Neuronal functions of adaptor complexes involved in protein sorting.

abstract：:Expression of vnd in ventral, ind in intermediate, and msh in dorsal columns of fly neurectoderm, and of homologous gene families in corresponding domains of vertebrate neurectoderm, suggests that elements of dorsoventral neural patterning have been evolutionarily conserved. However, upstream signaling pathways regula...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cornell RA,Ohlen TV

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past year,several model systems have been developed to identify cellular and biochemical events involved in neuronal cell death, to investigate the role of bcl-2 in cell survival, and to characterize the relationship between cell death and the cell cycle. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Pittman RN,Mills JC,DiBenedetto AJ,Hynicka WP,Wang S

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bilaterally symmetric organisms, the midline is a critical organizing center for the developing central nervous system. There is a striking conservation of the molecules and mechanisms that control axon path finding at the midline in vertebrate and invertebrate nervous systems. The majority of axons in the CNS cros...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Evans TA,Bashaw GJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the seminal discoveries in developmental neuroscience is that altering visual experience through monocular deprivation can alter both the physiological and the anatomical representation of the two eyes, called ocular dominance columns, in primary visual cortex. This rearrangement is restricted to a critical per...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Feller MB,Scanziani M

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent behavioral studies of infants have provided further evidence for the existence of cognitive and perceptual abilities in the first few months of life. Additional evidence from developmental neuroscience and comparative psychology has supported the view that, in some domains, such as visual attention and face and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Johnson MH

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, as our understanding of the pattern-generating networks responsible for a variety of behaviors has increased, the interactions of multiple neural networks have been examined in a number of systems. These studies have shown that functionally related pattern generators can interact extensively, and that...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dickinson PS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, interest has grown in the ability to manipulate, in a temporally precise fashion, the electrical activity of specific neurons embedded within densely wired brain circuits, in order to reveal how specific neurons subserve behaviors and neural computations, and to open up new horizons on the clinical tr...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Bernstein JG,Garrity PA,Boyden ES

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ionotropic GABA receptor (GABAAR) mediates fast inhibition in the brain. The GABAAR pore-forming (α, β, and non-α/β) subunits were isolated approximately 30 years ago and have since been the focus of extensive studies. As a result, many properties of GABAARs, including subunit assembly and channel and pharmacologi...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Tomita S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orexin deficiency results in the sleep disorder narcolepsy in many mammalian species, including mice, dogs, and humans, suggesting that the orexin system is particularly important for normal regulation of sleep/wakefulness states, and especially for maintenance of wakefulness. This review discusses animal models of na...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sakurai T

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The astonishing cellular diversity in the central nervous system (CNS) arises from neural progenitors which can undergo different modes of symmetric and asymmetric divisions to self-renew as well as produce differentiated neuronal and glial progeny. Drosophila CNS neural progenitor cells, neuroblasts, have been utilis...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Zhong W,Chia W

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is used widely to determine the spatial layout of brain activation associated with specific cognitive tasks at a spatial scale of millimeters. Recent methodological improvements have made it possible to determine the latency and temporal structure of the activation at a tem...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Formisano E,Goebel R

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral line system is simple (comprising six cell types), its sense organs form according to a defined and reproducible pattern, and its neurons are easily visualized. In the zebrafish, these advantages can be combined with a wealth of genetic tools, making this system ideally suited to a combined molecular, cell...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Ghysen A,Dambly-Chaudière C

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin sheaths in the vertebrate nervous system enable faster impulse propagation, while myelinating glia provide vital support to axons. Once considered a static insulator, converging evidence now suggests that myelin in the central nervous system can be dynamically regulated by neuronal activity and continues to par...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Kaller MS,Lazari A,Blanco-Duque C,Sampaio-Baptista C,Johansen-Berg H

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamics of neuronal networks can be altered in at least two ways: by changes in connectivity, that is, the physical architecture of the network, or changes in the amplitudes and kinetics of the intrinsic and synaptic currents within and between the elements making up a network. We argue that the latter changes are of...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： McCarthy MM,Ching S,Whittington MA,Kopell N

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapses are functional units of the nervous system, through which information is transferred between neurons. The development and activity-dependent modification of synapses require temporally and spatially controlled modulation of gene expression. microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as essential regulators of gene expre...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hu Z,Li Z

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enduring social bonds play an essential role in human society. These bonds positively affect psychological, physiological, and behavioral functions. Here, we review the recent literature on the neurobiology, particularly the role of oxytocin and dopamine, of pair bond formation, bond disruption, and social buffering e...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lieberwirth C,Wang Z

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetically encoded sensors of neural activity enable visualization of circuit-level function in the central nervous system. Although our understanding of the molecular events that regulate neuronal firing, synaptic function, and plasticity has expanded rapidly over the past 15 years, an appreciation for how cellular ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Barth AL

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent functional brain imaging studies of the neurobiology of emotion have investigated how individual differences among subjects modulate neural responses during emotion processing. Differences in personality, dispositional affect, biological sex, and genotype can all substantially modulate the neural bases of emoti...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hamann S,Canli T

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA receptors (AMPARs) mediate the majority of fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain. Dynamic changes in neuronal synaptic efficacy, termed synaptic plasticity, are thought to underlie information coding and storage in learning and memory. One major mechanism that regulates synaptic strength involves the...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Anggono V,Huganir RL

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterogeneity among progenitor cells in the vertebrate nervous system has been documented with increasing frequency over the past few years. It has become clear that differences in progenitor cells help to determine when and how they respond to environmental signals. More recent studies have begun to elucidate the mol...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Lillien L

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of laboratories have recently refined descriptions of temporal response properties, from the auditory periphery to the midbrain. At many levels of the auditory pathway, the role of inhibition in temporal coding of complex sounds is being explored. In addition, quantitative relationships between physiology and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Carney LH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Auditory scenes' often contain contributions from multiple acoustic sources. These are usually heard as separate auditory 'streams', which can be selectively followed over time. How and where these auditory streams are formed in the auditory system is one of the most fascinating questions facing auditory scientists t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Shamma SA,Micheyl C

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavioral repertoire of an organism can be highly diverse, spanning from social to defensive. How an animal efficiently switches between distinct behaviors is a fundamental question whose inquiry will provide insights into the mechanisms that are necessary for an organism's survival. Previous work aimed at identi...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rozeske RR,Herry C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotransmitters are released by Ca(2+)-triggered exocytotic fusion of synaptic vesicles. Before fusion, vesicles dock at a specialised presynaptic plasma membrane region, the active zone, where they are primed to a fusion competent state. The nature of this priming reaction has long been enigmatic. Recent evidence d...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Brose N,Rosenmund C,Rettig J

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory molecules in CNS myelin affect axonal regeneration after injury. In the past year, myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG), a well-characterized myelin protein, has been identified as an inhibitor of axonal regeneration. This finding, together with its established ability to promote outgrowth, defines MAG as a...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Filbin MT

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Action potential conduction in myelinated nerve fibers depends on a polarized axonal membrane. Voltage-gated Na(+) and K(+) channels are clustered at nodes of Ranvier and mediate the transmembrane currents necessary for rapid saltatory conduction. Paranodal junctions flank nodes and function as attachment sites for my...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Schafer DP,Rasband MN

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss very recent experiments with rodents addressing the idea that long-term memories initially depending on the hippocampus, over a prolonged period, become independent of it. No unambiguous recent evidence exists to substantiate that this occurs. Most experiments find that recent and remote memories are equall...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sutherland RJ,Lehmann H

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the cellular and molecular bases of transduction of painful stimuli has burgeoned in the past year, mainly as a result of studies on isolated sensory neurones in culture. The ion channels underlying neuronal responses to noxious heat, to protons and to ATP have recently been characterized. The typ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Cesare P,McNaughton P

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biology provides examples of efficient machines which greatly outperform conventional technology. Designers in neuromorphic engineering aim to construct electronic systems with the same efficient style of computation. This task requires a melding of novel engineering principles with knowledge gleaned from neuroscience...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Liu SC,Delbruck T

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual system is tasked with extracting stimulus content (e.g. the identity of an object) from the spatiotemporal light pattern falling on the retina. However, visual information can be ambiguous with regard to content (e.g. an object when viewed from far away), requiring the system to also consider contextual inf...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rust NC,Stocker AA

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00