The role of human-specific gene duplications during brain development and evolution.

abstract：:Writers' cramp is a movement disorder with dystonic co-contraction of fingers and hand during writing and is part of the clinical spectrum of focal dystonias. Previous studies showed reduced striatal dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) availability in dystonia. The expression of D2 receptors is modulated by a DRD2/ANKK1-Taq1A...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Zeuner KE,Acewicz A,Knutzen A,Dressler D,Lohmann K,Witt K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonin transporter is an important regulator of serotonergic signaling. In order to analyze where the Drosophila melanogaster ortholog of the mammalian serotonin transporter (dSERT) is expressed in the nervous system, a dSERT antibody serum was used. Ectopic expression studies and loss of function analysis reve...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Giang T,Ritze Y,Rauchfuss S,Ogueta M,Scholz H

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell-surface-signaling protein Notch, is required for numerous developmental processes and typically specifies which of two adjacent cells will adopt a non-neuronal developmental fate. It has recently been implicated in long-term memory formation in mammals and Drosophila. Here, we investigated whether activity-de...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： de Bivort BL,Guo HF,Zhong Y

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:A slide taped to a window at the Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory was my first introduction to the touch receptor neurons of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Studying these cells as a postdoc with Sydney Brenner gave me a chance to work with John Sulston on a fascinating set of neurons. I would never have gues...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Chalfie M

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：: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：:We used the hippocampal slice to examine extracellular electrophysiological responses to nicotine and the difference in sensitivity to nicotine-induced electrophysiological effects between the DBA and C3H mouse strains. Nicotine enhanced CA1 population spikes (PS) evoked by Schaffer collateral stimulation in a concent...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Freund RK,Wehner JM

更新日期：1987-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:otal (ota=olfactory trap abnormal), an X-linked mutation of Drosophila isolated by virtue of abnormal olfactory behavior, is shown to be an allele of rdgB (retinal degeneration B), a gene required for normal visual system physiology. rdgB function is shown to be necessary for olfactory response of both adult files and...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Woodard C,Alcorta E,Carlson J

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Single-gene mutants of Drosophila have not only increased our understanding of the biochemical processes underlying learning and memory processes, but also established structure-function relationships. The first relevant mutants were identified by Martin Heisenberg nearly 30 years ago in a screen for altered adult bra...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Hovhanyan A,Raabe T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoclonic status in nonprogressive encephalopathy (MSNE) is an early-onset, drug-resistant epileptic syndrome characterized by occurrence of continuous diffuse epileptiform abnormalities, associated with positive and/or negative phenomena and accompanied by transient and recurring motor, cognitive, and behavioral impa...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Nicita F,Garone G,Papetti L,Consoli F,Magliozzi M,De Luca A,Spalice A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some of the very first chemosensory mutants in Drosophila were generated in screens done in the 1970s at Obaid Siddiqi's lab in Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai. This is a personal account of some of the early work with these mutants, which led to their physiological and molecular characterization...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Hasan G

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Messenger RNA editing of transcripts encoding voltage-sensitive ion channels has not been extensively analyzed--least of all in Drosophila, for which several channel-encoding genes are known. Previous sequence studies of D. melanogaster's cacophony gene, which encodes an alpha 1 calcium-channel subunit called Dmca1A, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Smith LA,Peixoto AA,Hall JC

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

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