Leptin activates hypothalamic CART neurons projecting to the spinal cord.

abstract：:We induced and characterized a recessive lethal mutation, nic-1, in zebrafish that blocks the function of muscle acetylcholine (ACh) receptors. Homozygous nic-1 embryos are nonmotile and fail to respond to exogenous application of cholinergic agonists, although their muscles contract in response to direct electrical s...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Westerfield M,Liu DW,Kimmel CB,Walker C

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Which neurons in the brain "decide" to initiate particular behaviors in response to sensory information? In this issue of Neuron, two papers (Kohatsu et al. and von Philipsborn et al.) identify candidates in the courtship circuitry of Drosophila. The activity of these neurons is both regulated by sex pheromones and ne...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Benton R

更新日期：2011-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary visual cortex has a map of multiple visual parameters whose topographic relations remain poorly understood. A new study (Nauhaus et al., 2016) reveals a nearly geometric map-topography that coexists within a remarkably precise representation of visual space. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Alonso JM

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal Ca2+ channels are key transducers coupling excitability to cellular function. As such, they are tightly regulated by multiple G protein-signaling pathways that finely tune their activity. In addition to fast, direct G(beta)gamma modulation of Ca2+ channels, a slower Galpha(q/11)-mediated mechanism has remaine...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Delmas P,Coste B,Gamper N,Shapiro MS

更新日期：2005-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Gantz and Bean (2017) show that the endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoyl glycerol (2-AG) can directly alter the properties of native ion-channel Kv4.3 and accelerate the pacemaker activity of rodent dopamine neurons. These findings are one of the first demonstrations of postsynaptic, cell-autonomous...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Matsui A,Alvarez VA

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Input comparison is thought to occur in many neuronal circuits, including the hippocampus, where functionally important interactions between the Schaffer collateral and perforant pathways have been hypothesized. We investigated this idea using multisite, whole-cell recordings and Ca2+ imaging and found that properly t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Takahashi H,Magee JC

更新日期：2009-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Presynaptic CaV2 channels are essential for Ca2+-triggered exocytosis. In addition, there are two competing models for their roles in synapse structure. First, Ca2+ channels or Ca2+ entry may control synapse assembly. Second, active zone proteins may scaffold CaV2s to presynaptic release sites, and synapse structure i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Held RG,Liu C,Ma K,Ramsey AM,Tarr TB,De Nola G,Wang SSH,Wang J,van den Maagdenberg AMJM,Schneider T,Sun J,Blanpied TA,Kaeser PS

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The embryonic basal ganglia generates multiple projection neurons and interneuron subtypes from distinct progenitor domains. Combinatorial interactions of transcription factors and chromatin are thought to regulate gene expression. In the medial ganglionic eminence, the NKX2-1 transcription factor controls regional id...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sandberg M,Flandin P,Silberberg S,Su-Feher L,Price JD,Hu JS,Kim C,Visel A,Nord AS,Rubenstein JLR

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:A new study by Yao et al. in the current issue of Cell proposes that a novel vesicular protein, dubbed Flower, regulates endocytosis by controlling presynaptic Ca(2+) levels. This finding is intriguing not only for its implications for vesicle cycling, but also for the multitude of Ca(2+)-dependent processes at play i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kuo SP,Trussell LO

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) coupled to phosphoinositide hydrolysis desensitize in response to prolonged or repeated agonist exposure, and evidence suggests that this involves activation of protein kinase C (PKC). The present studies were undertaken to determine if cloned mGluR5 undergoes similar PKC-medi...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gereau RW 4th,Heinemann SF

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans the hippocampus is required for episodic memory, which extends into the spatial and temporal domains. Work on the rodent hippocampus has shown that NMDA receptor (NMDAR) -mediated plasticity is essential for spatial memory. Here, we have examined whether hippocampal NMDARs are also needed for temporal memory...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Huerta PT,Sun LD,Wilson MA,Tonegawa S

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Fossati et al. (2016) report that through its domain structure, SRGAP2A, a Rho-GTPase-activating protein, can co-regulate excitatory and inhibitory synapse development, offering a putative evolutionary genetic mechanism for preserving excitatory/inhibitory balance during speciation. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Subramanian J,Nedivi E

更新日期：2016-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Both human speech and animal vocal signals contain frequency-modulated (FM) sounds. Although central auditory neurons that selectively respond to the direction of frequency modulation are known, the synaptic mechanisms underlying the generation of direction selectivity (DS) remain elusive. Here we show the emergence o...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kuo RI,Wu GK

更新日期：2012-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The slow (<1 Hz) rhythm is a defining feature of the electroencephalogram during sleep. Since cortical circuits can generate this rhythm in isolation, it is assumed that the accompanying slow oscillation in thalamocortical (TC) neurons is largely a passive reflection of neocortical activity. Here we show, however, tha...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hughes SW,Cope DW,Blethyn KL,Crunelli V

更新日期：2002-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the CB2 cannabinoid receptor in the brain has long been a matter of debate. In this issue of Neuron, Stempel et al. (2016) describe a mechanism whereby endocannabinoid production leads to a cell-intrinsic hyperpolarization that controls self activity. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Quraishi SA,Paladini CA

更新日期：2016-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Murine and canine narcolepsy can be caused by mutations of the hypocretin (Hcrt) (orexin) precursor or Hcrt receptor genes. In contrast to these animal models, most human narcolepsy is not familial, is discordant in identical twins, and has not been linked to mutations of the Hcrt system. Thus, the cause of human narc...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Thannickal TC,Moore RY,Nienhuis R,Ramanathan L,Gulyani S,Aldrich M,Cornford M,Siegel JM

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several plasma membrane chloride channels are well characterized, but much less is known about the molecular identity and function of intracellular Cl- channels. ClC-3 is thought to mediate swelling-activated plasma membrane currents, but we now show that this broadly expressed chloride channel is present in endosomal...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Stobrawa SM,Breiderhoff T,Takamori S,Engel D,Schweizer M,Zdebik AA,Bösl MR,Ruether K,Jahn H,Draguhn A,Jahn R,Jentsch TJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal replays have been demonstrated to play a crucial role in memory. Chains of ripples (ripple bursts) in CA1 have been reported to co-occur with long-range place cell sequence replays during the quiet awake state, but roles of neural inputs to CA1 in ripple bursts and replays are unknown. Here we show that ri...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yamamoto J,Tonegawa S

更新日期：2017-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are age-related neurodegenerative disorders with shared genetic etiologies and overlapping clinical and pathological features. Here we studied a novel ALS/FTD family and identified the P362L mutation in the low-complexity domain (LCD) of T cell-rest...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mackenzie IR,Nicholson AM,Sarkar M,Messing J,Purice MD,Pottier C,Annu K,Baker M,Perkerson RB,Kurti A,Matchett BJ,Mittag T,Temirov J,Hsiung GR,Krieger C,Murray ME,Kato M,Fryer JD,Petrucelli L,Zinman L,Weintraub S,

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We have made little recent progress developing effective new treatments for neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Novel molecular mechanisms have been identified, but have not translated into the clinic. We suggest an alternative: combinations of treatments targeting different aspects of final common path...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Murphy DG,Goldman M,Loth E,Spooren W

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins and tyrosine receptor kinase (Trk) receptors are expressed in skeletal muscle, but it is unclear what functional role Trk-mediated signaling plays during postnatal life. Full-length TrkB (trkB.FL) as well as truncated TrkB (trkB.t1) were found to be localized primarily to the postsynaptic acetylcholine r...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Gonzalez M,Ruggiero FP,Chang Q,Shi YJ,Rich MM,Kraner S,Balice-Gordon RJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fear is a graded central motive state ranging from mild to intense. As threat intensity increases, fear transitions from discriminative to generalized. The circuit mechanisms that process threats of different intensity are not well resolved. Here, we isolate a unique population of locally projecting neurons in the cen...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sanford CA,Soden ME,Baird MA,Miller SM,Schulkin J,Palmiter RD,Clark M,Zweifel LS

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clock proteins are modified in many different ways. The best-studied posttranslational modification is phosphorylation, with well-known kinases and phosphatases regulating the function and stability of clock proteins. Degradation of these proteins usually involves ubiquitylation or sumoylation, and some of t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sehgal A

更新日期：2008-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable, common neurodevelopmental disorder with diverse genetic causes. Several studies have implicated protein synthesis as one among several of its potential convergent mechanisms. We originally identified Janus kinase and microtubule-interacting protein 1 (JAKMIP1) as differen...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Berg JM,Lee C,Chen L,Galvan L,Cepeda C,Chen JY,Peñagarikano O,Stein JL,Li A,Oguro-Ando A,Miller JA,Vashisht AA,Starks ME,Kite EP,Tam E,Gdalyahu A,Al-Sharif NB,Burkett ZD,White SA,Fears SC,Levine MS,Wohlschlegel

更新日期：2015-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of light-dependent K+ channels in ciliary photoreceptors from Pecten was investigated using intracellular dialysis of putative messengers and modulators. Neither elevated [Ca2+] nor BAPTA changed the membrane current in the dark or the light response. IP3 and the antagonists heparin and decavanadate wer...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： del Pilar Gomez M,Nasi E

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epsilon4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOE) is the major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although there have been numerous studies attempting to elucidate the underlying mechanism for this increased risk, how apoE4 influences AD onset and progression has yet to be proven. However, prevailing evide...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kim J,Basak JM,Holtzman DM

更新日期：2009-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of inositol 1,4,5 trisphosphate (InsP3) into Limulus ventral photoreceptors elevates the concentration of intracellular calcium ions and as a consequence depolarizes the photoreceptor. This InsP3-induced elevation can be inhibited by a prior injection of calcium or InsP3 delivered 1 s earlier. Recovery from ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Payne R,Flores TM,Fein A

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary familial brain calcification (PFBC) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by bilateral calcifications in the basal ganglia and other brain regions. The genetic basis of this disorder remains unknown in a significant portion of familial cases. Here, we reported a recessive causal gene, MYORG, fo...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yao XP,Cheng X,Wang C,Zhao M,Guo XX,Su HZ,Lai LL,Zou XH,Chen XJ,Zhao Y,Dong EL,Lu YQ,Wu S,Li X,Fan G,Yu H,Xu J,Wang N,Xiong ZQ,Chen WJ

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The directional selectivity of retinal ganglion cell responses represents a primitive pattern recognition that operates within a retinal neural circuit. The cellular origin and mechanism of directional selectivity were investigated by selectively eliminating retinal starburst amacrine cells, using immunotoxin-mediated...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yoshida K,Watanabe D,Ishikane H,Tachibana M,Pastan I,Nakanishi S

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oscillatory activity in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) is critical for emotional behavior. In this issue of Neuron, Stujenske et al. (2014) describe novel dynamics of BLA theta-gamma-coupled neuronal oscillations associated with conditioned and innate fear. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bocchio M,Capogna M

更新日期：2014-08-20 00:00:00