Activation of protein kinase C alters voltage dependence of a Na+ channel.

abstract：:Little is known about how animals integrate multiple sensory inputs in natural environments to balance avoidance of danger with approach to things of value. Furthermore, the mechanistic link between internal physiological state and threat-reward decision making remains poorly understood. Here we confronted C. elegans ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ghosh DD,Sanders T,Hong S,McCurdy LY,Chase DL,Cohen N,Koelle MR,Nitabach MN

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural circuits governing vital behaviors, such as respiration and locomotion, are comprised of discrete neuronal populations residing within the brainstem and spinal cord. Work over the past decade has provided a fairly comprehensive understanding of the developmental pathways that determine the identity of major...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Philippidou P,Dasen JS

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Unequivocal proof that the activity of a localized cortical neuronal population provides sufficient basis for a specific cognitive function has rarely been obtained. We looked for such proof in monkeys trained to discriminate between two mechanical flutter stimuli applied sequentially to the fingertips. Microelectrode...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Romo R,Hernández A,Zainos A,Brody CD,Lemus L

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neocortex of mammals is composed of cortical fields that have a unique organization associated with the animal's ecological niche and lifestyle. Each cortical field has a specific pattern of connections with other cortical fields and brain structures, and together they comprise a neocortical network that generates...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Krubitzer L

更新日期：2007-10-25 00:00:00

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：:After synaptic vesicles (SVs) undergo exocytosis, SV pools are replenished by recycling SVs at nerve terminals. At Drosophila neuromuscular synapses, there are two distinct SV pools (i.e., the exo/endo cycling pool (ECP), which primarily maintains synaptic transmission, and the reserve pool (RP), which participates in...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kuromi H,Kidokoro Y

更新日期：2002-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of interneuron diversity in the spinal cord is complex and needs new models that can accelerate discovery. In this issue, Hoang et al. (2018) use ESC-derived neurons to create simplified microcircuits to study spinal interneuron diversification, connectivity, and function. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Alvarez FJ

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromuscular junction (NMJ) formation requires agrin, a factor released from motoneurons, and MuSK, a transmembrane tyrosine kinase that is activated by agrin. However, how signal is transduced from agrin to MuSK remains unclear. We report that LRP4, a low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR)-related protein, is expre...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhang B,Luo S,Wang Q,Suzuki T,Xiong WC,Mei L

更新日期：2008-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is a recently described neurodegenerative disorder of older adult carriers of premutation alleles (60-200 CGG repeats) in the fragile X mental retardation gene (FMR1). It has been proposed that FXTAS is an RNA-mediated neurodegenerative disease caused by the titratio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sofola OA,Jin P,Qin Y,Duan R,Liu H,de Haro M,Nelson DL,Botas J

更新日期：2007-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:How do neurons develop, control, and maintain their electrical signaling properties in spite of ongoing protein turnover and perturbations to activity? From generic assumptions about the molecular biology underlying channel expression, we derive a simple model and show how it encodes an "activity set point" in single ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： O'Leary T,Williams AH,Franci A,Marder E

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The amplitudes and kinetics of miniature excitatory synaptic currents (MESCs) in mammalian central neurons vary widely. It is unclear whether this variability occurs at each synapse or arises from differences among a heterogeneous population of synapses. Furthermore, it is not known how variability in these currents w...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Murphy TH,Baraban JM,Wier WG

更新日期：1995-07-01 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：:We report a role for long-distance retrograde neurotrophin signaling in the establishment of synapses in the sympathetic nervous system. Target-derived NGF is both necessary and sufficient for formation of postsynaptic specializations on dendrites of sympathetic neurons. This, in turn, is a prerequisite for formation ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sharma N,Deppmann CD,Harrington AW,St Hillaire C,Chen ZY,Lee FS,Ginty DD

更新日期：2010-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:M-current is widespread in the nervous system. It stabilizes cell excitability, and its suppression by muscarinic receptor activation underlies slow synaptic transmission in sympathetic neurons. Suppression of M-current was one of the first examples of neuromodulation of a potassium current, but the mechanism is not u...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Marrion NV

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptotagmin 7 (Syt7) was originally identified as a slow Ca2+ sensor for lysosome fusion, but its function at fast synapses is controversial. The paper by Luo and Südhof (2017) in this issue of Neuron shows that at the calyx of Held in the auditory brainstem Syt7 triggers asynchronous release during stimulus trains,...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chen C,Jonas P

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we found that electrical stimulation of motor cortex caused monkeys to make coordinated, complex movements. These evoked movements were arranged across the cortex in a map of spatial locations to which the hand moved. We suggest that some of the subdivisions previously described within primary motor and prem...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Graziano MS,Taylor CS,Moore T,Cooke DF

更新日期：2002-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The apical tuft of layer 5 pyramidal neurons is innervated by a large number of inhibitory inputs with unknown functions. Here, we studied the functional consequences and underlying molecular mechanisms of apical inhibition on dendritic spike activity. Extracellular stimulation of layer 1, during blockade of glutamate...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pérez-Garci E,Gassmann M,Bettler B,Larkum ME

更新日期：2006-05-18 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：: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：:Long-term memory and synaptic plasticity are thought to require the synthesis of new proteins at activated synapses. The CPEB family of RNA binding proteins, including Drosophila Orb2, has been implicated in this process. The precise mechanism by which these molecules regulate memory formation is however poorly unders...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Krüttner S,Stepien B,Noordermeer JN,Mommaas MA,Mechtler K,Dickson BJ,Keleman K

更新日期：2012-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neocortical excitatory and inhibitory neurons derive from distinct progenitor domains during embryonic development and migrate to their final positions, where they assemble into functional circuits. This process appears to be influenced by lineage relationships among locally born excitatory neurons, raising the intrig...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Turrero García M,Mazzola E,Harwell CC

更新日期：2016-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary motor cortex (MI) is regarded as the site for motor control. Occasional reports that MI neurons react to sensory stimuli have either been ignored or attributed to guidance of voluntary movements. Here, we show that MI activation is necessary for the somatic perception of movement of our limbs. We made use ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Naito E,Roland PE,Ehrsson HH

更新日期：2002-12-05 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：:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau, tau phosphorylated at threonine 181 (ptau), and Aβ₄₂ are established biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and have been used as quantitative traits for genetic analyses. We performed the largest genome-wide association study for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tau/ptau levels published to d...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cruchaga C,Kauwe JS,Harari O,Jin SC,Cai Y,Karch CM,Benitez BA,Jeng AT,Skorupa T,Carrell D,Bertelsen S,Bailey M,McKean D,Shulman JM,De Jager PL,Chibnik L,Bennett DA,Arnold SE,Harold D,Sims R,Gerrish A,Williams J

更新日期：2013-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Live imaging studies in mice show that adult-born oligodendrocytes and myelin are remarkably stable. Neural activity enhances oligodendrocyte integration, arguing that internode addition rather than alteration represents the mechanism for any experience-dependent cortical myelination changes that might underpin learni...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Swire M,Ffrench-Constant C

更新日期：2018-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease is caused by an abnormally expanded CAG repeat expansion in the HTT gene, which confers a predominant toxic gain of function in the mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein. There are currently no disease-modifying therapies available, but approaches that target proximally in disease pathogenesis hold gre...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tabrizi SJ,Ghosh R,Leavitt BR

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Both human speech and animal vocal signals contain frequency-modulated (FM) sounds. Although central auditory neurons that selectively respond to the direction of frequency modulation are known, the synaptic mechanisms underlying the generation of direction selectivity (DS) remain elusive. Here we show the emergence o...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kuo RI,Wu GK

更新日期：2012-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear is a graded central motive state ranging from mild to intense. As threat intensity increases, fear transitions from discriminative to generalized. The circuit mechanisms that process threats of different intensity are not well resolved. Here, we isolate a unique population of locally projecting neurons in the cen...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sanford CA,Soden ME,Baird MA,Miller SM,Schulkin J,Palmiter RD,Clark M,Zweifel LS

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined context-dependent encoding of speech in children with and without developmental dyslexia by measuring auditory brainstem responses to a speech syllable presented in a repetitive or variable context. Typically developing children showed enhanced brainstem representation of features related to voice pitch in...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chandrasekaran B,Hornickel J,Skoe E,Nicol T,Kraus N

更新日期：2009-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent genetic evidence indicates that neuregulin 1 (NRG1) and its receptor erbB4 may be susceptibility genes in schizophrenia, but their function in CNS synaptic transmission and circuitry is not well understood. In this issue of Neuron, studies from Li et al. and Woo et al. show that NRG1 and erbB4 regulate transmis...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fischbach GD

更新日期：2007-05-24 00:00:00