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Full-Text Articles in Medical Neurobiology
A Conditional Strategy For Cell-Type-Specific Labeling Of Endogenous Excitatory Synapses In Drosophila, Michael J. Parisi, Michael A. Aimino, Timothy J. Mosca
A Conditional Strategy For Cell-Type-Specific Labeling Of Endogenous Excitatory Synapses In Drosophila, Michael J. Parisi, Michael A. Aimino, Timothy J. Mosca
Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers
Chemical neurotransmission occurs at specialized contacts where neurotransmitter release machinery apposes neurotransmitter receptors to underlie circuit function. A series of complex events underlies preand postsynaptic protein recruitment to neuronal connections. To better study synaptic development in individual neurons, we need cell-type-specific strategies to visualize endogenous synaptic proteins. Although presynaptic strategies exist, postsynaptic proteins remain less studied because of a paucity of cell-type-specific reagents. To study excitatory postsynapses with cell-type specificity, we engineered dlg1[4K], a conditionally labeled marker of Drosophila excitatory postsynaptic densities. With binary expression systems, dlg1[4K] labels central and peripheral postsynapses in larvae and adults. Using dlg1[4K], we find …
Synaptic Development In Diverse Olfactory Neuron Classes Uses Distinct Temporal And Activity-Related Programs, Michael A. Aimino, Alison T. Depew, Lucas Restrepo, Timothy J. Mosca
Synaptic Development In Diverse Olfactory Neuron Classes Uses Distinct Temporal And Activity-Related Programs, Michael A. Aimino, Alison T. Depew, Lucas Restrepo, Timothy J. Mosca
Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers
Developing neurons must meet core molecular, cellular, and temporal requirements to ensure the correct formation of synapses, resulting in functional circuits. However, because of the vast diversity in neuronal class and function, it is unclear whether or not all neurons use the same organizational mechanisms to form synaptic connections and achieve functional and morphologic maturation. Moreover, it remains unknown whether neurons united in a common goal and comprising the same sensory circuit develop on similar timescales and use identical molecular approaches to ensure the formation of the correct number of synapses. To begin to answer these questions, we took advantage …
Msh2 Acts In Medium-Spiny Striatal Neurons As An Enhancer Of Cag Instability And Mutant Huntingtin Phenotypes In Huntington's Disease Knock-In Mice., Marina Kovalenko, Ella Dragileva, Jason St Claire, Tammy Gillis, Jolene R Guide, Jaclyn New, Hualing Dong, Raju Kucherlapati, Melanie H Kucherlapati, Michelle E Ehrlich, Jong-Min Lee, Vanessa C Wheeler
Msh2 Acts In Medium-Spiny Striatal Neurons As An Enhancer Of Cag Instability And Mutant Huntingtin Phenotypes In Huntington's Disease Knock-In Mice., Marina Kovalenko, Ella Dragileva, Jason St Claire, Tammy Gillis, Jolene R Guide, Jaclyn New, Hualing Dong, Raju Kucherlapati, Melanie H Kucherlapati, Michelle E Ehrlich, Jong-Min Lee, Vanessa C Wheeler
Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers
The CAG trinucleotide repeat mutation in the Huntington's disease gene (HTT) exhibits age-dependent tissue-specific expansion that correlates with disease onset in patients, implicating somatic expansion as a disease modifier and potential therapeutic target. Somatic HTT CAG expansion is critically dependent on proteins in the mismatch repair (MMR) pathway. To gain further insight into mechanisms of somatic expansion and the relationship of somatic expansion to the disease process in selectively vulnerable MSNs we have crossed HTT CAG knock-in mice (HdhQ111) with mice carrying a conditional (floxed) Msh2 allele and D9-Cre transgenic mice, in which Cre recombinase is expressed specifically in MSNs …
Loss Of Axonal Mitochondria Promotes Tau-Mediated Neurodegeneration And Alzheimer's Disease-Related Tau Phosphorylation Via Par-1., Kanae Iijima-Ando, Michiko Sekiya, Akiko Maruko-Otake, Yosuke Ohtake, Emiko Suzuki, Bingwei Lu, Koichi M Iijima
Loss Of Axonal Mitochondria Promotes Tau-Mediated Neurodegeneration And Alzheimer's Disease-Related Tau Phosphorylation Via Par-1., Kanae Iijima-Ando, Michiko Sekiya, Akiko Maruko-Otake, Yosuke Ohtake, Emiko Suzuki, Bingwei Lu, Koichi M Iijima
Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers
Abnormal phosphorylation and toxicity of a microtubule-associated protein tau are involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, what pathological conditions trigger tau abnormality in AD is not fully understood. A reduction in the number of mitochondria in the axon has been implicated in AD. In this study, we investigated whether and how loss of axonal mitochondria promotes tau phosphorylation and toxicity in vivo. Using transgenic Drosophila expressing human tau, we found that RNAi-mediated knockdown of milton or Miro, an adaptor protein essential for axonal transport of mitochondria, enhanced human tau-induced neurodegeneration. Tau phosphorylation at an AD-related site Ser262 …
Dopaminergic Neurons Derived From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Survive And Integrate Into 6-Ohda-Lesioned Rats., Jingli Cai, Ming Yang, Elizabeth Poremsky, Sarah Kidd, Jay S Schneider, Lorraine Iacovitti
Dopaminergic Neurons Derived From Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Survive And Integrate Into 6-Ohda-Lesioned Rats., Jingli Cai, Ming Yang, Elizabeth Poremsky, Sarah Kidd, Jay S Schneider, Lorraine Iacovitti
Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers
Cell replacement therapy could be an important treatment strategy for Parkinson's disease (PD), which is caused by the degeneration of dopamine neurons in the midbrain (mDA). The success of this approach greatly relies on the discovery of an abundant source of cells capable of mDAergic function in the brain. With the paucity of available human fetal tissue, efforts have increasingly focused on renewable stem cells. Human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cells offer great promise in this regard. If hiPS cells can be differentiated into authentic mDA neuron, hiPS could provide a potential autologous source of transplant tissue when generated from …
Trk: A Neuromodulator Of Age-Specific Behavioral And Neurochemical Responses To Cocaine In Mice., Michelle Niculescu, Shane A Perrine, Jonathan S Miller, Michelle E Ehrlich, Ellen M Unterwald
Trk: A Neuromodulator Of Age-Specific Behavioral And Neurochemical Responses To Cocaine In Mice., Michelle Niculescu, Shane A Perrine, Jonathan S Miller, Michelle E Ehrlich, Ellen M Unterwald
Farber Institute for Neuroscience Faculty Papers
Responses to psychostimulants vary with age, but the molecular etiologies of these differences are largely unknown. The goal of the present research was to identify age-specific behavioral and molecular adaptations to cocaine and to elucidate the mechanisms involved therein. Postweanling, periadolescent, and adult male CD-1 mice were exposed to cocaine (20 mg/kg) for 7 d. The rewarding effects of cocaine were assessed, as were the response to a Trk antagonist and the regulation of dopamine and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein, 32 kDa (DARPP-32). Cocaine was rewarding in both periadolescent and adult mice using a conditioned place preference procedure. In contrast, postweanling mice …