Intracellular calcium regulates the survival of early sensory neurons before they become dependent on neurotrophic factors.

abstract：:Human vision adapts to the contrast of patterns by changing its sensitivity, but the origins of this perceptual adaptation have been disputed. In this issue of Neuron, Solomon et al. show that contrast adaptation in the primate arises mostly in the retina for the magnocellular pathway and mostly in the cortex for the ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Baccus SA,Meister M

更新日期：2004-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to obtain novel insights into schizophrenia pathogenesis by exploiting the association between the disorder and chromosomal copy number (CNV) burden. We combined data from 5,745 cases and 10,675 controls with other published datasets containing genome-wide CNV data. In this much-enlarged sample of 11,355 cas...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pocklington AJ,Rees E,Walters JT,Han J,Kavanagh DH,Chambert KD,Holmans P,Moran JL,McCarroll SA,Kirov G,O'Donovan MC,Owen MJ

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Prion-like propagation of tau aggregation might underlie the stereotyped progression of neurodegenerative tauopathies. True prions stably maintain unique conformations ("strains") in vivo that link structure to patterns of pathology. We now find that tau meets this criterion. Stably expressed tau repeat domain indefin...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sanders DW,Kaufman SK,DeVos SL,Sharma AM,Mirbaha H,Li A,Barker SJ,Foley AC,Thorpe JR,Serpell LC,Miller TM,Grinberg LT,Seeley WW,Diamond MI

更新日期：2014-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the specification of noradrenergic neurotransmitter identity in neural crest stem cells (NCSCs). Retroviral expression of both wild-type and dominant-negative forms of the paired homeodomain transcription factor Phox2a indicates a crucial and direct role for this protein (and/or the closely relate...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lo L,Morin X,Brunet JF,Anderson DJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using electrical acupuncture, Liu et al. show how electrical stimulation of primary somatosensory neurons at different body regions can tap into discreet autonomic circuits and, depending on the parameters, initiate either a pro- or anti-inflammatory response. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kupari J,Ernfors P

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of specific proteins at synaptic structures is essential for synapse assembly and function, but mechanisms regulating local protein enrichment remain poorly understood. At the neuromuscular junction (NMJ), subsynaptic nuclei underlie motor axon terminals within extrafusal muscle fibers and are transcripti...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hippenmeyer S,Huber RM,Ladle DR,Murphy K,Arber S

更新日期：2007-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound has received widespread attention as an emerging technology for targeted, non-invasive neuromodulation based on its ability to evoke electrophysiological and motor responses in animals. However, little is known about the spatiotemporal pattern of ultrasound-induced brain activity that could drive these resp...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sato T,Shapiro MG,Tsao DY

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring electrical activity in large numbers of cells with high spatial and temporal resolution is a fundamental problem for the study of neural development and information processing. To address this problem, we have constructed a novel, genetically encoded probe that can be used to measure transmembrane voltage in...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Siegel MS,Isacoff EY

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines have been proposed as primary sites of synaptic plasticity in the brain. Consistent with this hypothesis, spines contain high concentrations of actin, suggesting that they might be motile. To investigate this possibility, we made video recordings from hippocampal neurons expressing actin tagged with g...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fischer M,Kaech S,Knutti D,Matus A

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous somatic and dendritic recordings were made from the same neocortical layer V pyramidal neuron, and current injection via the dendritic recording pipette was used to simulate the voltage change that occurs during an EPSP. At the soma, these simulated EPSPs increased nonlinearly with the amplitude of the de...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Stuart G,Sakmann B

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Action potentials initiate in the axon initial segment (AIS), a specialized compartment enriched with Na(+) and K(+) channels. Recently, we found that T- and R-type Ca(2+) channels are concentrated in the AIS, where they contribute to local subthreshold membrane depolarization and thereby influence action potential in...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bender KJ,Ford CP,Trussell LO

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory systems change their sensitivity based on recent stimuli to adjust their response range to the range of inputs and to predict future sensory input. Here, we report the presence of retinal ganglion cells that have antagonistic plasticity, showing central adaptation and peripheral sensitization. Ganglion cell re...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kastner DB,Baccus SA

更新日期：2013-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The rich functional diversity of the nervous system is founded in the specific connectivity of the underlying neural circuitry. Neurons are often preprogrammed to respond to multiple axon guidance signals because they use sequential guideposts along their pathways, but this necessitates a strict spatiotemporal regulat...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bonanomi D,Valenza F,Chivatakarn O,Sternfeld MJ,Driscoll SP,Aslanian A,Lettieri K,Gullo M,Badaloni A,Lewcock JW,Hunter T,Pfaff SL

更新日期：2019-05-08 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：: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

abstract：:Rhythmic spontaneous electrical activity occurs in many parts of the developing nervous system, where it plays essential roles in the refinement of neural connections. By blocking or slowing this bursting activity, via in ovo drug applications at precise developmental periods, we show that such activity is also requir...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hanson MG,Landmesser LT

更新日期：2004-09-02 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：:The p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) collaborates with the Nogo receptor (NgR) and LINGO-1 to activate RhoA in response to myelin-based growth inhibitors such as myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). In this issue of Neuron, Domeniconi et al., in a surprising turn, show that MAG induces intramembrane proteolysis (RI...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ceni C,Barker PA

更新日期：2005-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:During the development of forebrain connectivity, ascending thalamocortical and descending corticofugal axons first intermingle at the pallial-subpallial boundary to form the internal capsule (IC). However, the identity of molecular cues that guide these axons remains largely unknown. Here, we show that the transmembr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mandai K,Reimert DV,Ginty DD

更新日期：2014-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of the CNS as an immune-privileged organ has led to a common misunderstanding that it is not an active immunological organ, guarded from its surroundings by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Recent advances in this field clearly demonstrate that the CNS is a highly immunologically active organ, with complex i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lampron A,Elali A,Rivest S

更新日期：2013-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a novel visual-tactile paradigm in rats, Nikbakht et al. (2018) describe multisensory behavior that outperformed predictions of optimal cue combination (indicating cross-modal synergy) and exposed encoding in PPC neurons (of stimulus and choice signals) that was independent of stimulus modality. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Shalom S,Zaidel A

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brain, enormous numbers of neurons have functional individuality and distinct circuit specificities. Clustered Protocadherins (Pcdhs), diversified cell-surface proteins, are stochastically expressed by alternative promoter choice and affect dendritic arborization in individual neurons. Here we found that the Pc...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Toyoda S,Kawaguchi M,Kobayashi T,Tarusawa E,Toyama T,Okano M,Oda M,Nakauchi H,Yoshimura Y,Sanbo M,Hirabayashi M,Hirayama T,Hirabayashi T,Yagi T

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a reaggregated cell culture system in which retinal neuroepithelial cells from embryonic rats proliferate extensively and give rise to rod photoreceptors on the same schedule in vitro as they do in vivo. Both the proliferative potential of the embryonic neuroepithelial cells and the timing of their differe...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Watanabe T,Raff MC

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-type calcium channels are critical for pain transduction. Inhibitors of these channels are powerful analgesics, but clinical use of current N-type blockers remains limited by undesirable actions in other regions of the nervous system. We now demonstrate that a unique splice isoform of the N-type channel is restricte...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bell TJ,Thaler C,Castiglioni AJ,Helton TD,Lipscombe D

更新日期：2004-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Real-time activity measurements of genetically identified neuroendocrine vasopressin neurons show they can anticipate osmotic challenges. In this issue of Neuron, Mandelblat-Cerf et al. (2017) show that correlating these results with ongoing behavior and plasma osmolality points to the existence of brain networks that...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Watts AG

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a surge of interest in how inhibitory neurons influence the output of local circuits in the brain. In this issue of Neuron, Scholl et al. (2015) provide a compelling argument for what one class of inhibitory neurons actually does. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Trachtenberg JT

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory mediators act on peripheral sensory neurons to produce pain and hypersensitivity after tissue injury. In this issue of Neuron, Dina et al. report that inflammatory mediators, such as epinephrine and prostaglandins, appear to couple to specific G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathways through plastic ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bhave G,Gereau RW 4th

更新日期：2003-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A longstanding debate in binocular rivalry literature is whether the perceptual competition in rivalry occurs at an early or late stage of visual processing. Central to this debate is the determination of the source of the competition. Overwhelming evidence exists that local interocular differences can lead to binocul...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Carlson TA,He S

更新日期：2004-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal population responses can vary across trials as a result of differences in the relative timing of internal brain processes. In this issue of Neuron, Williams et al. (2020) present an algorithm for inferring and inverting such trial-to-trial differences, thereby revealing an a priori hidden, precise temporal st...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Okun M

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-function studies have identified key functional motifs in the acetylcholine receptor, including residues that contribute to the ion channel and to the ligand-binding sites. Little is known, however, about determinants of channel gating kinetics. To identify structural correlates of gating, we examined the st...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bouzat C,Bren N,Sine SM

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00