The ubiquitin ligase Phr1 regulates axon outgrowth through modulation of microtubule dynamics.

abstract：:Involvement of the cAMP cascade in Drosophila learning and memory is suggested by the aberrant behavioral phenotypes of the mutants dunce (cAMP phosphodiesterase) and rutabaga (adenylyl cyclase). Line DCO581, isolated via an enhancer detector screen for genes preferentially expressed in the mushroom bodies, contains a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Skoulakis EM,Kalderon D,Davis RL

更新日期：1993-08-01 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：:Capsaicin, the main pungent ingredient in "hot" chili peppers, elicits buming pain by activating specific (vanilloid) receptors on sensory nerve endings. The cloned vanilloid receptor (VR1) is a cation channel that is also activated by noxious heat. Here, analysis of heat-evoked single channel currents in excised memb...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tominaga M,Caterina MJ,Malmberg AB,Rosen TA,Gilbert H,Skinner K,Raumann BE,Basbaum AI,Julius D

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：:Both the sec6/8 complex and septin filaments have been implicated in directing vesicles and proteins to sites of active membrane addition in yeast. The rat brain sec6/8 complex coimmunoprecipitates with a filament composed of four mammalian septins, suggesting an interaction between these complexes. One of the septins...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hsu SC,Hazuka CD,Roth R,Foletti DL,Heuser J,Scheller RH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventral midbrain dopamine (DA) is unambiguously involved in motivation and behavioral arousal, yet the contributions of other DA populations to these processes are poorly understood. Here, we demonstrate that the dorsal raphe nucleus DA neurons are critical modulators of behavioral arousal and sleep-wake patterning. U...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cho JR,Treweek JB,Robinson JE,Xiao C,Bremner LR,Greenbaum A,Gradinaru V

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcircuits in different brain areas share similar architectural and biophysical properties with compact motor networks known as central pattern generators (CPGs). Consequently, CPGs have been suggested as valuable biological models for understanding of microcircuit dynamics and particularly, their synchronization. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Szücs A,Huerta R,Rabinovich MI,Selverston AI

更新日期：2009-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein scaffolds are essential for specific and efficient downstream signaling at synapses. Though nicotinic receptors are widely expressed in the nervous system and influence numerous cellular events due in part to their calcium permeability, no scaffolds have yet been identified for the receptors in neurons. Here w...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Conroy WG,Liu Z,Nai Q,Coggan JS,Berg DK

更新日期：2003-06-05 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：:alpha-tectorin is an extracellular matrix molecule of the inner ear. Mice homozygous for a targeted deletion in a-tectorin have tectorial membranes that are detached from the cochlear epithelium and lack all noncollagenous matrix, but the architecture of the organ of Corti is otherwise normal. The basilar membranes of...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Legan PK,Lukashkina VA,Goodyear RJ,Kössi M,Russell IJ,Richardson GP

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The idea that memory is stored in the brain as physical alterations goes back at least as far as Plato, but further conceptualization of this idea had to wait until the 20(th) century when two guiding theories were presented: the "engram theory" of Richard Semon and Donald Hebb's "synaptic plasticity theory." While a ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tonegawa S,Liu X,Ramirez S,Redondo R

更新日期：2015-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal ganglia (BG) circuits orchestrate complex motor behaviors predominantly via inhibitory synaptic outputs. Although these inhibitory BG outputs are known to reduce the excitability of postsynaptic target neurons, precisely how this change impairs motor performance remains poorly understood. Here, we show that opto...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kim J,Kim Y,Nakajima R,Shin A,Jeong M,Park AH,Jeong Y,Jo S,Yang S,Park H,Cho SH,Cho KH,Shim I,Chung JH,Paik SB,Augustine GJ,Kim D

更新日期：2017-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergent evidence suggests that corticostriatal interactions act as a gate to select the input to working memory (WM). However, not all information in WM is relevant for behavior simultaneously. For this reason, a second "output gate" might advantageously govern which contents of WM influence behavior. Here, we test...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chatham CH,Frank MJ,Badre D

更新日期：2014-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:bHLH and LIM-HD transcription factors were originally thought to act at different stages of neurogenesis: bHLHs as neuronal "inducers" and LIM-HDs as postmitotic subtype determinants. These distinctions are becoming blurred, and a current study by Lee and Pfaff in this issue of Neuron shows that interaction between th...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Allan DW,Thor S

更新日期：2003-06-05 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：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) immunoaffinity-purified from brains are composed of only two kinds of subunits rather than the four kinds present in muscle-type AChRs. Here we report the N-terminal protein sequences of the structural subunits of AChRs from rat and chicken brains and the cloning of full-lengt...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schoepfer R,Whiting P,Esch F,Blacher R,Shimasaki S,Lindstrom J

更新日期：1988-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Neural circuits consist of highly precise connections among specific types of neurons that serve a common functional goal. How neurons distinguish among different synaptic targets to form functionally precise circuits remains largely unknown. Here, we show that during development, the adhesion molecule cadherin-6 (Cdh...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Osterhout JA,Josten N,Yamada J,Pan F,Wu SW,Nguyen PL,Panagiotakos G,Inoue YU,Egusa SF,Volgyi B,Inoue T,Bloomfield SA,Barres BA,Berson DM,Feldheim DA,Huberman AD

更新日期：2011-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Information processing by a sensory system is reflected in the changes in stimulus representation along its successive processing stages. We measured information content and stimulus-induced redundancy in the neural responses to a set of natural sounds in three successive stations of the auditory pathway-inferior coll...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chechik G,Anderson MJ,Bar-Yosef O,Young ED,Tishby N,Nelken I

更新日期：2006-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The perception of visual motion is critical for animal navigation, and flies are a prominent model system for exploring this neural computation. In Drosophila, the T4 cells of the medulla are directionally selective and necessary for ON motion behavioral responses. To examine the emergence of directional selectivity, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Strother JA,Wu ST,Wong AM,Nern A,Rogers EM,Le JQ,Rubin GM,Reiser MB

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease-like-2 (HDL2) is a phenocopy of Huntington's disease caused by CTG/CAG repeat expansion at the Junctophilin-3 (JPH3) locus. The mechanisms underlying HDL2 pathogenesis remain unclear. Here we developed a BAC transgenic mouse model of HDL2 (BAC-HDL2) that exhibits progressive motor deficits, select...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wilburn B,Rudnicki DD,Zhao J,Weitz TM,Cheng Y,Gu X,Greiner E,Park CS,Wang N,Sopher BL,La Spada AR,Osmand A,Margolis RL,Sun YE,Yang XW

更新日期：2011-05-12 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：:A circadian clock regulates a number of diverse physiological functions in the vertebrate eye. In this study, we show that mRNA for the red-sensitive cone pigment, iodopsin, fluctuates with a circadian rhythm in chicken retina. Transcript levels increase in the late afternoon just prior to the time of cone disc sheddi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pierce ME,Sheshberadaran H,Zhang Z,Fox LE,Applebury ML,Takahashi JS

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has hinted that prospective and retrospective coding modes exist in hippocampus. Prospective coding is believed to reflect memory retrieval processes, whereas retrospective coding is thought to be important for memory encoding. Here, we show in rats that separate prospective and retrospective modes exist...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bieri KW,Bobbitt KN,Colgin LL

更新日期：2014-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain is a vulnerable metabolic organ and must adapt to different fuel conditions to sustain function. Nerve terminals are a locus of this vulnerability, but how they regulate ATP synthesis as fuel conditions vary is unknown. We show that synapses can switch from glycolytic to oxidative metabolism, but to do so, t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ashrafi G,de Juan-Sanz J,Farrell RJ,Ryan TA

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular transporters are required for the storage of all classical and amino acid neurotransmitters in synaptic vesicles. Some neurons lack known vesicular transporters, suggesting additional neurotransmitter systems remain unidentified. Insect mushroom bodies (MBs) are critical for several behaviors, including lear...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Brooks ES,Greer CL,Romero-Calderón R,Serway CN,Grygoruk A,Haimovitz JM,Nguyen BT,Najibi R,Tabone CJ,de Belle JS,Krantz DE

更新日期：2011-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a recombinant baculovirus, A. californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus, containing the Drosophila Shaker H4 K+ channel cDNA under control of the polyhedrin promoter. When infected with this recombinant baculovirus, the cell line Sf9, derived from the army-worm caterpillar S. frugiperda, expresses fully fu...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Klaiber K,Williams N,Roberts TM,Papazian DM,Jan LY,Miller C

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00