The double helix takes the witness stand: behavioral and neuropsychiatric genetics in court.

abstract：:A multitude of synaptic proteins interact at the active zones of nerve terminals to achieve the high temporal precision of neurotransmitter release in synchrony with action potentials. Though synaptotagmin has been recognized as the Ca2+ sensor for synchronous release, it may have additional roles of action. We addres...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Young SM Jr,Neher E

更新日期：2009-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In this perspective I tell the story (albeit a clearly abridged version) of how our knowledge of ion conduction through ion channels has evolved from a purely electrical concept to a structural dynamics view of ions interacting with a membrane protein. Our progress in this field has shown steady growth over the years ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bezanilla F

更新日期：2008-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrimeric G proteins mediate a variety of signaling processes by coupling seven-transmembrane receptors to intracellular effector molecules. The Drosophila phototransduction cascade is a G protein-coupled signaling cascade that utilizes a phospholipase C (PLC beta) effector. PLC beta has been shown to be activate...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Scott K,Becker A,Sun Y,Hardy R,Zuker C

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A robust and well-organized rhythm is a key feature of many neuronal networks, including those that regulate essential behaviors such as circadian rhythmogenesis, breathing, and locomotion. Here we show that excitatory V3-derived neurons are necessary for a robust and organized locomotor rhythm during walking. When V3...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhang Y,Narayan S,Geiman E,Lanuza GM,Velasquez T,Shanks B,Akay T,Dyck J,Pearson K,Gosgnach S,Fan CM,Goulding M

更新日期：2008-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The development and homeostasis of neurons relies heavily on the selective targeting of vesicles into axon and dendrites. Microtubule-based motor proteins play an important role in polarized transport; however, the sorting mechanism to exclude dendritic cargo from the axon is unclear. We show that the dynein regulator...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kuijpers M,van de Willige D,Freal A,Chazeau A,Franker MA,Hofenk J,Rodrigues RJ,Kapitein LC,Akhmanova A,Jaarsma D,Hoogenraad CC

更新日期：2016-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of AMPA-type glutamate receptor (AMPAR) number at synapses is a major mechanism for controlling synaptic strength during homeostatic scaling in response to global changes in neural activity. We show that the secreted guidance cue semaphorin 3F (Sema3F) and its neuropilin-2 (Npn-2)/plexinA3 (PlexA3) holorece...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wang Q,Chiu SL,Koropouli E,Hong I,Mitchell S,Easwaran TP,Hamilton NR,Gustina AS,Zhu Q,Ginty DD,Huganir RL,Kolodkin AL

更新日期：2017-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The Drosophila Dscams are immunoglobulin superfamily members produced from a single gene that is diversified by alternative splicing to produce a family of cell-surface proteins with over 19,000 different ectodomain isoforms. Dscams are critical for neuronal wiring, and mounting evidence suggests that they play a key ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Shapiro L

更新日期：2007-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Delineating the molecular basis of synapse development is crucial for understanding brain function. Cocultures of neurons with transfected fibroblasts have demonstrated the synapse-promoting activity of candidate molecules. Here, we performed an unbiased expression screen for synaptogenic proteins in the coculture ass...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Linhoff MW,Laurén J,Cassidy RM,Dobie FA,Takahashi H,Nygaard HB,Airaksinen MS,Strittmatter SM,Craig AM

更新日期：2009-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of the CNS as an immune-privileged organ has led to a common misunderstanding that it is not an active immunological organ, guarded from its surroundings by the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Recent advances in this field clearly demonstrate that the CNS is a highly immunologically active organ, with complex i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lampron A,Elali A,Rivest S

更新日期：2013-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca(2+)-calmodulin (CaM) function was selectively disrupted in a specific subset of growth cones in transgenic Drosophila embryos in which a specific enhancer element drives the expression of the kinesin motor domain fused to a CaM antagonist peptide (kinesin-antagonist or KA, which blocks CaM binding to target protein...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： VanBerkum MF,Goodman CS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several aspects of perception, particularly those pertaining to vision, are closely linked to the occipital alpha (alpha) rhythm. However, how the alpha rhythm relates to the activity of neurons that convey primary visual information is unknown. Here we show that in behaving cats, thalamocortical neurons in the latera...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lorincz ML,Kékesi KA,Juhász G,Crunelli V,Hughes SW

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The size of the movement and the molecular identity of the moving parts of the voltage sensor of a voltage-gated ion channel are debated. In the helical-screw model, the positively charged fourth transmembrane segment S4 slides and rotates along negative counter charges in S2 and S3, while in the paddle model, S4 carr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Broomand A,Elinder F

更新日期：2008-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory information is first encoded in a combinatorial fashion by olfactory bulb glomeruli, which individually represent distinct chemical features of odors. This information is then transmitted to piriform (olfactory) cortex, via axons of olfactory bulb mitral and tufted (M/T) cells, where it is presumed to form t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Franks KM,Isaacson JS

更新日期：2006-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous fluctuations in cortical excitability influence sensory processing and behavior. These fluctuations, long thought to reflect global changes in cortical state, were recently found to be modulated locally within a retinotopic map during spatially selective attention. We report that periods of vigorous (On) a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： van Kempen J,Gieselmann MA,Boyd M,Steinmetz NA,Moore T,Engel TA,Thiele A

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjustments in neural activity can drive cortical plasticity, but the underlying circuit components remain unclear. In this issue of Neuron, Barnes et al. (2015) show that visual deprivation-induced homeostatic plasticity invokes specific changes among select categories of V1 neurons. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Seabrook TA,Huberman AD

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term augmentation of synaptic transmission at sensory neuron synapses of Aplysia contributes to behavioral sensitization and is one of the current models for a cellular mechanism of learning. This neuromodulatory process, mediated at least in part by the facilitatory neurotransmitter serotonin (5-HT) acting thro...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Klein M

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：: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：:Previous work has hinted that prospective and retrospective coding modes exist in hippocampus. Prospective coding is believed to reflect memory retrieval processes, whereas retrospective coding is thought to be important for memory encoding. Here, we show in rats that separate prospective and retrospective modes exist...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bieri KW,Bobbitt KN,Colgin LL

更新日期：2014-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesolimbic dopamine (DA) neurons play a central role in motivation and reward processing. Although the activity of these mesolimbic DA neurons is controlled by afferent inputs, little is known about the circuits in which they are embedded. Using retrograde tracing, electrophysiology, optogenetics, and behavioral assay...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yang H,de Jong JW,Tak Y,Peck J,Bateup HS,Lammel S

更新日期：2018-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We show here that antisense MAP2 oligonucleotides inhibit neurite outgrowth in cultured cerebellar macroneurons. Unlike control neurons, which first extend a lamellipodial veil followed by a consolidation phase during which the cells extend minor neurites, MAP2-suppressed cells persist with lamellipodia and later beco...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Caceres A,Mautino J,Kosik KS

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striatal dopamine plays key roles in our normal and pathological goal-directed actions. To understand dopamine function, much attention has focused on how midbrain dopamine neurons modulate their firing patterns. However, we identify a presynaptic mechanism that triggers dopamine release directly, bypassing activity i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Threlfell S,Lalic T,Platt NJ,Jennings KA,Deisseroth K,Cragg SJ

更新日期：2012-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:cGMP has long been suspected to play a role in synaptic plasticity, but the inaccessibility of nerve terminals to electrical recording has impeded tests of this hypothesis. In posterior pituitary nerve terminals, nitric oxide enhanced Ca(2+)-activated K+ channel activity by activating guanylate cyclase and PKG. This e...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Klyachko VA,Ahern GP,Jackson MB

更新日期：2001-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a slowly progressing disorder in which pathophysiological abnormalities, detectable in vivo by biomarkers, precede overt clinical symptoms by many years to decades. Five AD biomarkers are sufficiently validated to have been incorporated into clinical diagnostic criteria and commonly used in...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jack CR Jr,Holtzman DM

更新日期：2013-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:bHLH and LIM-HD transcription factors were originally thought to act at different stages of neurogenesis: bHLHs as neuronal "inducers" and LIM-HDs as postmitotic subtype determinants. These distinctions are becoming blurred, and a current study by Lee and Pfaff in this issue of Neuron shows that interaction between th...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Allan DW,Thor S

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-frequency oscillations (GFOs, >40 Hz) are a general network signature at seizure onset at all stages of development, with possible deleterious consequences in the immature brain. At early developmental stages, the simultaneous occurrence of GFOs in different brain regions suggests the existence of a long-ranging...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Quilichini PP,Le Van Quyen M,Ivanov A,Turner DA,Carabalona A,Gozlan H,Esclapez M,Bernard C

更新日期：2012-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) plays an essential role in the normal development of the underlying neural retina, but the mechanisms by which this regulation occurs are largely unknown. Ca2+ transients, induced by the neurotransmitter ATP acting on purinergic receptors, both increase proliferation and stimulate ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pearson RA,Dale N,Llaudet E,Mobbs P

更新日期：2005-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:At the optic chiasm, axons from either eye meet and decide whether to cross contralaterally or turn back ipsilaterally. Here, the guidance ligand Slit and its receptor Robo control not whether axons cross (as in other midline decisions), but where the chiasm forms. Whether axons cross is instead controlled by the tran...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Rasband K,Hardy M,Chien CB

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:After initial activation by Ca2+, the catalytic activity of type II Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase rapidly becomes partially independent of Ca2+. The transition is caused by autophosphorylation of a few subunits in the dodecameric holoenzyme, which is composed of varying proportions of two homologous types o...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Miller SG,Patton BL,Kennedy MB

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and basolateral amygdala (BLA) contribute to learned behavioral choice. Neurons in both structures that encode reward-predictive cues may underlie the decision to respond to such cues, but the neural circuits by which the BLA influences reward-seeking behavior have not been established...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ambroggi F,Ishikawa A,Fields HL,Nicola SM

更新日期：2008-08-28 00:00:00