Strain-selective effects of nicotine on electrophysiological responses evoked in hippocampus from DBA/2Ibg and C3H/2Ibg mice.

abstract：:Based on the staining of Drosophila embryos with neuron-specific monoclonal antibodies we describe the differentiation of the earliest neurons in the central nervous system. The metameric array undergoes a number of changes during development that distinguish several morphological units: metameres, neuromeres and gang...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Canal I,Ferrús A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A slide taped to a window at the Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory was my first introduction to the touch receptor neurons of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Studying these cells as a postdoc with Sydney Brenner gave me a chance to work with John Sulston on a fascinating set of neurons. I would never have gues...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Chalfie M

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma multiform (GBM; World Health Organization (WHO) grade IV) and anaplastic astrocytomas (AA; WHO grade III) are highly aggressive and lethal astrocytic brain tumors. To detect cancer-specific somatic mutations in two hot-spot regions of PIK3CA gene, the helical and kinase domains (encoded by exons 9 and 20,...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Derakhshandeh-Peykar P,Alivi J,Hossein-nezhad A,Rautenstrauss B,Vesal RE,Doriani A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarcoglycanopathies (SGPs) constitute a subgroup of autosomal recessive limb girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) which are caused by mutations in sarcoglycan (SGs) genes. SG proteins form a core complex consisting of α, β, γ and δ sarcoglycans which are encoded by SGCA, SGCB, SGCG and SGCD genes, respectively. Genetic...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Mojbafan M,Nilipour Y,Tonekaboni SH,Bagheri SD,Bagherian H,Sharifi Z,Zeinali Z,Tavakkoly-Bazzaz J,Zeinali S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract: This essay is dedicated to Obaid on the occasion of his 80th birthday. We both worked on the behavior of Drosophila and on what underlies behavior in the fly brain. Is that the fly's mind? The essay is about some limitations of brain science. It is just a little piece of writing. It is meant to honor Obaid f...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Heisenberg M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learnt predictive behavior faces a dilemma: predictive stimuli will never 'replay' exactly as during the learning event, requiring generalization. In turn, minute differences can become meaningful, prompting discrimination. To provide a study case for an adaptive adjustment of this generalization-discrimination balanc...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Mishra D,Louis M,Gerber B

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinase-mediated signaling cascades regulate a number of different molecular mechanisms involved in cellular homeostasis, and are viewed as one of the most common intracellular processes that are robustly dysregulated in the pathophysiology of mood disorders such as depression. Newly emerged, rapid acting antidepressan...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Yuan LL,Wauson E,Duric V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Courtship suppression is an associative conditioning procedure in Drosophila melanogaster that is ethologically based and capable of being tested on individual flies. We have expanded the range of the courtship conditioning by developing an excitatory procedure in which male flies learn to associate a novel odor with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Broughton SJ,Tully T,Greenspan RJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual systems have a rich history as model systems for the discovery and understanding of basic principles underlying neuronal connectivity. The compound eyes of insects consist of up to thousands of small unit eyes that are connected by photoreceptor axons to set up a visual map in the brain. The photoreceptor axon ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Agi E,Langen M,Altschuler SJ,Wu LF,Zimmermann T,Hiesinger PR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bidirectional and positive relation between the ingestion of fat and alcohol has become the subject of extensive discussion. However, this relation is more studied in animal models of binge eating with intermittent access of high-fat diet or in a model of short period of this diet consumption. Here, we developed a...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Martins de Carvalho L,Lauar Gonçalves J,Sondertoft Braga Pedersen A,Damasceno S,Elias Moreira Júnior R,Uceli Maioli T,Faria AMC,Brunialti Godard AL

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered synaptic strength underlies information storage in neural circuits. Neuromodulatory transmitters such as norepinephrine (NE) facilitate long-lasting synaptic plasticity by recruiting and modifying multiple molecular elements of synaptic signaling, including specific transmitter receptors, intracellular protein...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Nguyen PV,Gelinas JN

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first of two reviews that include some of the studies that we, members of the Pak lab and collaborators, carried out from 1998 to 2010 on the functional and physical interactions among several Drosophila phototransduction components. The report includes our studies on the regulations and/or the functions o...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Leung HT,Shino S,Kim E

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A search for the defective gene causing torsion dystonia has been carried out in a family manifesting an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance of this movement disorder. Complete neurologic examination and establishment of lymphoblast lines have been carried out for over 50 members. Linkage analysis, using cloned DNA...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Breakefield XO,Bressman SB,Kramer PL,Ozelius L,Moskowitz C,Tanzi R,Brin MF,Hobbs W,Kaufman D,Tobin A

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:otal (ota=olfactory trap abnormal), an X-linked mutation of Drosophila isolated by virtue of abnormal olfactory behavior, is shown to be an allele of rdgB (retinal degeneration B), a gene required for normal visual system physiology. rdgB function is shown to be necessary for olfactory response of both adult files and...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Woodard C,Alcorta E,Carlson J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this review is to summarize the history of Dr. Yoshiki Hotta and his collaborators' contributions to the research field of Drosophila phototransduction. The electroretinogram-defective mutants reported in 1970 by Dr. Hotta and Dr. Seymour Benzer in the article entitled "Genetic dissection of the Drosophila ...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Suzuki E,Masai I,Inoue H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The horizontal system and vertical system cells of the dipteran optic lobes are well understood regarding their physiology and role in visually guided behavior. Little is known, however, about their development. Drosophila optomotor-blind (omb) is required for the development of the HS/VS cells which are lacking in th...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Sen A,Grimm S,Hofmeyer K,Pflugfelder GO

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The slo gene encodes the BK-type Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channels. In Drosophila, expression of slo is induced by organic solvent sedation (benzyl alcohol and ethanol), and this increase in neural slo expression contributes to the production of functional behavioral tolerance (inducible resistance) to these drugs. Withi...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Li X,Ghezzi A,Krishnan HR,Pohl JB,Bohm AY,Atkinson NS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report contains additional observations on the cell lineage relationships of the motor neurons of the facial nucleus and of the cerebellar Purkinje cells of the mouse. These cell populations were quantitatively analyzed in the mosaic brains of experimental aggregation chimeras. The cell markers used to perform th...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Herrup K,Wetts R,Diglio TJ

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new autosomal recessive mutation, characterized by an early defect in righting reflex and stiffened gait, progression to severe spasticity, tremor and rigidity, and death before weaning, appeared spontaneously on the C57BL/6 background. It was shown to be an allele of the mutant spastic spa, and shall be known as sp...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： White WF,Regan LJ,Roe AW,Messer A

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the cDNA encoding human liver glycogen phosphorylase (glycogenosis type VI) from a fetal brain cDNA library. Liver(L) and muscle(M) phosphorylase cDNA probes were used to determine the relative abundance of mRNA encoding the L- and M-isozymes of phosphorylase in human fetal and adult tissues. The transc...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Gorin FA,Mullinax RL,Ignacio PC,Neve RL,Kurnit DM

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, less than 10 pedigrees have been reported with ZNF335 mutations since it was discovered in 2012 and little is known about ZNF335-related clinical spectrum. We describe a 12 years old male patient who is only child of nonconsanguineous Turkish parents. Trio whole genome sequencing identified previously unrepor...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Caglayan AO,Yaghouti K,Kockaya T,Kemer D,Cankaya T,Ameziane N,Cogulu O,Coker M,Yalcinkaya C

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Writers' cramp is a movement disorder with dystonic co-contraction of fingers and hand during writing and is part of the clinical spectrum of focal dystonias. Previous studies showed reduced striatal dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) availability in dystonia. The expression of D2 receptors is modulated by a DRD2/ANKK1-Taq1A...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Zeuner KE,Acewicz A,Knutzen A,Dressler D,Lohmann K,Witt K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each neuropil module, or cartridge, in the fly's lamina has a fixed complement of cells. Of five types of monopolar cell interneurons, only L4 has collaterals that invade neighboring cartridges. In the proximal lamina, these collaterals form reciprocal synapses with both the L2 of their own cartridge and the L4 collat...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Lüthy K,Ahrens B,Rawal S,Lu Z,Tarnogorska D,Meinertzhagen IA,Fischbach KF

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling from the postsynaptic compartment regulates multiple aspects of synaptic development and function. Syntaxin 4 (Syx4) is a plasma membrane t-SNARE that promotes the growth and plasticity of Drosophila neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) by regulating the localization of key synaptic proteins in the postsynaptic co...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Harris KP,Littleton JT,Stewart BA

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural tube defects (NTD) are a common birth defect, with both genetic and environmental contributions to their etiology. In mouse, null mutations in Noggin result in fully-penetrant NTDs. We investigated Noggin for mutations that may predispose to human NTDs in 202 NTD cases. One variant allele was identified in a ma...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Bauer KA,George TM,Enterline DS,Stottmann RW,Melvin EC,Siegel D,Samal S,Hauser MA,Klingensmith J,Nye JS,Speer MC,Neural Tube Defects Collaborative Group.

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations at two fragile sites, FRAXA and FRAXE, loci are caused by an expansion of a CGG/GCC trinucleotide repeat and are characterized by mental retardation. Here we report molecular screening survey of 97 unrelated individuals diagnosed with non-specific mental retardation (MR), which produced positive test for FRA...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Major T,Culjkovic B,Stojkovic O,Gucscekic M,Lakic A,Romac S

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C. elegans animals mutant for the unc-119 gene exhibit movement, sensory and behavioral abnormalities. Consistent with a nervous system role, unc-119 reporter genes are expressed throughout the C. elegans nervous system. The UNC-119 protein has strong sequence similarity to the predicted protein from a human gene, HRG...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Maduro MF,Gordon M,Jacobs R,Pilgrim DB

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review outlines research into the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying a simple behavior in the soil-dwelling nematode, C. elegans. A tap administered to the side of a petri plate acts as a nonlocalized mechanical stimulus to the worms within. Most adult worms respond to this tap stimulus with backward lo...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Ardiel EL,Rankin CH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-gene mutants of Drosophila have not only increased our understanding of the biochemical processes underlying learning and memory processes, but also established structure-function relationships. The first relevant mutants were identified by Martin Heisenberg nearly 30 years ago in a screen for altered adult bra...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Hovhanyan A,Raabe T

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diverse types of neurons must be specified in the developing brain to form the functional neural circuits that are necessary for the execution of daily tasks. Here, we describe the participation of Forkhead box class O (FOXO) in cell fate specification of a small subset of Drosophila ventral olfactory projection neuro...

journal_title：Journal of neurogenetics

authors： Wei JY,Chung PC,Chu SY,Yu HH

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00