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abstract：:To investigate the role of intracellular Ca2+ in the survival of developing neurons before they become neurotrophic factor dependent, we have studied chick embryo nodose neurons, which have a particularly protracted period of neuorophic factor independence. Pharmacological reduction of intracellular free Ca2+ or deple...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Larmet Y,Dolphin AC,Davies AM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent paper in Nature (Lim et al., 2012) describes the effects of melanocortin receptors in the nucleus accumbens. The studies connect a hypothalamic peptide system with brain reward centers and show effects on specific neuronal populations and behavioral components of mood. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Land BB,DiLeone RJ

更新日期：2012-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of surface proteins restricted to subsets of embryonic axons and growth cones may provide information on the mechanisms underlying axon fasciculation and pathway selection in the vertebrate nervous system. We describe here the characterization of a 135 kd cell surface glycoprotein, TAG-1, that is ex...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Dodd J,Morton SB,Karagogeos D,Yamamoto M,Jessell TM

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal population responses can vary across trials as a result of differences in the relative timing of internal brain processes. In this issue of Neuron, Williams et al. (2020) present an algorithm for inferring and inverting such trial-to-trial differences, thereby revealing an a priori hidden, precise temporal st...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Okun M

更新日期：2020-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lissencephaly (LIS), denoting a "smooth brain," is characterized by the absence of normal cerebral convolutions with abnormalities of cortical thickness. Pathogenic variants in over 20 genes are associated with LIS. The majority of posterior predominant LIS is caused by pathogenic variants in LIS1 (also known as PAFAH...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tsai MH,Muir AM,Wang WJ,Kang YN,Yang KC,Chao NH,Wu MF,Chang YC,Porter BE,Jansen LA,Sebire G,Deconinck N,Fan WL,Su SC,Chung WH,Almanza Fuerte EP,Mehaffey MG,University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics.,Ng CC

更新日期：2020-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric Ca(2+) elevations across the axonal growth cone mediate its turning responses to attractive and repulsive guidance cues. Here we show that clathrin-mediated endocytosis acts downstream of Ca(2+) signals as driving machinery for growth cone turning. In dorsal root ganglion neurons, the formation of clathrin-...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tojima T,Itofusa R,Kamiguchi H

更新日期：2010-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:During the metamorphosis of the Xenopus laevis retina, thyroid hormone (TH) preferentially induces ventral ciliary marginal zone (CMZ) cells to both increase their proliferation and give rise to ipsilaterally projecting ganglion cells. Here we show that dorsal CMZ cells express type III deiodinase (D3), an enzyme that...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Marsh-Armstrong N,Huang H,Remo BF,Liu TT,Brown DD

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals must discern important stimuli and place them onto their cognitive map of their environment. The neocortex conveys general representations of sensory events to the hippocampus, and the hippocampus is thought to classify and sharpen the distinctions between these events. We recorded populations of dentate gyrus...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Woods NI,Stefanini F,Apodaca-Montano DL,Tan IMC,Biane JS,Kheirbek MA

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracellular C-terminal domain structure of a six-transmembrane K+ channel from Escherichia coli has been solved by X-ray crystallography at 2.4 A resolution. The structure is representative of a broad class of domains/proteins that regulate the conductance of K+ (here referred to as RCK domains) in prokaryotic K...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Jiang Y,Pico A,Cadene M,Chait BT,MacKinnon R

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) has been described as a biochemical switch that is turned on by increases in intracellular calcium to mediate synaptic plasticity. Here, we show that reductions in CaMKII activity trigger persistent increases in intrinsic excitability. In spontaneously firing ves...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Nelson AB,Gittis AH,du Lac S

更新日期：2005-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to obtain novel insights into schizophrenia pathogenesis by exploiting the association between the disorder and chromosomal copy number (CNV) burden. We combined data from 5,745 cases and 10,675 controls with other published datasets containing genome-wide CNV data. In this much-enlarged sample of 11,355 cas...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pocklington AJ,Rees E,Walters JT,Han J,Kavanagh DH,Chambert KD,Holmans P,Moran JL,McCarroll SA,Kirov G,O'Donovan MC,Owen MJ

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging studies using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have revealed regions of cerebral white matter with decreased microstructural organization (lowerfractional anisotropy or FA) among poor readers. We examined whether 100 hr of intensive remedial instruction affected the white matter of 8- to 10-year-old poor re...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Keller TA,Just MA

更新日期：2009-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms generating precise connections between specific thalamic nuclei and cortical areas remain poorly understood. Using axon tracing analysis of ephrin/Eph mutant mice, we provide in vivo evidence that Eph receptors in the thalamus and ephrins in the cortex control intra-areal topographic mapping of thalamoc...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Dufour A,Seibt J,Passante L,Depaepe V,Ciossek T,Frisén J,Kullander K,Flanagan JG,Polleux F,Vanderhaeghen P

更新日期：2003-07-31 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：:The ability to remember emotional events is crucial for adapting to biologically and socially significant situations. Little is known, however, about the nature of the neural interactions supporting the integration of mnemonic and emotional information. Using fMRI and dynamic models of effective connectivity, we exami...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Smith AP,Stephan KE,Rugg MD,Dolan RJ

更新日期：2006-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane depolarization causes voltage-gated ion channels to transition from a resting/closed conformation to an activated/open conformation. We used voltage-clamp fluorometry to measure protein motion at specific regions of the Shaker Kv channel. This enabled us to construct new structural models of the resting/close...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Pathak MM,Yarov-Yarovoy V,Agarwal G,Roux B,Barth P,Kohout S,Tombola F,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2007-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:People often perceive configurations rather than the elements they comprise, a bias that may emerge because configurations often predict outcomes. But how does the brain learn to associate configurations with outcomes and how does this learning differ from learning about individual elements? We combined behavior, rein...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Duncan K,Doll BB,Daw ND,Shohamy D

更新日期：2018-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the long-range neuronal migration of adult mammals, young neurons travel from the subventricular zone to the olfactory bulb, a long journey (millimeters to centimeters, depending on the species). How can these neurons migrate through the dense meshwork of neuronal and glial processes of the adult brain parenchyma? ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kaneko N,Marín O,Koike M,Hirota Y,Uchiyama Y,Wu JY,Lu Q,Tessier-Lavigne M,Alvarez-Buylla A,Okano H,Rubenstein JL,Sawamoto K

更新日期：2010-07-29 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：:Analysis of the Drosophila lark gene indicates that it encodes an RNA-binding protein that functions as a regulatory element of the circadian clock output pathway controlling adult eclosion. We now demonstrate that the lark RNA-binding protein oscillates in abundance during the circadian cycle; importantly, the phasin...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： McNeil GP,Zhang X,Genova G,Jackson FR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray crystallography has made considerable recent progress in providing static structures of ion channels. Here we describe a complementary method-systematic fluorescence scanning-that reveals the structural dynamics of a channel. Local protein motion was measured from changes in the fluorescent intensity of a fluoro...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gandhi CS,Loots E,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism coupling exocytosis and endocytosis remains to be elucidated at central synapses. Here, we show that the mechanism linking these two processes is dependent on microdomain-[Ca2+](i) similar to that which triggers exocytosis, as well as the exocytotic protein synaptobrevin/VAMP. Furthermore, block of endoc...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hosoi N,Holt M,Sakaba T

更新日期：2009-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian rhythms are entrained to the natural day:night cycle. Melanopsin expressed in retinal ganglion cells partially accounts for circadian photoentrainment. Dkhissi-Benyahya et al. demonstrate that medium wavelength opsin (MW-opsin) also plays an important role in the process. Furthermore, they develop a model ex...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Panda S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory information is actively gathered by animals, but the synaptic mechanisms driving neuronal circuit function during active sensory processing are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the synaptically driven membrane potential dynamics during active whisker sensation using whole-cell recordings from layer 2/3...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Crochet S,Poulet JF,Kremer Y,Petersen CC

更新日期：2011-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal pyramidal cells can be divided into place cells, which fire action potentials when an animal is in specific locations, and silent cells, which are not spatially selective. In this issue of Neuron, Epsztein et al. find intracellular differences between place and silent cells by using whole-cell recordings i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ferguson JE,Jackson JC,Redish AD

更新日期：2011-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role in synaptic plasticity of ryanodine receptor type 3 (RyR3), which is normally enriched in hippocampal area CA1, we generated RyR3-deficient mice. Mutant mice exhibited facilitated CA1 long-term potentiation (LTP) induced by short tetanus (100 Hz, 100 ms) stimulation. Unlike LTP in wild-type mice, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Futatsugi A,Kato K,Ogura H,Li ST,Nagata E,Kuwajima G,Tanaka K,Itohara S,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maturation of synaptic structures depends on inductive interactions between axons and their prospective targets. One example of such an interaction is the influence of proprioceptive sensory axons on the differentiation of muscle spindles. We have monitored the expression of three transcription factors, Egr3, Pea3...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hippenmeyer S,Shneider NA,Birchmeier C,Burden SJ,Jessell TM,Arber S

更新日期：2002-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we define activities of RIM-binding protein (RBP) that are essential for baseline neurotransmission and presynaptic homeostatic plasticity. At baseline, rbp mutants have a ∼10-fold decrease in the apparent Ca(2+) sensitivity of release that we attribute to (1) impaired presynaptic Ca(2+) influx, (2) looser coupli...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Müller M,Genç Ö,Davis GW

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We present evidence that synapse retraction occurs during normal synaptic growth at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ). An RNAi-based screen to identify the molecular mechanisms that regulate synapse retraction identified Arp-1/centractin, a subunit of the dynactin complex. Arp-1 dsRNA enhances synapse retrac...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Eaton BA,Fetter RD,Davis GW

更新日期：2002-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual cortex has the capacity for experience-dependent change, or cortical plasticity, that is retained throughout life. Plasticity is invoked for encoding information during perceptual learning, by internally representing the regularities of the visual environment, which is useful for facilitating intermediate-l...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gilbert CD,Li W

更新日期：2012-07-26 00:00:00