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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.
February 2007
Targeting Cellular Prion Protein Reverses Early Cognitive Deficits and Neurophysiological Dysfunction in Prion-Infected Mice
G Mallucci, M White, M Farmer, A Dickinson, H Khatun, A Powell, S Brandner, J Jefferys & J Collinge
Neuron 53
(1 February 2007); doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.01.005Promotion of sleep by targeting the orexin system in rats, dogs and humans
Catherine Brisbare-roch, Jasper Dingemanse, Ralf Koberstein, Petra Hoever, Hamed Aissaoui, Susan Flores, Celia Mueller, Oliver Nayler, Joop Van gerven, Sanne L De haas, Patrick Hess, Changbin Qiu, Stephan Buchmann, Michael Scherz, Thomas Weller, Walter Fischli, Martine Clozel & François Jenck
Nature Medicine 13 150 - 155
(28 January 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1544Excitatory Local Circuits and Their Implications for Olfactory Processing in the Fly Antennal Lobe
Y Shang, A Claridgechang, L Sjulson, M Pypaert & G Miesenbock
Cell 128
(9 February 2007); doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.034VAB-8, UNC-73 and MIG-2 regulate axon polarity and cell migration functions of UNC-40 in C. elegans
Naomi Levy-strumpf & Joseph G Culotti
Nature Neuroscience 10 161 - 168
(21 January 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1835C. elegans VAB-8 and UNC-73 regulate the SAX-3 receptor to direct cell and growth-cone migrations
Natsuko Watari-goshima, Ken-ichi Ogura, Fred W Wolf, Yoshio Goshima & Gian Garriga
Nature Neuroscience 10 169 - 176
(21 January 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1834Absence of Ret Signaling in Mice Causes Progressive and Late Degeneration of the Nigrostriatal System
Edgar R. Kramer, Liviu Aron, Geert M. J. Ramakers, Sabine Seitz, Xiaoxi Zhuang, Klaus Beyer, Marten P. Smidt & Rüdiger Klein
PLoS Biology 5
(1 January 2007); doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050039Hierarchical Regulation of Odorant Receptor Gene Choice and Subsequent Axonal Projection of Olfactory Sensory Neurons in Zebrafish
Y. Sato, N. Miyasaka & Y. Yoshihara
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(14 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4218-06.2007Effects of Body Temperature on Neural Activity in the Hippocampus: Regulation of Resting Membrane Potentials by Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 4
K. Shibasaki, M. Suzuki, A. Mizuno & M. Tominaga
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(14 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4284-06.2007The Transcription Factor Nerve Growth Factor-Inducible Protein A Mediates Epigenetic Programming: Altering Epigenetic Marks by Immediate-Early Genes
I. C. G. Weaver, A. C. D'alessio, S. E. Brown, I. C. Hellstrom, S. Dymov, S. Sharma, M. Szyf & M. J. Meaney
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(14 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4164-06.2007Allelic Variation in RGS4 Impacts Functional and Structural Connectivity in the Human Brain
J. W. Buckholtz, A. Meyer-lindenberg, R. A. Honea, R. E. Straub, L. Pezawas, M. F. Egan, R. Vakkalanka, B. Kolachana, B. A. Verchinski, S. Sust, V. S. Mattay, D. R. Weinberger & J. H. Callicott
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(14 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5112-06.2007Activation of the Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase in the Amygdala Modulates Pain Perception
Y. Carrasquillo & R. W. Gereau
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(14 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3536-06.2007Pancortin-2 Interacts with WAVE1 and Bcl-xL in a Mitochondria-Associated Protein Complex That Mediates Ischemic Neuronal Death
A. Cheng, T. V. Arumugam, D. Liu, R. G. Khatri, K. Mustafa, S. Kwak, H.-P. Ling, C. Gonzales, O. Xin, D.-G. Jo, Z. Guo, R. J. Mark & M. P. Mattson
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(14 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5154-06.2007A dominant mutation in Snap25 causes impaired vesicle trafficking, sensorimotor gating, and ataxia in the blind-drunk mouse
A. F. Jeans, P. L. Oliver, R. Johnson, M. Capogna, J. Vikman, Z. Molnar, A. Babbs, C. J. Partridge, A. Salehi, M. Bengtsson, L. Eliasson, P. Rorsman & K. E. Davies
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(13 February 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0610222104Therapeutic effects of immunization with mutant superoxide dismutase in mice models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
M. Urushitani, S. A. Ezzi & J.-P. Julien
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(13 February 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0606201104Silencing of estrogen receptor in the ventromedial nucleus of hypothalamus leads to metabolic syndrome
S. Musatov, W. Chen, D. W. Pfaff, C. V. Mobbs, X.-J. Yang, D. J. Clegg, M. G. Kaplitt & S. Ogawa
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(13 February 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0610787104The Induction Levels of Heat Shock Protein 70 Differentiate the Vulnerabilities to Mutant Huntingtin among Neuronal Subtypes
K. Tagawa, S. Marubuchi, M.-L. Qi, Y. Enokido, T. Tamura, R. Inagaki, M. Murata, I. Kanazawa, E. E. Wanker & H. Okazawa
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(24 January 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4522-06.2007IRS2-Akt pathway in midbrain dopamine neurons regulates behavioral and cellular responses to opiates
Scott J Russo, Carlos A Bolanos, David E Theobald, Nathan A Decarolis, William Renthal, Arvind Kumar, Catharine A Winstanley, Nora E Renthal, Matthew D Wiley, David W Self, David S Russell, Rachael L Neve, Amelia J Eisch & Eric J Nestler
Nature Neuroscience 10 93 - 99
(3 December 2006); doi:10.1038/nn1812NEUROSCIENCE: Is More Neurogenesis Always Better?
H. E. Scharfman & R. Hen
Science 315
(19 January 2007); doi:10.1126/science.1138711Progressive parkinsonism in mice with respiratory-chain-deficient dopamine neurons
M. I. Ekstrand, M. Terzioglu, D. Galter, S. Zhu, C. Hofstetter, E. Lindqvist, S. Thams, A. Bergstrand, F. S. Hansson, A. Trifunovic, B. Hoffer, S. Cullheim, A. H. Mohammed, L. Olson & N.-G. Larsson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(23 January 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0605208103p130CAS Is Required for Netrin Signaling and Commissural Axon Guidance
G. Liu, W. Li, X. Gao, X. Li, C. Jurgensen, H.-T. Park, N.-Y. Shin, J. Yu, M.-L. He, S. K. Hanks, J. Y. Wu, K.-L. Guan & Y. Rao
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(24 January 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4616-06.2007Contribution of Substance P and Neurokinin A to the Differential Injury-Induced Thermal and Mechanical Responsiveness of Lamina I and V Neurons
J. Mazario & A. I. Basbaum
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(24 January 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2992-06.2007Reduced Anxiety, Conditioned Fear, and Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation in Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 Receptor-Deficient Mice
R. Marsch, E. Foeller, G. Rammes, M. Bunck, M. Kossl, F. Holsboer, W. Zieglgansberger, R. Landgraf, B. Lutz & C. T. Wotjak
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(24 January 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3303-06.2007Bim Is Elevated in Alzheimer's Disease Neurons and Is Required for -Amyloid-Induced Neuronal Apoptosis
S. C. Biswas, Y. Shi, J.-P. G. Vonsattel, C. L. Leung, C. M. Troy & L. A. Greene
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(24 January 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3524-06.2007A Promoter Haplotype of the Inositol Monophosphatase 2 Gene (IMPA2) at 18p11.2 Confers a Possible Risk for Bipolar Disorder by Enhancing Transcription
Tetsuo Ohnishi, Kazuo Yamada, Hisako Ohba, Yoshimi Iwayama, Tomoko Toyota, Eiji Hattori, Toshiya Inada, Hiroshi Kunugi, Masahiko Tatsumi, Norio Ozaki, Nakao Iwata, Kaoru Sakamoto, Yoshimi Iijima, Yasuhide Iwata, Kenji J Tsuchiya, Genichi Sugihara, Shinichiro Nanko, Noriko Osumi, Sevilla D Detera-wadleigh, Tadafumi Kato & Takeo Yoshikawa
Neuropsychopharmacology 32
(24 August 2007); doi:10.1038/sj.npp.1301307Increased Anxiety-Like Behavior and Enhanced Synaptic Efficacy in the Amygdala of GluR5 Knockout Mice
Long-Jun Wu, Shanelle W. Ko, Hiroki Toyoda, Ming-Gao Zhao, Hui Xu, Kunjumon I. Vadakkan, Ming Ren, Eva Knifed, Fanny Shum, Jessica Quan, Xue-Han Zhang, Min Zhuo & Huibert Mansvelder
PLoS ONE 2
(24 January 2007); doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000167Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain
Ed S. Lein, Michael J. Hawrylycz, Nancy Ao, Mikael Ayres, Amy Bensinger, Amy Bernard, Andrew F. Boe, Mark S. Boguski, Kevin S. Brockway, Emi J. Byrnes, Lin Chen, Li Chen, Tsuey-Ming Chen, Mei Chi chin, Jimmy Chong, Brian E. Crook, Aneta Czaplinska, Chinh N. Dang, Suvro Datta, Nick R. Dee, Aimee L. Desaki, Tsega Desta, Ellen Diep, Tim A. Dolbeare, Matthew J. Donelan, Hong-Wei Dong, Jennifer G. Dougherty, Ben J. Duncan, Amanda J. Ebbert, Gregor Eichele, Lili K. Estin, Casey Faber, Benjamin A. Facer, Rick Fields, Shanna R. Fischer, Tim P. Fliss, Cliff Frensley, Sabrina N. Gates, Katie J. Glattfelder, Kevin R. Halverson, Matthew R. Hart, John G. Hohmann, Maureen P. Howell, Darren P. Jeung, Rebecca A. Johnson, Patrick T. Karr, Reena Kawal, Jolene M. Kidney, Rachel H. Knapik, Chihchau L. Kuan, James H. Lake, Annabel R. Laramee, Kirk D. Larsen, Christopher Lau, Tracy A. Lemon, Agnes J. Liang, Ying Liu, Lon T. Luong, Jesse Michaels, Judith J. Morgan, Rebecca J. Morgan, Marty T. Mortrud, Nerick F. Mosqueda, Lydia L. Ng, Randy Ng, Geralyn J. Orta, Caroline C. Overly, Tu H. Pak, Sheana E. Parry, Sayan D. Pathak, Owen C. Pearson, Ralph B. Puchalski, Zackery L. Riley, Hannah R. Rockett, Stephen A. Rowland, Joshua J. Royall, Marcos J. Ruiz, Nadia R. Sarno, Katherine Schaffnit, Nadiya V. Shapovalova, Taz Sivisay, Clifford R. Slaughterbeck, Simon C. Smith, Kimberly A. Smith, Bryan I. Smith, Andy J. Sodt, Nick N. Stewart, Kenda-Ruth Stumpf, Susan M. Sunkin, Madhavi Sutram, Angelene Tam, Carey D. Teemer, Christina Thaller, Carol L. Thompson, Lee R. Varnam, Axel Visel, Ray M. Whitlock, Paul E. Wohnoutka, Crissa K. Wolkey, Victoria Y. Wong, Matthew Wood, Murat B. Yaylaoglu, Rob C. Young, Brian L. Youngstrom, Xu Feng yuan, Bin Zhang, Theresa A. Zwingman & Allan R. Jones
Nature 445 168 - 176
(6 December 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05453A Drosophila Model of Mutant Human Parkin-Induced Toxicity Demonstrates Selective Loss of Dopaminergic Neurons and Dependence on Cellular Dopamine
T.-K. Sang, H.-Y. Chang, G. M. Lawless, A. Ratnaparkhi, L. Mee, L. C. Ackerson, N. T. Maidment, D. E. Krantz & G. R. Jackson
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(31 January 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4810-06.2007From the Cover: Transformation of cone precursors to functional rod photoreceptors by bZIP transcription factor NRL
E. C. T. Oh, N. Khan, E. Novelli, H. Khanna, E. Strettoi & A. Swaroop
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(30 January 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0605934104Sharpened cochlear tuning in a mouse with a genetically modified tectorial membrane
Ian J Russell, P Kevin Legan, Victoria A Lukashkina, Andrei N Lukashkin, Richard J Goodyear & Guy P Richardson
Nature Neuroscience 10 215 - 223
(14 January 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1828Graded Expression of Semaphorin-1a Cell-Autonomously Directs Dendritic Targeting of Olfactory Projection Neurons
T Komiyama, L Sweeney, O Schuldiner, K Garcia & L Luo
Cell 128
(26 January 2007); doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.12.028Progressive Loss of Dopaminergic Neurons in the Ventral Midbrain of Adult Mice Heterozygote for Engrailed1
L. Sonnier, G. Le pen, A. Hartmann, J.-C. Bizot, F. Trovero, M.-O. Krebs & A. Prochiantz
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(31 January 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4583-06.2007Drosophila cacophony Channels: A Major Mediator of Neuronal Ca2+ Currents and a Trigger for K+ Channel Homeostatic Regulation
I-F. Peng & C.-F. Wu
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(31 January 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4746-06.2007Octopamine modulates honey bee dance behavior
A. B. Barron, R. Maleszka, R. K. Vander meer & G. E. Robinson
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(30 January 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0610506104Christopher D Toscano, Vinaykumar V Prabhu, Robert Langenbach, Kevin G Becker & Francesca Bosetti
Genome Biology 8
(1 January 2007); doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-1-r14Distinct functions of -Spectrin and -Spectrin during axonal pathfinding
J. Hulsmeier, J. Pielage, C. Rickert, G. M. Technau, C. Klambt & T. Stork
Development 134
(10 January 2007); doi:10.1242/dev.02758A nonsynonymous SNP in PRKCH (protein kinase C
) increases the risk of cerebral infarctionMichiaki Kubo, Jun Hata, Toshiharu Ninomiya, Koichi Matsuda, Koji Yonemoto, Toshiaki Nakano, Tomonaga Matsushita, Keiko Yamazaki, Yozo Ohnishi, Susumu Saito, Takanari Kitazono, Setsuro Ibayashi, Katsuo Sueishi, Mitsuo Iida, Yusuke Nakamura & Yutaka Kiyohara
Nature Genetics 39 212 - 217
(7 January 2007); doi:10.1038/ng1945Spatial mapping of protein abundances in the mouse brain by voxelation integrated with high-throughput liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
V. A. Petyuk, W.-J. Qian, M. H. Chin, H. Wang, E. A. Livesay, M. E. Monroe, J. N. Adkins, N. Jaitly, D. J. Anderson, D. G. Camp, D. J. Smith & R. D. Smith
Genome Research 17
(6 February 2007); doi:10.1101/gr.5799207Genetic Screening for Signal Transduction in the Era of Network Biology
A Friedman & N Perrimon
Cell 128
(26 January 2007); doi:10.1016/j.cell.2007.01.007Endocannabinoid-mediated rescue of striatal LTD and motor deficits in Parkinson's disease models
Anatol C. Kreitzer & Robert C. Malenka
Nature 445 643 - 647
doi:10.1038/nature05506Specification of Neuronal Identities by Feedforward Combinatorial Coding
Magnus Baumgardt, Irene Miguel-aliaga, Daniel Karlsson, Helen Ekman & Stefan Thor
PLoS Biology 5
(1 January 2007); doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050037NMDA-Receptor Activation Induces Calpain-Mediated β-Catenin Cleavages for Triggering Gene Expression
K Abe & M Takeichi
Neuron 53
(1 February 2007); doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2007.01.016Nucleus- and cell-specific gene expression in monkey thalamus
K. D. Murray, P. V. Choudary & E. G. Jones
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(29 January 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0610742104G q-Coupled Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors Enhance Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans Mating Behavior
Y. Liu, B. Leboeuf & L. R. Garcia
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(7 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4320-06.2007Retrograde Regulation of GABA Transmission by the Tonic Release of Oxytocin and Endocannabinoids Governs Postsynaptic Firing
S. H. R. Oliet, D. V. Baimoukhametova, R. Piet & J. S. Bains
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(7 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2676-06.2007Estrogen Regulates Bcl-w and Bim Expression: Role in Protection against -Amyloid Peptide-Induced Neuronal Death
M. Yao, T.-V. V. Nguyen & C. J. Pike
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(7 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2382-06.2007Early Life Stress Alters Adult Serotonin 2C Receptor Pre-mRNA Editing and Expression of the Subunit of the Heterotrimeric G-Protein Gq
P. Bhansali, J. Dunning, S. E. Singer, L. David & C. Schmauss
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(7 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4632-06.2007Gender-Specific Left-Right Asymmetries in Human Visual Cortex
K. Amunts, E. Armstrong, A. Malikovic, L. Homke, H. Mohlberg, A. Schleicher & K. Zilles
Journal of Neuroscience 27
(7 February 2007); doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4753-06.2007APL-1, a Caenorhabditis elegans protein related to the human beta-amyloid precursor protein, is essential for viability
A. Hornsten, J. Lieberthal, S. Fadia, R. Malins, L. Ha, X. Xu, I. Daigle, M. Markowitz, G. O'connor, R. Plasterk & C. Li
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(29 January 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0603997104Exon Silencing by UAGG Motifs in Response to Neuronal Excitation
Ping An & Paula J. Grabowski
PLoS Biology 5
(1 January 2007); doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050036Depolarization and CaM Kinase IV Modulate NMDA Receptor Splicing through Two Essential RNA Elements
Ji-Ann Lee, Yi Xing, David Nguyen, Jiuyong Xie, Christopher J. Lee & Douglas L. Black
PLoS Biology 5
(1 January 2007); doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050040Axonal-SMN (a-SMN), a protein isoform of the survival motor neuron gene, is specifically involved in axonogenesis
V. Setola, M. Terao, D. Locatelli, S. Bassanini, E. Garattini & G. Battaglia
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104
(29 January 2007); doi:10.1073/pnas.0610660104Genetic and Structural Analysis of the Basolateral Amygdala Complex in BXD Recombinant Inbred Mice
Khyobeni Mozhui, Kristin M. Hamre, Andrew Holmes, Lu Lu & Robert W. Williams
Behavior Genetics 37
(14 February 2007); doi:10.1007/s10519-006-9122-3