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Populations of subplate and interstitial neurons in fetal and adult human telencephalon

In the adult human telencephalon, subcortical (gyral) white matter contains a special population of interstitial neurons considered to be surviving descendants of fetal subplate neurons [Kostovic & Rakic (1980) Cytology and the time of origin of interstitial neurons in the white matter in infant and adult human and monkey telen-cephalon. J Neurocytol 9, 219]. We designate this population of cells as superficial (gyral) interstitial neurons and describe their morphology and distribution in the postnatal and adult human cerebrum. Human fetal sub-plate neurons cannot be regarded as interstitial, because the subplate zone is an essential part of the fetal cor-tex, the major site of synaptogenesis and the ‘waiting’ compartment for growing cortical afferents, and contains both projection neurons and interneurons with distinct input–output connectivity. However, although the subplate zone is a transient fetal structure, many subplate neurons survive postnatally as superficial (gyral) interstitial neurons. The fetal white matter is represented by the intermediate zone and well- defined deep peri-ventricular tracts of growing axons, such as the corpus callosum, anterior commissure, internal and external capsule, and the fountainhead of the corona radiata. These tracts gradually occupy the territory of transient fetal subventricular and ventricular zones.The human fetal white matter also contains distinct populations of deep fetal interstitial neurons, which, by virtue of their location, morphology, molecular phenotypes and advanced level of dendritic maturation, remain distinct from subplate neurons and neurons in adjacent struc-tures (e.g. basal ganglia, basal forebrain). We describe the morphological, histochemical (nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase) and immunocytochemical (neuron-specific nuclear protein, microtubule-associated protein-2, calbindin, calretinin, neuropeptide Y) features of both deep fetal interstitial neurons and deep (periventricular) interstitial neurons in the postnatal and adult deep cerebral white matter (i.e. corpus callosum, anterior commissure, internal and external capsule and the corona radiata ⁄ centrum semiovale). Although these deep interstitial neurons are poorly developed or absent in the brains of rodents, they repre-sent a prominent feature of the significantly enlarged white matter of human and non-human primate brains. Key words deep fetal interstitial neurons ; deep (periventricular) interstitial neurons ; intermediate ⁄ subventricular zone ; subplate neurons ; subplate zone ; superficial (gyral) interstitial neurons.

deep fetal interstitial neurons; deep (periventricular) interstitial neurons; intermediate ⁄ subventricular zone; subplate neurons; subplate zone; superficial (gyral) interstitial neurons

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