Two alpha-herpesvirus strains are transported differentially in the rodent visual system.

abstract：:The debate over the nature of mechanisms leading to the establishment of synaptic specificity has engaged neuroscientists for the best part of a century. In this issue of Neuron, Balaskas et al. (2019) provide new evidence in favor of the role of positional strategies in the organization of sensory-motor circuits. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mariotti L,Tripodi M

更新日期：2019-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by the selective demise of specific neuronal populations leading to impairment of motor functions. Recent genetic studies have uncovered several genes involved in inherited forms of the disease. These gene products are implicated in the biochemical ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Giasson BI,Lee VM

更新日期：2001-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine Cxcl12 binds Cxcr4 and Cxcr7 receptors to control cell migration in multiple biological contexts, including brain development, leukocyte trafficking, and tumorigenesis. Both receptors are expressed in the CNS, but how they cooperate during migration has not been elucidated. Here, we used the migration of...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sánchez-Alcañiz JA,Haege S,Mueller W,Pla R,Mackay F,Schulz S,López-Bendito G,Stumm R,Marín O

更新日期：2011-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A male zebra finch learns a song by listening to a tutor, but song learning is normally restricted to a critical period in juvenile development. Here we identify an RNA whose expression in the song control circuit is altered during this critical period. The RNA encodes a soluble presynaptic protein that forms a predic...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： George JM,Jin H,Woods WS,Clayton DF

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attention or variations in event processing help drive learning. Lesion studies have implicated the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) in this process, particularly when expected rewards are omitted. However, lesion studies cannot specify how information processing in CeA supports such learning. To address these qu...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Calu DJ,Roesch MR,Haney RZ,Holland PC,Schoenbaum G

更新日期：2010-12-09 00:00:00

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：:Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-dependent phosphoinositide signaling has been implicated in diverse cellular systems coupled to receptors for many different ligands, but the extent to which it functions in sensory transduction is yet to be determined. We now report that blocking PI3K activity increases odorant-ev...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Spehr M,Wetzel CH,Hatt H,Ache BW

更新日期：2002-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:LRRK2 is a kinase mutated in Parkinson's disease, but how the protein affects synaptic function remains enigmatic. We identified LRRK2 as a critical regulator of EndophilinA. Using genetic and biochemical studies involving Lrrk loss-of-function mutants and Parkinson-related LRRK2(G2019S) gain-of-kinase function, we sh...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Matta S,Van Kolen K,da Cunha R,van den Bogaart G,Mandemakers W,Miskiewicz K,De Bock PJ,Morais VA,Vilain S,Haddad D,Delbroek L,Swerts J,Chávez-Gutiérrez L,Esposito G,Daneels G,Karran E,Holt M,Gevaert K,Moechars DW,De

更新日期：2012-09-20 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：:Astrocytes metabolically interact with neighboring neurons by providing multiple substances to neurons. How astrocytes regulate neural functions via altering the neuronal metabolic state remains elusive. Here, we demonstrate that astrocytic ApoE vectors a variety of microRNAs (miRNAs), and these miRNAs specifically si...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Li X,Zhang J,Li D,He C,He K,Xue T,Wan L,Zhang C,Liu Q

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnoses of behavioral disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia are based on symptomatic descriptions that have been difficult to connect to mechanism. Although psychiatric genetics provide insight into the genetic underpinning of such disorders, with a majority of cases explained by polygenic fac...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Krol A,Wimmer RD,Halassa MM,Feng G

更新日期：2018-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a transgenic mouse line in which GFP is expressed in a single population of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), Huberman and colleagues report in this issue of Neuron that the axon terminals of RGCs exhibit an orderly pattern of distribution in the higher visual centers. This pattern undergoes a developmental refinem...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： He S

更新日期：2008-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuron B19 of Helisoma is selective in synaptogenesis. Presynaptic mechanisms underlying this selectivity were tested. Acetylcholine-sensitive assay cells were micromanipulated into contact with B19 somata to assess its secretory state. Prior to appropriate muscle target contact, spontaneous synaptic currents were det...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zoran MJ,Doyle RT,Haydon PG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons adapt their synaptic responses to the activity of the underlying network. In this issue of Neuron, Thiagarajan and colleagues report on specific subcellular mechanisms of homeostasis after prolonged neuronal inactivity. The results have important implications not only for neuronal homeostasis but also for furt...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gundlfinger A,Schmitz D

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the deposition of senile plaques and progressive dementia. The molecular mechanisms that couple plaque deposition to neural system failure, however, are unknown. Using transgenic mouse models of AD together with multiphoton imaging, we measured neuronal calcium in individual neu...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kuchibhotla KV,Goldman ST,Lattarulo CR,Wu HY,Hyman BT,Bacskai BJ

更新日期：2008-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative polyadenylation (APA) is increasingly recognized to regulate gene expression across different cell types, but obtaining APA maps from individual cell types typically requires prior purification, a stressful procedure that can itself alter cellular states. Here, we describe a new platform, cTag-PAPERCLIP, t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hwang HW,Saito Y,Park CY,Blachère NE,Tajima Y,Fak JJ,Zucker-Scharff I,Darnell RB

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual experience before eye-opening is not usually thought to have any developmental significance. Here we show that naturalistic visual stimuli presented through unopened eyelids robustly activate neurons in the ferret dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus. Further, dark-rearing prior to natural eye-opening has striking...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Akerman CJ,Smyth D,Thompson ID

更新日期：2002-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfaction is a principal sensory modality in rodents, and rats quickly learn to discriminate between odors and to associate odor with reward. Here we show that such olfactory discrimination (OD) learning consists of two phases with distinct cellular mechanisms: an initial NMDAR-sensitive phase in which the animals acq...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Quinlan EM,Lebel D,Brosh I,Barkai E

更新日期：2004-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is concentrated at the vertebrate neuromuscular synapse. To determine whether increased transcript levels could underlie this selective accumulation, we employed a quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction-based assay to determine mRNA copy number in samples as small as s...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jasmin BJ,Lee RK,Rotundo RL

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical studies suggest that syntaxin 1A participates in multiple protein-protein interactions in the synaptic terminal, but the in vivo significance of these interactions is poorly understood. We used a targeted mutagenesis approach to eliminate specific syntaxin binding interactions and demonstrate that Drosophi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wu MN,Fergestad T,Lloyd TE,He Y,Broadie K,Bellen HJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms are entrained to the natural day:night cycle. Melanopsin expressed in retinal ganglion cells partially accounts for circadian photoentrainment. Dkhissi-Benyahya et al. demonstrate that medium wavelength opsin (MW-opsin) also plays an important role in the process. Furthermore, they develop a model ex...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Panda S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes of ocular dominance in the visual cortex can be induced by visual manipulations during a critical period in early life. However, the role of critical period plasticity in normal development is unknown. Here we show that at the onset of this time window, the preferred orientations of individual cortical cells i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wang BS,Sarnaik R,Cang J

更新日期：2010-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciding between stimuli requires combining their learned value with one's sensory confidence. We trained mice in a visual task that probes this combination. Mouse choices reflected not only present confidence and past rewards but also past confidence. Their behavior conformed to a model that combines signal detection...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lak A,Okun M,Moss MM,Gurnani H,Farrell K,Wells MJ,Reddy CB,Kepecs A,Harris KD,Carandini M

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell proliferation during successive stages of oligodendrocyte development was delineated in the rat brain and optic nerve. Surface antigens, A2B5, O4, and galactocerebroside (GalC) identified three cell populations emerging in sequence; the incorporation of bromodeoxyuridine into newly synthesized DNA identified the ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gard AL,Pfeiffer SE

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive grooming behaviors, cleansing rituals, and self-mutilation are important features of a range of neuropsychiatric diseases including obsessive compulsive (OC)-spectrum disorders. In this issue of Neuron, Greer and Capecchi (2002) report that Hoxb8 mutant mice exhibit this behavioral phenotype. These Hoxb8 mut...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Graybiel AM,Saka E

更新日期：2002-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Caenorhabditis elegans has been utilized extensively to study synapse formation and function, relatively little is known about synaptic plasticity in C. elegans. We show that a brief treatment with the cholinesterase inhibitor aldicarb induces a form of presynaptic potentiation whereby ACh release at neuromus...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hu Z,Pym EC,Babu K,Vashlishan Murray AB,Kaplan JM

更新日期：2011-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental evidence shows that the inability to attribute mental states, such as desires and beliefs, to self and others (mentalizing) explains the social and communication impairments of individuals with autism. Brain imaging studies in normal volunteers highlight a circumscribed network that is active during menta...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Frith U

更新日期：2001-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive theory posits association by juxtaposition or by fusion. We employed the measurement of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to a concept fusion task in order to explore memory encoding of these two types of associations between word pairs, followed by a memory test for original pair order. Encoding process...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kounios J,Smith RW,Yang W,Bachman P,D'Esposito M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are critical for learning and memory. Hippocampal activity during awake sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events is important for spatial learning, and hippocampal SWR activity often represents past or potential future experiences. Whether or how this reactivation...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jadhav SP,Rothschild G,Roumis DK,Frank LM

更新日期：2016-04-06 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