A toolbox of Cre-dependent optogenetic transgenic mice for light-induced activation and silencing.

abstract：:The most critical attribute of human language is its unbounded combinatorial nature: smaller elements can be combined into larger structures on the basis of a grammatical system, resulting in a hierarchy of linguistic units, such as words, phrases and sentences. Mentally parsing and representing such structures, howev...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Ding N,Melloni L,Zhang H,Tian X,Poeppel D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The output of cortical columns is routed to different downstream targets via distinct pathways: cortico-cortical and cortico-subcortical. It is as yet unclear what roles these pathways play in perception, and which cellular and circuit mechanisms regulate their gating. We recently showed that activation of the apical ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Takahashi N,Ebner C,Sigl-Glöckner J,Moberg S,Nierwetberg S,Larkum ME

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Processing of rapidly successive acoustic stimuli can be markedly improved by sensory training. To investigate the cortical mechanisms underlying such temporal plasticity, we trained rats in a 'sound maze' in which navigation using only auditory cues led to a target location paired with food reward. In this task, the ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Bao S,Chang EF,Woods J,Merzenich MM

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trial-to-trial variability in the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response of functional magnetic resonance imaging has been shown to be relevant to human perception and behavior, but the sources of this variability remain unknown. We demonstrate that coherent spontaneous fluctuations in human brain activity accou...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Fox MD,Snyder AZ,Zacks JM,Raichle ME

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic vesicles release neurotransmitter both actively (on stimulation) and spontaneously (at rest). It has been assumed that identical vesicles use both modes of release; however, recent evidence has challenged this view. Using several assays (FM dye imaging, pHluorin imaging and antibody-labeling of synaptotagmin)...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Wilhelm BG,Groemer TW,Rizzoli SO

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We delineated a heritable phenotype resulting from the self-administration of cocaine in rats. We observed delayed acquisition and reduced maintenance of cocaine self-administration in male, but not female, offspring of sires that self-administered cocaine. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (Bdnf) mRNA and BDNF protei...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Vassoler FM,White SL,Schmidt HD,Sadri-Vakili G,Pierce RC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural basis of aggression is poorly understood. A study in this issue used genetic scalpels to dissect the circuitry of the fly brain and identified a small cluster of octopaminergic neurons that can make a fly fighting mad. ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Potter CJ,Luo L

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning to adapt to a complex and fluctuating environment requires the ability to adjust neural representations of sensory stimuli. Through pattern completion processes, cortical networks can reconstruct familiar patterns from degraded input patterns, whereas pattern separation processes allow discrimination of even ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Chapuis J,Wilson DA

更新日期：2011-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We used ultrasound image-guided injections of high-titer retroviral vectors to obtain widespread introduction of genes into the mouse nervous system in utero as early as embryonic day 8.5 (E8.5). The vectors used included internal promoters that substantially improved proviral gene expression in the ventricular zone o...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Gaiano N,Kohtz JD,Turnbull DH,Fishell G

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An action may lead to either a reward or a punishment. Therefore, an appropriate action needs to be chosen on the basis of the values of both expected rewards and expected punishments. To understand the underlying neural mechanisms, we conditioned monkeys using a Pavlovian procedure with two distinct contexts: one in ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Matsumoto M,Hikosaka O

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental organizing principle of auditory brain circuits is tonotopy, the orderly representation of the sound frequency to which neurons are most sensitive. Tonotopy arises from the coding of frequency along the cochlea and the topographic organization of auditory pathways. The mechanisms that underlie the establ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Kandler K,Clause A,Noh J

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature Neuroscience presents a special issue of recent advances on shared mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease. ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors：

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine is vital for coordinated motion and for association learning linked to behavioral reinforcement. Here we show that the precise overlap of striatal dopaminergic and cholinergic fibers underlies potent control of dopamine release by ongoing nicotinic receptor activity. In mouse striatal slices, nicotinic antago...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Zhou FM,Liang Y,Dani JA

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PICALM is a highly validated genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). We found that reduced expression of PICALM in AD and murine brain endothelium correlated with amyloid-β (Aβ) pathology and cognitive impairment. Moreover, Picalm deficiency diminished Aβ clearance across the murine blood-brain barrier (BBB)...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Zhao Z,Sagare AP,Ma Q,Halliday MR,Kong P,Kisler K,Winkler EA,Ramanathan A,Kanekiyo T,Bu G,Owens NC,Rege SV,Si G,Ahuja A,Zhu D,Miller CA,Schneider JA,Maeda M,Maeda T,Sugawara T,Ichida JK,Zlokovic BV

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several ion channels are thought to be directly modulated by nitric oxide (NO), but the molecular basis of this regulation is unclear. Here we show that the NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-associated ion channel was modulated not only by exogenous NO but also by endogenous NO. Site-directed mutagenesis identified a critical cys...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Choi YB,Tenneti L,Le DA,Ortiz J,Bai G,Chen HS,Lipton SA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied how the posterior parietal cortex combines new information with ongoing activity dynamics as mice accumulate evidence during a virtual navigation task. Using new methods to analyze population activity on single trials, we found that activity transitioned rapidly between different sets of active neurons. Eac...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Morcos AS,Harvey CD

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agonists of GABA(B) receptors exert a bi-directional effect on the activity of dopamine (DA) neurons of the ventral tegmental area, which can be explained by the fact that coupling between GABA(B) receptors and G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium (GIRK) channels is significantly weaker in DA neurons than in ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Labouèbe G,Lomazzi M,Cruz HG,Creton C,Luján R,Li M,Yanagawa Y,Obata K,Watanabe M,Wickman K,Boyer SB,Slesinger PA,Lüscher C

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much of the information processing in the brain occurs at the level of local circuits; however, the mechanisms underlying their initial development are poorly understood. We sought to examine the early development and plasticity of local excitatory circuits in the optic tectum of Xenopus laevis tadpoles. We found that...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Pratt KG,Dong W,Aizenman CD

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shared neural variability is ubiquitous in cortical populations. While this variability is presumed to arise from overlapping synaptic input, its precise relationship to local circuit architecture remains unclear. We combine computational models and in vivo recordings to study the relationship between the spatial stru...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Rosenbaum R,Smith MA,Kohn A,Rubin JE,Doiron B

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroinflammatory diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, are characterized by invasion of the brain by autoreactive T cells. The mechanism for how T cells acquire their encephalitogenic phenotype and trigger disease remains, however, unclear. The existence of lymphatic vessels in the meninges indicates a relevant link ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Louveau A,Herz J,Alme MN,Salvador AF,Dong MQ,Viar KE,Herod SG,Knopp J,Setliff JC,Lupi AL,Da Mesquita S,Frost EL,Gaultier A,Harris TH,Cao R,Hu S,Lukens JR,Smirnov I,Overall CC,Oliver G,Kipnis J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The olfactory system faces a hard problem: on the basis of noisy information from olfactory receptor neurons (the neurons that transduce chemicals to neural activity), it must figure out which odors are present in the world. Odors almost never occur in isolation, and different odors excite overlapping populations of o...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Grabska-Barwińska A,Barthelmé S,Beck J,Mainen ZF,Pouget A,Latham PE

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The projections and odor responses of mammalian olfactory receptor neurons, as well as the physiology of the bulb's principal neurons-the mitral cells (MCs)-are known from studies in slices and anesthetized animals. In behaving rats trained to discriminate between two odors associated with different reinforcers, we ex...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Kay LM,Laurent G

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the number of open Ca(2+) channels necessary for transmitter release at the inhibitory basket cell-granule cell synapse in rat hippocampus, we combined presynaptic Ca(2+) imaging, recording of postsynaptic currents and modeling. We found that that the opening of three or fewer Ca(2+) channels triggered tr...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Bucurenciu I,Bischofberger J,Jonas P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precise period when experience shapes neural circuits in the mouse visual system is unknown. We used Arc induction to monitor the functional pattern of ipsilateral eye representation in cortex during normal development and after visual deprivation. After monocular deprivation during the critical period, Arc induct...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Tagawa Y,Kanold PO,Majdan M,Shatz CJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about how stimuli that are typically not rich in sugars, such as beer, trigger attractive gustatory responses in Drosophila. We identified a member of the gustatory receptor family, Gr64e, as a receptor that is required for feeding preference for beer and other sources that have fermenting yeast. ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Wisotsky Z,Medina A,Freeman E,Dahanukar A

更新日期：2011-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) has been shown to enhance native voltage-dependent calcium channel (Ca(v)) currents both in myocytes and in neurons; however, the mechanism(s) responsible for this regulation were not known. Here we show that PI3K promotes the translocation of GFP-tagged Ca(v) channels to the plasm...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Viard P,Butcher AJ,Halet G,Davies A,Nürnberg B,Heblich F,Dolphin AC

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, olfaction is often used to distinguish individuals on the basis of their unique odor types (genetically programmed body odors). Parental-offspring recognition behavior is mediated, in part, by learning and processing of different odor types and is crucial for reproductive success. Maternal recognition beha...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Mak GK,Weiss S

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Images are processed in the primary visual cortex by neurons that encode different stimulus orientations and spatial phases. In primates and carnivores, neighboring cortical neurons share similar orientation preferences, but spatial phases were thought to be randomly distributed. We discovered a columnar organization ...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Wang Y,Jin J,Kremkow J,Lashgari R,Komban SJ,Alonso JM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleus HVc of the avian song system is a forebrain structure critical in song production, perception and learning. Here we show that most HVc neurons that respond to auditory stimuli under anesthesia show no responses to the same stimulus in the awake, unrestrained bird. This suppression of auditory responses in awak...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Schmidt MF,Konishi M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast desensitization is an important regulatory mechanism of neuronal NMDA receptor function. Only recombinant NMDA receptors composed of NR1/NR2A exhibit a fast component of desensitization similar to neuronal NMDA receptors. Here we report that the fast desensitization of NR1/NR2A receptors is caused by ambient zinc...

journal_title：Nature neuroscience

authors： Zheng F,Erreger K,Low CM,Banke T,Lee CJ,Conn PJ,Traynelis SF

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00