Search Results for: Neuron

July 11, 2020July 11, 2020

Dopamine D1 Receptors Regulate Spines in Striatal Direct-Pathway and Indirect-Pathway Neurons.

Publication date: Jul 09, 2020 Dopamine transmission is involved in the maintenance of the structural plasticity of direct-pathway and indirect-pathway striatal projection neurons (d-SPNs and i-SPNs, respectively). The lack of ... Read more

July 11, 2020July 11, 2020

Study: One-time treatment generates new neurons, eliminates Parkinson’s disease in mice

Parkinson's Disease News

Publication date: Jul 11, 2020 For decades, Fu and his team at University of California San Diego School of Medicine studied a protein called PTB, which is well known for ... Read more

July 11, 2020July 11, 2020

Motoneuron expression profiling identifies an association between an axonal splice variant of HDGF-related protein 3 and peripheral myelination.

Multiple Sclerosis Literature

Publication date: Jul 09, 2020 Disorders that disrupt myelin formation during development or in adulthood, such as multiple sclerosis and peripheral neuropathies, lead to severe pathologies, illustrating myelin’s crucial role ... Read more

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

The astrocytic-neuronal crosstalk gets jammed: alternative perspectives on the onset of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Major Depressive Disorder Literature

Publication date: Jul 09, 2020 Investigating interactions of glia cells and synapses during development and in adulthood is the focus of several research programmes which aim at understanding the neurobiology ... Read more

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

A Whole-Brain Cell-Type-Specific Sparse Neuron Labeling Method and Its Application in a Shank3 Autistic Mouse Model.

Autism Literature

Publication date: Feb 14, 2020 Single neurons, as the basic unit of the brain, consist of a cell body and processes, including dendrites and axons. Even neurons of the same ... Read more

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

Neuronal Cav3 channelopathies: recent progress and perspectives.

Autism Literature

Publication date: Jul 07, 2020 T-type, low-voltage activated, calcium channels, now designated Cav3 channels, are involved in a wide variety of physiological functions, especially in nervous systems. Their unique electrophysiological ... Read more

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020

Stress-induced epigenetic regulation of transcription in neocortical excitatory neurons drives depression-like behavior

Major Depressive Disorder News

Publication date: Jul 05, 2020 Prolonged stress exposure is a major risk factor for the development of depression and comorbid anxiety. Efforts to understand how recurrent stress induces behavioral maladaptation ... Read more

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020

Expression of ACE2 in Human Neurons Supports the Neuro-Invasive Potential of COVID-19 Virus.

Coronavirus Literature

Publication date: Jul 04, 2020 The recent outbreak of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by a novel coronavirus, has now spread quickly worldwide. Like the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus ... Read more

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020

Abnormal neuronal morphology and altered synaptic proteins are restored by oxytocin in autism-related SHANK3 deficient model.

Autism Literature

Publication date: Jun 30, 2020 Oxytocin has been suggested as a potential therapeutic agent in autism and other neuropsychiatric conditions. Although, the link between the deficit in “SH3 domain and ... Read more

July 3, 2020July 3, 2020

Design and evaluation of bi-functional iron chelators for protection of dopaminergic neurons from toxicants.

Parkinson's Disease Literature

Publication date: Jun 30, 2020 While the etiology of non-familial Parkinson’s disease (PD) remains unclear, there is evidence that increased levels of tissue iron may be a contributing factor. Moreover, ... Read more