engineering and Technology
- Health Research Board Postdoctoral Fellowship
- MRC [G0700377, G0300200] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G0300200, G0700377] Funding Source: researchfish
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The establishment of connectivity between specific thalamic nuclei and cortical areas involves a dynamic interplay between the guidance of thalamocortical axons and the elaboration of cortical areas in response to appropriate innervation. We show here that Sema6A mutants provide a unique model to test current ideas on the interactions between subcortical and cortical guidance mechanisms and cortical regionalization. In these mutants, axons from the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) are misrouted in the ventral telencephalon. This leads to invasion of presumptive visual cortex by somatosensory thalamic axons at embryonic stages. Remarkably, the misrouted dLGN axons are able to find their way to the visual cortex via alternate routes at postnatal stages and reestablish a normal pattern of thalamocortical connectivity. These findings emphasize the importance and specificity of cortical cues in establishing thalamocortical connectivity and the spectacular capacity of the early postnatal cortex for remapping initial sensory representations.
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