Instituto de Neurociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas & Universidad Miguel Hernández, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Spain.
EMBO J. 2024 Apr;43(8):1385-1387. doi: 10.1038/s44318-024-00083-8. Epub 2024 Mar 25.
Humans and other great apes stand out among mammals for the big size and advanced folding of their brains’ cerebral cortex. This cortex expansion during evolution has been linked to the acquisition of higher cognitive abilities and results from gene regulatory changes during fetal development. New research in The EMBO Journal implicates the growth factor EPIREGULIN and the epigenetic regulation of its expression in the evolutionary expansion of the cerebral cortex.
人类和其他大型猿类在哺乳动物中脱颖而出,其大脑皮层的体积大且折叠程度高。这种在进化过程中的大脑皮层扩张与获得更高的认知能力有关,其原因在于胎儿发育过程中基因调控的变化。《欧洲分子生物学组织杂志》的一项新研究表明,生长因子 EPIREGULIN 及其表达的表观遗传调控在大脑皮层的进化扩张中起作用。