From form to function: the ways to know a neuron.

Abstract:

:The shape of a neuron, its morphological signature, dictates the neuron's function by establishing its synaptic partnerships. Here, we review various anatomical methods used to reveal neuron shape and the contributions these have made to our current understanding of neural function in the Drosophila brain, especially the optic lobe. These methods, including Golgi impregnation, genetic reporters, and electron microscopy (EM), necessarily incorporate biases of various sorts that are easy to overlook, but that filter the morphological signatures we see. Nonetheless, the application of these methods to the optic lobe has led to reassuringly congruent findings on the number and shapes of neurons and their connection patterns, indicating that morphological classes are actually genetic classes. Genetic methods using, especially, GAL4 drivers and associated reporters have largely superceded classical Golgi methods for cellular analyses and, moreover, allow the manipulation of neuronal activity, thus enabling us to establish a bridge between morphological studies and functional ones. While serial-EM reconstruction remains the only reliable, albeit labor-intensive, method to determine actual synaptic connections, genetic approaches in combination with EM or high-resolution light microscopic techniques are promising methods for the rapid determination of synaptic circuit function.

journal_name

J Neurogenet

journal_title

Journal of neurogenetics

authors

Meinertzhagen IA,Takemura SY,Lu Z,Huang S,Gao S,Ting CY,Lee CH

doi

10.1080/01677060802610604

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-01-01 00:00:00

pages

68-77

issue

1-2

eissn

0167-7063

issn

1563-5260

pii

907468344

journal_volume

23

pub_type

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