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CELL REPORTS
Volume 20, Issue 7, Pages 1572-1584Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.07.053
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- ERC [207807, 695709]
- UK BBSRC [BB/N009061/1]
- Wellcome Trust [108726/Z/15/Z, 201225/Z/16/Z]
- Sir Henry Dale Fellowship [101208/Z/13/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [101208/Z/13/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
- BBSRC [BB/N009061/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/N009061/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Wellcome Trust [101208/Z/13/Z] Funding Source: researchfish
- European Research Council (ERC) [695709, 207807] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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The transcription factor NKX2-1 is best known for its role in the specification of subsets of cortical, striatal, and pallidal neurons. We demonstrate through genetic fate mapping and intersectional focal septal deletion that NKX2-1 is selectively required in the embryonic septal neuroepithelium for the development of cholinergic septohippocampal projection neurons and large subsets of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. In the absence of NKX2-1, these neurons fail to develop, causing alterations in hippocampal theta rhythms and severe deficiencies in learning and memory. Our results demonstrate that learning and memory are dependent on NKX2-1 function in the embryonic septum and suggest that cognitive deficiencies that are sometimes associated with pathogenic mutations in NKX2-1 in humans may be a direct consequence of loss of NKX2-1 function.
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