PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - O'Rourke, NA
AU  - Dailey, ME
AU  - Smith, SJ
AU  - McConnell, SK
TI  - Diverse migratory pathways in the developing cerebral cortex
AID  - 10.1126/science.1411527
DP  - 1992 Oct 09
TA  - Science
PG  - 299--302
VI  - 258
IP  - 5080
4099  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/258/5080/299.short
4100  - http://science.sciencemag.org/content/258/5080/299.full
SO  - Science1992 Oct 09; 258
AB  - During early development of the mammalian cerebral cortex, young neurons migrate outward from the site of their final mitosis in the ventricular zone into the cortical plate, where they form the adult cortex. Time-lapse confocal microscopy was used to observe directly the dynamic behaviors of migrating cells in living slices of developing cortex. The majority of cells migrated along a radial pathway, consistent with the view that cortical neurons migrate along radial glial fibers. A fraction of cells, however, turned within the intermediate zone and migrated orthogonal to the radial fibers. This orthogonal migration may contribute to the tangential dispersion of clonally related cortical neurons.