Essential roles for the Abl and Arg tyrosine kinases in neurulation.

abstract：:Examining the behavioral consequences of selective CNS neuronal activation is a powerful tool for elucidating mammalian brain function in health and disease. Newly developed genetic, pharmacological, and optical tools allow activation of neurons with exquisite spatiotemporal resolution; however, the inaccessibility to...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Alexander GM,Rogan SC,Abbas AI,Armbruster BN,Pei Y,Allen JA,Nonneman RJ,Hartmann J,Moy SS,Nicolelis MA,McNamara JO,Roth BL

更新日期：2009-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) is a potent regulator of oligodendrocyte development and myelination in vitro, but its effect on myelination in vivo has never been tested directly. Therefore, we examined brain growth and myelination in a transgenic mouse line that overexpresses IGF-I. By postnatal day 55, when br...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Carson MJ,Behringer RR,Brinster RL,McMorris FA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Particle-mediated gene transfer and two-photon microscopy were used to monitor the behavior of dendrites of individual cortical pyramidal neurons coexpressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). While the dendrites and spines of neurons expressing GFP alone grew modestly over ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Horch HW,Krüttgen A,Portbury SD,Katz LC

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been a surge of interest in how inhibitory neurons influence the output of local circuits in the brain. In this issue of Neuron, Scholl et al. (2015) provide a compelling argument for what one class of inhibitory neurons actually does. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Trachtenberg JT

更新日期：2015-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief depolarization of cerebellar Purkinje cells was found to inhibit parallel fiber and climbing fiber EPSCs for tens of seconds. This depolarization-induced suppression of excitation (DSE) is accompanied by altered paired-pulse plasticity, suggesting a presynaptic locus. Fluorometric imaging revealed that postsynap...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Kreitzer AC,Regehr WG

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound has received widespread attention as an emerging technology for targeted, non-invasive neuromodulation based on its ability to evoke electrophysiological and motor responses in animals. However, little is known about the spatiotemporal pattern of ultrasound-induced brain activity that could drive these resp...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sato T,Shapiro MG,Tsao DY

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic rearrangements of axon terminal arbors may be critical for establishing appropriate connections in the developing nervous system. Here, the changes in complex retinal axon arbors in the tecta of live Xenopus larvae were followed during the formation of the topographic retinotectal projection. Three-dimensional...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： O'Rourke NA,Cline HT,Fraser SE

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Winkowski and Knudsen reveal striking parallels between the attentional systems of the barn owl and the rhesus macaque. The observation of close similarities between the attentional systems of such distantly related organisms strongly suggest that key computational principles are at work. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Reynolds J

更新日期：2008-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Sweet and bitter taste distinguishes good food sources from potential toxins, but what happens when these tastants are mixed? In this issue of Neuron, Jeong et al. (2013) show that in Drosophila, bitter compounds act through an extracellular odorant-binding protein to inhibit sweet-responsive neurons and block the res...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lvovskaya S,Smith DP

更新日期：2013-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium/calmodulin kinase II (CaMKII) is required for LTP and experience-dependent potentiation in the barrel cortex. Here, we find that whisker deprivation increases LTP in the layer IV to II/III pathway and that PKA antagonists block the additional LTP. No LTP was seen in undeprived CaMKII-T286A mice, but whisker de...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hardingham N,Wright N,Dachtler J,Fox K

更新日期：2008-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Two critical amino acids in the visual pigment rhodopsin are Lys-296, the site of attachment of retinal to the protein through a protonated Schiff base linkage, and Glu-113, the Schiff base counterion. Mutation of Lys-296 or Glu-113 results in constitutive activation of opsin, as assayed by its ability to activate tra...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Robinson PR,Cohen GB,Zhukovsky EA,Oprian DD

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in neurophysiological recording has developed in two directions. One relies on multimicroelectrodes to study correlations in neuron firing. The other relies on sophisticated tasks to distinguish successive stages of neuronal processing. In this issue of Neuron, Shichinohe et al. take this second approa...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Schlag JD,Schlag-Rey M

更新日期：2009-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To advance the understanding of sleep regulation, we screened for sleep-promoting cells and identified neurons expressing neuropeptide Y-like short neuropeptide F (sNPF). Sleep induction by sNPF meets all relevant criteria. Rebound sleep following sleep deprivation is reduced by activation of sNPF neurons, and flies e...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Shang Y,Donelson NC,Vecsey CG,Guo F,Rosbash M,Griffith LC

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Each residue in and flanking the M2 membrane-spanning segment of the alpha subunit, from Glu-241 to Glu-262, was mutated to cysteine, and the mutant subunits were expressed together with wild-type beta, gamma, and delta subunits in Xenopus oocytes. Cysteines substituted for Glu-262, Leu-258, Val-255, Ser-252, Leu-251,...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Akabas MH,Kaufmann C,Archdeacon P,Karlin A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain is a vulnerable metabolic organ and must adapt to different fuel conditions to sustain function. Nerve terminals are a locus of this vulnerability, but how they regulate ATP synthesis as fuel conditions vary is unknown. We show that synapses can switch from glycolytic to oxidative metabolism, but to do so, t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ashrafi G,de Juan-Sanz J,Farrell RJ,Ryan TA

更新日期：2020-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks consist of transcriptional feedback loops housed in interdependent pacemaker neurons. Yet little is known about the neuronal output components essential for rhythmic behavior. Drosophila mutants of a putative ion channel, narrow abdomen (na), exhibit poor circadian rhythms and suppressed daylight acti...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Lear BC,Lin JM,Keath JR,McGill JJ,Raman IM,Allada R

更新日期：2005-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Propagation in higher animals requires the efficient and accurate display of innate mating behaviors. In Drosophila melanogaster, male courtship consists of a stereotypic sequence of behaviors involving multiple sensory modalities, such as vision, audition, and chemosensation. For example, taste bristles located in th...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Bray S,Amrein H

更新日期：2003-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Visinin is a retinal cone cell-specific protein (molecular weight 24,000, pI 5.1). To investigate its function, visinin cDNA was isolated from a chick retinal lambda gt11 cDNA library, using anti-visinin serum. The beta-galactosidase-visinin fusion protein was used for purifying epitope-selected antibody. The purified...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Yamagata K,Goto K,Kuo CH,Kondo H,Miki N

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium-activated small conductance potassium channel SK3 plays an essential role in the regulation of dopamine neuron activity patterns. Here we demonstrate that expression of a human disease-related SK3 mutation (hSK3Δ) in dopamine neurons of mice disrupts the balance between tonic and phasic dopamine neuron act...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Soden ME,Jones GL,Sanford CA,Chung AS,Güler AD,Chavkin C,Luján R,Zweifel LS

更新日期：2013-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of vertebrates to detect and avoid damaging extremes of temperature depends on activation of ion channels belonging to the thermo-TRP family. Injury or inflammation causes the release of inflammatory mediators which lower the threshold for detection of painful levels of heat, a process known as heat hypera...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhang X,Li L,McNaughton PA

更新日期：2008-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and basolateral amygdala (BLA) contribute to learned behavioral choice. Neurons in both structures that encode reward-predictive cues may underlie the decision to respond to such cues, but the neural circuits by which the BLA influences reward-seeking behavior have not been established...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ambroggi F,Ishikawa A,Fields HL,Nicola SM

更新日期：2008-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake and transneuronal passage of wild-type and attenuated strains of a swine alpha-herpesvirus (pseudorabies [PRV]) were examined in rat visual projections. Both strains of virus infected subpopulations of retinal ganglion cells and passed transneuronally to infect retino-recipient neurons in the forebrain. However...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Card JP,Whealy ME,Robbins AK,Moore RY,Enquist LW

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capsaicin receptor, TRPV1, is regulated by phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PIP(2)), although the precise nature of this effect (i.e., positive or negative) remains controversial. Here, we reconstitute purified TRPV1 into artificial liposomes, where it is gated robustly by capsaicin, protons, spider toxins, ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cao E,Cordero-Morales JF,Liu B,Qin F,Julius D

更新日期：2013-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The neonatal mammal faces an array of sensory stimuli when diverse neuronal types have yet to form sensory maps. How these inputs interact with intrinsic neuronal activity to facilitate circuit assembly is not well understood. By using longitudinal calcium imaging in unanesthetized mouse pups, we show that layer I (LI...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Che A,Babij R,Iannone AF,Fetcho RN,Ferrer M,Liston C,Fishell G,De Marco García NV

更新日期：2018-07-11 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：:Careful functional dissection of mouse neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) formed in the absence of NCAM reveal that in spite of relatively normal morphology and ultrastructure, the presynaptic terminals have profound alterations in the mechanisms of recycling of synaptic vesicles. These alterations, including the appearan...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Ryan TA

更新日期：2001-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Ambrozkiewicz et al. (2018) define a new molecular circuit controlling neuronal polarization and migration through the transcription factor SOX9 to coordinate the production of regulators of both protein synthesis and degradation. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Santiago SE,Barnes AP

更新日期：2018-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The entire length of myelinated axons is organized into a series of polarized domains that center around nodes of Ranvier. These domains, which are crucial for normal saltatory conduction, consist of distinct multiprotein complexes of cell adhesion molecules, ion channels, and scaffolding molecules; they also differ i...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Salzer JL

更新日期：2003-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental evidence shows that the inability to attribute mental states, such as desires and beliefs, to self and others (mentalizing) explains the social and communication impairments of individuals with autism. Brain imaging studies in normal volunteers highlight a circumscribed network that is active during menta...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Frith U

更新日期：2001-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The AMPA glutamate receptor (AMPAR) subunits GluR2 and GluR3 are thought to be important for synaptic targeting/stabilization of AMPARs and the expression of hippocampal long-term depression (LTD). In order to address this hypothesis genetically, we generated and analyzed knockout mice deficient in the expression of b...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Meng Y,Zhang Y,Jia Z

更新日期：2003-07-03 00:00:00