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The Research Library categorizes and alerts you to recent neuroscience- and genomics-related research in journals from the Nature family and from other publishers. Primary research and review articles are included, as are News and Views.
August 2006
Altered neuregulin 1–erbB4 signaling contributes to NMDA> receptor hypofunction in schizophrenia
Chang-Gyu Hahn, Hoau-Yan Wang, Dan-Sung Cho, Konrad Talbot, Raquel E Gur, Wade H Berrettini, Kalindi Bakshi, Joshua Kamins, Karin E Borgmann-winter, Steven J Siegel, Robert J Gallop & Steven E Arnold
Nature Medicine 12 824 - 828
(11 June 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1418Cortical 5-HT2A Receptor Signaling Modulates Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Mice
N. V. Weisstaub
Science 313
(28 July 2006); doi:10.1126/science.1123432Mutations in genes encoding ribonuclease H2 subunits cause Aicardi-Goutières syndrome and mimic congenital viral brain infection
Yanick J Crow, Andrea Leitch, Bruce E Hayward, Anna Garner, Rekha Parmar, Elen Griffith, Manir Ali, Colin Semple, Jean Aicardi, Riyana Babul-hirji, Clarisse Baumann, Peter Baxter, Enrico Bertini, Kate E Chandler, David Chitayat, Daniel Cau, Catherine Déry, Elisa Fazzi, Cyril Goizet, Mary D King, Joerg Klepper, Didier Lacombe, Giovanni Lanzi, Hermione Lyall, María Luisa Martínez-frías, Michèle Mathieu, Carole Mckeown, Anne Monier, Yvette Oade, Oliver W Quarrell, Christopher D Rittey, R Curtis Rogers, Amparo Sanchis, John B P Stephenson, Uta Tacke, Marianne Till, John L Tolmie, Pam Tomlin, Thomas Voit, Bernhard Weschke, C Geoffrey Woods, Pierre Lebon, David T Bonthron, Chris P Ponting & Andrew P Jackson
Nature Genetics 38 910 - 916
(16 July 2006); doi:10.1038/ng1842Mutations in the gene encoding the 3'-5' DNA exonuclease TREX1 cause Aicardi-Goutières syndrome at the AGS1 locus
Yanick J Crow, Bruce E Hayward, Rekha Parmar, Peter Robins, Andrea Leitch, Manir Ali, Deborah N Black, Hans Van bokhoven, Han G Brunner, Ben C Hamel, Peter C Corry, Frances M Cowan, Suzanne G Frints, Joerg Klepper, John H Livingston, Sally Ann Lynch, Roger F Massey, Jean François Meritet, Jacques L Michaud, Gerard Ponsot, Thomas Voit, Pierre Lebon, David T Bonthron, Andrew P Jackson, Deborah E Barnes & Tomas Lindahl
Nature Genetics 38 917 - 920
(16 July 2006); doi:10.1038/ng1845Neuronal PTP1B regulates body weight, adiposity and leptin action
Kendra K Bence, Mirela Delibegovic, Bingzhong Xue, Cem Z Gorgun, Gokhan S Hotamisligil, Benjamin G Neel & Barbara B Kahn
Nature Medicine 12 917 - 924
(16 July 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1435Serotonin Reciprocally Regulates Melanocortin Neurons to Modulate Food Intake
L Heisler, E Jobst, G Sutton, L Zhou, E Borok, Z Thorntonjones, H Liu, J Zigman, N Balthasar & T Kishi
Neuron 51
(20 July 2006); doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.06.004Interaction of Survival and Death Signaling in Basal Forebrain Neurons: Roles of Neurotrophins and Proneurotrophins
M. Volosin
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(19 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1560-06.2006Analysis of the Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated-Mediated DNA Damage Response in Murine Cerebellar Neurons
I. Dar
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(19 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2055-06.2006Conditional ablation of Stat3 or Socs3 discloses a dual role for reactive astrocytes after spinal cord injury
Seiji Okada, Masaya Nakamura, Hiroyuki Katoh, Tamaki Miyao, Takuya Shimazaki, Ken Ishii, Junichi Yamane, Akihiko Yoshimura, Yukihide Iwamoto, Yoshiaki Toyama & Hideyuki Okano
Nature Medicine 12 829 - 834
(18 June 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1425rAAV6-microdystrophin preserves muscle function and extends lifespan in severely dystrophic mice
Paul Gregorevic, James M Allen, Elina Minami, Michael J Blankinship, Miki Haraguchi, Leonard Meuse, Eric Finn, Marvin E Adams, Stanley C Froehner, Charles E Murry & Jeffrey S Chamberlain
Nature Medicine 12 787 - 789
(2 July 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1439The transcriptional repressor JHDM3A demethylates trimethyl histone H3 lysine 9 and lysine 36
Robert J. Klose, Kenichi Yamane, Yangjin Bae, Dianzheng Zhang, Hediye Erdjument-bromage, Paul Tempst, Jiemin Wong & Yi Zhang
Nature 442 312 - 316
(28 May 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04853A Distinct Small RNA Pathway Silences Selfish Genetic Elements in the Germline
V. V. Vagin
Science 313
(21 July 2006); doi:10.1126/science.1129333Characterization of the piRNA Complex from Rat Testes
N. C. Lau
Science 313
(21 July 2006); doi:10.1126/science.1130164Activated Signal Transduction Kinases Frequently Occupy Target Genes
D. K. Pokholok
Science 313
(28 July 2006); doi:10.1126/science.1127677The Glutamate-Aspartate Transporter GLAST Mediates Glutamate Uptake at Inner Hair Cell Afferent Synapses in the Mammalian Cochlea
E. Glowatzki
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(19 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1545-06.2006Dihydropyridine Receptors and Type 1 Ryanodine Receptors Constitute the Molecular Machinery for Voltage-Induced Ca2+ Release in Nerve Terminals
V. De crescenzo
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(19 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1512-06.2006Visual Experience Regulates Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Mediated Plasticity of AMPA Receptor Synaptic Transmission by Homer1a Induction
K. Van keuren-jensen
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(19 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5083-05.2006Terminal Nerve-Derived Neuropeptide Y Modulates Physiological Responses in the Olfactory Epithelium of Hungry Axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum)
A. Mousley
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(19 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1977-06.2006Dopamine D1/D5 Receptors Gate the Acquisition of Novel Information through Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation and Long-Term Depression
N. Lemon
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(19 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1454-06.2006Polyglutamine Proteins at the Pathogenic Threshold Display Neuron-Specific Aggregation in a Pan-Neuronal Caenorhabditis elegans Model
H. R. Brignull
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(19 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0990-06.2006Retraction of Synapses and Dendritic Spines Induced by Off-Target Effects of RNA Interference
V. A. Alvarez
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(26 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1957-06.2006Expression and Function of SNAP-25 as a Universal SNARE Component in GABAergic Neurons
L. C. R. Tafoya
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(26 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1866-06.2006IGF-1 receptor is essential for the establishment of hippocampal neuronal polarity
Lucas Sosa, Sebastian Dupraz, Lisandro Laurino, Flavia Bollati, Mariano Bisbal, Alfredo Cáceres, Karl H Pfenninger & Santiago Quiroga
Nature Neuroscience 9
(16 August 2006); doi:10.1038/nn1742UNC5A promotes neuronal apoptosis during spinal cord development independent of netrin-1
Megan E Williams, Xiaowei Lu, William L Mckenna, Raesha Washington, Adam Boyette, Phyllis Strickland, Allison Dillon, Zaven Kaprielian, Marc Tessier-lavigne & Lindsay Hinck
Nature Neuroscience 9
(9 August 2006); doi:10.1038/nn1736Drusen, choroidal neovascularization, and retinal pigment epithelium dysfunction in SOD1-deficient mice: A model of age-related macular degeneration
Y. Imamura
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(25 July 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0602131103Heritable and stable gene knockdown in rats
C. T. Dann
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(25 July 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0604657103Silvia Monticelli, Sonia Sharma & Anjana Rao
Genome Biology 7
(1 January 2006); doi:10.1186/gb-2006-7-7-321Cytogenetic and genetic evidence supports a role for the kainate-type glutamate receptor gene, GRIK4, in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
B S Pickard, M P Malloy, A Christoforou, P A Thomson, K L Evans, S W Morris, M Hampson, D J Porteous, D H R Blackwood & W J Muir
Molecular Psychiatry 11
(4 September 2006); doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001867Highly parallel genomic assays
Jian-Bing Fan, Mark S. Chee & Kevin L. Gunderson
Nature Reviews Genetics 7 632 - 644
doi:10.1038/nrg1901A second class of chemosensory receptors in the olfactory epithelium
Stephen D. Liberles & Linda B. Buck
Nature 442 645 - 650
(30 July 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05066Neural Stem Cells Rescue nervous Purkinje Neurons by Restoring Molecular Homeostasis of Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Downstream Targets
J. Li
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(26 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1624-06.2006NO synthase 2 (NOS2) deletion promotes multiple pathologies in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
C. A. Colton
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(15 August 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0601075103MuSK Expressed in the Brain Mediates Cholinergic Responses, Synaptic Plasticity, and Memory Formation
A. Garcia-osta
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(26 July 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1674-06.2006The Neurospora Checkpoint Kinase 2: A Regulatory Link Between the Circadian and Cell Cycles
A. M. Pregueiro
Science 313
(4 August 2006); doi:10.1126/science.1121716P2X receptors as cell-surface ATP sensors in health and disease
Baljit S. Khakh & R. Alan north
Nature 442 527 - 532
doi:10.1038/nature04886Spatial control of actin organization at adherens junctions by a synaptotagmin-like protein
Fanny Pilot, Jean-Marc Philippe, Céline Lemmers & Thomas Lecuit
Nature 442 580 - 584
(9 July 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04935In Vivo Two-Photon Imaging Reveals a Role of Arc in Enhancing Orientation Specificity in Visual Cortex
K Wang, A Majewska, J Schummers, B Farley, C Hu, M Sur & S Tonegawa
Cell 126
(28 July 2006); doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.06.038From the Cover: Indispensability of the glutamate transporters GLAST and GLT1 to brain development
T. R. Matsugami
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(31 July 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0509144103AMPA receptors regulate experience-dependent dendritic arbor growth in vivo
K. Haas
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(31 July 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0602670103The inflammatory NADPH oxidase enzyme modulates motor neuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mice
D.-C. Wu
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(31 July 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0603670103The dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus as a putative food-entrainable circadian pacemaker
M. Mieda
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(31 July 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0604189103The Claudin Superfamily Protein NSY-4 Biases Lateral Signaling to Generate Left-Right Asymmetry in C. elegans Olfactory Neurons
M Vanhoven, S Bauerhuang, S Albin & C Bargmann
Neuron 51
(3 August 2006); doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.06.029Activity-Dependent Gating of CaMKII Autonomous Activity by Drosophila CASK
J Hodge, P Mullasseril & L Griffith
Neuron 51
(3 August 2006); doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2006.06.020Activity Bidirectionally Regulates AMPA Receptor mRNA Abundance in Dendrites of Hippocampal Neurons
S. Y. Grooms
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(9 August 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0472-06.2006Calcium Activation of the LMO4 Transcription Complex and Its Role in the Patterning of Thalamocortical Connections
A. H. Kashani
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(9 August 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0618-06.2006Central and Medial Amygdaloid Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Signaling Plays a Critical Role in Alcohol-Drinking and Anxiety-Like Behaviors
S. C. Pandey
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(9 August 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4988-05.2006Induction of Inducible cAMP Early Repressor Expression in Nucleus Accumbens by Stress or Amphetamine Increases Behavioral Responses to Emotional Stimuli
T. A. Green
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(9 August 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0880-06.2006Tissue Injury Regulates Serotonin 1D Receptor Expression: Implications for the Control of Migraine and Inflammatory Pain
A. H. Ahn
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(9 August 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1989-06.2006Pharmacological Activation of mGlu4 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Inhibits the Growth of Medulloblastomas
L. Iacovelli
Journal of Neuroscience 26
(9 August 2006); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2285-06.2006Human Imprinted Chromosomal Regions Are Historical Hot-Spots of Recombination
Ionel Sandovici, Sacha Kassovska-bratinova, Joe E. Vaughan, Rae Stewart, Mark Leppert & Carmen Sapienza
PLoS Genetics 2
(1 January 2006); doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.0020101Tissue-specific expression and regulation of sexually dimorphic genes in mice
X. Yang
Genome Research 16
(29 June 2006); doi:10.1101/gr.5217506Mutational analysis of DJ-1 in Drosophila implicates functional inactivation by oxidative damage and aging
M. C. Meulener
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(15 August 2006); doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601891103Sex- and clock-controlled expression of the neuropeptide F gene in Drosophila
G. Lee
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(15 August 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0601171103Convergent evidence that oligodendrocyte lineage transcription factor 2 (OLIG2) and interacting genes influence susceptibility to schizophrenia
L. Georgieva
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103
(15 August 2006); doi:10.1073/pnas.0603029103