PMID- 21881305 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120224 LR - 20190724 IS - 1347-5231 (Electronic) IS - 0031-6903 (Linking) VI - 131 IP - 9 DP - 2011 TI - [Effect of environmental factor influencing the development of mouse cerebral cortex]. PG - 1317-21 AB - The cerebral cortex is organized into six cell layers, each of which contains neurons with similar morphology, functions, gene-expression profiles, and projection patterns. These layer-specific neuronal phenotypes are sequentially generated from common cortical progenitor cells in the ventricular zone of dorsal telencephalon. Although recent investigations have clarified important roles of intrinsic factors such as transcription factors and regulators of the cell cycle for the maturation of cortical progenitors, growth factors and neurotrophic factors environmentally supplied by the cerebral cortex are thought to regulate proliferation and neural development and determine neuronal differentiation in the cerebral cortex. In this review, I focus on the function of neurotrophin-family neurotrophic factor, including nerve growth factor, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), neurotropin-3 (NT-3) and neurotrophin-4 in the formation of the neuronal layer of the cerebral cortex. Especially, BDNF and NT-3 are expressed in the proliferating cortical progenitors and influence the biological properties of cortical progenitors prior to neurogenesis and play distinct roles in generation of cortical neuronal subtypes. FAU - Fukumitsu, Hidefumi AU - Fukumitsu H AD - Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Department of Biofunctional Analysis, Gifu Pharmaceutical University, Gifu, Japan. hfukumi@gifu-pu.ac.jp LA - jpn PT - Journal Article PT - Review PL - Japan TA - Yakugaku Zasshi JT - Yakugaku zasshi : Journal of the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan JID - 0413613 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Nerve Growth Factors) RN - 0 (neurotropin 3, mouse) RN - 9061-61-4 (Nerve Growth Factor) RN - P658DCA9XD (neurotrophin 4) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*physiology MH - Cell Differentiation/*genetics MH - *Cell Proliferation MH - Cerebral Cortex/*cytology/*growth & development MH - Mice MH - Nerve Growth Factor/*physiology MH - Nerve Growth Factors/*physiology MH - Neurogenesis/genetics MH - Neurons/*cytology MH - Stem Cells/*cytology EDAT- 2011/09/02 06:00 MHDA- 2012/03/01 06:00 CRDT- 2011/09/02 06:00 PHST- 2011/09/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/09/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/03/01 06:00 [medline] AID - JST.JSTAGE/yakushi/131.1317 [pii] AID - 10.1248/yakushi.131.1317 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Yakugaku Zasshi. 2011;131(9):1317-21. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.131.1317.