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List of works by Dennis D.M. O’Leary

A Caspase Cascade Regulating Developmental Axon Degeneration

scientific article published on December 5, 2012

A forward genetic screen with a thalamocortical axon reporter mouse yields novel neurodevelopment mutants and a distinct emx2 mutant phenotype

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A transcription factor code defines nine sensory interneuron subtypes in the mechanosensory area of the spinal cord

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APP binds DR6 to trigger axon pruning and neuron death via distinct caspases

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Antiapoptotic protein Lifeguard is required for survival and maintenance of Purkinje and granular cells

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Area patterning of the mammalian cortex

scientific article published on October 2007

Axon retraction and degeneration in development and disease

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Bifunctional action of ephrin-B1 as a repellent and attractant to control bidirectional branch extension in dorsal-ventral retinotopic mapping

scientific article published in June 2003

Brn3a-expressing retinal ganglion cells project specifically to thalamocortical and collicular visual pathways.

scientific article published in December 2005

COUP-TFI regulates the balance of cortical patterning between frontal/motor and sensory areas

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Cloning and cortical expression of rat Emx2 and adenovirus-mediated overexpression to assess its regulation of area-specific targeting of thalamocortical axons.

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Computational modeling of retinotopic map development to define contributions of EphA-ephrinA gradients, axon-axon interactions, and patterned activity

scientific article published on April 2004

Cortical area size dictates performance at modality-specific behaviors

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Cortical ventricular zone progenitors and their progeny maintain spatial relationships and radial patterning during preplate development indicating an early protomap

scientific article published in July 2006

Distinct actions of Emx1, Emx2, and Pax6 in regulating the specification of areas in the developing neocortex

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Dynamic patterned expression of orphan nuclear receptor genes RORalpha and RORbeta in developing mouse forebrain

scientific article published in March 2003

EMX2 regulates sizes and positioning of the primary sensory and motor areas in neocortex by direct specification of cortical progenitors

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Emx1 Is Required for Neocortical Area Patterning

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Emx1 and Emx2 cooperate to regulate cortical size, lamination, neuronal differentiation, development of cortical efferents, and thalamocortical pathfinding

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Engrailed genes control developmental fate of serotonergic and noradrenergic neurons in mid- and hindbrain in a gene dose-dependent manner

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Establishment of human iPSC-based models for the study and targeting of glioma initiating cells

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Fgf10 regulates transition period of cortical stem cell differentiation to radial glia controlling generation of neurons and basal progenitors

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Formation of the Cortical Subventricular Zone Requires MDGA1-Mediated Aggregation of Basal Progenitors

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Genetic analysis reveals that amyloid precursor protein and death receptor 6 function in the same pathway to control axonal pruning independent of β-secretase

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Geniculocortical Input Drives Genetic Distinctions Between Primary and Higher-Order Visual Areas

scientific article published on June 7, 2013

Identification and characterization of two novel brain-derived immunoglobulin superfamily members with a unique structural organization

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Identification and developmental analysis of genes expressed by dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta

scientific article published in March 2004

In vivo expression of a light-activatable potassium channel using unnatural amino acids

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Islet1-mediated activation of the β-catenin pathway is necessary for hindlimb initiation in mice

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

Lhx1 maintains synchrony among circadian oscillator neurons of the SCN

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Lhx2 specifies regional fate in Emx1 lineage of telencephalic progenitors generating cerebral cortex

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Magnitude of binocular vision controlled by islet-2 repression of a genetic program that specifies laterality of retinal axon pathfinding

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Mechanisms of retinotopic map development: Ephs, ephrins, and spontaneous correlated retinal activity

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Modulation of the F-actin cytoskeleton by c-Abl tyrosine kinase in cell spreading and neurite extension

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Molecular gradients and development of retinotopic maps

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Multiple EphB receptors mediate dorsal-ventral retinotopic mapping via similar bi-functional responses to ephrin-B1.

scientific article published on 19 July 2014

Neuregulin repellent signaling via ErbB4 restricts GABAergic interneurons to migratory paths from ganglionic eminence to cortical destinations

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Novel IgCAM, MDGA1, expressed in unique cortical area- and layer-specific patterns and transiently by distinct forebrain populations of Cajal-Retzius neurons

scientific article published on 7 September 2006

Patterning centers, regulatory genes and extrinsic mechanisms controlling arealization of the neocortex

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Postmitotic regulation of sensory area patterning in the mammalian neocortex by Lhx2

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Potential target genes of EMX2 include Odz/Ten-M and other gene families with implications for cortical patterning

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Radial migration of superficial layer cortical neurons controlled by novel Ig cell adhesion molecule MDGA1

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Regulation of Laminar and Area Patterning of Mammalian Neocortex and Behavioural Implications

Regulation of axial patterning of the retina and its topographic mapping in the brain.

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Regulation of laminar and area patterning of mammalian neocortex and behavioural implications.

scientific article published on January 2007

Retinotopic map refinement requires spontaneous retinal waves during a brief critical period of development

scientific article published in December 2003

Role for Lhx2 in corticogenesis through regulation of progenitor differentiation

scientific article published on February 26, 2013

Role of BRCA1 in brain development.

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Sensory cortex limits cortical maps and drives top-down plasticity in thalamocortical circuits

scientific article published on 07 July 2013

Slits are chemorepellents endogenous to hypothalamus and steer thalamocortical axons into ventral telencephalon

scientific article published on 11 May 2009

Sp8 exhibits reciprocal induction with Fgf8 but has an opposing effect on anterior-posterior cortical area patterning

scientific article published on 17 May 2007

The fraction of cortical GABAergic neurons is constant from near the start of cortical neurogenesis to adulthood

scientific article published in April 2012

The homeodomain protein Vax2 patterns the dorsoventral and nasotemporal axes of the eye

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Ventralized dorsal telencephalic progenitors in Pax6 mutant mice generate GABA interneurons of a lateral ganglionic eminence fate.

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Visual Map Development: Bidirectional Signaling, Bifunctional Guidance Molecules, and Competition

scientific article published on September 29, 2010

Wlds protection distinguishes axon degeneration following injury from naturally occurring developmental pruning

scientific article published in June 2006

p75(NTR) mediates ephrin-A reverse signaling required for axon repulsion and mapping

scientific article published on September 2008