Dendritic spine formation and pruning: common cellular mechanisms?

abstract：:Exocytosis in neurones and neuroendocrine cells is triggered by an increase in the cytosolic concentration of Ca2+, and is followed by endocytotic membrane retrieval. Electrophysiological studies have characterized the nature of the Ca2+ signal that is required for exocytosis, and have defined the Ca(2+)-dependent ste...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Burgoyne RD,Morgan A

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesolimbic dopaminergic neurons are thought to serve as a final common neural pathway for mediating reinforcement processes. However, several recent findings have challenged the view that mesolimbic dopamine has a crucial role in the maintenance of reinforcement processes, or the subjective rewarding actions of natura...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Spanagel R,Weiss F

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral evidence from phylogenetically diverse animals and from humans suggests that, by extracting temporal information inherent in the olfactory signal, olfaction is more involved in interpreting space and time than heretofore imagined. If this is the case, the olfactory system must have neural mechanisms capable...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Ache BW,Hein AM,Bobkov YV,Principe JC

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendrites of pyramidal neurons are complex, electrically active structures that can produce local and global Ca(2+) compartments. Recent studies indicate that dendrites of cortical GABAergic interneurons are also highly specialized, and that different subtypes vary in their morphology, in their intrinsic and synaptic ...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Goldberg JH,Yuste R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ACh hydrolyzing enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is a combinatorial series of proteins with variant N and C termini generated from alternate promoter usage and 3' alternative splicing. Neuronal AChE variants show indistinguishable enzymatic activity yet differ in their expression, multimeric assembly and membran...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Meshorer E,Soreq H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motoneurones are known to die (1) during embryonic development (naturally occurring cell death), (2) early in postnatal development after axonal injury, and (3) as a consequence of disease, such as spinal muscular atrophy or (in later life) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Naturally occurring motoneurone death has been ...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Lowrie MB,Vrbová G

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflicting reports about whether adult hippocampal neurogenesis occurs in humans raise questions about its significance for human health and the relevance of animal models. Drawing upon published data, I review species' neurogenesis rates across the lifespan and propose that accelerated neurodevelopmental timing is c...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Snyder JS

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of Alzheimer's disease is inherited in a complex manner involving environmental factors and several genes. One of these genes is Apolipoprotein E where the polymorphic allele (APOE epsilon 4) has been robustly shown to modify risk and the course of Alzheimer's disease. The epsilon 4 allele however, only a...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Lendon C,Craddock N

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose has long been considered the substrate for neuronal energy metabolism in the brain. Recently, an alternative explanation of energy metabolism in the active brain, the astrocyte-neuron lactate shuttle hypothesis, has received attention. It suggests that during neural activity energy needs in glia are met by ana...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Chih CP,Lipton P,Roberts EL Jr

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to map functional activity in the living human brain has rekindled interest in the organization of human neural circuitry specifically and in animal neural circuitry generally. Faced with incredible complexity, researchers are turning to the power of computer graphics for two- and three-dimensional interac...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Swanson LW

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When nuclear magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of the brain are acquired in rapid succession they exhibit small differences in signal intensity in positions corresponding to focal areas of activation. These signal changes result from small differences in the magnetic resonance signal caused by variations in the oxygena...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Cohen MS,Bookheimer SY

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'thrifty gene hypothesis' posits that evolution preferentially selects physiological mechanisms that optimize energy storage to increase survival under alternating conditions of abundance and scarcity of food. Recent experiments suggest that endocannabinoids - a class of lipid-derived mediators that activate canna...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： DiPatrizio NV,Piomelli D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovery and interventions for neurological disorders have a unique capacity to galvanize public opinion over issues of access, human rights, decision making, and the definition of disease. Here we highlight five cases where beliefs and politics prevailed over evidence and ethics. We examine lessons from them about t...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Paylor B,Longstaff H,Rossi F,Illes J

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relief from pain in humans is rewarding and pleasurable. Primary rewards, or reward-predictive cues, are encoded in brain reward/motivational circuits. While considerable advances have been made in our understanding of reward circuits underlying positive reinforcement, less is known about the circuits underlying the h...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Navratilova E,Atcherley CW,Porreca F

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested, on the basis of neuroanatomical and behavioural data, that olfactory discrimination in the rat provides privileged access to higher cognitive processes, involves the acquisition of a learning-set and, importantly, can be used to model human hippocampal function and dysfunction. In this article, ...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Reid IC,Morris RG

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is compelling evidence linking bradykinin (BK) with the pathophysiological processes that accompany tissue damage and inflammation, especially the production of pain and hyperalgesia. Several mechanisms have been proposed to account for hyperalgesia including the direct activation of nociceptors as well as sensi...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Dray A,Perkins M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular concentration of free Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) displays complex fluctuations in response to a variety of stimuli, and acts as a pluripotent signal for many neuronal functions. It is well established that various 'metabotropic' neurotransmitter receptors can mediate the mobilization of Ca2+ stores via actions o...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Simpson PB,Challiss RA,Nahorski SR

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress is a major trigger of seizures in people with epilepsy. Exposure to stress results in the release of several stress mediators throughout the brain, including the hippocampus, a region sensitive to stress and prone to seizures. Stress mediators interact with their respective receptors to produce distinct effects...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Gunn BG,Baram TZ

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imagine the decisions you might make while playing a simple game like 'matching pennies'. At each play, you and your opponent, say the mathematician John vonNeumann, each lay down a penny heads or tails up. If both pennies show the same side, vonNeumann wins, if not, you win. Before each play, you have the subjective ...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Glimcher PW

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a common cause of mortality and morbidity, but the biological bases of the deficits in emotional and cognitive processing remain incompletely understood. Current antidepressant therapies are effective in only some patients and act slowly. Here, we propose an excitatory synapse hypothesis of depression in...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Thompson SM,Kallarackal AJ,Kvarta MD,Van Dyke AM,LeGates TA,Cai X

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How the brain becomes lateralized is poorly understood. By contrast, much is known about molecular cues that specify the left-right axis of the body, fashioning the asymmetric morphology and positioning of the visceral organs. In zebrafish, the Nodal signaling pathway functions in visceral asymmetry and also in the em...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Halpern ME,Liang JO,Gamse JT

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus is thought to automatically encode all experience, yet the vast majority of our experiences are not remembered later. Although psychological theories have postulated the existence of decay processes for declarative memory, the corresponding neurobiological mechanisms are unknown. Here we develop the hy...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Frankland PW,Köhler S,Josselyn SA

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An abundance of experimental literature has established that gonadal steroid hormones are responsible for the sexual differentiation of neural circuitry, mediating a variety of reproductive behaviors and physiological mechanisms. These same hormones regulate the expression of reproductive function in the adult and may...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Simerly RB

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production by the pyridine MPTP of a parkinsonian syndrome strikingly similar to the 'idiopathic' disorder, and the paucity of evidence supporting a hereditary or infectious etiology for Parkinson's disease (PD), have stimulated a search for environmental chemicals resembling MPTP that might cause PD. In support o...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Tanner CM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trans-synaptic modulation of cortical ACh efflux is a useful approach for determining the functions of cortical ACh. Bilateral modulation of basal forebrain GABAergic transmission by benzodiazepine-receptor agonists and inverse agonists decreases and increases, respectively, activated cortical ACh efflux. The determin...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Sarter MF,Bruno JP

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the mechanisms regulating the cerebral microcirculation during neural activity have been the subject of inquiry for a century or more, the mediators responsible for the changes in cerebral blood flow still remain to be clearly identified. The discovery that nitric oxide, a powerful cerebrovasodilator, is prod...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Iadecola C

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hereditary ataxias are a group of inherited neurodegenerative disorders characterized by progressive ataxia that results from degeneration of the cerebellum and its afferent and efferent connections. Recent molecular research has led not only to the discovery of a number of causative mutations, but also shed light...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Klockgether T,Evert B

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tsao et al. have recently used functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare processing for moving stereoscopic forms in macaque and human brains. Most humans exhibited activation in a swath of lateral occipital areas, extending into the intraparietal sulcus, with a limited version of the same pattern in monkeys. H...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Tyler CW

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological diseases, including global ischemia, Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, are characterized by selective patterns of neurodegeneration. Most studies of potential glutamate-receptor-mediated contributions to disease have focused on the highly Ca2+-permeable and widely distributed NMDA-rec...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Weiss JH,Sensi SL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ageing and chronic stress are associated with altered brain plasticity, dysregulation of the immune system, and an increased risk of developing brain disorders; all of which have consequences for cognitive and emotional processing. Here we examine the similarities between behavioural changes during ageing and str...

journal_title：Trends in neurosciences

authors： Prenderville JA,Kennedy PJ,Dinan TG,Cryan JF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00