Ion Channel Contributions to Morphological Development: Insights From the Role of Kir2.1 in Bone Development.

abstract：:Microglia are the innate sentinels of the central nervous system (CNS) and are responsible for the homeostasis and immune defense of the CNS. Under the influence of the local environment and cell-cell interaction, microglia exhibit a multidimensional and context-dependent phenotypes that can be cytotoxic and neuroprot...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Siew JJ,Chern Y

更新日期：2018-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The competitive ectodomain shedding of amyloid-β precursor protein (APP) by α-secretase and β-secretase, and the subsequent regulated intramembrane proteolysis by γ-secretase are the key processes in amyloid-β peptides (Aβ) generation. Previous studies indicate that secretases form binary complex and the interactions ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Wang X,Pei G

更新日期：2018-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic inhibitory neurotransmission contributes to diverse aspects of brain development and adult plasticity, including the expression of complex cognitive processes. This is afforded for in part by the dynamic adaptations occurring at inhibitory synapses, which show great heterogeneity both in terms of upstream si...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Campbell BFN,Tyagarajan SK

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many unanswered questions about the roles of the actin pointed end capping and actin nucleation by tropomodulins (Tmod) in regulating neural morphology. Previous studies indicate that Tmod1 and Tmod2 regulate morphology of the dendritic arbor and spines. Tmod3, which is expressed in the brain, had only a min...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Gray KT,Stefen H,Ly TNA,Keller CJ,Colpan M,Wayman GA,Pate E,Fath T,Kostyukova AS

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive primary intracranial tumor of adults and confers a poor prognosis due to high vascularization. Hence anti-angiogenic therapy has become a promising strategy for GBM treatment. In this study, the transcription factor nuclear factor of activated T-cells 5 (NFAT5) was significant...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Yu H,Zheng J,Liu X,Xue Y,Shen S,Zhao L,Li Z,Liu Y

更新日期：2017-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane fusion is one of the most fundamental physiological processes in eukaryotes for triggering the fusion of lipid and content, as well as the neurotransmission. However, the architecture features of neurotransmitter release machinery and interdependent mechanism of synaptic membrane fusion have not been extensiv...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Yang Z,Gou L,Chen S,Li N,Zhang S,Zhang L

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is the chemical synapse connecting motor neurons and skeletal muscle fibers. NMJs allow all voluntary movements, and ensure vital functions like breathing. Changes in the structure and function of NMJs are hallmarks of numerous pathological conditions that affect muscle function includ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Castets P,Ham DJ,Rüegg MA

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell signaling in response to an array of diverse stress stimuli converges on the phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor-2α (eIF2α). Evidence is accumulating that persistent eIF2α phosphorylation at Ser51 through prolonged overactivation of regulatory kinases occurs in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzhe...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Ohno M

更新日期：2014-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00099.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Yadav SC,Tetenborg S,Dedek K

更新日期：2019-06-12 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：: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：: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：: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：:Aquatic vertebrates possess diverse types of sensory cells in their skin to detect stimuli in the water. In the adult zebrafish, a common model organism, the presence of such cells in fins has only rarely been studied. Here, we identified scattered serotonin (5-HT)-positive cells in the epidermis of the caudal fin. Th...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： König D,Dagenais P,Senk A,Djonov V,Aegerter CM,Jaźwińska A

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder that occurs in early childhood. The disease is caused by the deletion/mutation of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene resulting in progressive skeletal muscle atrophy and paralysis, due to the degeneration of spinal motor neurons (MNs). Currently...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Schellino R,Boido M,Borsello T,Vercelli A

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The cells of the neural crest, often referred to as neural crest stem cells, give rise to a number of sub-lineages, one of which is Schwann cells, the glial cells of peripheral nerves. Crest cells transform to adult Schwann cells through the generation of two well defined intermediate stages, the Schwann cell precurso...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Jessen KR,Mirsky R

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune checkpoints restrain the immune system following its activation and their inhibition unleashes anti-tumor immune responses. Immune checkpoint inhibitors revolutionized the treatment of several cancer types, including melanoma, and immune checkpoint blockade with anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 antibodies is becoming ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Lorger M,Andreou T,Fife C,James F

更新日期：2019-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical marijuana is increasingly prescribed as an analgesic for a growing number of indications, amongst which terminal cancer and multiple sclerosis. However, the mechanistic aspects and properties of cannabis remain remarkably poorly characterized. In this study we aimed to investigate the immune-cell modulatory pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Utomo WK,de Vries M,Braat H,Bruno MJ,Parikh K,Comalada M,Peppelenbosch MP,van Goor H,Fuhler GM

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke results in high morbidity and high mortality worldwide, with ischemic stroke accounting for 80% to 85%. As effective treatments for ischemic stroke remain limited because of the narrow therapeutic time window, a better understanding of the pathologic mechanism and new therapeutic intervention targets are needed...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Chen R,Xu X,Huang L,Zhong W,Cui L

更新日期：2019-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The impairment of amyloid-β (Aβ) clearance in the brain plays a causative role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Polarity distribution of aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is important to remove Aβ from brain. AQP4 polarity can be influenced by the ratio of two AQP4 isoforms M1 and M23 (AQP4-M1/M23), however, it is unknown whether the ra...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Zhang J,Zhan Z,Li X,Xing A,Jiang C,Chen Y,Shi W,An L

更新日期：2017-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a subtype of stroke with highest mortality and morbidity. We have previously demonstrated that dipotassium bisperoxo (picolinato) oxovanadate (V), (bpV[pic]) inhibits phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) and activates extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)1/2. In this study, we ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Zhao D,Qin XP,Chen SF,Liao XY,Cheng J,Liu R,Lei Y,Zhang ZF,Wan Q

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past two decades, yeast models have delivered profound insights into basic mechanisms of protein misfolding and the dysfunction of key cellular pathways associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Expressing ALS-associated proteins, such as superoxide dismutase (SOD1), TAR DNA binding protein 43 (TDP-4...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Di Gregorio SE,Duennwald ML

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of super-resolution optical microscopy to investigating synaptic structures has revealed a highly heterogeneous and variable intra-synaptic organization. Dense subsynaptic protein assemblies named subsynaptic domains or SSDs have been proposed as structural units that regulate the efficacy of neuronal ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Yang X,Specht CG

更新日期：2019-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal calcium sensor-1 (NCS-1) protein is abundantly expressed in the central nervous system and retinal neurons, where it regulates many vital processes such as synaptic transmission. It coordinates three calcium ions by EF-hands 2-4, thereby transducing Ca2+ signals to a wide range of protein targets, including G...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Tsvetkov PO,Roman AY,Baksheeva VE,Nazipova AA,Shevelyova MP,Vladimirov VI,Buyanova MF,Zinchenko DV,Zamyatnin AA Jr,Devred F,Golovin AV,Permyakov SE,Zernii EY

更新日期：2018-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic stroke is one of the most common causes of death and disability worldwide. Neuroinflammation is a major pathological event involved in the process of ischemic injury and repair. In particular, microglia play a dual role in neuroinflammation. During the acute phase of stroke onset, M2 microglia are the dominan...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Lian L,Zhang Y,Liu L,Yang L,Cai Y,Zhang J,Xu S

更新日期：2021-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The tyrosine kinase Fyn plays an important role in synaptic plasticity, learning, and memory. Here we report that Fyn is activated in response to 15 min D1 receptor (D1R) but not D2 receptor (D2R) stimulation specifically in the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) of mice but not in the other substriatal regions, the dorsolate...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Phamluong K,Darcq E,Wu S,Sakhai SA,Ron D

更新日期：2017-08-31 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：:The dorsal root ganglion (DRG) contains heterogeneous populations of sensory neurons including primary nociceptive neurons and C-fibers implicated in pain signaling. Recent studies have demonstrated DRG hyperexcitability associated with downregulation of A-type K(+) channels; however, the molecular correlate of the co...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Phuket TR,Covarrubias M

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is a chronic brain dysfunction induced by an abnormal neuronal discharge that is caused by complicated psychopathologies. Recently, accumulating studies have revealed a close relationship between inflammation and epilepsy. Specifically, microglia and astrocytes are important inflammatory cells in the central ...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Chen L,Zhu L,Lu D,Wu Z,Han Y,Xu P,Chang L,Wu Q

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Itch, a sensation eliciting a desire to scratch, is distinct from but not completely independent of pain. Inspiring achievements have been made in the characterization of itch-related receptors and neurotransmitters, but the molecular mechanisms controlling the development of pruriceptors remain poorly understood. Her...

journal_title：Frontiers in molecular neuroscience

authors： Huang C,Lu F,Li P,Cao C,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-06-28 00:00:00