cDNA cloning, characterization, and brain region-specific expression of a neuromedin-B-preferring bombesin receptor.

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：:Altered microRNA profiles have been implicated in human brain disorders. However, the functional contribution of individual microRNAs to neuronal development and function is largely unknown. Here, we report biological functions for miR-19 in adult neurogenesis. We determined that miR-19 is enriched in neural progenito...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Han J,Kim HJ,Schafer ST,Paquola A,Clemenson GD,Toda T,Oh J,Pankonin AR,Lee BS,Johnston ST,Sarkar A,Denli AM,Gage FH

更新日期：2016-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A key function of the nucleus accumbens is to promote vigorous reward seeking, but the corresponding neural mechanism has not been identified despite many years of research. Here, we study cued flexible approach behavior, a form of reward seeking that strongly depends on the accumbens, and we describe a robust, single...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： McGinty VB,Lardeux S,Taha SA,Kim JJ,Nicola SM

更新日期：2013-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromodulators are important regulators of synaptic transmission throughout the brain. At the presynaptic terminal, neuromodulation of calcium channels (CaVs) can affect transmission not only by changing neurotransmitter release probability, but also by shaping short-term plasticity (STP). Indeed, changes in STP are ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Burke KJ Jr,Keeshen CM,Bender KJ

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Zika virus (ZIVK) represents a new threat to global health, with particular relevance to neuroscientists, due to associated newborn and adult neurological disease. Consequences of vertical infection include microcephaly with brain and eye anomalies, and consequences of adult infection include Guillain-Barré syndrome (...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Li H,Saucedo-Cuevas L,Shresta S,Gleeson JG

更新日期：2016-12-07 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：:Interneurons in the ventral spinal cord are essential for coordinated locomotion in vertebrates. During embryogenesis, the V0 and V1 classes of ventral interneurons are defined by expression of the homeodomain transcription factors Evx1/2 and En1, respectively. In this study, we show that Evx1 V0 interneurons are loca...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Moran-Rivard L,Kagawa T,Saueressig H,Gross MK,Burrill J,Goulding M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epsilon4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although there have been numerous studies attempting to elucidate the underlying mechanism for this increased risk, how apoE4 influences AD onset and progression has yet to be proven. However, prevailing evide...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kim J,Basak JM,Holtzman DM

更新日期：2009-08-13 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：:Expression of rat TrkA in Xenopus spinal neurons confers responsiveness of these neurons to nerve growth factor (NGF) in assays of neuronal survival and growth cone chemotropism. Mutational analysis indicates that coactivation of phospholipase C-gamma (PLC-gamma) and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) by specific ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ming G,Song H,Berninger B,Inagaki N,Tessier-Lavigne M,Poo M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropilins are receptors for class 3 secreted semaphorins, most of which can function as potent repulsive axon guidance cues. We have generated mice with a targeted deletion in the neuropilin-2 (Npn-2) locus. Many Npn-2 mutant mice are viable into adulthood, allowing us to assess the role of Npn-2 in axon guidance ev...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Giger RJ,Cloutier JF,Sahay A,Prinjha RK,Levengood DV,Moore SE,Pickering S,Simmons D,Rastan S,Walsh FS,Kolodkin AL,Ginty DD,Geppert M

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:A new fluorescence method using the dye FM1-43 was used to examine exocytotic release from hippocampal synaptosomes. Nitric oxide caused a marked transient stimulation of vesicle release. Several structurally unrelated nitric oxide donors, sodium nitroprusside, S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine, 3-morpholino-sydnonimine...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Meffert MK,Premack BA,Schulman H

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of synaptic strength is essential for neuronal information processing, but the molecular mechanisms that control changes in neuroexocytosis are only partially known. Here we show that the putative G protein-coupled receptor Methuselah (Mth) is required in the presynaptic motor neuron to acutely upregulate n...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Song W,Ranjan R,Dawson-Scully K,Bronk P,Marin L,Seroude L,Lin YJ,Nie Z,Atwood HL,Benzer S,Zinsmaier KE

更新日期：2002-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are characterized by the formation of mature tangles in the entorhinal cortex and disorientation and confusion when navigating familiar places. The medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) contains specialized neurons called grid cells that form part of the spatial navigation syst...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fu H,Rodriguez GA,Herman M,Emrani S,Nahmani E,Barrett G,Figueroa HY,Goldberg E,Hussaini SA,Duff KE

更新日期：2017-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal visual input during development has dramatic effects on the visual system. How does the adult visual system respond when input is corrected? MM lost his left eye and became blind in the right due to corneal damage at the age of 3. At age 46, MM regained his retinal image, but his visual abilities, even seven ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Levin N,Dumoulin SO,Winawer J,Dougherty RF,Wandell BA

更新日期：2010-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDA receptors are tetrameric ligand-gated ion channels comprised of GluN1, GluN2, and GluN3 subunits. Two different GluN2 subunits have been identified in most NMDA receptor-expressing cells, and the majority of native receptors are triheteromers containing two GluN1 and two different GluN2. In contrast to diheterome...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hansen KB,Ogden KK,Yuan H,Traynelis SF

更新日期：2014-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-evoked responses of all three major classes of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are mediated by NMDA receptors (NMDARs) and AMPA receptors (AMPARs). Although synaptic activity at RGC synapses is highly dynamic, synaptic plasticity has not been observed in adult RGCs. Here, using patch-clamp recordings in dark-adapt...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jones RS,Carroll RC,Nawy S

更新日期：2012-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term depression (LTD) of parallel fiber (PF) synapses onto Purkinje cells plays a central role in motor learning. Endocannabinoid release and LTD induction both depend upon activation of the metabotropic glutamate receptor mGluR1, require postsynaptic calcium increases, are synapse specific, and have a simila...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Safo PK,Regehr WG

更新日期：2005-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the inflammatory process develops after transplantation to the brain, we sought to determine the presence of cytokines following a surgical trauma to the brain of an adult mouse. We report the early and marked presence of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1 alpha in neuronal somata of the striatum foll...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tchelingerian JL,Quinonero J,Booss J,Jacque C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary conservation of members of the NGF family in vertebrates was studied by DNA sequence analysis of PCR fragments for NGF, BDNF, and NT-3 from human, rat, chicken, viper, Xenopus, salmon, and ray. The results showed that the three factors are highly conserved from fishes to mammals. Phylogenetic trees reflec...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hallböök F,Ibáñez CF,Persson H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A critical feature of neural networks is that they balance excitation and inhibition to prevent pathological dysfunction. How this is achieved is largely unknown, although deficits in the balance contribute to many neurological disorders. We show here that a microRNA (miR-101) is a key orchestrator of this essential f...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lippi G,Fernandes CC,Ewell LA,John D,Romoli B,Curia G,Taylor SR,Frady EP,Jensen AB,Liu JC,Chaabane MM,Belal C,Nathanson JL,Zoli M,Leutgeb JK,Biagini G,Yeo GW,Berg DK

更新日期：2016-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the medial frontal cortex, the supplementary eye field (SEF), supplementary motor area (SMA), and pre-SMA have been implicated in the control of voluntary action, especially during motor sequences or tasks involving rapid choices between competing response plans. However, the precise roles of these areas remain...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sumner P,Nachev P,Morris P,Peters AM,Jackson SR,Kennard C,Husain M

更新日期：2007-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to deal effectively with danger, it is imperative to know about it. This is what nociceptors do--these primary sensory neurons are specialized to detect intense stimuli and represent, therefore, the first line of defense against any potentially threatening or damaging environmental inputs. By sensing noxious ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Woolf CJ,Ma Q

更新日期：2007-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The directional selectivity of retinal ganglion cell responses represents a primitive pattern recognition that operates within a retinal neural circuit. The cellular origin and mechanism of directional selectivity were investigated by selectively eliminating retinal starburst amacrine cells, using immunotoxin-mediated...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yoshida K,Watanabe D,Ishikane H,Tachibana M,Pastan I,Nakanishi S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic transmission is bioenergetically demanding, and the diverse processes underlying synaptic plasticity elevate these demands. Therefore, mitochondrial functions, including ATP synthesis and Ca2+ handling, are likely essential for plasticity. Although axonal mitochondria have been extensively analyzed, LTP is pr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Divakaruni SS,Van Dyke AM,Chandra R,LeGates TA,Contreras M,Dharmasri PA,Higgs HN,Lobo MK,Thompson SM,Blanpied TA

更新日期：2018-11-21 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

abstract：:Studies of resting-state activity in the brain have provoked critical questions about the brain's functional organization, but the biological basis of this activity is not clear. Specifically, the relationships between interregional correlations in resting-state measures of activity, neuronal functional connectivity a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wang Z,Chen LM,Négyessy L,Friedman RM,Mishra A,Gore JC,Roe AW

更新日期：2013-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty years ago, von Békésy demonstrated that the spatial source of an odorant is determined by comparing input across nostrils, but it is unknown how this comparison is effected in the brain. To address this, we delivered odorants to the left or right of the nose, and contrasted olfactory left versus right localizati...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Porter J,Anand T,Johnson B,Khan RM,Sobel N

更新日期：2005-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitter release can be synchronous and occur within milliseconds of action potential invasion, or asynchronous and persist for tens of milliseconds. The molecular determinants of release kinetics remain poorly understood. It has been hypothesized that asynchronous release dominates when fast Synaptotagmin iso...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Turecek J,Regehr WG

更新日期：2019-03-06 00:00:00