VRILLE feeds back to control circadian transcription of Clock in the Drosophila circadian oscillator.

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-dependent phosphoinositide signaling has been implicated in diverse cellular systems coupled to receptors for many different ligands, but the extent to which it functions in sensory transduction is yet to be determined. We now report that blocking PI3K activity increases odorant-ev...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Spehr M,Wetzel CH,Hatt H,Ache BW

更新日期：2002-02-28 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：:The spatial receptive fields of neurons in medial entorhinal cortex layer II (MECII) and in the hippocampus suggest general and environment-specific maps of space, respectively. However, the relationship between these receptive fields remains unclear. We reversibly manipulated the activity of MECII neurons via chemoge...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kanter BR,Lykken CM,Avesar D,Weible A,Dickinson J,Dunn B,Borgesius NZ,Roudi Y,Kentros CG

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical plasticity is thought to be important for the establishment, consolidation, and retrieval of permanent memory. Hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP), a cellular mechanism of learning and memory, requires the activation of glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. In particular, it has been suggested...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhao MG,Toyoda H,Lee YS,Wu LJ,Ko SW,Zhang XH,Jia Y,Shum F,Xu H,Li BM,Kaang BK,Zhuo M

更新日期：2005-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioids are commonly used as analgesics for severe pain, but their addictive potential has sparked a misuse epidemic. In this issue of Neuron, Keyes et al. (2020) examine the contributions of distinct paraventricular thalamus (PVT) outputs to contextual opioid memories. They identify a PVT→NAc→LH circuit essential for...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pribiag H,Lim BK

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal visual input during development has dramatic effects on the visual system. How does the adult visual system respond when input is corrected? MM lost his left eye and became blind in the right due to corneal damage at the age of 3. At age 46, MM regained his retinal image, but his visual abilities, even seven ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Levin N,Dumoulin SO,Winawer J,Dougherty RF,Wandell BA

更新日期：2010-01-14 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：:Neocortical excitatory and inhibitory neurons derive from distinct progenitor domains during embryonic development and migrate to their final positions, where they assemble into functional circuits. This process appears to be influenced by lineage relationships among locally born excitatory neurons, raising the intrig...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Turrero García M,Mazzola E,Harwell CC

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:During development of the peripheral nervous system (PNS), Schwann-cell-secreted gliomedin induces the clustering of Na+ channels at the edges of each myelin segment to form nodes of Ranvier. Here we show that bone morphogenetic protein-1 (BMP1)/Tolloid (TLD)-like proteinases confine Na+ channel clustering to these si...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Eshed-Eisenbach Y,Devaux J,Vainshtein A,Golani O,Lee SJ,Feinberg K,Sukhanov N,Greenspan DS,Susuki K,Rasband MN,Peles E

更新日期：2020-06-03 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

abstract：:Microtubules play an important role in neuronal polarity. In this issue of Neuron, Watabe-Uchida et al. link a novel Rac-mediated pathway that regulates microtubule dynamics to axon formation. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pinheiro EM,Gertler FB

更新日期：2006-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the subcellular distribution of the alpha 1 and alpha 2 subunits of the dihydropyridine (DHP) receptor and ankyrin in rat skeletal muscle with immunofluorescence and immunogold labeling techniques. All three proteins were concentrated in the triad junction formed between the T-tubules and sarcoplasmic ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Flucher BE,Morton ME,Froehner SC,Daniels MP

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic scaling is a key homeostatic plasticity mechanism and is thought to be involved in the regulation of cortical activity levels. Here we investigated the spatial scale of homeostatic changes in spine size following sensory deprivation in a subset of inhibitory (layer 2/3 GAD65-positive) and excitatory (layer 5 ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Barnes SJ,Franzoni E,Jacobsen RI,Erdelyi F,Szabo G,Clopath C,Keller GB,Keck T

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Nociceptin opioid peptide receptor agonists interact with mu-opioid receptor agonists for pain relief. A new study by Ding et al. (2018) examines a bifunctional nociceptin- and mu-opioid receptor agonist, AT-121, that provides analgesia without physiological side effects or abuse liability, offering a promising new ho...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Parker KE,Bruchas MR

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We used fMRI to investigate how moment-to-moment neural activity contributes to success or failure on individual trials of a visual working memory (WM) task. We found that different nodes of a distributed cortical network were activated to a greater extent for correct compared to incorrect trials during stimulus encod...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pessoa L,Gutierrez E,Bandettini P,Ungerleider L

更新日期：2002-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The amplitudes and kinetics of miniature excitatory synaptic currents (MESCs) in mammalian central neurons vary widely. It is unclear whether this variability occurs at each synapse or arises from differences among a heterogeneous population of synapses. Furthermore, it is not known how variability in these currents w...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Murphy TH,Baraban JM,Wier WG

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonergic neurons are thought to play a role in depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. However, their functional transmitter repertoire is incompletely known. To investigate this repertoire, intracellular recordings were obtained from 132 cytochemically identified rat mesopontine serotonergic neurons that ha...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Johnson MD

更新日期：1994-02-01 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：:Axon pruning by degeneration remodels exuberant axonal connections and is widely required for the development of proper circuitry in the nervous system from insects to mammals. Developmental axon degeneration morphologically resembles injury-induced Wallerian degeneration, suggesting similar underlying mechanisms. As ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hoopfer ED,McLaughlin T,Watts RJ,Schuldiner O,O'Leary DD,Luo L

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the relationship between regulation of the spine actin cytoskeleton, spine morphogenesis, and synapse formation by manipulating expression of the actin binding protein NrbI and its deletion mutants. In pyramidal neurons of cultured rat hippocampal slices, NrbI is concentrated in dendritic spines by binding...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zito K,Knott G,Shepherd GM,Shenolikar S,Svoboda K

更新日期：2004-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional PNS regeneration requires injured axons to return to their original synaptic targets, yet the mechanisms underlying target-selective regeneration have remained elusive. Using live-cell imaging in zebrafish we find that regenerating motor axons exhibit a strong preference for their original muscle territory ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Isaacman-Beck J,Schneider V,Franzini-Armstrong C,Granato M

更新日期：2015-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a transgenic mouse line in which GFP is expressed in a single population of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), Huberman and colleagues report in this issue of Neuron that the axon terminals of RGCs exhibit an orderly pattern of distribution in the higher visual centers. This pattern undergoes a developmental refinem...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： He S

更新日期：2008-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a Kv2 potassium channel from squid optic lobe termed sqKv2. Multiple overlapping sqKv2 cDNA clones differed from one another at specific positions by purine transitions. To test whether the purine transitions were generated by RNA editing, we compared a 360 nucleotide genomic sequence with corresponding...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Patton DE,Silva T,Bezanilla F

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Careful functional dissection of mouse neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) formed in the absence of NCAM reveal that in spite of relatively normal morphology and ultrastructure, the presynaptic terminals have profound alterations in the mechanisms of recycling of synaptic vesicles. These alterations, including the appearan...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ryan TA

更新日期：2001-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian olfactory sensory neurons that express a particular odorant receptor (OR) project axons to the same few glomeruli in the olfactory bulb. In this issue of Neuron, Vassalli et al. use OR minigenes that coexpress histochemical markers and show that the determinants in the sensory neurons required to generate th...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ranganathan R,Buck LB

更新日期：2002-08-15 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：:Olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) do not express the typical neuronal intermediate filament proteins (IFPs), the neurofilament triplet proteins. Immunocytochemical evidence shows that ORNs coexpress vimentin and peripherin but distribute them differently. Specifically, ORNs contain vimentin in dendrites, cell bodies, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gorham JD,Ziff EB,Baker H

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous activity patterns in the developing retina appear important for the functional organization of the visual system. We show here that an absence of early retinal waves in mice lacking the beta2 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) is associated with both gain and loss of functional organiz...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Grubb MS,Rossi FM,Changeux JP,Thompson ID

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms generating precise connections between specific thalamic nuclei and cortical areas remain poorly understood. Using axon tracing analysis of ephrin/Eph mutant mice, we provide in vivo evidence that Eph receptors in the thalamus and ephrins in the cortex control intra-areal topographic mapping of thalamoc...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Dufour A,Seibt J,Passante L,Depaepe V,Ciossek T,Frisén J,Kullander K,Flanagan JG,Polleux F,Vanderhaeghen P

更新日期：2003-07-31 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