Strides toward a structure-function understanding of cortical representations of allocentric space.

abstract：:The performance of a task is often assumed to be a prerequisite for the learning of many tasks, including the associative conditioning of courtship in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Transgenic flies specifically inhibited for the enzyme protein kinase C dissociate the acquisition of learning and memory from p...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kane NS,Robichon A,Dickinson JA,Greenspan RJ

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IIA rat brain Na+ channel alpha subunits were expressed in CHO cells by nuclear microinjection or by transfection using a vector containing both metallothionein and bacteriophage SP6 promoters. Stable cell lines expressing Na+ channels were isolated, and whole-cell Na+ currents of 0.9-14 nA were recorded. The mea...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： West JW,Scheuer T,Maechler L,Catterall WA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural synchronization plays an important role in information flow in the nervous system under healthy and pathological conditions. In this issue of Neuron, Gittis et al. show that reorganization of striatal microcircuits promotes synchronous activity and may underlie the pathological network oscillations at the root ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Belujon P,Grace AA

更新日期：2011-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：VIDEO ABSTRACT:The precise connectivity of inputs and outputs is critical for cerebral cortex function; however, the cellular mechanisms that establish these connections are poorly understood. Here, we show that the secreted molecule Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) is involved in synapse formation of a specific cortical circuit. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Harwell CC,Parker PR,Gee SM,Okada A,McConnell SK,Kreitzer AC,Kriegstein AR

更新日期：2012-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the influence of retinal innervation on the development of target neurons in the first optic ganglion, the lamina, of D. melanogaster. Mitotically active lamina precursor cells (LPCs), which normally produce lamina neurons, are absent in mutants that lack retinal innervation, while other proliferative...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Selleck SB,Steller H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) is a recently described neurodegenerative disorder of older adult carriers of premutation alleles (60-200 CGG repeats) in the fragile X mental retardation gene (FMR1). It has been proposed that FXTAS is an RNA-mediated neurodegenerative disease caused by the titratio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sofola OA,Jin P,Qin Y,Duan R,Liu H,de Haro M,Nelson DL,Botas J

更新日期：2007-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring electrical activity in large numbers of cells with high spatial and temporal resolution is a fundamental problem for the study of neural development and information processing. To address this problem, we have constructed a novel, genetically encoded probe that can be used to measure transmembrane voltage in...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Siegel MS,Isacoff EY

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In stable environments, decision makers can exploit their previously learned strategies for optimal outcomes, while exploration might lead to better options in unstable environments. Here, to investigate the cortical contributions to exploratory behavior, we analyzed single-neuron activity recorded from four different...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Donahue CH,Seo H,Lee D

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The biologically active photoproduct of rhodopsin, metarhodopsin II (M II), exists in a pH-sensitive equilibrium with its precursor, metarhodopsin I (M I). Increasing acidity favors M II, with the midpoint of the pH titration curve at pH 6.4. To test the long-standing proposal that histidine protonation regulates this...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Weitz CJ,Nathans J

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Fossati et al. (2016) report that through its domain structure, SRGAP2A, a Rho-GTPase-activating protein, can co-regulate excitatory and inhibitory synapse development, offering a putative evolutionary genetic mechanism for preserving excitatory/inhibitory balance during speciation. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Subramanian J,Nedivi E

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Many high threshold, voltage-gated Ca2+ channels, including the dihydropyridine-sensitive class (L-type), inactivate in response not only to voltage, but also to entry of Ca2+. Despite the physiological importance of this Ca(2+)-sensitive inactivation, its molecular mechanism is understood only in broad outline. We no...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Imredy JP,Yue DT

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SCA1, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, is caused by a CAG expansion encoding a polyglutamine stretch in the protein ATXN1. We used RNA sequencing to profile cerebellar gene expression in Pcp2-ATXN1[82Q] mice with ataxia and progressive pathology and Pcp2-ATXN1[30Q]D776 animals having ataxia in absence of Purkinje c...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ingram M,Wozniak EAL,Duvick L,Yang R,Bergmann P,Carson R,O'Callaghan B,Zoghbi HY,Henzler C,Orr HT

更新日期：2016-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing mammalian visual system, retinal fibers grow through the optic chiasm, where one population crosses to the opposite side of the brain and the other does not. Evidence from labeling growing retinal axons with the carbocyanine dye Dil in mouse embryos indicates that the two subpopulations diverge at a ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Godement P,Salaün J,Mason CA

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of quantal size through pre- rather than postsynaptic mechanisms has recently received considerable attention as a potential mechanism for plasticity. Vesicular transporters catalyze the filling of synaptic vesicles with transmitter and are thus potential substrates for such presynaptic regulation. In t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hnasko TS,Edwards RH

更新日期：2006-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been found that caspases not only function in apoptosis, but are also crucial for nonapoptotic processes such as NMDA receptor-dependent long-term depression (LTD) of synaptic transmission. It remains unknown, however, how caspases are activated and how neurons escape death in LTD. Here we show that ca...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jiao S,Li Z

更新日期：2011-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Clathrin-mediated endocytosis of synaptic vesicles requires molecular rearrangements of proteins as well as lipids. In this issue of Neuron, Schuske et al. and Verstreken et al. show that the lipid-modifying enzyme endophilin recruits and stabilizes the polyphosphoinositide phosphatase synaptojanin at nerve terminals....

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Song W,Zinsmaier KE

更新日期：2003-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been several recent studies addressing the genetic architecture of depression. This review serves to take stock of what is known now about the genetics of depression, how it has increased our knowledge and understanding of its mechanisms, and how the information and knowledge can be leveraged to improve the...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： McIntosh AM,Sullivan PF,Lewis CM

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Prime diagnostic criteria for drug addiction include uncontrollable urges to obtain drugs and reduced behavioral responding for natural rewards. Cellular adaptations in the glutamate projection from the prefrontal cortex (PFC) to the nucleus accumbens have been discovered in rats withdrawn from cocaine that may underl...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kalivas PW,Volkow N,Seamans J

更新日期：2005-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Painful mechanical stimuli activate multiple peripheral sensory afferent subtypes simultaneously, including nociceptors and low-threshold mechanoreceptors (LTMRs). Using an optogenetic approach, we demonstrate that LTMRs do not solely serve as touch receptors but also play an important role in acute pain signaling. We...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Arcourt A,Gorham L,Dhandapani R,Prato V,Taberner FJ,Wende H,Gangadharan V,Birchmeier C,Heppenstall PA,Lechner SG

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), due to the expansion of a polyglutamine repeat within the ubiquitously expressed Ataxin-1 protein, leads to the premature degeneration of Purkinje cells (PCs), the cause of which is poorly understood. Here, we identified the unique proteomic signature of Sca1(154Q/2Q) PCs at an ea...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ruegsegger C,Stucki DM,Steiner S,Angliker N,Radecke J,Keller E,Zuber B,Rüegg MA,Saxena S

更新日期：2016-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorders such as Rett syndrome (RTT) have been hypothesized to arise from defects in experience-dependent synapse maturation. RTT is caused by mutations in MECP2, a nuclear protein that becomes phosphorylated at S421 in response to neuronal activation. We show here that disruption of MeCP2 S421 phosph...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cohen S,Gabel HW,Hemberg M,Hutchinson AN,Sadacca LA,Ebert DH,Harmin DA,Greenberg RS,Verdine VK,Zhou Z,Wetsel WC,West AE,Greenberg ME

更新日期：2011-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the specification of noradrenergic neurotransmitter identity in neural crest stem cells (NCSCs). Retroviral expression of both wild-type and dominant-negative forms of the paired homeodomain transcription factor Phox2a indicates a crucial and direct role for this protein (and/or the closely relate...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lo L,Morin X,Brunet JF,Anderson DJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Fragile X mental retardation-1 (Fmr1) gene encodes a multifunctional protein, FMRP, with intrinsic RNA binding activity. We have developed an approach, antibody-positioned RNA amplification (APRA), to identify the RNA cargoes associated with the in vivo configured FMRP messenger ribonucleoprotein (mRNP) complex. U...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Miyashiro KY,Beckel-Mitchener A,Purk TP,Becker KG,Barret T,Liu L,Carbonetto S,Weiler IJ,Greenough WT,Eberwine J

更新日期：2003-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the brain to store and process information relies on changing the strength of connections between neurons. Synaptic facilitation is a form of short-term plasticity that enhances synaptic transmission for less than a second. Facilitation is a ubiquitous phenomenon thought to play critical roles in inform...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jackman SL,Regehr WG

更新日期：2017-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Inappropriate vocal expressions, e.g., vocal tics in Tourette syndrome, severely impact quality of life. Neural mechanisms underlying vocal tics remain unexplored because no established animal model representing the condition exists. We report that unilateral disinhibition of the nucleus accumbens (NAc) generates voca...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： McCairn KW,Nagai Y,Hori Y,Ninomiya T,Kikuchi E,Lee JY,Suhara T,Iriki A,Minamimoto T,Takada M,Isoda M,Matsumoto M

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A neural network can sustain and switch between different activity patterns to execute multiple behaviors. By monitoring the decision making for directional locomotion through motor circuit calcium imaging in behaving Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), we reveal that C. elegans determines the directionality of movem...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kawano T,Po MD,Gao S,Leung G,Ryu WS,Zhen M

更新日期：2011-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:During development, newly born neurons migrate away from their initial birth sites to their final positions in the mature brain. The neurotrophin BDNF has been shown to regulate the migration of granule cells in the cerebellum. The cellular mechanisms that mediate this chemotactic response have not been resolved. In t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kaplan DR,Miller FD

更新日期：2007-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of neuronal circuits is controlled by evolutionarily conserved axon guidance molecules, including Slits, the repulsive ligands for roundabout (Robo) receptors, and Netrin-1, which mediates attraction through the DCC receptor. We discovered that the Robo3 receptor fundamentally changed its mechanism of acti...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zelina P,Blockus H,Zagar Y,Péres A,Friocourt F,Wu Z,Rama N,Fouquet C,Hohenester E,Tessier-Lavigne M,Schweitzer J,Roest Crollius H,Chédotal A

更新日期：2014-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome is a leading heritable cause of mental retardation that results from the loss of FMR1 gene function. A Drosophila model for Fragile X syndrome, based on the loss of dfmr1 activity, exhibits phenotypes that bear similarity to Fragile X-related symptoms. Herein, we demonstrate that treatment with meta...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： McBride SM,Choi CH,Wang Y,Liebelt D,Braunstein E,Ferreiro D,Sehgal A,Siwicki KK,Dockendorff TC,Nguyen HT,McDonald TV,Jongens TA

更新日期：2005-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic clustering of neurotransmitter receptors is crucial for efficient signal transduction and integration in neurons. PDZ domain-containing proteins such as PSD-95/SAP90 interact with the intracellular C termini of a variety of receptors and are thought to be important in the targeting and anchoring of receptors ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xia J,Zhang X,Staudinger J,Huganir RL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00