Matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) is indispensable for long term potentiation in the central and basal but not in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala.

abstract：:The differentiated state of spinal cord ependymal cells in regeneration-competent amphibians varies between a constitutively active state in what is essentially a developing organism, the tadpole of the frog Xenopus laevis, and a quiescent, activatable state in a slowly growing adult salamander Ambystoma mexicanum, th...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Chernoff EAG,Sato K,Salfity HVN,Sarria DA,Belecky-Adams T

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research into axon-glial interactions in the nervous system has made a compelling case that glial cells have a relevant role in the metabolic support of axons, and that, in the case of myelinating cells, this role is independent of myelination itself. In this mini-review article, we summarize some of those obse...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Bouçanova F,Chrast R

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglial activation is a key pathogenic process at the onset of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Identifying regulators of microglial activation bears great potential in elucidating causes and mechanisms of AD and determining candidates for early intervention. Previous studies demonstrate abnormal elevation of glutaminase ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Gao G,Zhao S,Xia X,Li C,Li C,Ji C,Sheng S,Tang Y,Zhu J,Wang Y,Huang Y,Zheng JC

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically encoded Ca(2+) indicators (GECIs) are promising tools for cell type-specific and chronic recording of neuronal activity. In the mammalian central nervous system, however, GECIs have been tested almost exclusively in cortical and hippocampal pyramidal cells, and the usefulness of recently developed GECIs ha...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Yamada Y,Michikawa T,Hashimoto M,Horikawa K,Nagai T,Miyawaki A,Häusser M,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2011-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal Fluctuations Spectroscopy (TFS) in combination with novel optical-based instrumentation was used to study mechanical properties of cell-cultured neurites with a spatial resolution limited only by the light diffraction. The analysis of thermal fluctuations together with a physical model of cellular elasticity a...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Gárate F,Pertusa M,Arana Y,Bernal R

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapses undergo rapid activity-dependent plasticity to store information, which when left uncompensated can lead to destabilization of neural function. It has been well documented that homeostatic changes, which operate at a slower time scale, are required to maintain stability of neural networks. While there are man...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Lee HK,Kirkwood A

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnocellular neurons in the supraoptic nucleus (SON), which synthesize and release arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OT), express several subtypes of ATP-stimulated purinergic P2X receptors (P2XR) that modulate neuronal activity as well as neurotransmitter and hormone release. However, the physiological impact...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Ivetic M,Bhattacharyya A,Zemkova H

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is a multifactorial disease and especially mechanisms occurring independently from an elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) are still unknown. Likely, the immune system contributes to the glaucoma pathogenesis. Previously, IgG antibody depositions and retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss were found in an IOP-indepe...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Reinehr S,Reinhard J,Gandej M,Kuehn S,Noristani R,Faissner A,Dick HB,Joachim SC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneous populations of cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs) are arranged into separate longitudinal stripes, which have different topographic afferent and efferent axonal connections presumably involved in different functions, and also show different electrophysiological properties in firing pattern and synaptic plas...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Nguyen-Minh VT,Tran-Anh K,Luo Y,Sugihara I

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Early odor preference learning in rodents occurs within a sensitive period [≤postnatal day (P)10-12], during which pups show a heightened ability to form an odor preference when a novel odor is paired with a tactile stimulation (e.g., stroking). Norepinephrine (NE) release from the locus coeruleus during stroking medi...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Ghosh A,Purchase NC,Chen X,Yuan Q

更新日期：2015-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The opioid peptide receptors consist of three major subclasses, namely, μ, δ, and κ (MOR, DOR, and KOR, respectively). They are involved in the regulation of striatal dopamine functions, and increased opioid transmissions are thought to play a compensatory role in altered functions of the basal ganglia in Parkinson's ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Koizumi H,Morigaki R,Okita S,Nagahiro S,Kaji R,Nakagawa M,Goto S

更新日期：2013-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission and its activity-dependent modulation, known as synaptic plasticity, are fundamental processes in nervous system function. Neurons may receive thousands of synaptic contacts, but synaptic regulation may occur only at individual or discrete subsets of synapses, which may have important consequence...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Lines J,Covelo A,Gómez R,Liu L,Araque A

更新日期：2017-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brain organoids (mini-brains) consist of self-organized three-dimensional (3D) neural tissue which can be derived from reprogrammed adult cells and maintained for months in culture. These 3D structures manifest substantial potential for the modeling of neurodegenerative diseases and pave the way for personalized...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Nassor F,Jarray R,Biard DSF,Maïza A,Papy-Garcia D,Pavoni S,Deslys JP,Yates F

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that lacks clear biological biomarkers. Existing diagnostic methods focus on behavioral and performance characteristics, which complicates the diagnosis of patients younger than 3 years-old. The purpose of this study is to characterize metabolic features ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Chen Q,Qiao Y,Xu XJ,You X,Tao Y

更新日期：2019-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Shank3 is an excitatory postsynaptic scaffolding protein implicated in multiple brain disorders, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS). Although previous neurobiological studies on Shank3 and Shank3-mutant mice have revealed diverse roles of Shank3 in the regulation of synaptic, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Yoo T,Cho H,Lee J,Park H,Yoo YE,Yang E,Kim JY,Kim H,Kim E

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cells (SCs) are one of the most promising cellular candidates for the treatment of spinal cord injury. However, SCs show poor migratory ability within the astrocyte-rich central nervous system (CNS) environment and exhibit only limited integration with host astrocytes. Our strategy for improving the therapeuti...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Huang L,Xia B,Liu Z,Cao Q,Huang J,Luo Z

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia affects more than 1% of the world's population and shows very high heterogeneity in the positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms experienced by patients. The pathogenic mechanisms underlying this neurodevelopmental disorder are largely unknown, although it is proposed to emerge from multiple genetic an...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Carrier M,Guilbert J,Lévesque JP,Tremblay MÈ,Desjardins M

更新日期：2021-01-15 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：:The use of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) for cell therapy faces a number of challenges that are progressively answered by results from clinical trials and experimental research. Among these is the control of differentiation before transplantation and the prediction of cell fate after administration into the huma...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Benchoua A,Onteniente B

更新日期：2012-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence that synaptic vesicles (SVs) can be gated by a single voltage sensitive calcium channel (CaV2.2) predict a molecular linking mechanism or "tether" (Stanley, 1993). Recent studies have proposed that the SV binds to the distal C-terminal on the CaV2.2 calcium channel (Kaeser et al., 2011; Wong et al., 2013) whi...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Wong FK,Nath AR,Chen RH,Gardezi SR,Li Q,Stanley EF

更新日期：2014-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we discuss molecular and cellular mechanisms important for the function of neuronal progenitors during development, revealed by their perturbation in different cortical malformations. We focus on a class of neuronal progenitors, radial glial cells (RGCs), which are renowned for their unique morphologic...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Bizzotto S,Francis F

更新日期：2015-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Central neurons express a variety of neuronal types and ion channels that promote firing heterogeneity among their distinct neuronal populations. Action potential (AP) phasic firing, produced by low-threshold voltage-activated potassium currents (VAKCs), is commonly observed in mammalian brainstem neurons involved in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Dagostin AA,Lovell PV,Hilscher MM,Mello CV,Leão RM

更新日期：2015-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) impedes signal transmission by disrupting both the local neurons and their surrounding synaptic connections. Although the majority of SCI patients retain spared neural tissue at the injury site, they predominantly suffer from complete autonomic and sensorimotor dysfunction. While the...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Zavvarian MM,Hong J,Fehlings MG

更新日期：2020-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tonic spiking of serotonergic neurons establishes serotonin levels in the brain. Since the first observations, slow regular spiking has been considered as a defining feature of serotonergic neurons. Recent studies, however, have revealed the heterogeneity of serotonergic neurons at multiple levels, comprising their el...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Mlinar B,Montalbano A,Piszczek L,Gross C,Corradetti R

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides its "classical" neurotransmitter function, serotonin (5-HT) has been found to also act as a neurodevelopmental signal. During development, the 5-HT projection system, besides an external placental source, represents one of the earliest neurotransmitter systems to innervate the brain. One of the targets of the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Witteveen JS,Middelman A,van Hulten JA,Martens GJ,Homberg JR,Kolk SM

更新日期：2013-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDARs, the Ca2+ permeable channels, play central roles in synaptic plasticity, brain development, learning, and memory. NMDAR binding partners and associated signaling has been extensively studied in synapse-to-nucleus communications. However, whether NMDARs could directly regulate synapse-to-nucleus communications i...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Zhou L,Duan J

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin releasing hormone-1 (GnRH-1) neurons play a pivotal role in controlling pubertal onset and fertility once they reach their hypothalamic location. During embryonic development, GnRH-1 neurons migrate from the nasal area to the hypothalamus where they modulate gonadotropin release from the pituitary gland. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Taroc EZM,Lin JM,Tulloch AJ,Jaworski A,Forni PE

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major consequence of traumatic brain and spinal cord injury is the loss of the myelin sheath, a cholesterol-rich layer of insulation that wraps around axons of the nervous system. In the central nervous system (CNS), myelin is produced and maintained by oligodendrocytes. Damage to the CNS may result in oligodendrocy...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Huntemer-Silveira A,Patil N,Brickner MA,Parr AM

更新日期：2021-01-11 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：:Inflammatory cells may contribute to secondary brain injury following cerebral ischemia. The C57Bl/6 mouse strain is known to exhibit a T helper 1-prone, pro-inflammatory type response to injury, whereas the FVB strain is relatively T helper 2-prone, or anti-inflammatory, in its immune response. We tested whether stro...

journal_title：Frontiers in cellular neuroscience

authors： Kim HA,Whittle SC,Lee S,Chu HX,Zhang SR,Wei Z,Arumugam TV,Vinh A,Drummond GR,Sobey CG

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00