Reduced number of hypocretin neurons in human narcolepsy.

abstract：:I(Ks) voltage-gated K(+) channels contain four pore-forming KCNQ1 subunits and MinK accessory subunits in a number that has been controversial. Here, I(Ks) channels assembled naturally by monomer subunits are compared to those with linked subunits that force defined stoichiometries. Two strategies that exploit charybd...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chen H,Kim LA,Rajan S,Xu S,Goldstein SA

更新日期：2003-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured brain activity during mental rotation and object recognition with objects rotated around three different axes. Activity in the superior parietal lobe (SPL) increased proportionally to viewpoint disparity during mental rotation, but not during object recognition. In contrast, the fusiform gyrus was preferen...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gauthier I,Hayward WG,Tarr MJ,Anderson AW,Skudlarski P,Gore JC

更新日期：2002-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the target cell in neurotrophin-induced modifications of glutamatergic synaptic transmission was examined in cultured hippocampal neurons. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) induced rapid and persistent potentiation of evoked glutamate release when the postsynaptic neuron was glutamatergic, or excita...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schinder AF,Berninger B,Poo M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective mental functioning requires that cognition be protected from emotional conflict due to interference by task-irrelevant emotionally salient stimuli. The neural mechanisms by which the brain detects and resolves emotional conflict are still largely unknown, however. Drawing on the classic Stroop conflict task,...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Etkin A,Egner T,Peraza DM,Kandel ER,Hirsch J

更新日期：2006-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary visual cortex has a map of multiple visual parameters whose topographic relations remain poorly understood. A new study (Nauhaus et al., 2016) reveals a nearly geometric map-topography that coexists within a remarkably precise representation of visual space. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Alonso JM

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Spine Ca(2+) is critical for the induction of synaptic plasticity, but the factors that control Ca(2+) handling in dendritic spines under physiological conditions are largely unknown. We studied [Ca(2+)] signaling in dendritic spines of CA1 pyramidal neurons and find that spines are specialized structures with low end...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sabatini BL,Oertner TG,Svoboda K

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The fidelity with which spinal motor neurons innervate their limb target muscles helps to coordinate motor behavior, but the mechanisms that determine precise patterns of nerve-muscle connectivity remain obscure. We show that Nkx6 proteins, a set of Hox-regulated homeodomain transcription factors, are expressed by mot...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： De Marco Garcia NV,Jessell TM

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of inositol 1,4,5 trisphosphate (InsP3) into Limulus ventral photoreceptors elevates the concentration of intracellular calcium ions and as a consequence depolarizes the photoreceptor. This InsP3-induced elevation can be inhibited by a prior injection of calcium or InsP3 delivered 1 s earlier. Recovery from ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Payne R,Flores TM,Fein A

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding between DIP and Dpr neuronal recognition proteins has been proposed to regulate synaptic connections between lamina and medulla neurons in the Drosophila visual system. Each lamina neuron was previously shown to express many Dprs. Here, we demonstrate, by contrast, that their synaptic partners typically expres...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cosmanescu F,Katsamba PS,Sergeeva AP,Ahlsen G,Patel SD,Brewer JJ,Tan L,Xu S,Xiao Q,Nagarkar-Jaiswal S,Nern A,Bellen HJ,Zipursky SL,Honig B,Shapiro L

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Firing patterns of neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex (OF) were analyzed in rats trained to perform a task that encouraged incidental associations between distinct odors and the places where their occurrence was detected. Many of the neurons fired differentially when the animals were at a particular location or sampl...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lipton PA,Alvarez P,Eichenbaum H

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are critical for learning and memory. Hippocampal activity during awake sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events is important for spatial learning, and hippocampal SWR activity often represents past or potential future experiences. Whether or how this reactivation...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jadhav SP,Rothschild G,Roumis DK,Frank LM

更新日期：2016-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal 17 amino acids of huntingtin (NT17) can be phosphorylated on serines 13 and 16; however, the significance of these modifications in Huntington's disease pathogenesis remains unknown. In this study, we developed BAC transgenic mice expressing full-length mutant huntingtin (fl-mhtt) with serines 13 and 16...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gu X,Greiner ER,Mishra R,Kodali R,Osmand A,Finkbeiner S,Steffan JS,Thompson LM,Wetzel R,Yang XW

更新日期：2009-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes invade the developing retina from the optic nerve head, over the axons of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). RGCs express the platelet-derived growth factor A-chain (PDGF-A) and retinal astrocytes the PDGF alpha-receptor (PDGFR alpha), suggesting that PDGF mediates a paracrine interaction between these cells. T...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fruttiger M,Calver AR,Krüger WH,Mudhar HS,Michalovich D,Takakura N,Nishikawa S,Richardson WD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Rinberg et al. show that mice use a speed-accuracy tradeoff in odor discrimination. Shorter sampling results in high performance for easy problems, and enforced longer sampling results in higher accuracy for difficult problems, but mice freely choose intermediate sampling durations and accurac...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kay LM,Beshel J,Martin C

更新日期：2006-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent evidence suggests that corticostriatal interactions act as a gate to select the input to working memory (WM). However, not all information in WM is relevant for behavior simultaneously. For this reason, a second "output gate" might advantageously govern which contents of WM influence behavior. Here, we test...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chatham CH,Frank MJ,Badre D

更新日期：2014-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, nerve growth factor (NGF) has gained attention as a potential therapeutic agent for Alzheimer's disease (AD). To study the expression of NGF and its homologs, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and neurotrophin 3 (NT-3), postmortem samples of hippocampus from AD and control donors were examined ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Phillips HS,Hains JM,Armanini M,Laramee GR,Johnson SA,Winslow JW

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inappropriate vocal expressions, e.g., vocal tics in Tourette syndrome, severely impact quality of life. Neural mechanisms underlying vocal tics remain unexplored because no established animal model representing the condition exists. We report that unilateral disinhibition of the nucleus accumbens (NAc) generates voca...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： McCairn KW,Nagai Y,Hori Y,Ninomiya T,Kikuchi E,Lee JY,Suhara T,Iriki A,Minamimoto T,Takada M,Isoda M,Matsumoto M

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory experience evokes long-lasting changes in neural circuits through activity-dependent gene expression. Ataman et al. (2016) report in Nature that primates evolved novel transcriptional responses to neuronal activity, including induction of musclin/osteocrin (OSTN), which may regulate specialized aspects of prim...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pollen AA,Kriegstein AR

更新日期：2016-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms are entrained to the natural day:night cycle. Melanopsin expressed in retinal ganglion cells partially accounts for circadian photoentrainment. Dkhissi-Benyahya et al. demonstrate that medium wavelength opsin (MW-opsin) also plays an important role in the process. Furthermore, they develop a model ex...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Panda S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory abilities differ greatly across individuals. To explore a source of these differences, we characterized the varied strategies people adopt during unconstrained encoding. Participants intentionally encoded object pairs during functional MRI. Principal components analysis applied to a strategy questionnaire revea...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kirchhoff BA,Buckner RL

更新日期：2006-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role in synaptic plasticity of ryanodine receptor type 3 (RyR3), which is normally enriched in hippocampal area CA1, we generated RyR3-deficient mice. Mutant mice exhibited facilitated CA1 long-term potentiation (LTP) induced by short tetanus (100 Hz, 100 ms) stimulation. Unlike LTP in wild-type mice, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Futatsugi A,Kato K,Ogura H,Li ST,Nagata E,Kuwajima G,Tanaka K,Itohara S,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) is required for LTP and experience-dependent potentiation in the barrel cortex. Here, we find that whisker deprivation increases LTP in the layer IV to II/III pathway and that PKA antagonists block the additional LTP. No LTP was seen in undeprived CaMKII-T286A mice, but whisker de...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hardingham N,Wright N,Dachtler J,Fox K

更新日期：2008-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesolimbic dopamine (DA) neurons play a central role in motivation and reward processing. Although the activity of these mesolimbic DA neurons is controlled by afferent inputs, little is known about the circuits in which they are embedded. Using retrograde tracing, electrophysiology, optogenetics, and behavioral assay...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yang H,de Jong JW,Tak Y,Peck J,Bateup HS,Lammel S

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons compensate their synaptic strengths to global changes in network activity. In this issue of Neuron, Lee et al. (2013) provide evidence in mature hippocampal networks that this homeostatic plasticity is achieved uniquely at the mossy fiber synapses on CA3 neurons. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chater TE,Goda Y

更新日期：2013-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cDNAs encoding novel GABAA receptor subunits were isolated from a rat brain library. These subunits, gamma 2 and delta, share approximately 35% sequence identity with alpha and beta subunits and form functional GABA-gated chloride channels when expressed alone in vitro. The gamma 2 subunit is the rat homolog of th...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Shivers BD,Killisch I,Sprengel R,Sontheimer H,Köhler M,Schofield PR,Seeburg PH

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIVK) represents a new threat to global health, with particular relevance to neuroscientists, due to associated newborn and adult neurological disease. Consequences of vertical infection include microcephaly with brain and eye anomalies, and consequences of adult infection include Guillain-Barré syndrome (...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Li H,Saucedo-Cuevas L,Shresta S,Gleeson JG

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain circuits endow behavioral flexibility. Here, we study circuits encoding flexible chemotaxis in C. elegans, where the animal navigates up or down NaCl gradients (positive or negative chemotaxis) to reach the salt concentration of previous growth (the set point). The ASER sensory neuron mediates positive and negat...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Luo L,Wen Q,Ren J,Hendricks M,Gershow M,Qin Y,Greenwood J,Soucy ER,Klein M,Smith-Parker HK,Calvo AC,Colón-Ramos DA,Samuel AD,Zhang Y

更新日期：2014-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Under ambient air conditions, NO inhibits NMDAR activity by reacting with the NR2A subunit C399 along with two additional cysteine pairs if their disulfide bonds are reduced to free thiol groups [NR1(C744,C798); NR2(C87,C320)]. Here we demonstrate that relative hypoxia enhances S-nitrosylation of NMDARs by a unique me...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Takahashi H,Shin Y,Cho SJ,Zago WM,Nakamura T,Gu Z,Ma Y,Furukawa H,Liddington R,Zhang D,Tong G,Chen HS,Lipton SA

更新日期：2007-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic nervous system is refined over the course of development as a result of the twin processes of naturally occurring cell death and selective axon pruning. Recent studies provide new insights into the molecular events that underlie axon pruning and underscore the diversity of refinement processes employed b...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kantor DB,Kolodkin AL

更新日期：2003-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychiatric illness risk gene Disrupted in Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) plays an important role in brain development; however, it is unclear how DISC1 is regulated during cortical development. Here, we report that DISC1 is regulated during embryonic neural progenitor proliferation and neuronal migration through an inte...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Singh KK,Ge X,Mao Y,Drane L,Meletis K,Samuels BA,Tsai LH

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00