The Prohormone Proinsulin as a Neuroprotective Factor: Past History and Future Prospects.

abstract：:The astrocyte-specific enzyme glutamine synthetase (GS), which catalyzes the amidation of glutamate to glutamine, plays an essential role in supporting neurotransmission and in limiting NH4+ toxicity. Accordingly, deficits in GS activity contribute to epilepsy and neurodegeneration. Despite its central role in brain p...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Huyghe D,Denninger AR,Voss CM,Frank P,Gao N,Brandon N,Waagepetersen HS,Ferguson AD,Pangalos M,Doig P,Moss SJ

更新日期：2019-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although second harmonic generation (SHG) microscopy provides unique imaging advantages for voltage imaging and other biological applications, genetically-encoded SHG chromophores remain relatively unexplored. SHG only arises from non-centrosymmetric media, so an anisotropic arrangement of chromophores is essential to...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Jinno Y,Shoda K,Rial-Verde E,Yuste R,Miyawaki A,Tsutsui H

更新日期：2014-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)-a relapsing functional bowel disorder-presents with disrupted brain connections. However, little is known about the alterations of interhemispheric functional connectivity and underlying structural connectivity in IBS. This study combined resti...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Qi R,Liu C,Weng Y,Xu Q,Chen L,Wang F,Zhang LJ,Lu GM

更新日期：2016-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Following the discovery that the amyloid precursor protein (APP) is the source of β-amyloid peptides (Aβ) that accumulate in Alzheimer's disease (AD), structural analyses suggested that the holoprotein resembles a transmembrane receptor. Initial studies using reconstituted membranes demonstrated that APP can directly ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Copenhaver PF,Kögel D

更新日期：2017-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive and malignant primary tumor. Angiogenesis plays a critical role in the progression of GBM. Previous studies have indicated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are abnormally expressed in various cancers and participate in the regulation of the malignant behaviors of tumors. Th...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Yang C,Zheng J,Xue Y,Yu H,Liu X,Ma J,Liu L,Wang P,Li Z,Cai H,Liu Y

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive CNS disorder that is primarily associated with impaired movement. PD develops over decades and is linked to the gradual loss of dopamine delivery to the striatum, via the loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). While the administration o...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Lasbleiz C,Mestre-Francés N,Devau G,Luquin MR,Tenenbaum L,Kremer EJ,Verdier JM

更新日期：2019-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous metabolic intermediary and nucleoside adenosine is a "master regulator" in all living systems. Under baseline conditions adenosine kinase (ADK) is the primary enzyme for the metabolic clearance of adenosine. By regulating the availability of adenosine, ADK is a critical upstream regulator of complex hom...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Kiese K,Jablonski J,Boison D,Kobow K

更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosensory responses of hearing and balance are mediated by receptors in specialized neuroepithelial sensory cells. Any disruption of the biochemical and molecular pathways that facilitate these responses can result in severe deficits, including hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction. Hearing is affected by both en...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Mittal R,Nguyen D,Patel AP,Debs LH,Mittal J,Yan D,Eshraghi AA,Van De Water TR,Liu XZ

更新日期：2017-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Ligand-binding of Cys-loop receptors results in rearrangements of extracellular loop structures which are further translated into the tilting of membrane spanning helices, and finally opening of the ion channels. The cryo-EM structure of the homopentameric α1 glycine receptor (GlyR) demonstrated an involvement of the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Janzen D,Schaefer N,Delto C,Schindelin H,Villmann C

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The ventrolateral hypothalamic parvafox (formerly called PV1-Foxb1) nucleus is an anatomical entity of recent discovery and unknown function. With a view to gaining an insight into its putative functional role(s), we conducted a gene-microarray analysis and, armed with the forthcoming data, controlled the results with...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Szabolcsi V,Albisetti GW,Celio MR

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+ signaling plays a significant role in the development of the vertebrate nervous system where it regulates neurite growth as well as synapse and neurotransmitter specification. Elucidating the role of Ca2+ signaling in mammalian neuronal development has been largely restricted to either small animal models or prim...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Gopurappilly R,Deb BK,Chakraborty P,Hasan G

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) are two major forms of synaptic plasticity that are widely accepted as cellular mechanisms involved in learning and memory. Metaplasticity is a process whereby modifications in synaptic processes shift the threshold for subsequent plasticity. While metaplasti...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Zhong L,Gerges NZ

更新日期：2020-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) are chronic, progressive, and age-associated neurological disorders characterized by neuronal deterioration in specific brain regions. Although the specific path...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Chang X,Wang J,Jiang H,Shi L,Xie J

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The central, lateral and basolateral amygdala (BLA) nuclei are essential for the formation of long-term memories including emotional and drug-related memories. Studying cellular and molecular mechanisms of memory in amygdala may lead to better understanding of how memory is formed and of fear and addiction-related dis...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Lamprecht R

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of postmitotic neurons occurs during different stages of development, including metamorphosis, and may also be part of neuronal plasticity and regeneration. Recently we showed that growth of post-mitotic neuroendocrine cells expressing the basic helix loop helix (bHLH) transcription factor Dimmed (Dimm) in Dros...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Liu Y,Luo J,Nässel DR

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitter systems is crucial for the modulation of neuronal excitability in the central nervous system (CNS). The activation of transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) is reported to enhance the response of hippocampal glutamate receptors, but whether the i...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Hong Z,Tian Y,Qi M,Li Y,Du Y,Chen L,Liu W,Chen L

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) is central to multiple intracellular pathways including those activated by Wnt/β-catenin, Sonic Hedgehog, Notch, growth factor/RTK, and G protein-coupled receptor signals. All of these signals importantly contribute to neural development. Early attention on GSK-3 signaling in neural ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Kim WY,Snider WD

更新日期：2011-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 116 in vol. 9, PMID: 27867348.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Jackson KL,Dayton RD,Deverman BE,Klein RL

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a tandem repeat mutation encoding an expanded polyglutamine tract in the huntingtin protein, which leads to cognitive, psychiatric and motor dysfunction. Exposure to environmental enrichment (EE), which enhances levels of cognitive stimulation and phy...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Zajac MS,Renoir T,Perreau VM,Li S,Adams W,van den Buuse M,Hannan AJ

更新日期：2018-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of senile dementia, characterized by neurofibrillary tangle and amyloid plaque in brain pathology. Major efforts in AD drug were devoted to the interference with the production and accumulation of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), which plays a causal role in the pathogenesis of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Zhao J,Liu X,Xia W,Zhang Y,Wang C

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical Parkinson syndromes (APSs) often have symptoms that overlap with those of Parkinson's disease (PD), especially early in the disease, making these disorders difficult to diagnose. Previous studies have demonstrated an association of oligomeric α-synuclein (α-Syn), a key element in the pathogenesis of PD, with ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Singh AP,Ramana G,Bajaj T,Singh V,Dwivedi S,Behari M,Dey AB,Dey S

更新日期：2019-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy characterized by visual field defects that ultimately lead to irreversible blindness (Alward, 2000; Anderson et al., 2006). By the year 2020, an estimated 80 million people will have glaucoma, 11 million of which will be bilaterally blind. Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) i...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Buys ES,Potter LR,Pasquale LR,Ksander BR

更新日期：2014-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by α-secretase generates an extracellularly released fragment termed secreted APP-alpha (APPsα). Not only is this process of interest due to the cleavage of APP within the amyloid-beta sequence, but APPsα itself has many physiological properties that suggest its great po...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Mockett BG,Richter M,Abraham WC,Müller UC

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Convulsive seizures promote adult hippocampal neurogenesis (AHN) through a transient activation of neural stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs) in the subgranular zone (SGZ) of the dentate gyrus (DG). However, in a significant population of epilepsy patients, non-convulsive seizures (ncSZ) are observed. The response of NSPCs ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Bielefeld P,Schouten M,Meijer GM,Breuk MJ,Geijtenbeek K,Karayel S,Tiaglik A,Vuuregge AH,Willems RAL,Witkamp D,Lucassen PJ,Encinas JM,Fitzsimons CP

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite numerous clinical studies, which have investigated the therapeutic potential of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in various brain diseases, our knowledge of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying rTMS-based therapies remains limited. Thus, a deeper understanding of rTMS-induced neu...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Müller-Dahlhaus F,Vlachos A

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose that brain energy deficit is an important pre-symptomatic feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that requires closer attention in the development of AD therapeutics. Our rationale is fourfold: (i) Glucose uptake is lower in the frontal cortex of people >65 years-old despite cognitive scores that are normal fo...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Cunnane SC,Courchesne-Loyer A,Vandenberghe C,St-Pierre V,Fortier M,Hennebelle M,Croteau E,Bocti C,Fulop T,Castellano CA

更新日期：2016-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In both excitable and non-excitable cells, calcium (Ca2+) signals are maintained by a highly integrated process involving store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE), namely the opening of plasma membrane (PM) Ca2+ channels following the release of Ca2+ from intracellular stores. Upon depletion of Ca2+ store, the stromal interac...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Secondo A,Bagetta G,Amantea D

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Connexin channels play numerous essential roles in virtually every organ by mediating solute exchange between adjacent cells, or between cytoplasm and extracellular milieu. Our understanding of the structure-function relationship of connexin channels relies on X-ray crystallographic data for human connexin 26 (hCx26) ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Zonta F,Buratto D,Crispino G,Carrer A,Bruno F,Yang G,Mammano F,Pantano S

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic interneuron diversity is a key feature in the brain that helps to create different brain activity patterns and behavioral states. Cell type classification schemes-based on anatomical, physiological and molecular features-have provided us with a detailed understanding of the distinct types that constitute thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Que L,Winterer J,Földy C

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are characterized by a wide range of symptoms including delayed speech, intellectual disability, motor dysfunction, social deficits, breathing problems, structural abnormalities, and epilepsy. Unfortunately, current treatment strategies are limited and innovative new approaches are ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Fisher NM,Seto M,Lindsley CW,Niswender CM

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00