Target contact regulates the calcium responsiveness of the secretory machinery during synaptogenesis.

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

abstract：:Neuroscience relies on techniques for imaging the structure and dynamics of neural circuits, but the cell bodies of individual neurons are often obscured by overlapping fluorescence from axons and dendrites in surrounding neuropil. Here, we describe two strategies for using the ribosome to restrict the expression of f...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chen Y,Jang H,Spratt PWE,Kosar S,Taylor DE,Essner RA,Bai L,Leib DE,Kuo TW,Lin YC,Patel M,Subkhangulova A,Kato S,Feinberg EH,Bender KJ,Knight ZA,Garrison JL

更新日期：2020-08-05 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：:Recent studies indicate that long interspersed nuclear element-1 (L1) are mobilized in the genome of human neural progenitor cells and enhanced in Rett syndrome and ataxia telangiectasia. However, whether aberrant L1 retrotransposition occurs in mental disorders is unknown. Here, we report high L1 copy number in schiz...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bundo M,Toyoshima M,Okada Y,Akamatsu W,Ueda J,Nemoto-Miyauchi T,Sunaga F,Toritsuka M,Ikawa D,Kakita A,Kato M,Kasai K,Kishimoto T,Nawa H,Okano H,Yoshikawa T,Kato T,Iwamoto K

更新日期：2014-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The forebrain is one of most complex cellular structures known. Two phenomena that enable this complexity are tangential migrations that mix neurons from distinct progenitor fields, and axon guidance across intervening, noninnervated fields. A new paper in Cell by López-Bendito et al. has discovered the convergence of...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Maroof AM,Anderson SA

更新日期：2006-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal cell migration in the developing neocortex relies on the Reelin signaling cascade to establish the characteristic "inside out" lamination pattern. In this issue of Neuron, Rakic and colleagues report that Notch signaling, long known to regulate neural stem cells, also plays a critical role in mediating the ef...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gaiano N

更新日期：2008-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+)-calmodulin (CaM) function was selectively disrupted in a specific subset of growth cones in transgenic Drosophila embryos in which a specific enhancer element drives the expression of the kinesin motor domain fused to a CaM antagonist peptide (kinesin-antagonist or KA, which blocks CaM binding to target protein...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： VanBerkum MF,Goodman CS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MAG-deficient mouse was used to test whether MAG acts as a significant inhibitor of axonal regeneration in the adult mammalian CNS, as suggested by cell culture experiments. Cell spreading, neurite elongation, or growth cone collapse of different cell types in vitro was not significantly different when myelin prep...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bartsch U,Bandtlow CE,Schnell L,Bartsch S,Spillmann AA,Rubin BP,Hillenbrand R,Montag D,Schwab ME,Schachner M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans can easily focus on one speaker in a multi-talker acoustic environment, but how different areas of the human auditory cortex (AC) represent the acoustic components of mixed speech is unknown. We obtained invasive recordings from the primary and nonprimary AC in neurosurgical patients as they listened to multi-t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： O'Sullivan J,Herrero J,Smith E,Schevon C,McKhann GM,Sheth SA,Mehta AD,Mesgarani N

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the synaptic vesicle-associated phosphoprotein synapsin I after electrical stimulation of the frog neuromuscular junction was investigated by immunogold labeling and compared with the distribution of the integral synaptic vesicle protein synaptophysin. In resting terminals both proteins were locali...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Torri Tarelli F,Bossi M,Fesce R,Greengard P,Valtorta F

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevation of cAMP can overcome myelin inhibitors to encourage regeneration of the CNS. We show that a consequence of elevated cAMP is the synthesis of polyamines, resulting from an up-regulation of Arginase I, a key enzyme in their synthesis. Inhibiting polyamine synthesis blocks the cAMP effect on regeneration. Eithe...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cai D,Deng K,Mellado W,Lee J,Ratan RR,Filbin MT

更新日期：2002-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis of non-human primates performing three different tasks (Object-Match, Category-Match, and Category-Saccade associations) revealed signatures of explicit and implicit learning. Performance improved equally following correct and error trials in the Match (explicit) tasks, but it improved more after corre...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Loonis RF,Brincat SL,Antzoulatos EG,Miller EK

更新日期：2017-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampal CA2 subregion has a different anatomical connectivity pattern within the entorhino-hippocampal circuit than either the CA1 or CA3 subregion. Yet major differences in the neuronal activity patterns of CA2 compared with the other CA subregions have not been reported. We show that standard spatial and tem...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mankin EA,Diehl GW,Sparks FT,Leutgeb S,Leutgeb JK

更新日期：2015-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clock proteins are modified in many different ways. The best-studied posttranslational modification is phosphorylation, with well-known kinases and phosphatases regulating the function and stability of clock proteins. Degradation of these proteins usually involves ubiquitylation or sumoylation, and some of t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sehgal A

更新日期：2008-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus is essential for spatiotemporal cognition. Sequences of neuronal activation provide a substrate for this fundamental function. At the behavioral timescale, these sequences have been shown to occur either in the presence of successive external landmarks or through internal mechanisms within an episodic ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Villette V,Malvache A,Tressard T,Dupuy N,Cossart R

更新日期：2015-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory information is actively gathered by animals, but the synaptic mechanisms driving neuronal circuit function during active sensory processing are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the synaptically driven membrane potential dynamics during active whisker sensation using whole-cell recordings from layer 2/3...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Crochet S,Poulet JF,Kremer Y,Petersen CC

更新日期：2011-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are brain-resident immune cells and regulate mechanisms essential for cognitive functions. Down syndrome (DS), the most frequent cause of genetic intellectual disability, is caused by a supernumerary chromosome 21, containing also genes related to the immune system. In the hippocampus of the Dp(16) mouse mod...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pinto B,Morelli G,Rastogi M,Savardi A,Fumagalli A,Petretto A,Bartolucci M,Varea E,Catelani T,Contestabile A,Perlini LE,Cancedda L

更新日期：2020-12-09 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：:Cortical motor areas are thought to contribute "higher-order processing," but what that processing might include is unknown. Previous studies of the smooth pursuit-related discharge of supplementary eye field (SEF) neurons have not distinguished activity associated with the preparation for pursuit from discharge relat...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Shichinohe N,Akao T,Kurkin S,Fukushima J,Kaneko CR,Fukushima K

更新日期：2009-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of patients with brain lesions has made major historical contributions to cognitive neuroscience. Here I argue for an increased investment in modern lesion mapping, complementing fMRI studies and laying the conceptual and analytic foundations for future techniques that could experimentally manipulate human b...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Adolphs R

更新日期：2016-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing models of Huntington's disease posit that deficits in BDNF delivery to the striatum contribute to atrophy and motor impairment. In this issue of Neuron, Plotkin et al. (2014) show that BDNF delivery is normal but downstream signaling via TrkB and p75 is impaired, leading to corticostriatal synaptic dysfunctio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Parsons MP,Raymond LA

更新日期：2014-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The auditory cortex encodes information about sounds through the combined activity of large numbers of neurons, but the way this population activity is organized has not been clear. In this issue of Neuron, Bathellier et al. (2012) show that firing in the superficial layers of auditory cortex is organized into a small...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Harris KD

更新日期：2012-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Small conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) (SK) channels and voltage-gated A-type Kv4 channels shape dendritic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Synaptically evoked Ca(2+) influx through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) activates spine SK channels, reducing EPSPs and ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wang K,Lin MT,Adelman JP,Maylie J

更新日期：2014-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Charybdotoxin (CTX) blocks high conductance Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels by binding to a receptor site in the externally facing "mouth." Toxin bound to the channel can be destabilized from its site by K+ entering the channel from the opposite, internal, solution. By analyzing point mutants of CTX expressed in E. coli,...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Park CS,Miller C

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:To assess the role of exocytotic release in signaling by monoamines, we have disrupted the neuronal vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) gene. VMAT2-/- mice move little, feed poorly, and die within a few days after birth. Monoamine cell groups and their projections are indistinguishable from those of wild-type li...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fon EA,Pothos EN,Sun BC,Killeen N,Sulzer D,Edwards RH

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of recent papers highlight a prominent role for ubiquitin in the formation and function of neural circuits. These new results focus attention on the molecular remodeling that occurs at various decision points in the life of growth cones and synapses. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Murphey RK,Godenschwege TA

更新日期：2002-09-26 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：:Autism spectrum disorders such as Rett syndrome (RTT) have been hypothesized to arise from defects in experience-dependent synapse maturation. RTT is caused by mutations in MECP2, a nuclear protein that becomes phosphorylated at S421 in response to neuronal activation. We show here that disruption of MeCP2 S421 phosph...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cohen S,Gabel HW,Hemberg M,Hutchinson AN,Sadacca LA,Ebert DH,Harmin DA,Greenberg RS,Verdine VK,Zhou Z,Wetsel WC,West AE,Greenberg ME

更新日期：2011-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a neuronal surface glycoprotein to mediate the formation of neuronal connections was tested in an explant culture system. A monoclonal antibody against the limbic system-associated membrane protein (LAMP) was used in co-cultures containing cholinergic neurons of the septum and their hippocampal target n...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Keller F,Rimvall K,Barbe MF,Levitt P

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00