Synaptotagmin-1, -2, and -9: Ca(2+) sensors for fast release that specify distinct presynaptic properties in subsets of neurons.

abstract：:Does our understanding of the human brain remain incomplete without a proper understanding of how the brain processes music? Here, the author makes a passionate plea for the use of music in the investigation of human emotion and its brain correlates, arguing that music can change activity in all brain structures assoc...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Koelsch S

更新日期：2018-06-27 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：:The maturation of synaptic structures depends on inductive interactions between axons and their prospective targets. One example of such an interaction is the influence of proprioceptive sensory axons on the differentiation of muscle spindles. We have monitored the expression of three transcription factors, Egr3, Pea3...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hippenmeyer S,Shneider NA,Birchmeier C,Burden SJ,Jessell TM,Arber S

更新日期：2002-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe recent progress toward defining neuronal cell types in the mouse retina and attempt to extract lessons that may be generally useful in the mammalian brain. Achieving a comprehensive catalog of retinal cell types now appears within reach, because researchers have achieved consensus concerning two fundamenta...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Seung HS,Sümbül U

更新日期：2014-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The enteric nervous system (ENS) in vertebrates is derived mainly from vagal neural crest cells that enter the foregut and colonize the entire wall of the gastrointestinal tract. Failure to completely colonize the gut results in the absence of enteric ganglia (Hirschsprung's disease). Two signaling systems mediated by...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Barlow A,de Graaff E,Pachnis V

更新日期：2003-12-04 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：:At least 30 types of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) send distinct messages through the optic nerve to the brain. Available strategies of promoting axon regeneration act on only some of these types. Here we tested the hypothesis that overexpressing developmentally important transcription factors in adult RGCs could repr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Norsworthy MW,Bei F,Kawaguchi R,Wang Q,Tran NM,Li Y,Brommer B,Zhang Y,Wang C,Sanes JR,Coppola G,He Z

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal motor commands, whether generating real or neuroprosthetic movements, are shaped by ongoing sensory feedback from the displacement being produced. Here we asked if cortical stimulation could provide artificial feedback during operant conditioning of cortical neurons. Simultaneous two-photon imaging and real-t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Prsa M,Galiñanes GL,Huber D

更新日期：2017-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Gantz and Bean (2017) show that the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG) can directly alter the properties of native ion-channel Kv4.3 and accelerate the pacemaker activity of rodent dopamine neurons. These findings are one of the first demonstrations of postsynaptic, cell-autonomous...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Matsui A,Alvarez VA

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of neuronal cell progenitors depends on complex interactions between intrinsic cellular programs and environmental cues. Such interactions have recently been explored using an immortalized sympathoadrenal progenitor cell line, MAH. These studies have revealed that depolarizing conditions, in combin...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ip NY,Boulton TG,Li Y,Verdi JM,Birren SJ,Anderson DJ,Yancopoulos GD

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of ryanodine receptors, channels for Ca2+ release from intracellular stores, are known. We detected the skeletal muscle type only in cerebellum by immunoblot analysis of microsomes and partially purified proteins. The cardiac muscle type was found in all parts of the mouse brain. Immunohistochemical study sh...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kuwajima G,Futatsugi A,Niinobe M,Nakanishi S,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arc/Arg3.1 is robustly induced by plasticity-producing stimulation and specifically targeted to stimulated synaptic areas. To investigate the role of Arc/Arg3.1 in synaptic plasticity and learning and memory, we generated Arc/Arg3.1 knockout mice. These animals fail to form long-lasting memories for implicit and expli...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Plath N,Ohana O,Dammermann B,Errington ML,Schmitz D,Gross C,Mao X,Engelsberg A,Mahlke C,Welzl H,Kobalz U,Stawrakakis A,Fernandez E,Waltereit R,Bick-Sander A,Therstappen E,Cooke SF,Blanquet V,Wurst W,Salmen B,Bösl

更新日期：2006-11-09 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

abstract：:Cigarette smokers tend to drink more alcohol than their nonsmoking peers. In this issue of Neuron, Doyon et al. (2013) found that nicotine-induced increases in stress hormones can augment ethanol self-administration in rats, suggesting that a drug interaction may contribute to this phenomenon. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Britt JP,Bonci A

更新日期：2013-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Satb2 is a DNA-binding protein that regulates chromatin organization and gene expression. In the developing brain, Satb2 is expressed in cortical neurons that extend axons across the corpus callosum. To assess the role of Satb2 in neurons, we analyzed mice in which the Satb2 locus was disrupted by insertion of a LacZ ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Alcamo EA,Chirivella L,Dautzenberg M,Dobreva G,Fariñas I,Grosschedl R,McConnell SK

更新日期：2008-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory input reaching the brain from bilateral and offset channels is nonetheless perceived as unified. This unity could be explained by simultaneous projections to both hemispheres, or inter-hemispheric information transfer between sensory cortical maps. Odor input, however, is not topographically organized, nor doe...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Grobman M,Dalal T,Lavian H,Shmuel R,Belelovsky K,Xu F,Korngreen A,Haddad R

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Today we are witnessing a new science of placebo, a complex discipline that encompasses several experimental approaches and translational implications. Modern neurobiological tools have been used to answer important questions in placebo research, such as the top-down modulation of sensory and motor systems as well as ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Benedetti F

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term, but not short-term, facilitation induced by 5-HT in Aplysia sensory neurons is blocked by application of inhibitors of protein synthesis or RNA synthesis during the 1.5 hr training period. These findings suggest that genes and proteins not needed for the short-term process are required for long-term facilit...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Barzilai A,Kennedy TE,Sweatt JD,Kandel ER

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used fear conditioning, which is known to alter synaptic efficacy in lateral amygdala (LA), to study molecular mechanisms underlying long-term memory. Following fear conditioning, the tyrosine phosphorylated protein p190 RhoGAP becomes associated with GRB2 in LA significantly more in conditioned than in control rat...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lamprecht R,Farb CR,LeDoux JE

更新日期：2002-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Many excitatory synapses express Group 1, or Gq coupled, metabotropic glutamate receptors (Gp1 mGluRs) at the periphery of their postsynaptic density. Activation of Gp1 mGluRs typically occurs in response to strong activity and triggers long-term plasticity of synaptic transmission in many brain regions, including the...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lüscher C,Huber KM

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The serine hydrolase α/β-hydrolase domain 6 (ABHD6) hydrolyzes the most abundant endocannabinoid (eCB) in the brain, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), and controls its availability at cannabinoid receptors. We show that ABHD6 inhibition decreases pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced generalized tonic-clonic and myoclonic sei...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Naydenov AV,Horne EA,Cheah CS,Swinney K,Hsu KL,Cao JK,Marrs W,Blankman JL,Tu S,Cherry AE,Fung S,Wen A,Li W,Saporito MS,Selley DE,Cravatt BF,Oakley JC,Stella N

更新日期：2014-07-16 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：:Precise apposition of presynaptic and postsynaptic domains is a fundamental property of all neuronal circuits. Experiments in vitro suggest that Neuroligins and Neurexins function as key regulatory proteins in this process. In a genetic screen, we recovered several mutant alleles of Drosophila neuroligin 1 (dnlg1) tha...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Banovic D,Khorramshahi O,Owald D,Wichmann C,Riedt T,Fouquet W,Tian R,Sigrist SJ,Aberle H

更新日期：2010-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the diverse interneuron subtypes in the neocortex, chandelier cells (ChCs) are the only population that selectively innervate pyramidal neurons (PyNs) at their axon initial segment (AIS), the site of action potential initiation, allowing them to exert powerful control over PyN output. Yet, mechanisms underlying ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tai Y,Gallo NB,Wang M,Yu JR,Van Aelst L

更新日期：2019-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion detection is a fundamental neural computation performed by many sensory systems. In the fly, local motion computation is thought to occur within the first two layers of the visual system, the lamina and medulla. We constructed specific genetic driver lines for each of the 12 neuron classes in the lamina. We the...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tuthill JC,Nern A,Holtz SL,Rubin GM,Reiser MB

更新日期：2013-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In a complex nervous system, neuronal functional diversity is reflected in the wide variety of dendritic arbor shapes. Different neuronal classes are defined by class-specific transcription factor combinatorial codes. We show that the combination of the transcription factors Knot and Cut is particular to Drosophila cl...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jinushi-Nakao S,Arvind R,Amikura R,Kinameri E,Liu AW,Moore AW

更新日期：2007-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Innate defense behaviors (IDBs) evoked by threatening sensory stimuli are essential for animal survival. Although subcortical circuits are implicated in IDBs, it remains largely unclear whether sensory cortex modulates IDBs and what the underlying neural pathways are. Here, we show that optogenetic silencing of cortic...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Liang F,Xiong XR,Zingg B,Ji XY,Zhang LI,Tao HW

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In daylight, the input to the retinal circuit is provided primarily by cone photoreceptors acting as band-pass filters, but the retinal output also contains neuronal populations transmitting sustained signals. Using in vivo imaging of genetically encoded calcium reporters, we investigated the circuits that generate th...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Rosa JM,Ruehle S,Ding H,Lagnado L

更新日期：2016-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the long-range neuronal migration of adult mammals, young neurons travel from the subventricular zone to the olfactory bulb, a long journey (millimeters to centimeters, depending on the species). How can these neurons migrate through the dense meshwork of neuronal and glial processes of the adult brain parenchyma? ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kaneko N,Marín O,Koike M,Hirota Y,Uchiyama Y,Wu JY,Lu Q,Tessier-Lavigne M,Alvarez-Buylla A,Okano H,Rubenstein JL,Sawamoto K

更新日期：2010-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of glutamate receptor is important for synaptic plasticity and nervous system development and function. We have used genetic and electrophysiological methods to demonstrate that NMR-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans NMDA-type ionotropic glutamate receptor subunit, plays a role in the ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Brockie PJ,Mellem JE,Hills T,Madsen DM,Maricq AV

更新日期：2001-08-30 00:00:00