Functional identification of interneurons responsible for left-right coordination of hindlimbs in mammals.

abstract：:The time course and functional significance of the structural changes associated with long-term facilitation of Aplysia sensory to motor neuron synaptic connections in culture were examined by time-lapse confocal imaging of individual sensory neuron varicosities labeled with three different fluorescent markers: the wh...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kim JH,Udo H,Li HL,Youn TY,Chen M,Kandel ER,Bailey CH

更新日期：2003-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathways that convert neural stem cells (NSCs) into functional neurons in the adult hippocampus are tightly regulated. In this issue of Neuron, Yeh et al. (2018) demonstrate that the activity of dentate mossy cells determines the balance between quiescence and activation of NSCs. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Piatti VC,Schinder AF

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the organization of motor representations in posterior parietal cortex, we test how three motor variables (body side, body part, cognitive strategy) are coded in the human anterior intraparietal cortex. All tested movements were encoded, arguing against strict anatomical segregation of effectors. Single uni...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhang CY,Aflalo T,Revechkis B,Rosario ER,Ouellette D,Pouratian N,Andersen RA

更新日期：2017-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal specializations such as cone-photoreceptor opsin-expression gradients, as found in several vertebrate species, are intuitively considered detrimental to color vision. In mice, the majority of cones coexpress both "blue" and "green" opsin. The coexpression ratio changes along the dorsoventral axis, resulting in...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chang L,Breuninger T,Euler T

更新日期：2013-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in neurophysiological recording has developed in two directions. One relies on multimicroelectrodes to study correlations in neuron firing. The other relies on sophisticated tasks to distinguish successive stages of neuronal processing. In this issue of Neuron, Shichinohe et al. take this second approa...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schlag JD,Schlag-Rey M

更新日期：2009-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose-inhibited neurons orchestrate behavior and metabolism according to body energy levels, but how glucose inhibits these cells is unknown. We studied glucose inhibition of orexin/hypocretin neurons, which promote wakefulness (their loss causes narcolepsy) and also regulate metabolism and reward. Here we demonstra...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Burdakov D,Jensen LT,Alexopoulos H,Williams RH,Fearon IM,O'Kelly I,Gerasimenko O,Fugger L,Verkhratsky A

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the CNS, activity of individual neurons has a small but quantifiable relationship to sensory representations and motor outputs. Coactivation of a few 10s to 100s of neurons can code sensory inputs and behavioral task performance within psychophysical limits. However, in a sea of sensory inputs and demand for comple...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ainsworth M,Lee S,Cunningham MO,Traub RD,Kopell NJ,Whittington MA

更新日期：2012-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice lacking the EphB2 receptor tyrosine kinase display a cell-autonomous, strain-specific circling behavior that is associated with vestibular phenotypes. In mutant embryos, the contralateral inner ear efferent growth cones exhibit inappropriate pathway selection at the midline, while in mutant adults, the endolymph-...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cowan CA,Yokoyama N,Bianchi LM,Henkemeyer M,Fritzsch B

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory decline in aging results from multiple factors that influence both executive function and the medial temporal lobe memory system. In advanced aging, frontal-striatal systems are preferentially vulnerable to white matter change, atrophy, and certain forms of neurotransmitter depletion. Frontal-striatal change ma...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Buckner RL

更新日期：2004-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Many activity-dependent changes in synaptic efficacy occur through elevations in postsynaptic calcium triggered by glutamate receptor activation. Here, the postsynaptic, neuron-specific microtubule-associated protein MAP2 is identified as a target of bidirectional calcium-dependent signaling pathways activated by glut...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Quinlan EM,Halpain S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Latrotoxin is a potent stimulator of neurosecretion. Its action requires extracellular binding to high affinity presynaptic receptors. Neurexin I alpha was previously described as a high affinity alpha-latrotoxin receptor that binds the toxin only in the presence of calcium ions. Therefore, the interaction of al...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Krasnoperov VG,Bittner MA,Beavis R,Kuang Y,Salnikow KV,Chepurny OG,Little AR,Plotnikov AN,Wu D,Holz RW,Petrenko AG

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum is well appreciated to impart speed, smoothness, and precision to skilled movements such as reaching. How these functions are executed by the final output stage of the cerebellum, the cerebellar nuclei, remains unknown. Here, we identify a causal relationship between cerebellar output and mouse reach ki...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Becker MI,Person AL

更新日期：2019-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two papers in the current issue of Neuron (Izuma et al. and Zink et al.) report that activity in specific regions of the brain, especially the striatum, reflects a common signal of reward in both the economic (e.g., money) and social (e.g., praise and status) domains. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Saxe R,Haushofer J

更新日期：2008-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Our perception of fine visual detail relies on small receptive fields at early stages of visual processing. However, small receptive fields tend to confound the orientation and velocity of moving edges, leading to ambiguous or inaccurate motion measurements (the aperture problem). Thus, it is often assumed that neuron...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pack CC,Livingstone MS,Duffy KR,Born RT

更新日期：2003-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct brain regions, reproducible from one person to the next, are specialized for processing different kinds of human expertise, such as face recognition and reading. Here, we explore the relationship between age of learning, learning ability, and specialized brain structures. Specifically, we ask whether the exis...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Srihasam K,Mandeville JB,Morocz IA,Sullivan KJ,Livingstone MS

更新日期：2012-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A circadian clock governs most aspects of mammalian behavior. Although its properties are in part genetically determined, altered light-dark environment can change circadian period length through a mechanism requiring de novo DNA methylation. We show here that this mechanism is mediated not via cell-autonomous clock p...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Azzi A,Evans JA,Leise T,Myung J,Takumi T,Davidson AJ,Brown SA

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We show here that antisense MAP2 oligonucleotides inhibit neurite outgrowth in cultured cerebellar macroneurons. Unlike control neurons, which first extend a lamellipodial veil followed by a consolidation phase during which the cells extend minor neurites, MAP2-suppressed cells persist with lamellipodia and later beco...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Caceres A,Mautino J,Kosik KS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pletikos et al. (2014) demonstrate in this issue of Neuron that the human neocortex has an "hourglass" temporal gene expression pattern with robust and dynamic transcriptome differences during the prenatal and adolescent/adult periods. Similar changes are not observed in the nonhuman primate-is this what makes us huma...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Korade Z,Mirnics K

更新日期：2014-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:KIBRA has recently been identified as a gene associated with human memory performance. Despite the elucidation of the role of KIBRA in several diverse processes in nonneuronal cells, the molecular function of KIBRA in neurons is unknown. We found that KIBRA directly binds to the protein interacting with C-kinase 1 (PI...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Makuch L,Volk L,Anggono V,Johnson RC,Yu Y,Duning K,Kremerskothen J,Xia J,Takamiya K,Huganir RL

更新日期：2011-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated calcium channels are well characterized at neuronal somata but less thoroughly understood at the presynaptic terminal where they trigger transmitter release. In order to elucidate how the intrinsic properties of presynaptic calcium channels influence synaptic function, we have made direct recordings of t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Forsythe ID,Tsujimoto T,Barnes-Davies M,Cuttle MF,Takahashi T

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:In vivo optogenetics provides unique, powerful capabilities in the dissection of neural circuits implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders. Conventional hardware for such studies, however, physically tethers the experimental animal to an external light source, limiting the range of possible experiments. Emerging wirele...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Shin G,Gomez AM,Al-Hasani R,Jeong YR,Kim J,Xie Z,Banks A,Lee SM,Han SY,Yoo CJ,Lee JL,Lee SH,Kurniawan J,Tureb J,Guo Z,Yoon J,Park SI,Bang SY,Nam Y,Walicki MC,Samineni VK,Mickle AD,Lee K,Heo SY,McCall JG,

更新日期：2017-02-08 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：:Primary familial brain calcification (PFBC) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by bilateral calcifications in the basal ganglia and other brain regions. The genetic basis of this disorder remains unknown in a significant portion of familial cases. Here, we reported a recessive causal gene, MYORG, fo...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yao XP,Cheng X,Wang C,Zhao M,Guo XX,Su HZ,Lai LL,Zou XH,Chen XJ,Zhao Y,Dong EL,Lu YQ,Wu S,Li X,Fan G,Yu H,Xu J,Wang N,Xiong ZQ,Chen WJ

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic interneurons (CHIs) play a major role in motor and learning functions of the striatum. As acetylcholine does not directly evoke postsynaptic events at most striatal synapses, it remains unclear how postsynaptic cholinergic receptors encode the firing patterns of CHIs in the striatum. To examine the dynamic...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mamaligas AA,Ford CP

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory encoding and retrieval require directional exchange of information between different areas in the medial temporal lobe. In this issue of Neuron, Koster et al. (2018) use high-resolution fMRI combined with state-of-the-art data analysis methods to trace the information flow in memory circuits in hippocampus and ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Goense J

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotrophin survival dependence of peripheral neurons in vitro is regulated by the proapoptotic BCL-2 homolog BAX. To study peripheral neuron development in the absence of neurotrophin signaling, we have generated mice that are double null for BAX and nerve growth factor (NGF), and BAX and the NGF receptor TrkA. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Patel TD,Jackman A,Rice FL,Kucera J,Snider WD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of the selective death of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been an enigma since its description by Charcot in 1869. In this issue of Neuron, demonstrate a motor neuron-specific death pathway which involves Fas and NO. Remarkably, motor neurons from mice carrying ALS-linked m...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xiong ZQ,McNamara JO

更新日期：2002-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hybridization histochemistry reveals localized expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) alpha 2 subunit mRNA restricted to the lateral spiriform nucleus (SpL) of the chick diencephalon. The alpha 2 nAChR transcripts are not detected in immature SpL neurons at 4.5-5 days of embryonic developme...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Daubas P,Devillers-Thiéry A,Geoffroy B,Martinez S,Bessis A,Changeux JP

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IIA rat brain Na+ channel alpha subunits were expressed in CHO cells by nuclear microinjection or by transfection using a vector containing both metallothionein and bacteriophage SP6 promoters. Stable cell lines expressing Na+ channels were isolated, and whole-cell Na+ currents of 0.9-14 nA were recorded. The mea...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： West JW,Scheuer T,Maechler L,Catterall WA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00