A new era for functional labeling of neurons: activity-dependent promoters have come of age.

abstract：:A fluorescent voltage sensor protein "Flare" was created from a Kv1.4 potassium channel with YFP situated to report voltage-induced conformational changes in vivo. The RNA virus Sindbis introduced Flare into neurons in the binocular region of visual cortex in rat. Injection sites were selected based on intrinsic optic...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Ahrens KF,Heider B,Lee H,Isacoff EY,Siegel RM

更新日期：2012-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:FOXP2 is a transcription factor functionally relevant for learned vocalizations in humans and songbirds. In songbirds, FoxP2 mRNA expression in the medium spiny neurons of the basal ganglia song nucleus Area X is developmentally regulated and varies with singing conditions in different social contexts. How individual ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Thompson CK,Schwabe F,Schoof A,Mendoza E,Gampe J,Rochefort C,Scharff C

更新日期：2013-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We have carried out a Gal4 enhancer trap screen in zebrafish, and have generated 184 stable transgenic lines with interesting expression patterns throughout the nervous system. Of these, three display clear expression in the tectum, each with a distinguishable and stereotyped distribution of Gal4 expressing cells. Det...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Scott EK,Baier H

更新日期：2009-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeostatic regulation of REM sleep drive, as measured by an increase in the number of REM sleep transitions, plays a key role in neuronal and behavioral plasticity (i.e., learning and memory). Deficits in REM sleep homeostatic drive (RSHD) are implicated in the development of many neuropsychiatric disorders. Yet, the...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Datta S,Oliver MD

更新日期：2017-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, much has been elucidated regarding the functional organization of the axonal connection of olfactory sensory neurons to olfactory bulb (OB) glomeruli. However, the manner in which projection neurons of the OB process odorant input and send this information to higher brain centers remains unclear. H...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Nagayama S,Enerva A,Fletcher ML,Masurkar AV,Igarashi KM,Mori K,Chen WR

更新日期：2010-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In drug users, drug-related cues alone can induce dopamine release in the dorsal striatum. Instructive cues activate inputs to the striatum from both dopaminergic and cholinergic neurons, which are thought to work together to support motor learning and motivated behaviors. Imbalances in these neuromodulatory influence...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Crittenden JR,Lacey CJ,Lee T,Bowden HA,Graybiel AM

更新日期：2014-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent calcium (Ca(2+)) indicator proteins (FCIPs) are promising tools for functional imaging of cellular activity in living animals. However, they have still not reached their full potential for in vivo imaging of neuronal activity due to limitations in expression levels, dynamic range, and sensitivity for repor...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Lütcke H,Murayama M,Hahn T,Margolis DJ,Astori S,Zum Alten Borgloh SM,Göbel W,Yang Y,Tang W,Kügler S,Sprengel R,Nagai T,Miyawaki A,Larkum ME,Helmchen F,Hasan MT

更新日期：2010-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Both abnormalities of resting-state cerebral blood flow (CBF) and functional connectivity in Wilson's disease (WD) have been identified by several studies. Whether the coupling of CBF and functional connectivity is imbalanced in WD remains largely unknown. To assess this possibility, 27 patients with WD and 27 sex- an...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Hu S,Wu H,Xu C,Wang A,Wang Y,Shen T,Huang F,Kan H,Li C

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is an ideal organism for studying neural plasticity and animal behaviors. A total of 302 neurons of a C. elegans hermaphrodite have been classified into 118 neuronal groups. This simple neural circuit provides a solid basis for understanding the mechanisms of the brains of higher an...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Sasakura H,Tsukada Y,Takagi S,Mori I

更新日期：2013-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNP granules at adult central synapses are postulated to regulate local mRNA translation and synapse plasticity. However, they are very poorly characterized in vivo. Here, in Drosophila olfactory synapses, we present early observations and characterization of candidate synaptic mRNP particles, one of which contains a...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Hillebrand J,Pan K,Kokaram A,Barbee S,Parker R,Ramaswami M

更新日期：2010-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral neuronal interactions are known to play important roles in sensory information processing. A center-on surround-off local circuit arrangement has been shown to play a role in mediating contrast enhancement in the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems. The lateral connectivity and the influence of those c...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Kim DH,Chang AY,McTavish TS,Patel HK,Willhite DC

更新日期：2012-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that parallel synapses from the same axonal branch onto the same dendritic branch have almost identical strength. It has been proposed that this alignment is only possible through learning rules that integrate activity over long time spans. However, learning mechanisms such as spike-timing-dep...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Hartmann C,Miner DC,Triesch J

更新日期：2016-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:MRI has been extensively used in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), frontal-temporal dementia (FTD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). MRI is important for monitoring the neurodegenerative components...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Saar G,Koretsky AP

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Water-homeostasis is a fundamental physiological process for terrestrial life. In vertebrates, thirst drives water intake, but the neuronal circuits that connect the physiology of water regulation with emotional context are poorly understood. Vasopressin (VP) is a prominent messenger in this circuit, as well as L-glut...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Zhang L,Hernández VS,Vázquez-Juárez E,Chay FK,Barrio RA

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a public health problem worldwide. There is increasing interest in using non-invasive therapies such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to treat MDD. However, the changes induced by rTMS on neural circuits remain poorly characterized. The present study a...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Pathak Y,Salami O,Baillet S,Li Z,Butson CR

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex motor behaviors are thought to be coordinated by networks of brain nuclei that may control different elementary motor programs. Transparent zebrafish larvae offer the opportunity to analyze the functional organization of motor control networks by optical manipulations of neuronal activity during behavior. We e...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Fajardo O,Zhu P,Friedrich RW

更新日期：2013-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The perirhinal (PER) and entorhinal cortex (EC) receive input from the agranular insular cortex (AiP) and the subcortical lateral amygdala (LA) and the main output area is the hippocampus. Information transfer through the PER/EC network however, is not always guaranteed. It is hypothesized that this network actively r...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Willems JG,Wadman WJ,Cappaert NL

更新日期：2016-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2018.00028.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Wen TC,Lall S,Pagnotta C,Markward J,Gupta D,Ratnadurai-Giridharan S,Bucci J,Greenwald L,Klugman M,Hill NJ,Carmel JB

更新日期：2018-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Research efforts over the past decades have unraveled both genetic and environmental factors, which contribute to the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is, to date, largely unknown how different underlying causes result in a common phenotype. However, the individual course of development and the diffe...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Schoen M,Asoglu H,Bauer HF,Müller HP,Abaei A,Sauer AK,Zhang R,Song TJ,Bockmann J,Kassubek J,Rasche V,Grabrucker AM,Boeckers TM

更新日期：2019-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, by using a combination of two viral vectors, we developed a technique for pathway-selective and reversible synaptic transmission blockade, and successfully induced a behavioral deficit of dexterous hand movements in macaque monkeys by affecting a population of spinal interneurons. To explore the capacity of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Sooksawate T,Isa K,Matsui R,Kato S,Kinoshita M,Kobayashi K,Watanabe D,Kobayashi K,Isa T

更新日期：2013-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspase-3 is a cysteine protease that is most commonly associated with cell death. Recent studies have shown additional roles in mediating cell differentiation, cell proliferation and development of cell morphology. We investigated the role of caspase-3 in the development of chick auditory brainstem nuclei during embr...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Rotschafer SE,Allen-Sharpley MR,Cramer KS

更新日期：2016-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Local field potentials (LFPs) in cortex reflect synchronous fluctuations in the synaptic activity of local populations of neurons. The power of high frequency (>30 Hz) oscillations in LFPs is locked to the phase of low frequency (<30 Hz) oscillations, an effect known as phase-amplitude coupling (PAC). While PAC has be...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Esghaei M,Daliri MR,Treue S

更新日期：2015-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A moving visual figure may contain first-order signals defined by variation in mean luminance, as well as second-order signals defined by constant mean luminance and variation in luminance envelope, or higher-order signals that cannot be estimated by taking higher moments of the luminance distribution. Separating thes...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Aptekar JW,Keles MF,Mongeau JM,Lu PM,Frye MA,Shoemaker PA

更新日期：2014-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracerebral local field potential (LFP) is a measure of brain activity that reflects the highly dynamic flow of information across neural networks. This is a composite signal that receives contributions from multiple neural sources, yet interpreting its nature and significance may be hindered by several confound...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Herreras O

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical sensory systems are active with rich patterns of activity during sleep and under light anesthesia. Remarkably, this activity shares many characteristics with those present when the awake brain responds to sensory stimuli. We review two specific forms of such activity: slow-wave activity (SWA) in the adult bra...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： McVea DA,Murphy TH,Mohajerani MH

更新日期：2016-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods of functional connectivity are applied ubiquitously in studies involving non-invasive whole-brain signals, but may be not optimal for exploring the propagation of the steady-state responses, which are strong oscillatory patterns of neurodynamics evoked by periodic stimulation. In our study, we explore a functi...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Vakorin VA,Ross B,Doesburg SM,Ribary U,McIntosh AR

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The most typical and well known inhibitory action in the cortical microcircuit is a strong inhibition on the target neuron by axo-somatic synapses. However, it has become clear that synaptic inhibition in the cortex is much more diverse and complicated. Firstly, at least ten or more inhibitory non-pyramidal cell subty...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Kubota Y,Karube F,Nomura M,Kawaguchi Y

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopaminergic (DA) neurons represent <0.01% of neurons in the human brain, but are essential for normal neurological and psychiatric function. The majority of these neurons reside in the ventral midbrain, but they exert their profound influences on brain function through projections to both the cortex and the basal gan...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Mani M,Ryan TA

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of sensory neuroscience is to understand how the brain creates its myriad of representations of the world, and uses these representations to produce perception and behavior. Circuits of neurons in spatially segregated regions of brain tissue have distinct functional specializations, and these regions are conn...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Zavitz E,Price NSC

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of light to cause pain is paradoxical. The retina detects light but is devoid of nociceptors while the trigeminal sensory ganglia (TG) contain nociceptors but not photoreceptors. Melanopsin-expressing intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) are thought to mediate light-induced pain but...

journal_title：Frontiers in neural circuits

authors： Matynia A,Nguyen E,Sun X,Blixt FW,Parikh S,Kessler J,Pérez de Sevilla Müller L,Habib S,Kim P,Wang ZZ,Rodriguez A,Charles A,Nusinowitz S,Edvinsson L,Barnes S,Brecha NC,Gorin MB

更新日期：2016-08-10 00:00:00