New roles for ubiquitin in the assembly and function of neuronal circuits.

abstract：:Brain areas in the frontal lobe have been implicated in behavioral flexibility and control. The study by Johnston et al. in this issue of Neuron provides novel insights into the roles of the prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices in controlling behavior. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Rainer G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currents mediated by a glutamate transporter cloned from human motor cortex were measured in Xenopus oocytes. In the absence of glutamate, voltage jumps induced Na(+)-dependent capacitive currents that were blocked by kainate, a competitive transport antagonist. The pre-steady-state currents can be described by an ord...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wadiche JI,Arriza JL,Amara SG,Kavanaugh MP

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammals are able to navigate to hidden goal locations by direct routes that may traverse previously unvisited terrain. Empirical evidence suggests that this "vector navigation" relies on an internal representation of space provided by the hippocampal formation. The periodic spatial firing patterns of grid cells in the...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bush D,Barry C,Manson D,Burgess N

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain must make sense of external stimuli to generate relevant behavior. We used a combination of in vivo approaches to investigate how the cerebellum processes sensory-related information. We found that the inferior olive encodes contexts of sensory-associated external cues in a graded manner, apparent in the pre...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gaffield MA,Bonnan A,Christie JM

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Given a noisy sensory world, the nervous system integrates perceptual evidence over time to optimize decision-making. Neurophysiological accumulation of sensory information is well-documented in the animal visual system, but how such mechanisms are instantiated in the human brain remains poorly understood. Here we com...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bowman NE,Kording KP,Gottfried JA

更新日期：2012-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Costa et al. (2017) introduce a theoretical framework that predicts the ratio of presynaptic and postsynaptic changes taking place during LTP and LTD and show that these processes co-operate so as to optimize the postsynaptic response statistics. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Poirazi P,Kastellakis G

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies were raised to three portions of the predicted sequences of Shaker, a gene that encodes a family of K+ channel components that are produced by the alternative splicing of transcripts. On immunoblots, the protein products appear to be 65,000-85,000 daltons in size. No smaller products were detected. Immunocy...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schwarz TL,Papazian DM,Carretto RC,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proposal for an Australian Brain Initiative (ABI) is under development by members of the Australian Brain Alliance. Here we discuss the goals of the ABI, its areas of research focus, its context in the Australian research setting, and its necessity for ensuring continued success for Australian brain research. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Australian Brain Alliance Steering Committee.

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mammalian olfactory bulb, signal processing is mediated by synaptic interactions between dendrites. Glutamate released from mitral cell dendrites excites dendritic spines of granule cells, which in turn release GABA back onto the mitral cell dendrites, forming a reciprocal synaptic pair. This feedback synaptic ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chen WR,Xiong W,Shepherd GM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compelling evidence links amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide accumulation in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients with the emergence of learning and memory deficits, yet a clear understanding of the events that drive this synaptic pathology are lacking. We present evidence that neurons exposed to Aβ are unable to fo...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhao Y,Sivaji S,Chiang MC,Ali H,Zukowski M,Ali S,Kennedy B,Sklyar A,Cheng A,Guo Z,Reed AK,Kodali R,Borowski J,Frost G,Beukema P,Wills ZP

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental property of neuronal circuits is the ability to adapt to altered sensory inputs. It is well established that the functional synaptic changes underlying this adaptation are reflected by structural modifications in excitatory neurons. In contrast, the degree to which structural plasticity in inhibitory neu...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Keck T,Scheuss V,Jacobsen RI,Wierenga CJ,Eysel UT,Bonhoeffer T,Hübener M

更新日期：2011-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently proposed that ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) shares two receptor components with a generally acting cytokine, leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), but that CNTF also requires a third receptor component (CNTFR alpha) that is mostly restricted to the nervous system in its expression. Here we demonstrate tha...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ip NY,McClain J,Barrezueta NX,Aldrich TH,Pan L,Li Y,Wiegand SJ,Friedman B,Davis S,Yancopoulos GD

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping of the chromosomal location of genes essential for sweet and bitter taste and identification of the relevant G protein-coupled receptors reveals unanticipated complexity in taste signaling pathways. The distribution of sweet and bitter receptors suggests complete cellular segregation of these taste modalities....

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lewcock JW,Reed RR

更新日期：2001-08-30 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：: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：:Two properties were found to distinguish neuronal from muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). First, neuronal nAChRs have a greater Ca2+ permeability. The high Ca2+ flux through neuronal nAChRs activates a Ca(2+)-dependent Cl- conductance, and the Ca2+ to Cs+ permeability ratio (PCa/PCs) is 7 times greater...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Vernino S,Amador M,Luetje CW,Patrick J,Dani JA

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Neuro-Education is a nascent discipline that seeks to blend the collective fields of neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and education to create a better understanding of how we learn and how this information can be used to create more effective teaching methods, curricula, and educational policy. Though stil...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Carew TJ,Magsamen SH

更新日期：2010-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in a synaptic organizing pathway contribute to autism. Autism-associated mutations in MDGA2 (MAM domain containing glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor 2) are thought to reduce excitatory/inhibitory transmission. However, we show that mutation of Mdga2 elevates excitatory transmission, and that MDGA2 blocks n...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Connor SA,Ammendrup-Johnsen I,Chan AW,Kishimoto Y,Murayama C,Kurihara N,Tada A,Ge Y,Lu H,Yan R,LeDue JM,Matsumoto H,Kiyonari H,Kirino Y,Matsuzaki F,Suzuki T,Murphy TH,Wang YT,Yamamoto T,Craig AM

更新日期：2016-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is increasingly recognized to regulate gene expression across different cell types, but obtaining APA maps from individual cell types typically requires prior purification, a stressful procedure that can itself alter cellular states. Here, we describe a new platform, cTag-PAPERCLIP, t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hwang HW,Saito Y,Park CY,Blachère NE,Tajima Y,Fak JJ,Zucker-Scharff I,Darnell RB

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We utilized the Cre-LoxP system to establish erbB2 conditional mutant mice in order to investigate the role of erbB2 in postnatal development of the enteric nervous system. The erbB2/nestin-Cre conditional mutants exhibit retarded growth, distended colons, and premature death, resembling human Hirschsprung's disease. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Crone SA,Negro A,Trumpp A,Giovannini M,Lee KF

更新日期：2003-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical motor areas are thought to contribute "higher-order processing," but what that processing might include is unknown. Previous studies of the smooth pursuit-related discharge of supplementary eye field (SEF) neurons have not distinguished activity associated with the preparation for pursuit from discharge relat...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Shichinohe N,Akao T,Kurkin S,Fukushima J,Kaneko CR,Fukushima K

更新日期：2009-06-11 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：:The lateral mobility of neurotransmitter receptors has been shown to tune synaptic signals. Here we report that GABAA receptors (GABAARs) can diffuse between adjacent dendritic GABAergic synapses in long-living desensitized states, thus laterally spreading "activation memories" between inhibitory synapses. Glutamaterg...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： de Luca E,Ravasenga T,Petrini EM,Polenghi A,Nieus T,Guazzi S,Barberis A

更新日期：2017-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively little is known about the neural circuitry underlying sex-specific behaviors. We have expressed the feminizing gene transformer in genetically defined subregions of the brain of male Drosophila, and in particular within different domains of the mushroom bodies. Mushroom bodies are phylogenetically conserved...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： O'Dell KM,Armstrong JD,Yang MY,Kaiser K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins mediate a variety of signaling processes by coupling seven-transmembrane receptors to intracellular effector molecules. The Drosophila phototransduction cascade is a G protein-coupled signaling cascade that utilizes a phospholipase C (PLC beta) effector. PLC beta has been shown to be activate...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Scott K,Becker A,Sun Y,Hardy R,Zuker C

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory systems transform the external world into time-varying spike trains. What features of spiking activity are used to guide behavior? In the mouse olfactory bulb, inhalation of different odors leads to changes in the set of neurons activated, as well as when neurons are activated relative to each other (synchrony...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gill JV,Lerman GM,Zhao H,Stetler BJ,Rinberg D,Shoham S

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that hippocampal "time cells" code for sequential moments in temporally organized experiences. However, it is currently unknown whether these temporal firing patterns critically rely on upstream cortical input. Here we employ an optogenetic approach to explore the effect of large-scale inacti...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Robinson NTM,Priestley JB,Rueckemann JW,Garcia AD,Smeglin VA,Marino FA,Eichenbaum H

更新日期：2017-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:How primates perceive objects along with their detailed features remains a mystery. This ability to make fine visual discriminations depends upon a high-acuity analysis of spatial frequency (SF) along the visual hierarchy from V1 to inferotemporal cortex. By studying the transformation of SF across macaque parafoveal ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lu Y,Yin J,Chen Z,Gong H,Liu Y,Qian L,Li X,Liu R,Andolina IM,Wang W

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Argiotoxin, a component of the spider venom from Argiope lobata, blocks AMPA receptor channels expressed in homomeric and heteromeric configuration in Xenopus oocytes. Argiotoxin acts as an open channel blocker in a voltage-dependent manner and discriminates between the functionally diverse AMPA receptors. Importantly...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Herlitze S,Raditsch M,Ruppersberg JP,Jahn W,Monyer H,Schoepfer R,Witzemann V

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00