SAP90 binds and clusters kainate receptors causing incomplete desensitization.

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：:The dopamine D3 receptor is expressed primarily in regions of the brain that are thought to influence motivation and motor functions. To specify in vivo D3 receptor function, we generated mutant mice lacking this receptor. Our analysis indicates that in a novel environment, D3 mutant mice are transiently more active t...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Xu M,Koeltzow TE,Santiago GT,Moratalla R,Cooper DC,Hu XT,White NM,Graybiel AM,White FJ,Tonegawa S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the structural determinants underlying transport by the glutamate transporter EAAT1, we mutated each of 24 highly conserved residues (P392 to Q415) to cysteine. A majority of these substituted cysteines react with the sulfhydryl-modifying reagent MTSEA, suggesting that they reside in an aqueous environm...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Seal RP,Amara SG

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual attention has been classically described as a spotlight that enhances the processing of a behaviorally relevant object. However, in many situations, humans and animals must simultaneously attend to several relevant objects separated by distracters. To account for this ability, various models of attention have b...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Niebergall R,Khayat PS,Treue S,Martinez-Trujillo JC

更新日期：2011-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of Neuron, Espuny-Camacho et al. (2017) generate a humanized Alzheimer's disease (AD) model that reveals species-specific vulnerability of human neurons to AD pathology. This model provides key insights for disease mechanism and therapeutic discovery for AD. ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Cahill MK,Huang EJ

更新日期：2017-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions between cortical and hippocampal circuits are critical for memory formation, yet their basic organization at the neuronal network level is not well understood. Here, we demonstrate that a significant portion of neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex of freely behaving rats are phase locked to the hip...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Siapas AG,Lubenov EV,Wilson MA

更新日期：2005-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation is a covalent chemical modification of DNA catalyzed by DNA methyltransferases (DNMTs). DNA methylation is associated with transcriptional silencing and has been studied extensively as a lifelong molecular information storage mechanism put in place during development. Here we report that DNMT gene expr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Miller CA,Sweatt JD

更新日期：2007-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Habits are notoriously difficult to break and, if broken, are usually replaced by new routines. To examine the neural basis of these characteristics, we recorded spike activity in cortical and striatal habit sites as rats learned maze tasks. Overtraining induced a shift from purposeful to habitual behavior. This shift...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Smith KS,Graybiel AM

更新日期：2013-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual decisions require the transformation of raw sensory inputs into cortical representations suitable for stimulus discrimination. One of the best-known examples of this transformation involves the middle temporal area (MT) of the primate visual cortex. Area MT provides a robust representation of stimulus motio...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Liu LD,Pack CC

更新日期：2017-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditioned place preference (CPP) is a widely used model of addiction-related behavior whose underlying mechanisms are not understood. In this study, we used dual site silicon probe recordings in freely moving mice to examine interactions between the hippocampus and nucleus accumbens in cocaine CPP. We found that CPP...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sjulson L,Peyrache A,Cumpelik A,Cassataro D,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2018-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a polyglutamine disease caused by the expansion of a CAG repeat in the androgen receptor (AR) gene. We generated a transgenic mouse model carrying a full-length AR containing 97 CAGs. Three of the five lines showed progressive muscular atrophy and weakness as well as diffus...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Katsuno M,Adachi H,Kume A,Li M,Nakagomi Y,Niwa H,Sang C,Kobayashi Y,Doyu M,Sobue G

更新日期：2002-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein scaffolds are essential for specific and efficient downstream signaling at synapses. Though nicotinic receptors are widely expressed in the nervous system and influence numerous cellular events due in part to their calcium permeability, no scaffolds have yet been identified for the receptors in neurons. Here w...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Conroy WG,Liu Z,Nai Q,Coggan JS,Berg DK

更新日期：2003-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term, but not short-term, facilitation induced by 5-HT in Aplysia sensory neurons is blocked by application of inhibitors of protein synthesis or RNA synthesis during the 1.5 hr training period. These findings suggest that genes and proteins not needed for the short-term process are required for long-term facilit...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Barzilai A,Kennedy TE,Sweatt JD,Kandel ER

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive grooming behaviors, cleansing rituals, and self-mutilation are important features of a range of neuropsychiatric diseases including obsessive compulsive (OC)-spectrum disorders. In this issue of Neuron, Greer and Capecchi (2002) report that Hoxb8 mutant mice exhibit this behavioral phenotype. These Hoxb8 mut...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Graybiel AM,Saka E

更新日期：2002-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:How do neurons develop, control, and maintain their electrical signaling properties in spite of ongoing protein turnover and perturbations to activity? From generic assumptions about the molecular biology underlying channel expression, we derive a simple model and show how it encodes an "activity set point" in single ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： O'Leary T,Williams AH,Franci A,Marder E

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryonic mouse neural tubes produce a variety of terminally differentiated cells in vitro, mostly neurons and glia. We report here that some of these cells differentiate into skeletal muscle cells. The possibility of mesoderm contamination was ruled out as follows. First, Dil+ muscle cells were present in cultures fr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Tajbakhsh S,Vivarelli E,Cusella-De Angelis G,Rocancourt D,Buckingham M,Cossu G

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the mechanisms whereby BACE1, the aspartyl protease required for the initial cleavage of APP to generate amyloid-beta (Abeta), is regulated in Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains incomplete. In this issue of Neuron, O'Connor and coworkers show how energy deprivation, a potential risk factor in AD, tr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Wong PC

更新日期：2008-12-26 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：:Movements are universally, sometimes frustratingly, variable. When such variability causes error, we typically assume that something went wrong during the movement. The same assumption is made by recent and influential models of motor control. These posit that the principal limit on repeatable performance is neuromusc...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Churchland MM,Afshar A,Shenoy KV

更新日期：2006-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapse-to-nucleus signaling leading to CREB-mediated transcription is important for neuronal plasticity. Nuclear CREB phosphorylation at Ser133 allows convergence of multiple kinase pathways driven by neuronal activity and links them to transcriptional activation. But, can various pathways share a common effector mec...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Deisseroth K,Tsien RW

更新日期：2002-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Music can be seen as a model system for understanding gene × environment interactions and how these can influence neurocognitive development. The concept of musicality, however, is underspecified and not well understood. Here, I propose a framework for defining musicality to provide a foundation for studying the contr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Levitin DJ

更新日期：2012-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A circadian clock governs most aspects of mammalian behavior. Although its properties are in part genetically determined, altered light-dark environment can change circadian period length through a mechanism requiring de novo DNA methylation. We show here that this mechanism is mediated not via cell-autonomous clock p...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Azzi A,Evans JA,Leise T,Myung J,Takumi T,Davidson AJ,Brown SA

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Voluntary spatial attention concentrates neural resources at the attended location. Here, we examined the effects of spatial attention on spatial position selectivity in humans. We measured population receptive fields (pRFs) using high-field functional MRI (fMRI) (7T) while subjects performed an attention-demanding ta...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Klein BP,Harvey BM,Dumoulin SO

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Terminal Schwann cells overlying the neuromuscular junction sprout elaborate processes upon muscle denervation. We show here that motor axons use these processes as guides/substrates during regeneration; in so doing, they escape the confines of endplates and grow between endplates to generate polyneuronal innervation....

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Son YJ,Thompson WJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several cDNAs encoding an isoform of the alpha 1 subunit of the voltage-dependent calcium channel were isolated from rat brain cDNA libraries. The complete nucleotide sequence of 6975 bp encodes a protein of 1634 amino acids, which corresponds to an Mr of 186,968. The protein exhibits 71% and 76% homology to skeletal ...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Hui A,Ellinor PT,Krizanova O,Wang JJ,Diebold RJ,Schwartz A

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Piezo proteins have been proposed as the long-sought-after mechanosensitive cation channels in mammals that play critical roles in various mechanotransduction processes. However, the molecular bases that underlie their ion permeation and mechanotransduction have remained functionally undefined. Here we report our find...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Zhao Q,Wu K,Geng J,Chi S,Wang Y,Zhi P,Zhang M,Xiao B

更新日期：2016-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) focus attention on relevant signals and suppress noise in cognitive tasks. However, their synaptic interactions and unique roles in cognitive control are unknown. We report that two distinct pathways to DLPFC area 9, one from the ne...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Medalla M,Barbas H

更新日期：2009-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural circuits consist of highly precise connections among specific types of neurons that serve a common functional goal. How neurons distinguish among different synaptic targets to form functionally precise circuits remains largely unknown. Here, we show that during development, the adhesion molecule cadherin-6 (Cdh...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Osterhout JA,Josten N,Yamada J,Pan F,Wu SW,Nguyen PL,Panagiotakos G,Inoue YU,Egusa SF,Volgyi B,Inoue T,Bloomfield SA,Barres BA,Berson DM,Feldheim DA,Huberman AD

更新日期：2011-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the medial frontal cortex, the supplementary eye field (SEF), supplementary motor area (SMA), and pre-SMA have been implicated in the control of voluntary action, especially during motor sequences or tasks involving rapid choices between competing response plans. However, the precise roles of these areas remain...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Sumner P,Nachev P,Morris P,Peters AM,Jackson SR,Kennard C,Husain M

更新日期：2007-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:During the development of forebrain connectivity, ascending thalamocortical and descending corticofugal axons first intermingle at the pallial-subpallial boundary to form the internal capsule (IC). However, the identity of molecular cues that guide these axons remains largely unknown. Here, we show that the transmembr...

journal_title：Neuron

authors： Mandai K,Reimert DV,Ginty DD

更新日期：2014-07-02 00:00:00