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List of works by Alessandra Pierani

A homeodomain protein code specifies progenitor cell identity and neuronal fate in the ventral neural tube

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A mammalian conserved element derived from SINE displays enhancer properties recapitulating Satb2 expression in early-born callosal projection neurons

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A novel role for Dbx1-derived Cajal-Retzius cells in early regionalization of the cerebral cortical neuroepithelium

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A novel transient glutamatergic population migrating from the pallial-subpallial boundary contributes to neocortical development.

scientific article published on August 2010

A sonic hedgehog-independent, retinoid-activated pathway of neurogenesis in the ventral spinal cord

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

A wide diversity of cortical GABAergic interneurons derives from the embryonic preoptic area

scientific article published in November 2011

Activation of octamer-containing promoters by either octamer-binding transcription factor 1 (OTF-1) or OTF-2 and requirement of an additional B-cell-specific component for optimal transcription of immunoglobulin promoters.

scientific article published on December 1990

Activity-dependent death of transient Cajal-Retzius neurons is required for functional cortical wiring

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Assembly and DNA binding of recombinant Ku (p70/p80) autoantigen defined by a novel monoclonal antibody specific for p70/p80 heterodimers.

scientific article published on November 1994

CXCR7 Receptor Controls the Maintenance of Subpial Positioning of Cajal-Retzius Cells.

scientific article published in August 2014

Cerebral cortex development: From progenitors patterning to neocortical size during evolution.

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

Cerebrospinal fluid-derived Semaphorin3B orients neuroepithelial cell divisions in the apicobasal axis.

scientific article published on 27 February 2015

Control of interneuron fate in the developing spinal cord by the progenitor homeodomain protein Dbx1

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Cortical developmental death: selected to survive or fated to die

scientific article published on 05 May 2018

Dbx1-expressing cells are necessary for the survival of the mammalian anterior neural and craniofacial structures

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Development and evolution of cortical fields

scientific article published on 28 June 2014

Developmental cell death regulates lineage-related interneuron-oligodendroglia functional clusters and oligodendrocyte homeostasis

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Developmental origin of the neuronal subtypes that comprise the amygdalar fear circuit in the mouse.

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Different levels of repressor activity assign redundant and specific roles to Nkx6 genes in motor neuron and interneuron specification

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Dual-mode operation of neuronal networks involved in left-right alternation

scientific article published on 30 June 2013

Dynamic assignment and maintenance of positional identity in the ventral neural tube by the morphogen sonic hedgehog

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Editorial: Mechanisms of Neuronal Migration during Corticogenesis

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Electrophysiological and morphological properties of Cajal-Retzius cells with different ontogenetic origins

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Enhanced Abventricular Proliferation Compensates Cell Death in the Embryonic Cerebral Cortex.

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Epitopes of the p70 and p80 (Ku) lupus autoantigens

scientific article published on 01 April 1991

Evolutionary Gain of Dbx1 Expression Drives Subplate Identity in the Cerebral Cortex

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Generation of new oncogenic murine retroviruses by cotransfection of cloned AKR and MH2 proviruses

scientific article published on 01 February 1989

Genetic identification of spinal interneurons that coordinate left-right locomotor activity necessary for walking movements.

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Hindbrain interneurons and axon guidance signaling critical for breathing

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How Do Electric Fields Coordinate Neuronal Migration and Maturation in the Developing Cortex?

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Identification of multiple subsets of ventral interneurons and differential distribution along the rostrocaudal axis of the developing spinal cord

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Kremen1 and Dickkopf1 control cell survival in a Wnt-independent manner

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Kremen1-induced cell death is regulated by homo- and heterodimerization

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Lhx2 regulates the development of the forebrain hem system.

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Migration Speed of Cajal-Retzius Cells Modulated by Vesicular Trafficking Controls the Size of Higher-Order Cortical Areas.

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

Multiple origins of Cajal-Retzius cells at the borders of the developing pallium.

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Neuronal fate specification by the Dbx1 transcription factor is linked to the evolutionary acquisition of a novel functional domain

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Origin and molecular specification of globus pallidus neurons

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Otx2 cell-autonomously determines dorsal mesencephalon versus cerebellum fate independently of isthmic organizing activity

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

Patterning of higher-order cortical areas is developmentally regulated by the distribution of Cajal-Retzius cells

scientific article published in April 2016

Patterning the cerebral cortex: traveling with morphogens.

scientific article published on 09 June 2010

Pax3- and Pax7-mediated Dbx1 regulation orchestrates the patterning of intermediate spinal interneurons

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Prdm12 specifies V1 interneurons through cross-repressive interactions with Dbx1 and Nkx6 genes in Xenopus.

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QRI, a retina-specific gene, encodes an extracellular matrix protein exclusively expressed during neural retina differentiation.

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Radial derivatives of the mouse ventral pallium traced with Dbx1-LacZ reporters

scientific article published on 31 December 2015

Reallocation of Olfactory Cajal-Retzius Cells Shapes Neocortex Architecture

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

Requirement for RORgamma in thymocyte survival and lymphoid organ development

scientific article (publication date: 30 June 2000)

Role of Fgf8 signalling in the specification of rostral Cajal-Retzius cells

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Sp8 and COUP-TF1 reciprocally regulate patterning and Fgf signaling in cortical progenitors.

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Specification of select hypothalamic circuits and innate behaviors by the embryonic patterning gene dbx1.

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Tangential migration of glutamatergic neurons and cortical patterning during development: Lessons from Cajal-Retzius cells

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Tangentially Migrating Transient Glutamatergic Neurons Control Neurogenesis and Maintenance of Cerebral Cortical Progenitor Pools

scientific article published on June 10, 2011

Targeted Inactivation of Bax Reveals a Subtype-Specific Mechanism of Cajal-Retzius Neuron Death in the Postnatal Cerebral Cortex.

scientific article published in December 2016

The embryonic preoptic area is a novel source of cortical GABAergic interneurons.

scientific article published in July 2009

The homeodomain factor lbx1 distinguishes two major programs of neuronal differentiation in the dorsal spinal cord

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