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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Prefrontal Cortical Microcircuits Bind Perception To Executive Control, Ioan Opris, Lucas Santos, Greg A. Gerhardt, Dong Song, Theodore W. Berger, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler
Prefrontal Cortical Microcircuits Bind Perception To Executive Control, Ioan Opris, Lucas Santos, Greg A. Gerhardt, Dong Song, Theodore W. Berger, Robert E. Hampson, Sam A. Deadwyler
Neuroscience Faculty Publications
During the perception-to-action cycle, our cerebral cortex mediates the interactions between the environment and the perceptual-executive systems of the brain. At the top of the executive hierarchy, prefrontal cortical microcircuits are assumed to bind perceptual and executive control information to guide goal-driven behavior. Here, we tested this hypothesis by comparing simultaneously recorded neuron firing in prefrontal cortical layers and the caudate-putamen of rhesus monkeys, trained in a spatial-versus-object, rule-based match-to-sample task. We found that during the perception and executive selection phases, cell firing in the localized prefrontal layers and caudate-putamen region exhibited similar location preferences on spatial-trials, but less on …
Withaferin A Effectively Targets Soluble Vimentin In The Glaucoma Filtration Surgical Model Of Fibrosis, Paola Bargagna-Mohan, Sunil P. Deokule, Kyle G. Thompson, John Wizeman, Cidambi Srinivasan, Sunil Vooturi, Uday B. Kompella, Royce Mohan
Withaferin A Effectively Targets Soluble Vimentin In The Glaucoma Filtration Surgical Model Of Fibrosis, Paola Bargagna-Mohan, Sunil P. Deokule, Kyle G. Thompson, John Wizeman, Cidambi Srinivasan, Sunil Vooturi, Uday B. Kompella, Royce Mohan
Ophthalmology and Visual Science Faculty Publications
Withaferin A (WFA) is a natural product that binds to soluble forms of the type III intermediate filament (IF) vimentin. Currently, it is unknown under what pathophysiological contexts vimentin is druggable, as cytoskeltal vimentin-IFs are abundantly expressed. To investigate druggability of vimentin, we exploited rabbit Tenon's capsule fibroblast (RbTCF) cell cultures and the rabbit glaucoma filtration surgical (GFS) model of fibrosis. WFA potently caused G₀/G₁ cell cycle inhibition (IC₅₀ 25 nM) in RbTCFs, downregulating ubiquitin E3 ligase skp2 and inducing p27(Kip1) expression. Transforming growth factor (TGF)-ß-induced myofibroblast transformation caused development of cell spheroids with numerous elongated invadopodia, which WFA blocked …
Striatal Glutamate Release In L-Dopa-Induced Dyskinetic Animals, Nina Nevalainen, Martin Lundblad, Greg A. Gerhardt, Ingrid Strömberg
Striatal Glutamate Release In L-Dopa-Induced Dyskinetic Animals, Nina Nevalainen, Martin Lundblad, Greg A. Gerhardt, Ingrid Strömberg
Neuroscience Faculty Publications
L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia is a common side effect developed after chronic treatment with 3,4-dihydroxyphenyl-l-alanine (l-DOPA) in Parkinson's disease. The biological mechanisms behind this side effect are not fully comprehended although involvement of dopaminergic, serotonergic, and glutamatergic systems has been suggested. The present study utilizes in vivo amperometry to investigate the impact from unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesions and l-DOPA (4 mg/kg, including benserazide 15 mg/kg) -induced dyskinetic behavior on striatal basal extracellular glutamate concentration and potassium-evoked glutamate release in urethane-anesthetized rats. Recordings were performed before and after local L-DOPA application in the striatum. In addition, effects from the 5-HT1A receptor agonist (2R)-(+)-8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin …