Development of the prethalamus is crucial for thalamocortical projection formationand is regulated by Olig2

Thalamocortical axons pass through the prethalamus in the first step of their neural circuit formation Although it has been supposed that the prethalamus is an intermediate target for thalamocortical projection formation, much less is known about the molecular mechanisms of this targeting.

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Ono K, Clavairoly A, Nomura T, Gotoh H, Uno A, Armant O, Takebayashi H, Zhang Q, Shimamura K, Itohara S, Parras CM, Ikenaka K