• at E14.5, the cortical plate has threefold fewer migrating late born neurons and in a Boyden transwell assay cortical neurons fail to migrate in response to BDNF
• however, alignment and density of radial glial cells and the number of Cajal-Retzius neurons expressing Reelin are normal
• at E14.5 and E16.5, there is a decrease in cortical progenitor cell proliferation in the ventricular zone
• at E16.5, the distance between the subplate and the plial surface is reduced nearly two-fold (from 246um in controls to 127um) but the cortex width is reduced by only 16% (from 592um in controls to 497um in homozygotes)
• at E16.5, the clear boundary between the subplate and the intermediate zone, in which many neurons (TBB1+) are abnormally present, is not visible and cell density in the subplate and the intermediate zone is increased
• at E18.5, Pou3f2+ cells are located deeper in the cortical plate than in wild-type mice