Modulatory Action by the Serotonergic System: Behavior and Neurophysiology in Drosophila melanogaster by Zana R. Majeed, Esraa Abdeljaber, Robin Soveland, Kristin Cornwell, Aubrey Bankemper, Felicitas Koch, Robin L. Cooper

“…Acute activation of 5-HT neurons disrupts normal locomotion activity in adult flies. …”
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Sparse high-dimensional decomposition of non-primary auditory cortical receptive fields. by Shoutik Mukherjee, Behtash Babadi, Shihab Shamma

“…Characterizing neuronal responses to natural stimuli remains a central goal in sensory neuroscience. …”
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Association of p53 with Neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s Disease by Qiang Luo, Wei Sun, Yi-Fan Wang, Ji Li, Da-Wei Li

“…Recent studies have revealed that p53 levels and activity are substantially increased in affected neurons in cellular and animal models of Parkinson’s disease (PD) as well as in the brains of PD patients. p53 activation in response to neurodegenerative stress is closely associated with the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons accompanied by mitochondrial dysfunction, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, abnormal protein aggregation, and impairment of autophagy, and these pathogenic events have been implicated in the pathogenesis of PD. …”
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Driver lines for studying associative learning in Drosophila by Yichun Shuai, Megan Sammons, Gabriella R Sterne, Karen L Hibbard, He Yang, Ching-Po Yang, Claire Managan, Igor Siwanowicz, Tzumin Lee, Gerald M Rubin, Glenn C Turner, Yoshinori Aso

“…Here we describe a new collection of over 800 split-GAL4 and split-LexA drivers that cover approximately 300 cell types, including sugar sensory neurons, putative nociceptive ascending neurons, olfactory and thermo-/hygro-sensory projection neurons, interneurons connected with the MB-extrinsic neurons, and various other cell types. …”
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An Indole Alkaloid Extracted from Evodia rutaecarpa Inhibits Colonic Motility of Rats In Vitro by Guo-xiang Wang, Yan-li Xiang, Hong-gang Wang, Yang-de Miu, Guang Yu

“…CCK1R was observed in SMCs, intermuscular neurons, and mucosa of rat colon. Evo could inhibit spontaneous muscle contractions; NO synthase, inhibitor L-NAME CCK1R antagonist, could partly block this effect, while the enteric neurons may not play a major role. …”
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Reducing maladaptive behavior in neuropsychiatric disorders using network modification by Nicholas M. Timme

“…Despite this great variance in causes and resulting behavior, we believe the maladaptive behaviors that characterize neuropsychiatric disorders are most proximally determined by networks of neurons and that this forms a common conceptual link between these disorders. …”
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Single unit-derived connectivity networks in tuberous sclerosis complex reveal propensity for network hypersynchrony driven by tuber-tuber interactions by Aswin Chari, Amanda E. Hernan, J. Matthew Mahoney, Rachel Thornton, M. Zubair Tahir, Martin M. Tisdall, Rod C. Scott

“…The patterns of neuronal firing on a neuron-by-neuron (autocorrelation) basis did not reveal any differences as a function of anatomy. …”
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FitzHugh-Nagumo equations with generalized diffusive coupling by Anna Cattani

“…The aim of this work is to investigate the dynamics of a neural network, in which neurons, individually described by the FitzHugh-Nagumo model, are coupled by a generalized diffusive term. …”
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The Small Heat Shock Protein HSP25/27 (HspB1) Is Abundant in Cultured Astrocytes and Associated with Astrocytic Pathology in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Corticobasal Degener... by Lisa Schwarz, Grit Vollmer, Christiane Richter-Landsberg

“…Filamentous tau-positive protein inclusions in neurons and glia are prominent features of a number of neurodegenerative disorders termed tauopathies. …”
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Presynaptic CRF1 Receptors Mediate the Ethanol Enhancement of GABAergic Transmission in the Mouse Central Amygdala by Zhiguo Nie, Eric P. Zorrilla, Samuel G. Madamba, Kenner C. Rice, Marissa Roberto, George Robert Siggins

“…The PPF effect of ethanol was abolished in CeA neurons of CRF1 KO mice. The CRF1 antagonist NIH-3 blocked the CRF- and ethanol-induced enhancement of mIPSC frequency in CeA neurons. …”
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The edge of chaos is that where consciousness manifests itself through intermittent dynamics by Valeriy Sbitnev

“…The memristive neural model considers two types of neurons, excitatory and inhibitory, and current leakage at body temperature (T = 310 K). …”
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An Improved Stochastic Configuration Networks With Compact Structure and Parameter Adaptation by Sanyi Li, Hongyu Guan, Peng Liu, Weichao Yue, Qian Wang

“…There are two key improvements: First, the stopping condition for generating neurons is optimized to improve the effectiveness of new neurons. …”
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Icariin Promotes Survival, Proliferation, and Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells In Vitro and in a Rat Model of Alzheimer’s Disease by Denglei Ma, Lihong Zhao, Li Zhang, Yali Li, Lan Zhang, Lin Li

“…In FFT rats, ICA promoted the proliferation and differentiation of NSCs into neurons and increased the number of cholinergic neurons in the MS and VDB of the basal forebrain. …”
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Glia and TRPM2 Channels in Plasticity of Central Nervous System and Alzheimer’s Diseases by Jing Wang, Michael F. Jackson, Yu-Feng Xie

“…Synaptic plasticity refers to the ability of neurons to strengthen or weaken synaptic efficacy in response to activity and is the basis for learning and memory. …”
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Therapeutic Strategies for Neuropathic Pain: Potential Application of Pharmacosynthetics and Optogenetics by Gum Hwa Lee, Sang Seong Kim

“…Chronic pain originating from neuronal damage remains an incurable symptom debilitating patients. …”
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Ascl1 (Mash1) defines cells with long-term neurogenic potential in subgranular and subventricular zones in adult mouse brain. by Euiseok J Kim, Jessica L Ables, Lauren K Dickel, Amelia J Eisch, Jane E Johnson

“…In vivo genetic lineage tracing with a tamoxifen (TAM) inducible Ascl1CreERT2 knock-in mouse strain shows that Ascl1 lineage cells continuously generate new neurons over extended periods of time. There is a regionally-specific difference in neuron generation, with mice given TAM at postnatal day 50 showing new dentate gyrus neurons through 30 days post-TAM, but showing new olfactory bulb neurons even 180 days post-TAM. …”
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The Impact of Electrophysiological Diversity on Pattern Completion in Lithium Nonresponsive Bipolar Disorder: A Computational Modeling Approach by Abraham Nunes, Selena Singh, Anouar Khayachi, Shani Stern, Thomas Trappenberg, Martin Alda

“…Excessive inhibition also induces pattern completion deficits by limiting the number of correctly active neurons during pattern retrieval. Conclusions Excitability variance in CA3 pyramidal cell–like neurons observed in lithium nonresponders may predict pattern completion deficits in these patients. …”
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Exercise‐Activated mPFC Tri‐Synaptic Pathway Ameliorates Depression‐Like Behaviors in Mouse by Tian Lan, Ye Li, Xiao Chen, Wenjing Wang, Changmin Wang, Haiyan Lou, Shihong Chen, Shuyan Yu

“…With this pathway, initial inputs from neurons within the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) project to excitatory neurons in the gracile nucleus (GR), which in turn connect with 5‐HTergic neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), eventually coursing to excitatory pyramidal neurons within the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). …”
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Vagal nerve stimulation dynamically alters anxiety-like behavior in rats by A.G. Butler, J.K. Bassi, A.A. Connelly, M.R. Melo, A.M. Allen, S.J. McDougall

“…Both intensities increased overall c-Fos expression in neurons within the nucleus of the solitary tract, but mid-intensity VNS specifically increased c-Fos expression in noradrenergic neurons within the nucleus of the solitary tract while decreasing it in the locus coeruleus. …”
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The Drosophila homologue of the amyloid precursor protein is a conserved modulator of Wnt PCP signaling. by Alessia Soldano, Zeynep Okray, Pavlina Janovska, Kateřina Tmejová, Elodie Reynaud, Annelies Claeys, Jiekun Yan, Zeynep Kalender Atak, Bart De Strooper, Jean-Maurice Dura, Vítězslav Bryja, Bassem A Hassan

“…APPL is expressed in all neurons throughout development, but has no established function in neuronal development. …”
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