Tomomi Fukuchi-Shimogori

Publications (2)41.27 Total impact

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  Available from: Elizabeth A Grove

  Article: Emx2 patterns the neocortex by regulating FGF positional signaling.

  Tomomi Fukuchi-Shimogori, Elizabeth A Grove
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  ABSTRACT: Molecular genetic studies implicate fibroblast growth factor 8 (FGF8), and the transcription factor Emx2, in development of the neocortical area map. Both are proposed to specify area position along the anterior-to-posterior axis of the cortical primordium. Whether FGF8 and Emx2 act independently or coordinately, or whether one controls the other, has not been determined. Here we report that Emx2, by regulating FGF8, has an indirect but vital role in area-map development. Using electroporation-mediated gene transfer in living mouse embryos, we found that overexpressing Emx2 altered the area map, but only when ectopic Emx2 overlapped the FGF8 source. Furthermore, we found that FGF8 levels were decreased by excess Emx2, and increased in mice lacking Emx2. Finally, cortical domain shifts that characterize Emx2 mutants were rescued by sequestering excess FGF8 with a truncated FGF receptor construct. These findings begin to clarify the signaling network that patterns the neocortical area map.
  Nature Neuroscience 09/2003; 6(8):825-31. · 15.53 Impact Factor
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  Article: Generating the cerebral cortical area map.

  Elizabeth A Grove, Tomomi Fukuchi-Shimogori
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  ABSTRACT: The view that the cortical primordium is initially patterned in similar ways to the rest of the embryo has been a conceptual breakthrough. We now have a new starting point for understanding how the cortical area map is established and how maps may change and evolve. Here we review findings that signaling molecules secreted from distinct cortical signaling centers establish positional information in the cortical primordium and regulate regional growth. In other embryonic systems, positional signals would regulate the patterned expression of transcription factors, leading, in a gene regulatory cascade, to the patterned differentiation of the tissue. We discuss candidate transcription factors with respect to such a model of cortical patterning. Finally, embryonic structures interact to pattern one another. We review data suggesting that the thalamus and cortex are patterned independently then interact to generate the final cortical area map.
  Annual Review of Neuroscience 02/2003; 26:355-80. · 25.74 Impact Factor