The early years of Drosophila chemosensory genetics in Mumbai's Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

abstract：:A new autosomal recessive mutation, characterized by an early defect in righting reflex and stiffened gait, progression to severe spasticity, tremor and rigidity, and death before weaning, appeared spontaneously on the C57BL/6 background. It was shown to be an allele of the mutant spastic spa, and shall be known as sp...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： White WF,Regan LJ,Roe AW,Messer A

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:This review outlines research into the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying a simple behavior in the soil-dwelling nematode, C. elegans. A tap administered to the side of a petri plate acts as a nonlocalized mechanical stimulus to the worms within. Most adult worms respond to this tap stimulus with backward lo...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Ardiel EL,Rankin CH

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：: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：:Signaling from the postsynaptic compartment regulates multiple aspects of synaptic development and function. Syntaxin 4 (Syx4) is a plasma membrane t-SNARE that promotes the growth and plasticity of Drosophila neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) by regulating the localization of key synaptic proteins in the postsynaptic co...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Harris KP,Littleton JT,Stewart BA

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:Mutations at two fragile sites, FRAXA and FRAXE, loci are caused by an expansion of a CGG/GCC trinucleotide repeat and are characterized by mental retardation. Here we report molecular screening survey of 97 unrelated individuals diagnosed with non-specific mental retardation (MR), which produced positive test for FRA...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Major T,Culjkovic B,Stojkovic O,Gucscekic M,Lakic A,Romac S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular analysis of the Notch locus of Drosophila melanogaster demonstrated that it codes for a protein which shows homology to the epidermal growth factor as well as to the products of certain yeast genes involved in the control of the cell cycle (Wharton et al., 1985a; Breeden and Nasmyth, 1987). The structure...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Markopoulou K,Artavanis-Tsakonas S

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：:We have identified helmsman (hlm), which is expressed in the fruit fly photoreceptor cells during neural network development. Hlm is also expressed in the elongating cells of the embryonic trachea. Both photoreceptor neurons and embryonic trachea cells elongate in precise, targeted growth for cell-to-cell specific rec...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： McKay JP,Nightingale B,Pollock JA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemosensory glomus cells of the carotid bodies release transmitters, including ATP and dopamine mainly via the exocytosis of small dense core granules (SDCGs, vesicular diameter of ∼100 nm). Using carbon-fiber amperometry, we showed previously that with a modest uniform elevation in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Tse A,Lee AK,Takahashi N,Gong A,Kasai H,Tse FW

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, less than 10 pedigrees have been reported with ZNF335 mutations since it was discovered in 2012 and little is known about ZNF335-related clinical spectrum. We describe a 12 years old male patient who is only child of nonconsanguineous Turkish parents. Trio whole genome sequencing identified previously unrepor...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Caglayan AO,Yaghouti K,Kockaya T,Kemer D,Cankaya T,Ameziane N,Cogulu O,Coker M,Yalcinkaya C

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiform (GBM; World Health Organization (WHO) grade IV) and anaplastic astrocytomas (AA; WHO grade III) are highly aggressive and lethal astrocytic brain tumors. To detect cancer-specific somatic mutations in two hot-spot regions of PIK3CA gene, the helical and kinase domains (encoded by exons 9 and 20,...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Derakhshandeh-Peykar P,Alivi J,Hossein-nezhad A,Rautenstrauss B,Vesal RE,Doriani A

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：:Caenorhabditis elegans has a simple nervous system of 302 neurons. It however senses environmental cues incredibly precisely and produces various behaviors by processing information in the neural circuit. In addition to classical genetic analysis, fluorescent proteins and calcium indicators enable in vivo monitoring o...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Takeishi A,Takagaki N,Kuhara A

更新日期：2020-09-01 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

abstract：:Autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias are a group of clinically and genetically heterogeneous neurodegenerative disorders. Growing data have shown that there is difficulty with genetic counseling in a deeply consanguineous population because of the presence of genetic heterogeneity in patients sharing similar phenoty...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Bouhlal Y,Zouari M,Kefi M,Ben Hamida C,Hentati F,Amouri R

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:Immature D. melanogaster males, like virgin females, often elicit vigorous courtship from mature males. Since males perform the same behaviors in response to attractive males and females, the question arises as to whether the foci--cells in the courting male's nervous system that must be haplo-X for the fly to perform...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Napolitano LM,Tompkins L

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:SPG3A/atlastin-1 gene mutations cause an autosomal dominant form of hereditary spastic paraplegia (SPG3A-HSP). We used positron emission tomography with [(11)C]DTBZ to assess nigrostriatal dopaminergic integrity in two unrelated adults with SPG3A-HSP due to the common SPG3A/atlastin-1 mutation, R239C. Nigrostriatal do...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Albin RL,Koeppe RA,Rainier S,Fink JK

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report contains additional observations on the cell lineage relationships of the motor neurons of the facial nucleus and of the cerebellar Purkinje cells of the mouse. These cell populations were quantitatively analyzed in the mosaic brains of experimental aggregation chimeras. The cell markers used to perform th...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Herrup K,Wetts R,Diglio TJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many declared aims of the genome projects have been achieved. The total genomic sequences of several relatively noncomplex/complex organisms (such as E. coli, yeast, Caenorhabditis, Drosophila) are being determined, and the nucleotide sequencing of the entire human genome will be complete in the near future. However, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Lukacsovich T,Yamamoto D

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Visual systems have a rich history as model systems for the discovery and understanding of basic principles underlying neuronal connectivity. The compound eyes of insects consist of up to thousands of small unit eyes that are connected by photoreceptor axons to set up a visual map in the brain. The photoreceptor axon ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Agi E,Langen M,Altschuler SJ,Wu LF,Zimmermann T,Hiesinger PR

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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