Adaptive adjustment of the generalization-discrimination balance in larval Drosophila.

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 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

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

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals make decisions on behavioral choice by evaluating internal and external signals. Individuals often make decisions in different ways, but the underlying neural mechanisms are not well understood. Here, we describe a system for observing the behavior of individual Drosophila melanogaster larvae simultaneously pr...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Koseki N,Mori S,Suzuki S,Tonooka Y,Kosugi S,Miyakawa H,Morimoto T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trembler-J, TrJ, is a peripheral hypomyelinating murine mutant. In intercrosses (TrJ/ + X TrJ/ +) there are severely affected (behaviorally and pathologically), mildly affected, and normal offspring, while backcrosses (TrJ/ + X + / +) produce only mildly affected and normal offspring. We used the closely linked marker...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Henry EW,Sidman RL

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When individuals are exposed to stressful environmental challenges, the response varies widely in one or more of three components: psychology, behavior and physiology. This variability among individuals can be defined as temperament. In recent years, an increasing large body of evidence suggests that the dimensions of...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Qiu X,Martin GB,Blache D

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most insertional mutagenesis screens of Drosophila performed to date have not used target chromosomes that have been checked for their suitability for phenotypic screens for viable phenotypes. To address this, we have generated a selection of stocks carrying either isogenized second chromosomes or isogenized third chr...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Sharma P,Asztalos Z,Ayyub C,de Bruyne M,Dornan AJ,Gomez-Hernandez A,Keane J,Killeen J,Kramer S,Madhavan M,Roe H,Sherkhane PD,Siddiqi K,Silva E,Carlson JR,Goodwin SF,Heisenberg M,Krishnan K,Kyriacou CP,Partridge L,

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The horizontal system and vertical system cells of the dipteran optic lobes are well understood regarding their physiology and role in visually guided behavior. Little is known, however, about their development. Drosophila optomotor-blind (omb) is required for the development of the HS/VS cells which are lacking in th...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Sen A,Grimm S,Hofmeyer K,Pflugfelder GO

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first of two reviews that include some of the studies that we, members of the Pak lab and collaborators, carried out from 1998 to 2010 on the functional and physical interactions among several Drosophila phototransduction components. The report includes our studies on the regulations and/or the functions o...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Leung HT,Shino S,Kim E

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C. elegans animals mutant for the unc-119 gene exhibit movement, sensory and behavioral abnormalities. Consistent with a nervous system role, unc-119 reporter genes are expressed throughout the C. elegans nervous system. The UNC-119 protein has strong sequence similarity to the predicted protein from a human gene, HRG...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Maduro MF,Gordon M,Jacobs R,Pilgrim DB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract: This essay is dedicated to Obaid on the occasion of his 80th birthday. We both worked on the behavior of Drosophila and on what underlies behavior in the fly brain. Is that the fly's mind? The essay is about some limitations of brain science. It is just a little piece of writing. It is meant to honor Obaid f...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Heisenberg M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictions from the theory of transfection, Karl-Friedrich Fischbach's first paper, were confirmed 20 years later. Also a model, proposed already in 1977 by Karl-Friedrich and colleagues, to explain the nonmonotonous dependence on light intensity of phototaxis in Drosophila, finds support in recent studies of functio...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Spatz HC

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances in sleep are encountered in the majority of patients with depressive disorder. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms behind this relationship, we examined gene expression changes in a rodent model for disturbed sleep and depression. The animals were treated with daily injections of clomipramine to affect ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Lagus M,Gass N,Saharinen J,Savelyev S,Porkka-Heiskanen T,Paunio T

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search for the defective gene causing torsion dystonia has been carried out in a family manifesting an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance of this movement disorder. Complete neurologic examination and establishment of lymphoblast lines have been carried out for over 50 members. Linkage analysis, using cloned DNA...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Breakefield XO,Bressman SB,Kramer PL,Ozelius L,Moskowitz C,Tanzi R,Brin MF,Hobbs W,Kaufman D,Tobin A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly eclosed Drosophila melanogaster flies were systemically depleted of dopamine by feeding an inhibitor of the biosynthetic enzyme, tyrosine hydroxylase, and analyzed for abnormalities in courtship behavior. Dopamine-depleted females were significantly less receptive to males than were control females, although mal...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Neckameyer WS

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrahippocampal microinjections with anti-Met-enkephalin antiserum enhanced novelty-induced vertically oriented exploratory acts and horizontal locomotor activity in inbred mouse strain DBA/2 and reduced these behaviors in C57BL/6 so that strain differences originally present between the normal serum controls were el...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： van Abeelen JH,Gerads HJ

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the staining of Drosophila embryos with neuron-specific monoclonal antibodies we describe the differentiation of the earliest neurons in the central nervous system. The metameric array undergoes a number of changes during development that distinguish several morphological units: metameres, neuromeres and gang...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Canal I,Ferrús A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract: Nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) is a calcium-responsive transcription factor. We describe here an NFAT-based neural tracing method-CaLexA (calcium-dependent nuclear import of LexA)-for labeling active neurons in behaving animals. In this system, sustained neural activity induces nuclear import of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Masuyama K,Zhang Y,Rao Y,Wang JW

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A telomere is a repetitive DNA structure at chromosomal ends that stabilizes the chromosome structure and prevents harmful end-to-end recombinations. The telomere length of somatic cells becomes shorter with aging because of the "end replication problem." This telomere shortening is accelerated by pathophysiological c...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Maeda T,Guan JZ,Koyanagi M,Higuchi Y,Makino N

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the olfactory sense organs on the antenna of the fruit fly Drosophila utilises mechanisms distinct from those used in the rest of the adult peripheral nervous system. Lozenge (lz) is the only locus hither-to identified as required for the development of antennal sense organs. In addition to effects ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Gupta BP,Rodrigues V

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinase-mediated signaling cascades regulate a number of different molecular mechanisms involved in cellular homeostasis, and are viewed as one of the most common intracellular processes that are robustly dysregulated in the pathophysiology of mood disorders such as depression. Newly emerged, rapid acting antidepressan...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Yuan LL,Wauson E,Duric V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of leucine was studied in cultured human fibroblasts derived from patients with defects in each of the major steps in the catabolism of the amino acid. Intact fibroblasts were incubated with [U-14C]leucine and the organic acid products were isolated by liquid partition chromatography. In control fibrobl...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Yoshida I,Søvik O,Sweetman L,Nyhan WL

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants displaying generalized behavioral defects and one mutant having an enzyme deficiency were examined for electroretinogram (ERG) defects. Mutations in nine genes were examined that cause ERG defects. Two, parats4 and slrpD, cause reversibly temperature dependent loss of the off-transients in the ERG. stnC and Ty...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Homyk T Jr,Pye Q

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some cases of Alzheimer's disease are inherited as a dominant trait in humans. To date, mutations in three genes account for some of them: the amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilins 1 and 2 (PS-1 and PS-2, respectively). The function of the presenilins is still unclear, although they belong to a transmembrane...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Marfany G,Del-Favero J,Valero R,De Jonghe C,Woodrow S,Hendriks L,Van Broeckhoven C,Gonzàlez-Duarte R

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cacna1f gene mutation could lead to incomplete congenital stationary night blindness (iCSNB) disease. The CSNB-like phenotype rat is a spontaneous rat model caused by Cacna1f gene mutation. The present study explored the phenotypic properties of behavior performance in CSNB rats further. The vision-related behaviors o...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： An J,Wang L,Guo Q,Li L,Xia F,Zhang Z

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoglycanopathies (SGPs) constitute a subgroup of autosomal recessive limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) which are caused by mutations in sarcoglycan (SGs) genes. SG proteins form a core complex consisting of α, β, γ and δ sarcoglycans which are encoded by SGCA, SGCB, SGCG and SGCD genes, respectively. Genetic...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Mojbafan M,Nilipour Y,Tonekaboni SH,Bagheri SD,Bagherian H,Sharifi Z,Zeinali Z,Tavakkoly-Bazzaz J,Zeinali S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this review is to summarize the history of Dr. Yoshiki Hotta and his collaborators' contributions to the research field of Drosophila phototransduction. The electroretinogram-defective mutants reported in 1970 by Dr. Hotta and Dr. Seymour Benzer in the article entitled "Genetic dissection of the Drosophila ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Suzuki E,Masai I,Inoue H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse types of neurons must be specified in the developing brain to form the functional neural circuits that are necessary for the execution of daily tasks. Here, we describe the participation of Forkhead box class O (FOXO) in cell fate specification of a small subset of Drosophila ventral olfactory projection neuro...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Wei JY,Chung PC,Chu SY,Yu HH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Courtship suppression is an associative conditioning procedure in Drosophila melanogaster that is ethologically based and capable of being tested on individual flies. We have expanded the range of the courtship conditioning by developing an excitatory procedure in which male flies learn to associate a novel odor with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Broughton SJ,Tully T,Greenspan RJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most fascinating questions in evolutionary biology is how traits unique to humans, such as their high cognitive abilities, erect bipedalism, and hairless skin, are encoded in the genome. Recent advances in genomics have begun to reveal differences between the genomes of the great apes. It has become evident...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Sassa T

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The slo gene encodes the BK-type Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channels. In Drosophila, expression of slo is induced by organic solvent sedation (benzyl alcohol and ethanol), and this increase in neural slo expression contributes to the production of functional behavioral tolerance (inducible resistance) to these drugs. Withi...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Li X,Ghezzi A,Krishnan HR,Pohl JB,Bohm AY,Atkinson NS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each neuropil module, or cartridge, in the fly's lamina has a fixed complement of cells. Of five types of monopolar cell interneurons, only L4 has collaterals that invade neighboring cartridges. In the proximal lamina, these collaterals form reciprocal synapses with both the L2 of their own cartridge and the L4 collat...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Lüthy K,Ahrens B,Rawal S,Lu Z,Tarnogorska D,Meinertzhagen IA,Fischbach KF

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00