Petrified or aroused with fear: the central amygdala takes the lead.

abstract：:In situ hybridization histochemistry reveals localized expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) alpha 2 subunit mRNA restricted to the lateral spiriform nucleus (SpL) of the chick diencephalon. The alpha 2 nAChR transcripts are not detected in immature SpL neurons at 4.5-5 days of embryonic developme...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Daubas P,Devillers-Thiéry A,Geoffroy B,Martinez S,Bessis A,Changeux JP

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The targeting of sensory afferent neurons in the leech CNS occurs in two discrete steps that are mediated via different carbohydrate recognitions, as shown by molecular perturbations of cultured embryos. A constitutive carbohydrate marker that is generic to all of these neurons mediates their initial defasciculation a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Song J,Zipser B

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptides activate G protein-coupled receptors to acutely modulate cellular excitability and synaptic transmission. However, due to the lack of reagents for precise delivery of peptides within dense brain tissue, the spatiotemporal scale over which neuropeptides act is unknown. To achieve rapid and spatially delim...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Banghart MR,Sabatini BL

更新日期：2012-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brain, enormous numbers of neurons have functional individuality and distinct circuit specificities. Clustered Protocadherins (Pcdhs), diversified cell-surface proteins, are stochastically expressed by alternative promoter choice and affect dendritic arborization in individual neurons. Here we found that the Pc...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Toyoda S,Kawaguchi M,Kobayashi T,Tarusawa E,Toyama T,Okano M,Oda M,Nakauchi H,Yoshimura Y,Sanbo M,Hirabayashi M,Hirayama T,Hirabayashi T,Yagi T

更新日期：2014-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We induced and characterized a recessive lethal mutation, nic-1, in zebrafish that blocks the function of muscle acetylcholine (ACh) receptors. Homozygous nic-1 embryos are nonmotile and fail to respond to exogenous application of cholinergic agonists, although their muscles contract in response to direct electrical s...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Westerfield M,Liu DW,Kimmel CB,Walker C

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases have been intensively studied, but a comprehensive understanding of their pathogenesis remains elusive. An increasing body of evidence suggests that non-cell-autonomous processes play critical roles during the initiation and spatiotemporal progression or propagation of the dominant pathology...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Garden GA,La Spada AR

更新日期：2012-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the cell cycle-related mechanisms that lead to the emergence of primate areas 17 and 18. These areas are characterized by striking differences in cytoarchitectonics and neuron number. We show in vivo that (1) area 17 precursors of supragranular neurons exhibit a shorter cell cycle duration, a redu...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lukaszewicz A,Savatier P,Cortay V,Giroud P,Huissoud C,Berland M,Kennedy H,Dehay C

更新日期：2005-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychiatric illness risk gene Disrupted in Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) plays an important role in brain development; however, it is unclear how DISC1 is regulated during cortical development. Here, we report that DISC1 is regulated during embryonic neural progenitor proliferation and neuronal migration through an inte...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Singh KK,Ge X,Mao Y,Drane L,Meletis K,Samuels BA,Tsai LH

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Orbán et al. (2016) test whether the brain represents probabilities by sampling: do neurons interpret the world by generating causal explanations of sense data and quickly sample different interpretations over time? Orbán et al. (2016) find agreement between this model's predictions and neural...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pitkow X

更新日期：2016-10-19 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：:Perceptual decisions require the transformation of raw sensory inputs into cortical representations suitable for stimulus discrimination. One of the best-known examples of this transformation involves the middle temporal area (MT) of the primate visual cortex. Area MT provides a robust representation of stimulus motio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Liu LD,Pack CC

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the necessary parameters for the growth of axons within the adult rat CNS, we have used intracerebral grafts of primary fibroblasts genetically engineered to express nerve growth factor (NGF). Following the implantation of NGF-producing primary fibroblasts within the striatum, cholinergic axons arising from ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kawaja MD,Gage FH

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：: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：:Visual information reaches the brain by way of a fine cable, the optic nerve. The million or so axons in the optic nerve represent an information bottleneck in the visual pathway-where the fewest number of neurons convey the visual scene. It has long been thought that to make the most of the optic nerve's limited capa...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mukamel EA,Schnitzer MJ

更新日期：2005-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent neurophysiological studies reveal that neurons in certain brain structures carry specific signals about past and future rewards. Dopamine neurons display a short-latency, phasic reward signal indicating the difference between actual and predicted rewards. The signal is useful for enhancing neuronal processing a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schultz W

更新日期：2002-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced CREB activity is a hallmark of long-term memory, but the full repertoire of CREB transcriptional targets required specifically for memory is not known in any system. To obtain a more complete picture of the mechanisms involved in memory, we combined memory training with genome-wide transcriptional analysis of ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lakhina V,Arey RN,Kaletsky R,Kauffman A,Stein G,Keyes W,Xu D,Murphy CT

更新日期：2015-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although deep brain electrical stimulation can alleviate the motor symptoms of Parkinson disease (PD), just a small fraction of patients with PD can take advantage of this procedure due to its invasive nature. A significantly less invasive method--epidural spinal cord stimulation (SCS)--has been suggested as an altern...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Santana MB,Halje P,Simplício H,Richter U,Freire MAM,Petersson P,Fuentes R,Nicolelis MAL

更新日期：2014-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Adrenergic receptor activation has a central role in the enhancement of memory formation that occurs during heightened states of emotional arousal. Although beta-adrenergic receptor activation may enhance memory formation by modulating long-term potentiation (LTP), a candidate synaptic mechanism involved in memor...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Thomas MJ,Moody TD,Makhinson M,O'Dell TJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential neural activity patterns are as ubiquitous as the outputs they drive, which include motor gestures and sequential cognitive processes. Neural sequences are long, compared to the activation durations of participating neurons, and sequence coding is sparse. Numerous studies demonstrate that spike-time-depende...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fiete IR,Senn W,Wang CZ,Hahnloser RH

更新日期：2010-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Much evidence indicates that prefrontal cortex plays an important role in long-term recognition memory processes. Here, we report primate prefrontal neuronal responses carrying information necessary for long-term visual recognition memory. The responses of many neurons signaled stimulus familiarity even when the perio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xiang JZ,Brown MW

更新日期：2004-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OT) release by axonal terminals onto the central nucleus of the amygdala exerts anxiolysis. To investigate which subpopulation of OT neurons contributes to this effect, we developed a novel method: virus-delivered genetic activity-induced tagging of cell ensembles (vGATE). With the vGATE method, we identifie...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hasan MT,Althammer F,Silva da Gouveia M,Goyon S,Eliava M,Lefevre A,Kerspern D,Schimmer J,Raftogianni A,Wahis J,Knobloch-Bollmann HS,Tang Y,Liu X,Jain A,Chavant V,Goumon Y,Weislogel JM,Hurlemann R,Herpertz SC,Pitzer

更新日期：2019-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals must discern important stimuli and place them onto their cognitive map of their environment. The neocortex conveys general representations of sensory events to the hippocampus, and the hippocampus is thought to classify and sharpen the distinctions between these events. We recorded populations of dentate gyrus...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Woods NI,Stefanini F,Apodaca-Montano DL,Tan IMC,Biane JS,Kheirbek MA

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:For each environment a rodent has explored, its hippocampus contains a map consisting of a unique subset of neurons, called place cells, that have spatially tuned spiking there, with the remaining neurons being essentially silent. Using whole-cell recording in freely moving rats exploring a novel maze, we observed dif...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Epsztein J,Brecht M,Lee AK

更新日期：2011-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified the species of K+ channel that underlies the neuronal M-current in rat sympathetic ganglion cells. The channels were kinetically and pharmacologically defined using outside-out and cell-attached patches. They exhibited multiple conductance levels, predominantly 3-9 pS. Their slow gating in response ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Stansfeld CE,Marsh SJ,Gibb AJ,Brown DA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sweet and bitter taste distinguishes good food sources from potential toxins, but what happens when these tastants are mixed? In this issue of Neuron, Jeong et al. (2013) show that in Drosophila, bitter compounds act through an extracellular odorant-binding protein to inhibit sweet-responsive neurons and block the res...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lvovskaya S,Smith DP

更新日期：2013-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of brain imaging and genetics promises to identify neural mechanisms underlying complex traits such as cognition and psychiatric disorder. The study by Heck et al. (2014) in this issue of Neuron highlights voltage-gated cation channel activity as a likely link and culprit. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： McIntosh A,Deary I,Porteous DJ

更新日期：2014-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of electrotonic coupling in the inferior olive is extremely high, but its functional role in cerebellar motor control remains elusive. Here, we subjected mice that lack olivary coupling to paradigms that require learning-dependent timing. Cx36-deficient mice showed impaired timing of both locomotion and eye-...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Van Der Giessen RS,Koekkoek SK,van Dorp S,De Gruijl JR,Cupido A,Khosrovani S,Dortland B,Wellershaus K,Degen J,Deuchars J,Fuchs EC,Monyer H,Willecke K,De Jeu MT,De Zeeuw CI

更新日期：2008-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:K(ATP) channels are large heteromultimeric complexes containing four subunits from the inwardly rectifying K+ channel family (Kir6.2) and four regulatory sulphonylurea receptor subunits from the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family (SUR1 and SUR2A/B). The molecular basis for interactions between these two unr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schwappach B,Zerangue N,Jan YN,Jan LY

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capsaicin receptor, TRPV1, is regulated by phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP(2)), although the precise nature of this effect (i.e., positive or negative) remains controversial. Here, we reconstitute purified TRPV1 into artificial liposomes, where it is gated robustly by capsaicin, protons, spider toxins, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cao E,Cordero-Morales JF,Liu B,Qin F,Julius D

更新日期：2013-02-20 00:00:00