A new role for P2X4 receptors as modulators of lung surfactant secretion.

abstract：:Functionally related neurons assemble into connected networks that process and transmit electrochemical information. To do this in a coordinated manner, the number and strength of synaptic connections is tightly regulated. Synapse function relies on the microtubule (MT) cytoskeleton, the dynamics of which are in turn ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Verstraelen P,Detrez JR,Verschuuren M,Kuijlaars J,Nuydens R,Timmermans JP,De Vos WH

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The particular location of myenteric neurons, sandwiched between the 2 muscle layers of the gut, implies that their somata and neurites undergo mechanical stress during gastrointestinal motility. Existence of mechanosensitive enteric neurons (MEN) is undoubted but many of their basic features remain to be studied. In ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Kugler EM,Michel K,Zeller F,Demir IE,Ceyhan GO,Schemann M,Mazzuoli-Weber G

更新日期：2015-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, auditory hair cells are not replaced when injured. Thus, cochlear hair cell loss causes progressive and permanent hearing loss. Conversely, non-mammalian vertebrates are capable of regenerating lost sensory hair cells. The zebrafish lateral line has numerous qualities that make it well-suited for studying h...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： He Y,Cai C,Tang D,Sun S,Li H

更新日期：2014-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a disorder of abnormal brain activity typified by spontaneous and recurrent seizures. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs, critical for the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. MiRNA dysregulation has previously been implicated in the induction of epilepsy. In this study, we examine...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Gao X,Guo M,Meng D,Sun F,Guan L,Cui Y,Zhao Y,Wang X,Gu X,Sun J,Qi S

更新日期：2019-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) are lipophilic hormones often taken in excessive quantities by athletes and bodybuilders to enhance performance and increase muscle mass. AAS exert well known toxic effects on specific cell and tissue types and organ systems. The attention that androgen abuse has received lately shou...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Basile JR,Binmadi NO,Zhou H,Yang YH,Paoli A,Proia P

更新日期：2013-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Retinitis pigmentosa includes a group of progressive retinal degenerative diseases that affect the structure and function of photoreceptors. Secondarily to the loss of photoreceptors, there is a reduction in retinal vascularization, which seems to influence the cellular degenerative process. Retinal macroglial ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Fernández-Sánchez L,Lax P,Campello L,Pinilla I,Cuenca N

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenon has been shown to have neuroprotective effects and is clinically used as a favorable safe inhalation anesthetic. We previously confirmed the neuroprotective effects of xenon treatment in epileptic animals. However, the mechanism underlying these protective effects remains unclear. We aimed to assess the effects ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Zhu W,Zhu J,Zhao S,Li J,Hou D,Zhang Y,Sun H

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decade, there is an increasing application of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for disease modeling. The iPSC technology enables the study of patient-specific neuronal cell lines in vitro to evaluate dysfunction at the cellular level and identify the responsible genetic factors. This approach might b...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Re S,Dogan AA,Ben-Shachar D,Berger G,Werling AM,Walitza S,Grünblatt E

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, the visualization of cerebral microvessels was hampered by the fact that only short segments of vessels could be evaluated in brain sections by histochemistry. These limitations have been overcome by light sheet microscopy, which allows the 3D analysis of microvasculature in cleared brains. A major lim...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Mohamud Yusuf A,Hagemann N,Schulten S,Rausch O,Wagner K,Hussner T,Qi Y,Totzeck M,Kleinschnitz C,Squire A,Gunzer M,Hermann DM

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to 15 years ago, bibliographic searches based on keywords such as "photoreceptor degeneration, inner retina" or "photoreceptor degeneration, second order neurons" returned only a handful of papers, as the field was dominated by the general assumption that retinal degeneration had direct effects on the sole populati...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Strettoi E

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) is required for synaptic plasticity, learning and memory. In particular, MMP-9 involvement in long-term potentiation (LTP, the model of synaptic plasticity) in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex has previously been demonstrated. Recent data suggest the role ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Gorkiewicz T,Balcerzyk M,Kaczmarek L,Knapska E

更新日期：2015-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is a widespread mechanism involving about half of the expressed genes, resulting in varying lengths of the 3' untranslated region (3'UTR). Variations in length and sequence of the 3'UTR may underlie changes of post-transcriptional processing, localization, miRNA targeting and stabilit...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Grassi E,Santoro R,Umbach A,Grosso A,Oliviero S,Neri F,Conti L,Ala U,Provero P,DiCunto F,Merlo GR

更新日期：2019-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system provides protection in the CNS via resident microglial cells and those that traffic into it in the course of pathological challenges. These populations of cells are key players in modulating immune functions that are involved in disease outcomes. In this review, we briefly summarize and highlight the...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Fani Maleki A,Rivest S

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous calcium transients are present during early postnatal development in the mouse retina and cochlea, and play an important role in maturation of the sensory organs and neural circuits in the central nervous system (CNS). It is not known whether similar calcium transients occur during postnatal development in...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Holman HA,Poppi LA,Frerck M,Rabbitt RD

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Stabilization of the blood-brain barrier during and after stroke can lead to less adverse outcome. For elucidation of underlying mechanisms and development of novel therapeutic strategies validated in vitro disease models of the blood-brain barrier could be very helpful. To mimic in vitro stroke conditions we have est...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Neuhaus W,Gaiser F,Mahringer A,Franz J,Riethmüller C,Förster C

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Active memory forgetting is a well-regulated biological process thought to be adaptive and to allow proper cognitive functions. Recent efforts have elucidated several molecular players involved in the regulation of olfactory forgetting in Drosophila, including the small G protein Rac1, the dopamine receptor DAMB, and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Cervantes-Sandoval I,Davis RL,Berry JA

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The second messengers cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) transduce many neuromodulatory signals from hormones and neurotransmitters into specific functional outputs. Their production, degradation and signaling are spatiotemporally regulated to achieve high specificity in si...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Gorshkov K,Zhang J

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the progressive loss of motor neurons. The cause of this selective neuronal death is unknown, but transcriptional dysregulation is recently emerging as an important factor. The physical substrate for the regulation of the transc...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Lazo-Gómez R,Ramírez-Jarquín UN,Tovar-Y-Romo LB,Tapia R

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons receive thousands of synaptic inputs that are distributed in space and time. The systematic study of how neurons process these inputs requires a technique to stimulate multiple yet highly targeted points of interest along the neuron's dendritic tree. Three-dimensional multi-focal patterns produced via holograp...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Go MA,To MS,Stricker C,Redman S,Bachor HA,Stuart GJ,Daria VR

更新日期：2013-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is characterized by arterial and venous thrombosis, pregnancy morbidity and fetal loss caused by pathogenic autoantibodies directed against phospholipids (PL) and PL-cofactors. Isolated neurological APS may represent a significant diagnostic challenge, as epidemiological, clinical and n...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： D'Angelo C,Franch O,Fernández-Paredes L,Oreja-Guevara C,Núñez-Beltrán M,Comins-Boo A,Reale M,Sánchez-Ramón S

更新日期：2019-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin, or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), is a well-known neurotransmitter that plays vital roles in neural activities and social behaviors. Clinically, deficiency of serotonin is linked with many psychiatric disorders. Interestingly, a large proportion of serotonin is also produced outside the central nervous system ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Lv J,Liu F

更新日期：2017-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosteroids are cholesterol-based hormones that can be produced in the brain, independent of secretion from peripheral endocrine glands, such as the gonads and adrenals. A focus in our laboratory for over 25 years has been how production of the pregnane neurosteroid, allopregnanolone, is regulated and the novel (i.e...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Frye CA,Koonce CJ,Walf AA

更新日期：2014-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization of sympatric closely related species may sometimes lead to introgression and speciation. The sister species Helicoverpa armigera and Helicoverpa assulta both use (Z)-11-hexadecenal and (Z)-9-hexadecenal as sex pheromone components but in reversed ratios. Female H. armigera and male H. assulta could hybri...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Xu M,Dong JF,Wu H,Zhao XC,Huang LQ,Wang CZ

更新日期：2017-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Climbing fiber (CF) triggered complex spikes (CS) are massive depolarization bursts in the cerebellar Purkinje cell (PC), showing several high frequency spikelet components (±600 Hz). Since its early observations, the CS is known to vary in shape. In this study we describe CS waveforms, extracellularly recorded in awa...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Warnaar P,Couto J,Negrello M,Junker M,Smilgin A,Ignashchenkova A,Giugliano M,Thier P,De Schutter E

更新日期：2015-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Topographical and biochemical characteristics of the substrate are critical for neuronal differentiation including axonal outgrowth and regeneration of neural circuits in vivo. Contact stimuli and signaling molecules allow neurons to develop and stabilize synaptic contacts. Here we present the development, characteriz...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： García-Parra P,Cavaliere F,Maroto M,Bilbao L,Obieta I,López de Munain A,Alava JI,Izeta A

更新日期：2012-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental interest in circuit analysis is to parse out the synaptic inputs underlying a behavioral experience. Toward this aim, we have devised an unbiased strategy that specifically labels the afferent inputs that are activated by a defined stimulus in an activity-dependent manner. We validated this strategy in f...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Krauth N,Khalil V,Jariwala M,Mermet-Joret N,Vestergaard AK,Capogna M,Nabavi S

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Secreted amyloid precursor protein-alpha (sAPPα), generated by enzymatic processing of the APP, possesses a range of neurotrophic and neuroprotective properties and plays a critical role in the molecular mechanisms of memory and learning. One of the key active regions of sAPPα is the central APP domain (E2) that conta...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Morrissey JA,Bigus E,Necarsulmer JC,Srinivasan V,Peppercorn K,O'Leary DJ,Mockett BG,Tate WP,Hughes SM,Parfitt KD,Abraham WC

更新日期：2019-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BM-MNCs) were shown to improve the outcome in animal stroke models and clinical pilot studies on BM-MNCs for stroke patients were already conducted. However, relevant aspects of pre-clinical evaluation, such as the use of animals with comorbidities and dose-response studies, were...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Minnerup J,Wagner DC,Strecker JK,Pösel C,Sevimli-Abdis S,Schmidt A,Schilling M,Boltze J,Diederich K,Schäbitz WR

更新日期：2014-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoinhibins are prolactin fragments present in the retina, where they have been shown to prevent the hypervasopermeability associated with diabetes. Enhanced bradykinin (BK) production contributes to the increased transport through the blood-retina barrier (BRB) in diabetes. Here, we studied if vasoinhibins regulate ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Arredondo Zamarripa D,Díaz-Lezama N,Meléndez García R,Chávez Balderas J,Adán N,Ledesma-Colunga MG,Arnold E,Clapp C,Thebault S

更新日期：2014-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Friedreich's Ataxia (FRDA) is an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative disorder, affecting dorsal root ganglia (DRG), cerebellar dentate nuclei and heart. It is caused by a GAA repeat expansion mutation within the frataxin gene (FXN). This impedes FXN transcription resulting in a progressive decrease of the mitochondr...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Abeti R,Baccaro A,Esteras N,Giunti P

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00