Decreases in CaMKII activity trigger persistent potentiation of intrinsic excitability in spontaneously firing vestibular nucleus neurons.

abstract：:Adjustments in neural activity can drive cortical plasticity, but the underlying circuit components remain unclear. In this issue of Neuron, Barnes et al. (2015) show that visual deprivation-induced homeostatic plasticity invokes specific changes among select categories of V1 neurons. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Seabrook TA,Huberman AD

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:TRPA1 is a promising target for the development of novel treatments for chronic pain. In this issue of Neuron, Liu et al. (2021) report a novel non-covalent TRPA1-biased agonist, GNE551, revealing a unique binding pocket by cryo-EM and activation properties that pave a path toward new avenues in the treatment of chron...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fine M,Li X

更新日期：2021-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Commissural axons are attracted to the midline intermediate target by chemoattractants, but upon crossing the midline they switch off responsiveness to attractants and switch on responsiveness to midline repellents, which expel the axons from the midline and enable them to move on. Here we show that midline exit also ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gore BB,Wong KG,Tessier-Lavigne M

更新日期：2008-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) is required for LTP and experience-dependent potentiation in the barrel cortex. Here, we find that whisker deprivation increases LTP in the layer IV to II/III pathway and that PKA antagonists block the additional LTP. No LTP was seen in undeprived CaMKII-T286A mice, but whisker de...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hardingham N,Wright N,Dachtler J,Fox K

更新日期：2008-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently there is no general approach for achieving specific optogenetic control of genetically defined cell types in rats, which provide a powerful experimental system for numerous established neurophysiological and behavioral paradigms. To overcome this challenge we have generated genetically restricted recombinase...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Witten IB,Steinberg EE,Lee SY,Davidson TJ,Zalocusky KA,Brodsky M,Yizhar O,Cho SL,Gong S,Ramakrishnan C,Stuber GD,Tye KM,Janak PH,Deisseroth K

更新日期：2011-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine D3 receptor is expressed primarily in regions of the brain that are thought to influence motivation and motor functions. To specify in vivo D3 receptor function, we generated mutant mice lacking this receptor. Our analysis indicates that in a novel environment, D3 mutant mice are transiently more active t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xu M,Koeltzow TE,Santiago GT,Moratalla R,Cooper DC,Hu XT,White NM,Graybiel AM,White FJ,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing spinal cord, regional and combinatorial activities of Hox transcription factors are critical in controlling motor neuron fates along the rostrocaudal axis, exemplified by the precise pattern of limb innervation by more than fifty Hox-dependent motor pools. The mechanisms by which motor neuron diversi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jung H,Lacombe J,Mazzoni EO,Liem KF Jr,Grinstein J,Mahony S,Mukhopadhyay D,Gifford DK,Young RA,Anderson KV,Wichterle H,Dasen JS

更新日期：2010-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we define activities of RIM-binding protein (RBP) that are essential for baseline neurotransmission and presynaptic homeostatic plasticity. At baseline, rbp mutants have a ∼10-fold decrease in the apparent Ca(2+) sensitivity of release that we attribute to (1) impaired presynaptic Ca(2+) influx, (2) looser coupli...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Müller M,Genç Ö,Davis GW

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Memory enables flexible use of past experience to inform new behaviors. Although leading theories hypothesize that this fundamental flexibility results from the formation of integrated memory networks relating multiple experiences, the neural mechanisms that support memory integration are not well understood. Here, we...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zeithamova D,Dominick AL,Preston AR

更新日期：2012-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Several aspects of perception, particularly those pertaining to vision, are closely linked to the occipital alpha (alpha) rhythm. However, how the alpha rhythm relates to the activity of neurons that convey primary visual information is unknown. Here we show that in behaving cats, thalamocortical neurons in the latera...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lorincz ML,Kékesi KA,Juhász G,Crunelli V,Hughes SW

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine is thought to play a critical role in reinforcement learning and goal-directed behavior, but its function in action selection remains largely unknown. Here we demonstrate that nigrostriatal dopamine biases ongoing action selection. When mice were trained to dynamically switch the action selected at different ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Howard CD,Li H,Geddes CE,Jin X

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioned appetitive and aversive responses (CRs) are thought to result from the activation of specific subsets of valence-coding basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons. Under this model, the responses of BLA cells to conditioned stimuli (CSs) and the activity that drives CRs are closely related. We tested the strength ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kyriazi P,Headley DB,Pare D

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been unclear whether the hippocampus is uniquely important for episodic memory (memory for events that are specific to time and place) or whether the hippocampus is also important for learning and remembering facts (semantic memory). In two studies, we assessed the capacity for semantic memory in patients with ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Manns JR,Hopkins RO,Squire LR

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the early days of research into language and the brain, word meaning was assumed to be processed in specific brain regions, which most modern neuroscientists localize to the left temporal lobe. Here we use event-related fMRI to show that action words referring to face, arm, or leg actions (e.g., to lick, pick, o...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hauk O,Johnsrude I,Pulvermüller F

更新日期：2004-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the contribution of the inferior temporal (IT) cortical neurons to the active maintenance of internal representations. The activity of single neurons in the IT cortex was recorded while the monkeys performed a sequential-type associative memory task in which distractor stimuli interrupted the delay epo...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Takeda M,Naya Y,Fujimichi R,Takeuchi D,Miyashita Y

更新日期：2005-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of granule cells plays a key role in gating the flow of signals into the cerebellum, and it is thought that Golgi cells are the only interneurons that inhibit granule cells. Here we show that Purkinje cells, the sole output neurons of the cerebellar cortex, also directly inhibit granule cells via their axon...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Guo C,Witter L,Rudolph S,Elliott HL,Ennis KA,Regehr WG

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the contribution of the amygdala to value signals within orbital prefrontal cortex (OFC) and medial prefrontal cortex (MFC). On each trial, monkeys chose between two stimuli that were associated with different quantities of reward. In intact monkeys, as expected, neurons in both OFC and MFC signaled the re...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Rudebeck PH,Mitz AR,Chacko RV,Murray EA

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Local axon degeneration is a common pathological feature of many neurodegenerative diseases and peripheral neuropathies. While it is believed to operate with an apoptosis-independent molecular program, the underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. In this study, we used the degeneration of transected axons,...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhai Q,Wang J,Kim A,Liu Q,Watts R,Hoopfer E,Mitchison T,Luo L,He Z

更新日期：2003-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Particle-mediated gene transfer and two-photon microscopy were used to monitor the behavior of dendrites of individual cortical pyramidal neurons coexpressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). While the dendrites and spines of neurons expressing GFP alone grew modestly over ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Horch HW,Krüttgen A,Portbury SD,Katz LC

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of brain Na+ channels by protein kinase C (PKC) decreases peak Na+ current and slows macroscopic inactivation, but receptor-activated modulation of Na+ currents via the PKC pathway has not been demonstrated. We have examined modulation of Na+ channels by activation of muscarinic receptors in acutely-is...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cantrell AR,Ma JY,Scheuer T,Catterall WA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An autosomal recessive juvenile-onset form of Parkinson's disease (AR-JP) is caused by loss-of-function mutations of the parkin gene, which encodes a ubiquitin-protein ligase. Three recent reports demonstrate that parkin can protect neurons from diverse cellular insults, including alpha-synuclein toxicity, proteasomal...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Feany MB,Pallanck LJ

更新日期：2003-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:According to economic theories, preference for one item over others reveals its rank value on a common scale. Previous studies identified brain regions encoding such values. Here we verify that these regions can valuate various categories of objects and further test whether they still express preferences when attentio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lebreton M,Jorge S,Michel V,Thirion B,Pessiglione M

更新日期：2009-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Two critical amino acids in the visual pigment rhodopsin are Lys-296, the site of attachment of retinal to the protein through a protonated Schiff base linkage, and Glu-113, the Schiff base counterion. Mutation of Lys-296 or Glu-113 results in constitutive activation of opsin, as assayed by its ability to activate tra...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Robinson PR,Cohen GB,Zhukovsky EA,Oprian DD

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During synaptic development, proteins aggregate at specialized pre- and postsynaptic structures. Mechanisms that mediate protein clustering at these sites remain unknown. To investigate this process, we analyzed synaptic targeting of a postsynaptic density protein, PSD-95, by expressing green fluorescent protein- (GFP...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Craven SE,El-Husseini AE,Bredt DS

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) is a potent regulator of oligodendrocyte development and myelination in vitro, but its effect on myelination in vivo has never been tested directly. Therefore, we examined brain growth and myelination in a transgenic mouse line that overexpresses IGF-I. By postnatal day 55, when br...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Carson MJ,Behringer RR,Brinster RL,McMorris FA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the neural basis of adaptation (repetition suppression) is critical for interpreting fMRI-adaptation experiments. Sawamura and colleagues provide a critical stepping-stone by elucidating the relation between neural adaptation and response selectivity. They find some cross-adaptation by two different stim...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Grill-Spector K

更新日期：2006-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:While nerve growth factor (NGF) is best known for its trophic functions, recent experiments indicate that it can also cause cell death during development by activating the neurotrophin receptor p75. We now identify microglial cells as the source of NGF as a killing agent in the developing eye. When the retina is separ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Frade JM,Barde YA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have combined functional maps of retinotopy (eccentricity and meridian mapping), object category, and motion in a group of subjects to explore the large-scale topography of higher-order object areas. Our results reveal seven consistent category-related entities situated in the occipito-temporal cortex adjoining ear...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hasson U,Harel M,Levy I,Malach R

更新日期：2003-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate motion detection requires neural circuitry that compensates for global visual field motion. Select subtypes of retinal ganglion cells perceive image motion and connect to the accessory optic system (AOS) in the brain, which generates compensatory eye movements that stabilize images during slow visual field mo...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sun LO,Brady CM,Cahill H,Al-Khindi T,Sakuta H,Dhande OS,Noda M,Huberman AD,Nathans J,Kolodkin AL

更新日期：2015-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The posterior septum consisting of the triangular septum (TS) and the bed nucleus of the anterior commissure (BAC) is predominantly linked with the medial habenula (MHb) and has been implicated in the control of anxiety and fear responses. However, its anatomical and functional linkage has largely remained elusive. We...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yamaguchi T,Danjo T,Pastan I,Hikida T,Nakanishi S

更新日期：2013-05-08 00:00:00