Presynaptic origins of distinct modes of neurotransmitter release.

abstract：:The recent invention of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy brings more than an order of magnitude gain in the spatial resolution of light microscopy. New opportunities keep emerging with the multicolor, three-dimensional, and live imaging functionalities gained in the past three years. The power of this technolo...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dani A,Huang B

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High densities of acetylcholine receptors and sodium channels in the crests and troughs of the postsynaptic folds, respectively, ensure reliable neuromuscular signalling. Clustering of both ion channels is mediated by agrin. In the case of acetylcholine receptors, agrin activates the tyrosine kinase receptor muscle-sp...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Colledge M,Froehner SC

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical basis of circadian timekeeping is best characterized in cyanobacteria. The structures of its key molecular players, KaiA, KaiB, and KaiC are known and these proteins can reconstitute a remarkable circadian oscillation in a test tube. KaiC is rhythmically phosphorylated and its phospho-status is a marke...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Egli M,Johnson CH

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the function of the basal forebrain have focused on cholinergic neurons that project to cortical and limbic structures critical for various cognitive abilities. Recent experiments suggest that these neurons serve a modulatory function in cognition, by optimizing cortical information processing and influenci...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Baxter MG,Chiba AA

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Müller Glia (MG), the radial glia cells of the retina, have spectacular morphologies subserving their enormous functional complexity. As early as 1892, the great neuroanatomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal studied the morphological development of MG, defining several steps in their morphogenesis [1,2]. However, the molecula...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： MacDonald RB,Charlton-Perkins M,Harris WA

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：:Interfacing the nervous system with devices able to efficiently record or modulate the electrical activity of neuronal cells represents the underlying foundation of future theranostic applications in neurology and of current openings in neuroscience research. These devices, usually sensing cell activity via microelect...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Scaini D,Ballerini L

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical conditioning, the simplest form of associative learning, is one of the most studied paradigms in behavioural psychology. Since the formal description of classical conditioning by Pavlov, lesion studies in animals have identified a number of anatomical structures involved in, and necessary for, classical cond...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Büchel C,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory gating mechanisms are deployed during vertebrate locomotion to ensure that adaptive and appropriate motor responses to afferent input occur during all phases of the movement cycle. Recent animal studies on the integration of cutaneous information have investigated the roles of interneurones in sensory gating. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Sillar KT

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity in cortical networks is heterogeneous, sparse and often precisely timed. The functional significance of sparseness and precise spike timing is debated, but our understanding of the developmental and synaptic mechanisms that shape neuronal discharge patterns has improved. Evidence for highly specialized, selec...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wolfe J,Houweling AR,Brecht M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular mechanisms involved in the various stages of transmitter secretion have been studied by perturbing the composition of secretory cells using pharmacological and biochemical agents. An emerging approach is to reconstitute individual steps or the entire sequence of secretion mechanisms in non-secretory cells by...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Alder J,Poo MM

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that many aspects of reward-guided behaviour can be understood within the framework of a computational account of decision making. The account emphasises representation of expectations about decision outcomes and the revision of future expectations in the light of the prediction error-the discrep...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Rushworth MF,Mars RB,Summerfield C

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the endocannabinoid system in drug addiction was initially studied by the use of compounds with different affinities for each cannabinoid receptor or for the proteins involved in endocannabinoids inactivation. The generation of genetically modified mice with selective mutations in these endocannabin...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Maldonado R,Robledo P,Berrendero F

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the presence of neuromodulators in mammalian sensory systems has been noted for some time, a groundswell of evidence has now begun to document the scope of these regulatory mechanisms in several sensory systems, highlighting the importance of neuromodulation in shaping feature extraction at all levels of neur...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hurley LM,Devilbiss DM,Waterhouse BD

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endo-lysosomal pathways are essential in maintaining protein homeostasis in the cell. Numerous genes in the endo-lysosomal pathways have been found to associate with neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Mutations of these genes lea...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wang C,Telpoukhovskaia MA,Bahr BA,Chen X,Gan L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming evident that neurons express an unusual number of molecules that were originally thought to be specific to immune functions. One such molecule, class I major histocompatibility complex, is required in the activity-dependent refinement and plasticity of connections in the developing and adult central ner...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Boulanger LM,Huh GS,Shatz CJ

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coupled oscillations are hypothesized to organize the processing of information across distributed brain circuits. This idea is supported by recent evidence, and newly developed techniques promise to put such theoretical framework to mechanistic testing. We review evidence suggesting that individual oscillatory cycles...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wilson MA,Varela C,Remondes M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal ganglia, with their inhibitory efferents, control motor outputs either directly by their projections to the midbrain motor regions or indirectly through the thalamic nuclei. Neural mechanisms in the basal ganglia act selectively to remove or enhance the inhibition so that different combinations of motor sign...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hikosaka O

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual attention operates by biasing competitive interactions between neural representations, favoring relevant over irrelevant visual inputs. Attention can enhance the processing of relevant information using location-based, feature-based or object-based selection mechanisms. Studies using event-related potential and...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Hopf JM,Schoenfeld MA,Heinze HJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both mammals and birds can flexibly organize their behavior over time. In mammals, the mental operations generating this ability are called executive functions and are associated with the prefrontal cortex. The corresponding structure in birds is the nidopallium caudolaterale. Anatomical, neurochemical, electrophysiol...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Güntürkün O

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Not only is the sense of smell of pivotal importance to most animals but also serves as a significant model system in biological research. In recent years, great strides in our understanding of how the olfactory system is organized and operates have been made. Instrumental in these efforts has been work performed in D...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Mansourian S,Stensmyr MC

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Sex steroid hormones exert a profound influence on the sexual differentiation and function of the neural circuits that mediate dimorphic behaviors. Both estrogen and testosterone are essential for male typical behaviors in many species. Recent studies with genetically modified mice provide important new insights into ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Wu MV,Shah NM

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ample evidence suggests that upon their retrieval, items in long-term memory enter a transient special state, in which they might become prone to change. The process that generates this state is dubbed 'reconsolidation'. The dominant conceptual framework in this revitalized field of memory research focuses on whether ...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Dudai Y

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All animals have a fundamental and unavoidable requirement for rest, yet we still do not fully understand the processes that initiate, maintain, and regulate sleep. The larval zebrafish is an optically translucent, genetically tractable model organism that exhibits sleep states regulated by conserved sleep circuits, t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Barlow IL,Rihel J

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum is a hub in the basal ganglia circuitry controlling goal directed actions and habits. The loss of its dopaminergic (DAergic) innervation in Parkinson's disease (PD) disrupts the ability of the two principal striatal projection systems to respond appropriately to cortical and thalamic signals, resulting in...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Zhai S,Tanimura A,Graves SM,Shen W,Surmeier DJ

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks organize neural processes, such as motor activities, into near 24-hour oscillations and adaptively synchronize these rhythms to the solar cycle. Recently, the first mammalian clock genes have been found. Unpredicted diversity in signaling pathways and clock-controlled gating of signals that modulate t...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Gillette MU

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies in the past decade have revealed the role and mechanisms of Wnt signaling in axon guidance during development and the reinduction of Wnt signaling in adult central nervous system axons upon traumatic injury, which has profound influences on axon regeneration. With 19 Wnts and 14 known receptors (10 Frizzl...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Onishi K,Hollis E,Zou Y

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system is evolutionarily conservative compared to the peripheral appendages that it controls. However, species-specific behaviors may have arisen from very small changes in neuronal circuits. In particular, changes in neuromodulatory systems may allow multifunctional circuits to produce different sets of b...

journal_title：Current opinion in neurobiology

authors： Katz PS,Harris-Warrick RM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00