PlexinA1 signaling directs the segregation of proprioceptive sensory axons in the developing spinal cord.

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：:Virally based transsynaptic tracing technologies are powerful experimental tools for neuronal circuit mapping. The glycoprotein-deletion variant of the SAD-B19 vaccine strain rabies virus (RABV) has been the reagent of choice in monosynaptic tracing, since it permits the mapping of synaptic inputs to genetically marke...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Reardon TR,Murray AJ,Turi GF,Wirblich C,Croce KR,Schnell MJ,Jessell TM,Losonczy A

更新日期：2016-02-17 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：:When faced with a crowded visual scene, observers must selectively attend to behaviorally relevant objects to avoid sensory overload. Often this selection process is guided by prior knowledge of a target-defining feature (e.g., the color red when looking for an apple), which enhances the firing rate of visual neurons ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Serences JT,Boynton GM

更新日期：2007-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic, somatostatin-containing bitufted interneurons in layer 2/3 of rat neocortex are excited via glutamatergic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) by pyramidal neurons located in the same cortical layer. Pair recordings showed that short bursts of backpropagating dendritic action potentials (APs) reduced ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zilberter Y,Kaiser KM,Sakmann B

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：:Migraine is thought to be triggered by excessive neocortical neuronal excitability that leads to cortical spreading depression. In this issue of Neuron, Tottene et al. study a mouse model of familial hemiplegic migraine type 1, and provide evidence for the hyperactivity of P/Q-type calcium channel-mediated cortical gl...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xue M,Rosenmund C

更新日期：2009-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the influence of retinal innervation on the development of target neurons in the first optic ganglion, the lamina, of D. melanogaster. Mitotically active lamina precursor cells (LPCs), which normally produce lamina neurons, are absent in mutants that lack retinal innervation, while other proliferative...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Selleck SB,Steller H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cued spatial attention differentially modulates alpha power in attended relative to non-attended brain representations, termed the alpha asymmetry. Yet a causal role for alpha in attention is debated. In this issue of Neuron, Bagherzadeh et al., (2019) utilize neurofeedback to train alpha asymmetry and causally impact...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jones SR,Sliva DD

更新日期：2020-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood-brain barrier (BBB) poses a major challenge for developing effective antibody therapies for neurological diseases. Using transcriptomic and proteomic profiling, we searched for proteins in mouse brain endothelial cells (BECs) that could potentially be exploited to transport antibodies across the BBB. Due to ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zuchero YJ,Chen X,Bien-Ly N,Bumbaca D,Tong RK,Gao X,Zhang S,Hoyte K,Luk W,Huntley MA,Phu L,Tan C,Kallop D,Weimer RM,Lu Y,Kirkpatrick DS,Ernst JA,Chih B,Dennis MS,Watts RJ

更新日期：2016-01-06 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：: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：:People often perceive configurations rather than the elements they comprise, a bias that may emerge because configurations often predict outcomes. But how does the brain learn to associate configurations with outcomes and how does this learning differ from learning about individual elements? We combined behavior, rein...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Duncan K,Doll BB,Daw ND,Shohamy D

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Direction-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs) are tuned to motion in one direction. Starburst amacrine cells (SACs) are thought to mediate this direction selectivity through precise anatomical wiring to DSGCs. Nevertheless, we previously found that visual adaptation can reverse DSGCs's directional tuning, overcoming the ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Vlasits AL,Bos R,Morrie RD,Fortuny C,Flannery JG,Feller MB,Rivlin-Etzion M

更新日期：2014-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of AMPA receptor function is a major mechanism for the regulation of synaptic transmission and underlies several forms of synaptic plasticity. Post-translational palmitoylation is a reversible modification that regulates localization of many proteins. Here, we report that palmitoylation of the AMPA recept...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hayashi T,Rumbaugh G,Huganir RL

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spine Ca(2+) is critical for the induction of synaptic plasticity, but the factors that control Ca(2+) handling in dendritic spines under physiological conditions are largely unknown. We studied [Ca(2+)] signaling in dendritic spines of CA1 pyramidal neurons and find that spines are specialized structures with low end...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sabatini BL,Oertner TG,Svoboda K

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explores the nature of population coding in sensory cortex by applying information theoretic analyses to neuron pairs recorded simultaneously from rat barrel cortex. We quantified the roles of individual spikes and spike patterns in encoding whisker stimulus location. 82%-85% of the total information was co...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Petersen RS,Panzeri S,Diamond ME

更新日期：2001-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodents begin to use bilaterally coordinated, rhythmic sweeping of their vibrissae ("whisking") for environmental exploration around 2 weeks after birth. Whether (and how) the vibrissal control circuitry changes after birth is unknown, and the relevant premotor circuitry remains poorly characterized. Using a modified ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Takatoh J,Nelson A,Zhou X,Bolton MM,Ehlers MD,Arenkiel BR,Mooney R,Wang F

更新日期：2013-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural vision often involves recognizing objects from partial information. Recognition of objects from parts presents a significant challenge for theories of vision because it requires spatial integration and extrapolation from prior knowledge. Here we recorded intracranial field potentials of 113 visually selective ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tang H,Buia C,Madhavan R,Crone NE,Madsen JR,Anderson WS,Kreiman G

更新日期：2014-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretion principles are conserved from yeast to humans, and many yeast orthologs have established roles in synaptic vesicle exocytosis in the mammalian brain. Surprisingly, SEC4 orthologs and their effectors, the exocyst, are dispensable for synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Here, we identify the SEC4 ortholog RAB3 and it...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Persoon CM,Hoogstraaten RI,Nassal JP,van Weering JRT,Kaeser PS,Toonen RF,Verhage M

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slowly progressing disorder in which pathophysiological abnormalities, detectable in vivo by biomarkers, precede overt clinical symptoms by many years to decades. Five AD biomarkers are sufficiently validated to have been incorporated into clinical diagnostic criteria and commonly used in...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jack CR Jr,Holtzman DM

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Native glutamate receptor ion channels are tetrameric assemblies containing two or more different subunits. NMDA receptors are obligate heteromers formed by coassembly of two or three divergent gene families. While some AMPA and kainate receptors can form functional homomeric ion channels, the KA1 and KA2 subunits are...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kumar J,Schuck P,Mayer ML

更新日期：2011-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Diphosphoinositol-pentakisphosphate (InsP7) and bis-diphosphoinositol tetrakisphosphate (InsP8) possess pyrophosphate bonds. InsP7 is formed from inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP6) by recently identified InsP6 kinases designated InsP6K1 and InsP6K2. We now report the identification, cloning, and characterization of a n...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Luo HR,Saiardi A,Nagata E,Ye K,Yu H,Jung TS,Luo X,Jain S,Sawa A,Snyder SH

更新日期：2001-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Katsuki and colleagues show that cell-autonomous mechanisms divide Drosophila axons into proximal and distal compartments. Axon guidance receptors selectively localize to one compartment. A diffusion barrier exists near the compartment boundary, suggesting that it may have properties like thos...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wright AP,Zinn K

更新日期：2009-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Contexts exert bi-directional control over relapse to drug seeking. Contexts associated with drug self-administration promote relapse, whereas contexts associated with the absence of self-administration protect against relapse. The nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh) is a key brain region determining these roles of contex...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gibson GD,Prasad AA,Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P,Yau JOY,Millan EZ,Liu Y,Campbell EJ,Lim J,Marchant NJ,Power JM,Killcross S,Lawrence AJ,McNally GP

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust and well-organized rhythm is a key feature of many neuronal networks, including those that regulate essential behaviors such as circadian rhythmogenesis, breathing, and locomotion. Here we show that excitatory V3-derived neurons are necessary for a robust and organized locomotor rhythm during walking. When V3...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhang Y,Narayan S,Geiman E,Lanuza GM,Velasquez T,Shanks B,Akay T,Dyck J,Pearson K,Gosgnach S,Fan CM,Goulding M

更新日期：2008-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular basis of the selective death of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been an enigma since its description by Charcot in 1869. In this issue of Neuron, demonstrate a motor neuron-specific death pathway which involves Fas and NO. Remarkably, motor neurons from mice carrying ALS-linked m...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xiong ZQ,McNamara JO

更新日期：2002-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely believed that the brain performs approximate probabilistic inference to estimate causal variables in the world from ambiguous sensory data. To understand these computations, we need to analyze how information is represented and transformed by the actions of nonlinear recurrent neural networks. We propose ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pitkow X,Angelaki DE

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are made up of protein subunits that differ from those constituting muscle nAChRs. To characterize the physiological properties of one class of avian brain nicotinic receptor, we injected the nuclei of Xenopus oocytes with full-length cDNAs for the ligand binding (alpha...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ballivet M,Nef P,Couturier S,Rungger D,Bader CR,Bertrand D,Cooper E

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray crystallography has made considerable recent progress in providing static structures of ion channels. Here we describe a complementary method-systematic fluorescence scanning-that reveals the structural dynamics of a channel. Local protein motion was measured from changes in the fluorescent intensity of a fluoro...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gandhi CS,Loots E,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00