Feedback inhibition by calcium limits the release of calcium by inositol trisphosphate in Limulus ventral photoreceptors.

abstract：:Sanders et al. (2014) demonstrate in this issue of Neuron that the natively unfolded protein tau can propagate indefinitely in distinct stable strains, therefore supporting the general idea that tau has prion-like properties, with implications for Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hyman BT

更新日期：2014-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term memory and synaptic plasticity are thought to require the synthesis of new proteins at activated synapses. The CPEB family of RNA binding proteins, including Drosophila Orb2, has been implicated in this process. The precise mechanism by which these molecules regulate memory formation is however poorly unders...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Krüttner S,Stepien B,Noordermeer JN,Mommaas MA,Mechtler K,Dickson BJ,Keleman K

更新日期：2012-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The immediate early gene Arc (also Arg3.1) produces rapid changes in synaptic properties that are linked to de novo translation. Here we develop a novel translation reporter that exploits the rapid maturation and "flash" kinetics of Gaussia luciferase (Gluc) to visualize Arc translation. Following glutamate stimulatio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Na Y,Park S,Lee C,Kim DK,Park JM,Sockanathan S,Huganir RL,Worley PF

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Caenorhabditis elegans has been utilized extensively to study synapse formation and function, relatively little is known about synaptic plasticity in C. elegans. We show that a brief treatment with the cholinesterase inhibitor aldicarb induces a form of presynaptic potentiation whereby ACh release at neuromus...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hu Z,Pym EC,Babu K,Vashlishan Murray AB,Kaplan JM

更新日期：2011-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During normal vision, the focus of gaze continually jumps from one important image feature to the next. In this issue of Neuron, Mazer and Gallant analyze neural activity in higher-level visual cortex during this kind of active visual exploration, and they demonstrate a localized enhancement of visual responses that p...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Connor CE

更新日期：2003-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene expression may occur in unexpected ectopic sites when diverse genetic elements are juxtaposed as chimeric genes in transgenic mice. To determine the specific contribution of the promoter and reporter gene in ectopic expression, we have analyzed the expression of 14 different fusion genes in transgenic mice. Chime...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Russo AF,Crenshaw EB 3rd,Lira SA,Simmons DM,Swanson LW,Rosenfeld MG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the primary circadian pacemaker in mammals, is a network structure composed of multiple types of neurons. Here, we report that mice with a Bmal1 deletion specific to arginine vasopressin (AVP)-producing neurons showed marked lengthening in the free-running period and activity time of...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mieda M,Ono D,Hasegawa E,Okamoto H,Honma K,Honma S,Sakurai T

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioids are commonly used as analgesics for severe pain, but their addictive potential has sparked a misuse epidemic. In this issue of Neuron, Keyes et al. (2020) examine the contributions of distinct paraventricular thalamus (PVT) outputs to contextual opioid memories. They identify a PVT→NAc→LH circuit essential for...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pribiag H,Lim BK

更新日期：2020-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research suggests that synchronous neural activity underlies perceptual grouping of visual image features. The generality of this mechanism is unclear, however, as previous studies have focused on pairs of neurons with overlapping or collinear receptive fields. By sampling more broadly and employing stimuli t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Palanca BJ,DeAngelis GC

更新日期：2005-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although nitric oxide (NO) is produced by discrete groups of neurons in the brain, participation of NO in premotor structures directly involved in reflexively evoked, sensory-motor functions has not been demonstrated so far. We now show that NO is a physiological mediator in the generation of a specific motor response...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Moreno-López B,Escudero M,Delgado-Garcia JM,Estrada C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus and its associated structures play a key role in human memory, yet the underlying neuronal mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we report that during encoding and recognition, single neurons in the medial temporal lobe discriminated faces from inanimate objects. Some units responded selectively to specific...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fried I,MacDonald KA,Wilson CL

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Wahl et al. demonstrate via invasive recordings from Deep Brain Stimulation leads that the thalamus (but not basal ganglia) is sensitive to certain linguistic violations, consistent with a subcortical role in selective recruitment of language-related cortical areas. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Münte TF,Kutas M

更新日期：2008-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circuits consist of highly precise connections among specific types of neurons that serve a common functional goal. How neurons distinguish among different synaptic targets to form functionally precise circuits remains largely unknown. Here, we show that during development, the adhesion molecule cadherin-6 (Cdh...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Osterhout JA,Josten N,Yamada J,Pan F,Wu SW,Nguyen PL,Panagiotakos G,Inoue YU,Egusa SF,Volgyi B,Inoue T,Bloomfield SA,Barres BA,Berson DM,Feldheim DA,Huberman AD

更新日期：2011-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH)-expressing neurons are key regulators of energy and glucose homeostasis. Here, we demonstrate that they provide dense projections to the median eminence (ME) in close proximity to tanycytes and fenestrated vessels. Chemogenetic activation of MCH neurons as well as optogenetic stimul...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jiang H,Gallet S,Klemm P,Scholl P,Folz-Donahue K,Altmüller J,Alber J,Heilinger C,Kukat C,Loyens A,Müller-Fielitz H,Sundaram S,Schwaninger M,Prevot V,Brüning JC

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used biochemical and immunocytochemical techniques to investigate the possible involvement of membrane cytoskeletal elements such as alpha-actinin, calspectin (brain spectrin or fodrin), and actin in growth cone activities. During NGF-induced differentiation of PC12 cells, alpha-actinin increased in associatio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sobue K,Kanda K

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-human primate neuroimaging is a rapidly growing area of research that promises to transform and scale translational and cross-species comparative neuroscience. Unfortunately, the technological and methodological advances of the past two decades have outpaced the accrual of data, which is particularly challenging g...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Milham MP,Ai L,Koo B,Xu T,Amiez C,Balezeau F,Baxter MG,Blezer ELA,Brochier T,Chen A,Croxson PL,Damatac CG,Dehaene S,Everling S,Fair DA,Fleysher L,Freiwald W,Froudist-Walsh S,Griffiths TD,Guedj C,Hadj-Bouziane F,

更新日期：2018-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During Drosophila visual system development, photoreceptor (R) axons choose their correct paths and targets in a step-wise fashion. R axons with different identities make specific pathfinding decisions at different stages during development. We show here that the transmembrane protein Golden goal (Gogo), which is dyna...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tomasi T,Hakeda-Suzuki S,Ohler S,Schleiffer A,Suzuki T

更新日期：2008-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic deletion of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) has been shown to enhance mGluR-dependent long-term depression (LTD). Herein, we demonstrate that mGluR-LTD induces a transient, translation-dependent increase in FMRP that is rapidly degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Moreover, proteasome inhi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hou L,Antion MD,Hu D,Spencer CM,Paylor R,Klann E

更新日期：2006-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal pyramidal cells can be divided into place cells, which fire action potentials when an animal is in specific locations, and silent cells, which are not spatially selective. In this issue of Neuron, Epsztein et al. find intracellular differences between place and silent cells by using whole-cell recordings i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ferguson JE,Jackson JC,Redish AD

更新日期：2011-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonin system powerfully modulates physiology and behavior in health and disease, yet the circuit mechanisms underlying serotonin neuron activity are poorly understood. The major source of forebrain serotonergic innervation is from the dorsal raphe nucleus (DR), which contains both serotonin and GABA neurons. U...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Weissbourd B,Ren J,DeLoach KE,Guenthner CJ,Miyamichi K,Luo L

更新日期：2014-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Currents mediated by a glutamate transporter cloned from human motor cortex were measured in Xenopus oocytes. In the absence of glutamate, voltage jumps induced Na(+)-dependent capacitive currents that were blocked by kainate, a competitive transport antagonist. The pre-steady-state currents can be described by an ord...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wadiche JI,Arriza JL,Amara SG,Kavanaugh MP

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-consciousness has mostly been approached by philosophical enquiry and not by empirical neuroscientific study, leading to an overabundance of diverging theories and an absence of data-driven theories. Using robotic technology, we achieved specific bodily conflicts and induced predictable changes in a fundamental a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ionta S,Heydrich L,Lenggenhager B,Mouthon M,Fornari E,Chapuis D,Gassert R,Blanke O

更新日期：2011-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) play a major role in excitatory synaptic transmission and plasticity. Channel properties are largely dictated by their composition of the four subunits, GluR1-4 (or A-D). Here we show that AMPAR assembly and subunit stoichiometry are determined by RNA editing in the pore loop. We...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Greger IH,Khatri L,Kong X,Ziff EB

更新日期：2003-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Depending on the arousal state, neuronal networks display discrete activity patterns that profoundly affect information processing in the brain. In this issue of Neuron, Kurotani et al. report bidirectional modification of inhibition by oscillatory patterns in the neocortex; a mechanism likely to control the impact of...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Letzkus JJ,Stuart GJ

更新日期：2008-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The parietal lobes of nonhuman primates have been well characterized by single neuron recordings, yet clear partitioning of the human parietal lobes has not been clearly demonstrated. An elegant new fMRI study by Simon and colleagues (this issue of Neuron) suggests that parietal cortex does indeed contain dissociable ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Culham J

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is thought to be triggered by excessive neocortical neuronal excitability that leads to cortical spreading depression. In this issue of Neuron, Tottene et al. study a mouse model of familial hemiplegic migraine type 1, and provide evidence for the hyperactivity of P/Q-type calcium channel-mediated cortical gl...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xue M,Rosenmund C

更新日期：2009-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative timing of presynaptic and postsynaptic spikes plays a critical role in activity-induced synaptic modification. Here we examined whether plasticity of orientation selectivity in the visual cortex depends on stimulus timing. Repetitive pairing of visual stimuli at two orientations induced a shift in orienta...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yao H,Dan Y

更新日期：2001-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase A (PKA) is a key regulator of neurosecretion, but the molecular targets remain elusive. We combined pharmacological manipulations of kinase and phosphatase activities with mutational studies on the exocytotic machinery driving fusion of catecholamine-containing vesicles from chromaffin cells. We found t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Nagy G,Reim K,Matti U,Brose N,Binz T,Rettig J,Neher E,Sørensen JB

更新日期：2004-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Small conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) (SK) channels and voltage-gated A-type Kv4 channels shape dendritic excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons. Synaptically evoked Ca(2+) influx through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs) activates spine SK channels, reducing EPSPs and ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wang K,Lin MT,Adelman JP,Maylie J

更新日期：2014-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) do not express the typical neuronal intermediate filament proteins (IFPs), the neurofilament triplet proteins. Immunocytochemical evidence shows that ORNs coexpress vimentin and peripherin but distribute them differently. Specifically, ORNs contain vimentin in dendrites, cell bodies, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gorham JD,Ziff EB,Baker H

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00