LRRTMs Organize Synapses through Differential Engagement of Neurexin and PTPσ.

abstract：:Neurons compensate their synaptic strengths to global changes in network activity. In this issue of Neuron, Lee et al. (2013) provide evidence in mature hippocampal networks that this homeostatic plasticity is achieved uniquely at the mossy fiber synapses on CA3 neurons. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Chater TE,Goda Y

更新日期：2013-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite tremendous progress in the study of voltage-gated channels, the molecular mechanism underlying voltage sensing has remained a matter of debate. We review five new studies that make major progress in the field. The studies employ a battery of distinct approaches that have the common aim of measuring the motion ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tombola F,Pathak MM,Isacoff EY

更新日期：2005-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Auditory receptor cells rely on mechanically gated channels to transform sound stimuli into neural activity. Several TRP channels have been implicated in Drosophila auditory transduction, but mechanistic studies have been hampered by the inability to record subthreshold signals from receptor neurons. Here, we develop ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lehnert BP,Baker AE,Gaudry Q,Chiang AS,Wilson RI

更新日期：2013-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) can be regulated by synaptic activity and could therefore be involved in activity-dependent control of neuronal growth. We tested whether increased CaMKII activity in postsynaptic optic tectal neurons can modify the development of retinotectal axons in Xenopus. T...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zou DJ,Cline HT

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promises are one of the oldest human-specific psychological mechanisms fostering cooperation and trust. Here, we study the neural underpinnings of promise keeping and promise breaking. Subjects first make a promise decision (promise stage), then they anticipate whether the promise affects the interaction partner's dec...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Baumgartner T,Fischbacher U,Feierabend A,Lutz K,Fehr E

更新日期：2009-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a transgenic mouse line in which GFP is expressed in a single population of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), Huberman and colleagues report in this issue of Neuron that the axon terminals of RGCs exhibit an orderly pattern of distribution in the higher visual centers. This pattern undergoes a developmental refinem...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： He S

更新日期：2008-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize the role of rare complete human knockouts in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), we identify genes with homozygous or compound heterozygous loss-of-function (LoF) variants (defined as nonsense and essential splice sites) from exome sequencing of 933 cases and 869 controls. We identify a 2-fold increase i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lim ET,Raychaudhuri S,Sanders SJ,Stevens C,Sabo A,MacArthur DG,Neale BM,Kirby A,Ruderfer DM,Fromer M,Lek M,Liu L,Flannick J,Ripke S,Nagaswamy U,Muzny D,Reid JG,Hawes A,Newsham I,Wu Y,Lewis L,Dinh H,Gross S,W

更新日期：2013-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Under ambient air conditions, NO inhibits NMDAR activity by reacting with the NR2A subunit C399 along with two additional cysteine pairs if their disulfide bonds are reduced to free thiol groups [NR1(C744,C798); NR2(C87,C320)]. Here we demonstrate that relative hypoxia enhances S-nitrosylation of NMDARs by a unique me...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Takahashi H,Shin Y,Cho SJ,Zago WM,Nakamura T,Gu Z,Ma Y,Furukawa H,Liddington R,Zhang D,Tong G,Chen HS,Lipton SA

更新日期：2007-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Early postnatal mammals, including human babies, can perform only basic motor tasks. The acquisition of skilled behaviors occurs later, requiring anatomical changes in neural circuitry to support the development of coordinated activation or suppression of functionally related muscle groups. How this circuit reorganiza...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gu Z,Serradj N,Ueno M,Liang M,Li J,Baccei ML,Martin JH,Yoshida Y

更新日期：2017-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The parietal lobes of nonhuman primates have been well characterized by single neuron recordings, yet clear partitioning of the human parietal lobes has not been clearly demonstrated. An elegant new fMRI study by Simon and colleagues (this issue of Neuron) suggests that parietal cortex does indeed contain dissociable ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Culham J

更新日期：2002-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-consciousness has mostly been approached by philosophical enquiry and not by empirical neuroscientific study, leading to an overabundance of diverging theories and an absence of data-driven theories. Using robotic technology, we achieved specific bodily conflicts and induced predictable changes in a fundamental a...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ionta S,Heydrich L,Lenggenhager B,Mouthon M,Fornari E,Chapuis D,Gassert R,Blanke O

更新日期：2011-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief bath application of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) to hippocampal slices produces long-term synaptic depression (LTD) in CA1 that is (1) sensitive to postnatal age, (2) saturable, (3) induced postsynaptically, (4) reversible, and (5) not associated with a change in paired pulse facilitation. Chemically induced LTD ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lee HK,Kameyama K,Huganir RL,Bear MF

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodents begin to use bilaterally coordinated, rhythmic sweeping of their vibrissae ("whisking") for environmental exploration around 2 weeks after birth. Whether (and how) the vibrissal control circuitry changes after birth is unknown, and the relevant premotor circuitry remains poorly characterized. Using a modified ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Takatoh J,Nelson A,Zhou X,Bolton MM,Ehlers MD,Arenkiel BR,Mooney R,Wang F

更新日期：2013-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Much evidence indicates that prefrontal cortex plays an important role in long-term recognition memory processes. Here, we report primate prefrontal neuronal responses carrying information necessary for long-term visual recognition memory. The responses of many neurons signaled stimulus familiarity even when the perio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xiang JZ,Brown MW

更新日期：2004-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of evoked quantal transmitter release by protein kinase C (PKC) was investigated at an identified cholinergic neuro-neuronal synapse of the Aplysia buccal ganglion. Evoked acetylcholine release was increased by a diacylglycerol analog that activates PKC and was decreased by H-7, a blocker of PKC. FLRFamide ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fossier P,Baux G,Tauc L

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) do not express the typical neuronal intermediate filament proteins (IFPs), the neurofilament triplet proteins. Immunocytochemical evidence shows that ORNs coexpress vimentin and peripherin but distribute them differently. Specifically, ORNs contain vimentin in dendrites, cell bodies, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gorham JD,Ziff EB,Baker H

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of beta-amyloid protein (Abeta) in the extracellular space of the brain has been hypothesized to be a culprit in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. In this issue of Neuron, Cirrito et al. describe a series of experiments demonstrating that extracellular Abeta levels are directly modulated by neurona...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schroeder BE,Koo EH

更新日期：2005-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic spines have been proposed as primary sites of synaptic plasticity in the brain. Consistent with this hypothesis, spines contain high concentrations of actin, suggesting that they might be motile. To investigate this possibility, we made video recordings from hippocampal neurons expressing actin tagged with g...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Fischer M,Kaech S,Knutti D,Matus A

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to economic theories, preference for one item over others reveals its rank value on a common scale. Previous studies identified brain regions encoding such values. Here we verify that these regions can valuate various categories of objects and further test whether they still express preferences when attentio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lebreton M,Jorge S,Michel V,Thirion B,Pessiglione M

更新日期：2009-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic deletion of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP) has been shown to enhance mGluR-dependent long-term depression (LTD). Herein, we demonstrate that mGluR-LTD induces a transient, translation-dependent increase in FMRP that is rapidly degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. Moreover, proteasome inhi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hou L,Antion MD,Hu D,Spencer CM,Paylor R,Klann E

更新日期：2006-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Epitranscriptomic modification of mRNA affects its metabolism and has recently been shown to regulate brain development. Two studies in this issue of Neuron, Koranda et al. (2018) and Engel et al. (2018), uncover dynamic and critical roles of m6A/m RNA modifications in the adult mammalian brain in regulating physiolog...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yoon KJ,Ming GL,Song H

更新日期：2018-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroscience is an exciting and vibrant field, but building an academic career is not always easy. What are critical success indicators? Which tools help talented young neuroscientists conquer the challenges? In this NeuroView, we discuss instruments and steps that can help people progress through the ranks. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Joëls M,Hoogenraad CC,Poirazi P,Di Luca M

更新日期：2015-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:At each of the brain's vast number of synapses, the presynaptic nerve terminal, synaptic cleft, and postsynaptic specialization form a transcellular unit to enable efficient transmission of information between neurons. While we know much about the molecular machinery within each compartment, we are only beginning to u...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Biederer T,Kaeser PS,Blanpied TA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular pathways controlling cerebellar Purkinje cell dendrite formation and maturation are poorly understood. The Purkinje cell degeneration (pcd) mutant mouse is characterized by mutations in Nna1, a gene discovered in an axonal regenerative context, but whose actual function in development and disease is unkn...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Li J,Gu X,Ma Y,Calicchio ML,Kong D,Teng YD,Yu L,Crain AM,Vartanian TK,Pasqualini R,Arap W,Libermann TA,Snyder EY,Sidman RL

更新日期：2010-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The mesolimbic system is known to play a role in self-administration of opioids and psychostimulants. Although morphine and cocaine act by separate cellular mechanisms initially, the present study describes a common change in synaptic regulation of dopamine cells in the ventral tegmental area 1 week after termination ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bonci A,Williams JT

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The establishment of axon-dendrite polarity is fundamental for radial migration of neurons during cortex development of mammals. We demonstrate that the E3 ubiquitin ligases WW-Containing Proteins 1 and 2 (Wwp1 and Wwp2) are indispensable for proper polarization of developing neurons. We show that knockout of Wwp1 and...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ambrozkiewicz MC,Schwark M,Kishimoto-Suga M,Borisova E,Hori K,Salazar-Lázaro A,Rusanova A,Altas B,Piepkorn L,Bessa P,Schaub T,Zhang X,Rabe T,Ripamonti S,Rosário M,Akiyama H,Jahn O,Kobayashi T,Hoshino M,Tarabykin V,

更新日期：2018-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Light plays a pivotal role in the regulation of affective behaviors. However, the precise circuits that mediate the impact of light on depressive-like behaviors are not well understood. Here, we show that light influences depressive-like behaviors through a disynaptic circuit linking the retina and the lateral habenul...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Huang L,Xi Y,Peng Y,Yang Y,Huang X,Fu Y,Tao Q,Xiao J,Yuan T,An K,Zhao H,Pu M,Xu F,Xue T,Luo M,So KF,Ren C

更新日期：2019-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of SNCA mutations pathogenic for autosomal-dominant Lewy body Parkinson's disease (PD) in 1997 heralded a revolution in understanding the molecular and genetic basis of PD. Indeed, it now is clear that Lewy body PD is one of many neurodegenerative parkinsonian disorders that result from nigrostriatal deg...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Forman MS,Lee VM,Trojanowski JQ

更新日期：2005-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain has often been described, quite accurately, as one of the most complex objects in the natural world. Understanding its workings, to say nothing about intervening in them, is among the hardest problems in science. While this makes the challenge all the more enticing, in the short term, it acts to limit the im...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sinha P

更新日期：2016-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:While there are selective regions of occipitotemporal cortex that respond to faces, letters, and bodies, the large-scale neural organization of most object categories remains unknown. Here, we find that object representations can be differentiated along the ventral temporal cortex by their real-world size. In a functi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Konkle T,Oliva A

更新日期：2012-06-21 00:00:00