End-stopping and the aperture problem: two-dimensional motion signals in macaque V1.

abstract：:Following alpha-latrotoxin application to cerebellar slices, bursts of miniature IPSCs (mIPSCs) were observed in interneurons of the molecular layer. Within bursts, mIPSCs had homogeneous amplitudes with a narrow Gaussian distribution. Analysis of successive event amplitudes revealed an interaction between consecutive...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Auger C,Marty A

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using primary cultures and immortalized multipotential stem cell lines derived from wild-type and Mash1 mutant neural crest cells, we have analyzed the cellular function of MASH1 in autonomic neurogenesis. We present evidence for the existence of a precursor expressing MASH1 and neuronal markers such as neurofilament,...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sommer L,Shah N,Rao M,Anderson DJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When learning to achieve a goal through a complex series of actions, humans often group several actions into a subroutine and evaluate whether the subroutine achieved a specific subgoal. A new study reports brain responses consistent with such "hierarchical reinforcement learning." ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Behrens TE,Jocham G

更新日期：2011-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical patterning molecules that were previously implicated in controlling cell fate choices in the nervous system have recently been shown to play additional roles in axon guidance and synaptogenesis. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), Sonic hedgehog (Shh), Wnts, and fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) all participa...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Salie R,Niederkofler V,Arber S

更新日期：2005-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of ryanodine receptors, channels for Ca2+ release from intracellular stores, are known. We detected the skeletal muscle type only in cerebellum by immunoblot analysis of microsomes and partially purified proteins. The cardiac muscle type was found in all parts of the mouse brain. Immunohistochemical study sh...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kuwajima G,Futatsugi A,Niinobe M,Nakanishi S,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histone deacetylase HDAC5 has been shown to regulate behavioral adaptations to cocaine. In this issue of Neuron, Taniguchi et al. (2012) describe a cAMP-dependent signaling pathway that regulates nuclear accumulation of HDAC5, suggesting a mechanism to couple cocaine with changes in HDAC5 function. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： West AE

更新日期：2012-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) play a major role in excitatory synaptic transmission and plasticity. Channel properties are largely dictated by their composition of the four subunits, GluR1-4 (or A-D). Here we show that AMPAR assembly and subunit stoichiometry are determined by RNA editing in the pore loop. We...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Greger IH,Khatri L,Kong X,Ziff EB

更新日期：2003-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) are responsible for a variety of processes in the mammalian brain including fast excitatory neurotransmission, postsynaptic plasticity, or synapse development. Here, with comprehensive and quantitative proteomic analyses, we demonstrate that native AMPARs are macromolecular compl...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schwenk J,Harmel N,Brechet A,Zolles G,Berkefeld H,Müller CS,Bildl W,Baehrens D,Hüber B,Kulik A,Klöcker N,Schulte U,Fakler B

更新日期：2012-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Which neurons in the brain "decide" to initiate particular behaviors in response to sensory information? In this issue of Neuron, two papers (Kohatsu et al. and von Philipsborn et al.) identify candidates in the courtship circuitry of Drosophila. The activity of these neurons is both regulated by sex pheromones and ne...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Benton R

更新日期：2011-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although deep brain electrical stimulation can alleviate the motor symptoms of Parkinson disease (PD), just a small fraction of patients with PD can take advantage of this procedure due to its invasive nature. A significantly less invasive method--epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS)--has been suggested as an altern...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Santana MB,Halje P,Simplício H,Richter U,Freire MAM,Petersson P,Fuentes R,Nicolelis MAL

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the arousal state, neuronal networks display discrete activity patterns that profoundly affect information processing in the brain. In this issue of Neuron, Kurotani et al. report bidirectional modification of inhibition by oscillatory patterns in the neocortex; a mechanism likely to control the impact of...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Letzkus JJ,Stuart GJ

更新日期：2008-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the cerebral correlates of motor sequence memory consolidation. Participants were scanned while training on an implicit oculomotor sequence learning task and during a single testing session taking place 30 min, 5 hr, or 24 hr later. During training, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Albouy G,Sterpenich V,Balteau E,Vandewalle G,Desseilles M,Dang-Vu T,Darsaud A,Ruby P,Luppi PH,Degueldre C,Peigneux P,Luxen A,Maquet P

更新日期：2008-04-24 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：: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 vertebrate ventral midbrain contains 3-4 x 10(4) dopaminergic neurons that influence motor activity, emotional behavior, and cognition. Recently, glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) was shown to be a potent survival factor for these dopaminergic neurons in culture. However, many midbrain dopaminergi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Poulsen KT,Armanini MP,Klein RD,Hynes MA,Phillips HS,Rosenthal A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presynaptic function of myosin II was studied at cholinergic synapses formed between rat superior cervical ganglion neurons in culture. Immunofluorescent staining showed that myosin II was colocalized with synaptophysin at the presynaptic nerve terminals. Antimyosin II antibody introduced into presynaptic neurons ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mochida S,Kobayashi H,Matsuda Y,Yuda Y,Muramoto K,Nonomura Y

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous and sensory-evoked cortical activity is highly state-dependent, yet relatively little is known about transitions between distinct waking states. Patterns of activity in mouse V1 differ dramatically between quiescence and locomotion, but this difference could be explained by either motor feedback or a chang...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Vinck M,Batista-Brito R,Knoblich U,Cardin JA

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Abl and Arg tyrosine kinases play fundamental roles in the development and function of the central nervous system. Arg is most abundant in adult mouse brain, especially in synapse-rich regions. arg(-/-) mice develop normally but exhibit multiple behavioral abnormalities, suggesting that arg(-/-) brains suffer from...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Koleske AJ,Gifford AM,Scott ML,Nee M,Bronson RT,Miczek KA,Baltimore D

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that synapse retraction occurs during normal synaptic growth at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ). An RNAi-based screen to identify the molecular mechanisms that regulate synapse retraction identified Arp-1/centractin, a subunit of the dynactin complex. Arp-1 dsRNA enhances synapse retrac...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Eaton BA,Fetter RD,Davis GW

更新日期：2002-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:When faced with a crowded visual scene, observers must selectively attend to behaviorally relevant objects to avoid sensory overload. Often this selection process is guided by prior knowledge of a target-defining feature (e.g., the color red when looking for an apple), which enhances the firing rate of visual neurons ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Serences JT,Boynton GM

更新日期：2007-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Visinin is a retinal cone cell-specific protein (molecular weight 24,000, pI 5.1). To investigate its function, visinin cDNA was isolated from a chick retinal lambda gt11 cDNA library, using anti-visinin serum. The beta-galactosidase-visinin fusion protein was used for purifying epitope-selected antibody. The purified...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yamagata K,Goto K,Kuo CH,Kondo H,Miki N

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleus accumbens dopamine is known to play a role in motivational processes, and dysfunctions of mesolimbic dopamine may contribute to motivational symptoms of depression and other disorders, as well as features of substance abuse. Although it has become traditional to label dopamine neurons as "reward" neurons, this...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Salamone JD,Correa M

更新日期：2012-11-08 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：:Incoming stimuli are encoded collectively by populations of cortical neurons, which transmit information by using a neural code thought to be predominantly redundant. Redundant coding is widely believed to reflect a design choice whereby neurons with overlapping receptive fields sample environmental stimuli to convey ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Nigam S,Pojoga S,Dragoi V

更新日期：2019-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circadian pacemakers can be reset by light, and the resetting mechanism may involve cyclic nucleotide second messengers. We have examined pacemaker resetting and free-running activity rhythms in Drosophila dunce (dnc) and DC0 mutants, which identify a cAMP specific phosphodiesterase and the catalytic subunit of...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Levine JD,Casey CI,Kalderon DD,Jackson FR

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:GABA(B) (gamma-aminobutyric acid type B) receptors are important for keeping neuronal excitability under control. Cloned GABA(B) receptors do not show the expected pharmacological diversity of native receptors and it is unknown whether they contribute to pre- as well as postsynaptic functions. Here, we demonstrate tha...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schuler V,Lüscher C,Blanchet C,Klix N,Sansig G,Klebs K,Schmutz M,Heid J,Gentry C,Urban L,Fox A,Spooren W,Jaton AL,Vigouret J,Pozza M,Kelly PH,Mosbacher J,Froestl W,Käslin E,Korn R,Bischoff S,Kaupmann K,van der

更新日期：2001-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative differences in cadherin activity have been proposed to play important roles in patterning connections between pre- and postsynaptic neurons. However, no examples of such a function have yet been described, and the mechanisms that would allow such differences to direct growth cones to specific synaptic tar...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chen PL,Clandinin TR

更新日期：2008-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and basolateral amygdala (BLA) contribute to learned behavioral choice. Neurons in both structures that encode reward-predictive cues may underlie the decision to respond to such cues, but the neural circuits by which the BLA influences reward-seeking behavior have not been established...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ambroggi F,Ishikawa A,Fields HL,Nicola SM

更新日期：2008-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a large-scale dynamical model of the macaque neocortex, which is based on recently acquired directed- and weighted-connectivity data from tract-tracing experiments, and which incorporates heterogeneity across areas. A hierarchy of timescales naturally emerges from this system: sensory areas show brief, tr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chaudhuri R,Knoblauch K,Gariel MA,Kennedy H,Wang XJ

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00