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A Songbird Forebrain Area Potentially Involved In Auditory Discrimination And Memory Formation, Raphael Pinaud, Thomas A. Terleph
A Songbird Forebrain Area Potentially Involved In Auditory Discrimination And Memory Formation, Raphael Pinaud, Thomas A. Terleph
Biology Faculty Publications
Songbirds rely on auditory processing of natural communication signals for a number of social behaviors, including mate selection, individual recognition and the rare behavior of vocal learning - the ability to learn vocalizations through imitation of an adult model, rather than by instinct. Like mammals, songbirds possess a set of interconnected ascending and descending auditory brain pathways that process acoustic information and that are presumably involved in the perceptual processing of vocal communication signals. Most auditory areas studied to date are located in the caudomedial forebrain of the songbird and include the thalamo-recipient field L (subfields L1, L2 and L3), …
Neural Correlates Of Auditory Processing, Learning And Memory Formation In Songbirds, Raphael Pinaud, Thomas A. Terleph, Ryan D. Wynne, Liisa A. Tremere
Neural Correlates Of Auditory Processing, Learning And Memory Formation In Songbirds, Raphael Pinaud, Thomas A. Terleph, Ryan D. Wynne, Liisa A. Tremere
Biology Faculty Publications
Songbirds have emerged as powerful experimental models for the study of auditory processing of complex natural communication signals. Intact hearing is necessary for several behaviors in developing and adult animals including vocal learning, territorial defense, mate selection and individual recognition. These behaviors are thought to require the processing, discrimination and memorization of songs. Although much is known about the brain circuits that participate in sensorimotor (auditory-vocal) integration, especially the “songcontrol” system, less is known about the anatomical and functional organization of central auditory pathways. Here we discuss findings associated with a telencephalic auditory area known as the caudomedial nidopallium (NCM). …
Neuronal Pentraxins Mediate Synaptic Refinement In The Developing Visual System, Lisa Bjartmar, Andrew Huberman, Erik Ullian, Rene Renterıa, Xiaoqin Liu, Weifeng Xu, Jennifer Prezioso, Michael Susman, David Stellwagen, Caleb Stokes, Richard Cho, Paul Worley, Robert Malenka, Sherry Ball, Neal Peachey, David Copenhagen, Barbara Chapman, Masaru Nakamoto, Ben Barres, Mark Perin
Neuronal Pentraxins Mediate Synaptic Refinement In The Developing Visual System, Lisa Bjartmar, Andrew Huberman, Erik Ullian, Rene Renterıa, Xiaoqin Liu, Weifeng Xu, Jennifer Prezioso, Michael Susman, David Stellwagen, Caleb Stokes, Richard Cho, Paul Worley, Robert Malenka, Sherry Ball, Neal Peachey, David Copenhagen, Barbara Chapman, Masaru Nakamoto, Ben Barres, Mark Perin
Biology Faculty Publications
Neuronal pentraxins (NPs) define a family of proteins that are homologous to C-reactive and acute-phase proteins in the immune system and have been hypothesized to be involved in activity-dependent synaptic plasticity. To investigate the role of NPs in vivo , we generated mice that lack one, two, or all three NPs. NP1/2 knock-out mice exhibited defects in the segregation of eye-specific retinal ganglion cell (RGC) projections to the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus, a process that involves activity-dependent synapse formation and elimination. Retinas from mice lacking NP1 and NP2 had cholinergically driven waves of activity that occurred at a frequency similar …
Loss-Of-Function Analysis Of Epha Receptors In Retinotectal Mapping, David Feldheim, Masaru Nakamoto, Miriam Osterfield, Nicholas Gale, Thomas Dechiara, Rajat Rohatgi, George Yancopoulos, John Flanagan
Loss-Of-Function Analysis Of Epha Receptors In Retinotectal Mapping, David Feldheim, Masaru Nakamoto, Miriam Osterfield, Nicholas Gale, Thomas Dechiara, Rajat Rohatgi, George Yancopoulos, John Flanagan
Biology Faculty Publications
EphA tyrosine kinases are thought to act as topographically specific receptors in the well-characterized projection map from the retina to the tectum. Here, we describe a loss-of-function analysis of EphA receptors in retinotectal mapping. Expressing patches of a cytoplasmically truncated EphA3 receptor in chick retina caused temporal axons to have reduced responsiveness to posterior tectal repellent activity in vitro and to shift more posteriorly within the map in vivo . A gene disruption of mouse EphA5, replacing the intracellular domain with beta-galactosidase, reduced in vitro responsiveness of temporal axons to posterior target membranes. It also caused map abnormalities in vivo …
Domain-Specific Olivocerebellar Projection Regulated By The Epha-Ephrin-A Interaction, Kazuhiko Nishida, John Flanagan, Masaru Nakamoto
Domain-Specific Olivocerebellar Projection Regulated By The Epha-Ephrin-A Interaction, Kazuhiko Nishida, John Flanagan, Masaru Nakamoto
Biology Faculty Publications
Neural maps in the vertebrate central nervous system often show discontinuously segregated, domain-to-domain patterns. However, the molecular mechanism that establishes such maps is not well understood. Here we show that in the chicken olivocerebellar system, EphA receptors and ephrin-As are expressed with distinct levels and combinations in mapping domains. When ephrin-A2 is retrovirally overexpressed in the cerebellum, the olivocerebellar map is disrupted, excluding axons with high receptor activity from ectopic expression domains. Conversely, overexpression of a truncated EphA3 receptor in the cerebellum reduces endogenous ligand activity to undetectable levels and causes aberrant mapping, with high receptor axons invading high ligand …
Eph Receptors And Ephrins, Masaru Nakamoto
Eph Receptors And Ephrins, Masaru Nakamoto
Biology Faculty Publications
The Eph receptors are the largest known family of receptor tyrosine kinases. The Eph receptors and theirmembrane-attached ligands, ephrins, show diverse expression patterns during development. Recent studies havedemonstrated that Eph receptors and ephrins play important roles in many developmental processes, includingneuronal network formation, the patterning of the neural tube and the paraxial mesoderm, the guidance of cellmigration, and vascular formation. In the nervous system, Eph receptors and ephrins have been shown to act aspositional labels to establish topographic projections. They also play a key role in pathway ®nding by axons andneural crest cells. The crucial roles of Eph receptors and …
Inhibition Of Axonal Growth By Brefeldin A In Hippocampal Neurons In Culture, Mark Jareb, Gary Banker
Inhibition Of Axonal Growth By Brefeldin A In Hippocampal Neurons In Culture, Mark Jareb, Gary Banker
Biology Faculty Publications
The outgrowth of neuronal processes involves a great increase in the surface area of the cell. The supply of membrane material necessarily must be coordinated with the demands for neurite growth. The selective growth of only one or two neurites at any given time during the development of polarity raises the possibility that the production of materials by the soma is limiting for growth (Dotti and Banker, 1987; Dotti et al., 1988; Goslin and Banker, 1990). To examine the role of the availability of membrane components during the development of polarity and axonal elongation, we treated neurons with brefeldin A, …
Topographically Specific Effects Of Elf-1 On Retinal Axon Guidance In Vitro And Retinal Axon Mapping In Vivo, Masaru Nakamoto
Topographically Specific Effects Of Elf-1 On Retinal Axon Guidance In Vitro And Retinal Axon Mapping In Vivo, Masaru Nakamoto
Biology Faculty Publications
Topographic maps, which maintain the spatial order of neurons in the order of their axonal connections, are found throughout the nervous system. In the visual retinotectal projection, ELF-1, a ligand in the tectum, and its receptors in the retina show complementary gradients in expression and binding, indicating they may be positional labels for map development. Here we show that ELF-1 acts as a repellent axon guidance factor in vitro. In vivo, when the tectal ELF-1 pattern is modified by retroviral overexpression, retinal axons avoid ectopic ELF-1 patches and map to abnormally anterior positions. All these effects were seen on axons …
Complementary Gradients In Expression And Binding Of Elf-1 And Mek4 In Development Of The Topographic Retinotectal Projection Map, Masaru Nakamoto
Complementary Gradients In Expression And Binding Of Elf-1 And Mek4 In Development Of The Topographic Retinotectal Projection Map, Masaru Nakamoto
Biology Faculty Publications
Topographic maps with a defined spatial ordering of neuronal connections are a key feature of brain organization. Such maps are believed to develop in response to complementary position-specific labels in presynaptic and postsynaptic fields. However, the complementary labeling molecules are not known. In the well studied visual map of retinal axons projecting to the tectum, the labels are hypothesized to be in gradients, without needing large numbers of cell-specific molecules. We recently cloned ELF-1 as a ligand for Eph family receptors. Here, RNA hybridization shows matching expression gradients for ELF-1 in the tectum and its receptor Mek4 in the retina. …