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Polyglutamine domain modulates the TBP–TFIIB interaction: implications for its normal function and neurodegeneration
Meyer J Friedman et al.
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1519–1528
(December 2007); doi:10.1038/nn2011
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Molecular diversity of Dscam: recognition of molecular identity in neuronal wiring
Dietmar Schmucker
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 915–920
(December 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2256
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Glutamate transporters: confining runaway excitation by shaping synaptic transmission
Anastassios V. Tzingounis & Jacques I. Wadiche
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 935–947
(December 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2274
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RGS2 modulates coupling between GABAB receptors and GIRK channels in dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area
Gwenaël Labouèbe et al.
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1559–1568
(December 2007); doi:10.1038/nn2006
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Homeostatic regulation of MeCP2 expression by a CREB-induced microRNA
Matthew E Klein, Daniel T Lioy, Lin Ma, Soren Impey, Gail Mandel & Richard H Goodman
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1513–1514
(December 2007); doi:10.1038/nn2010
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Genetic links between diet and lifespan: shared mechanisms from yeast to humans
Nicholas A. Bishop & Leonard Guarente
Nature Reviews Genetics 8, 835–844
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nrg2188
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Control of planar divisions by the G-protein regulator LGN maintains progenitors in the chick neuroepithelium
Xavier Morin, Florence Jaouen & Pascale Durbec
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1440–1448
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1984
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Chemokines: a new class of neuromodulator?
William Rostène, Patrick Kitabgi & Stéphane Mélik Parsadaniantz
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 895–903
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2255
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Antagonistic roles of Wnt5 and the Drl receptor in patterning the Drosophila antennal lobe
Ying Yao et al.
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1423–1432
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1993
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Olfactory axons derailed in the brain
Annette Markus
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1347
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1107-1347
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Astrocyte metabolism and signaling during brain ischemia
David J Rossi, James D Brady & Claudia Mohr
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1377–1386
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nn2004
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PYY modulation of cortical and hypothalamic brain areas predicts feeding behaviour in humans
Rachel L. Batterham et al.
Nature 450, 106–109
(1 November 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06212
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Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous system
Jean Livet et al.
Nature 450, 56–62
(1 November 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06293
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The mitochondrial protease HtrA2 is regulated by Parkinson's disease-associated kinase PINK1
Hélène Plun-Favreau et al.
Nature Cell Biology 9, 1243–1252
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1644
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HtrA2 and Parkinson's disease: think PINK?
Emad S. Alnemri
Nature Cell Biology 9, 1227–1229
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1107-1227
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Roles for the pro-neurotrophin receptor sortilin in neuronal development, aging and brain injury
Pernille Jansen et al.
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1449–1457
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nn2000
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Neuronal regulation of alternative pre-mRNA splicing
Qin Li, Ji-Ann Lee & Douglas L. Black
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 819–831
(November 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2237
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Central control of bone remodeling by neuromedin U
Shingo Sato et al.
Nature Medicine 13, 1234–1240
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1640
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Retinoic acid in the development, regeneration and maintenance of the nervous system
Malcolm Maden
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 755–765
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2212
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Distinct domains of complexin I differentially regulate neurotransmitter release
Mingshan Xue et al.
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 14, 949–958
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nsmb1292
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Auditory sensitivity regulation via rapid changes in expression of surface AMPA receptors
Zhiqiang Chen, Sharon G Kujawa & William F Sewell
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1238–1240
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1974
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Nitric oxide in the central nervous system: neuroprotection versus neurotoxicity
Vittorio Calabrese, Cesare Mancuso, Menotti Calvani, Enrico Rizzarelli, D. Allan Butterfield & Anna Maria Giuffrida Stella
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 766–775
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2214
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Mechanism of chloride interaction with neurotransmitter:sodium symporters
Elia Zomot, Annie Bendahan, Matthias Quick, Yongfang Zhao, Jonathan A. Javitch & Baruch I. Kanner
Nature 449, 726–730
(11 October 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06133
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Stargazin attenuates intracellular polyamine block of calcium-permeable AMPA receptors
David Soto, Ian D Coombs, Leah Kelly, Mark Farrant & Stuart G Cull-Candy
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1260–1267
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1966
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A neuroscientist's guide to lipidomics
Daniele Piomelli, Giuseppe Astarita & Rao Rapaka
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 743–754
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2233
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Epidermal growth factor signaling induces behavioral quiescence in Caenorhabditis elegans
Cheryl Van Buskirk & Paul W Sternberg
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1300–1307
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1981
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Pathologically activated therapeutics for neuroprotection
Stuart A. Lipton
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 803–808
(October 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2229
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Activation of mGlu2/3 receptors as a new approach to treat schizophrenia: a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial
Sandeep T Patil, Lu Zhang, Ferenc Martenyi, Stephen L Lowe, Kimberley A Jackson, Boris V Andreev, Alla S Avedisova, Leonid M Bardenstein, Issak Y Gurovich, Margarita A Morozova, Sergey N Mosolov, Nikolai G Neznanov, Alexander M Reznik, Anatoly B Smulevich, Vladimir A Tochilov, Bryan G Johnson, James A Monn & Darryle D Schoepp
Nature Medicine 13, 1102–1107
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1632
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Schizophrenia drug says goodbye to dopamine
Daniel R Weinberger
Nature Medicine 13, 1018–1019
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nm0907-1018
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A stream of cells migrating from the caudal telencephalon reveals a link between the amygdala and neocortex
Ryan Remedios, Dhananjay Huilgol, Bhaskar Saha, Padmanabhan Hari, Lahar Bhatnagar, Thomas Kowalczyk, Robert F Hevner, Yoko Suda, Shinichi Aizawa, Toshio Ohshima, Anastassia Stoykova & Shubha Tole
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1141–1150
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1955
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Amygdala and neocortex: common origins and shared mechanisms
Jan M Deussing & Wolfgang Wurst
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1081–1082
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nn0907-1081
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OL-protocadherin is essential for growth of striatal axons and thalamocortical projections
Masato Uemura, Shinsuke Nakao, Shintaro T Suzuki, Masatoshi Takeichi & Shinji Hirano
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1151–1159
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1960
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Cell type-specific gating of perisomatic inhibition by cholecystokinin
Csaba Földy, Soo Yeun Lee, János Szabadics, Axel Neu & Ivan Soltesz
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1128–1130
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1952
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EP3 prostaglandin receptors in the median preoptic nucleus are critical for fever responses
Michael Lazarus, Kyoko Yoshida, Roberto Coppari, Caroline E Bass, Takatoshi Mochizuki, Bradford B Lowell & Clifford B Saper
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1131–1133
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1949
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New insights into BDNF function in depression and anxiety
Keri Martinowich, Husseini Manji & Bai Lu
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1089–1093
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1971
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Long-term synaptic plasticity in hippocampal interneurons
Dimitri M. Kullmann & Karri P. Lamsa
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 687–699
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2207
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Differential Notch signalling distinguishes neural stem cells from intermediate progenitors
Ken-ichi Mizutani, Keejung Yoon, Louis Dang, Akinori Tokunaga & Nicholas Gaiano
Nature 449, 351–355
(20 September 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06090
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Toll-like receptors modulate adult hippocampal neurogenesis
Asya Rolls, Ravid Shechter, Anat London, Yaniv Ziv, Ayal Ronen, Rinat Levy & Michal Schwartz
Nature Cell Biology 9, 1081–1088
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1629
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Neural stem cells: guardians of the brain
Gianvito Martino & Stefano Pluchino
Nature Cell Biology 9, 1031–1034
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb0907-1031
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Glucose sensing by POMC neurons regulates glucose homeostasis and is impaired in obesity
Laura E. Parton, Chian Ping Ye, Roberto Coppari, Pablo J. Enriori, Brian Choi, Chen-Yu Zhang, Chun Xu, Claudia R. Vianna, Nina Balthasar, Charlotte E. Lee, Joel K. Elmquist, Michael A. Cowley & Bradford B. Lowell
Nature 449, 228–232
(13 September 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06098
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The effect of neurodegenerative diseases on the subventricular zone
Maurice A. Curtis, Richard L. M. Faull & Peter S. Eriksson
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 712–723
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2216
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S-nitrosylation of microtubule-associated protein 1B mediates nitric-oxide-induced axon retraction
Heike Stroissnigg, Alzbeta Trancíková, Luise Descovich, Jakob Fuhrmann, Waltraud Kutschera, Julius Kostan, Arabella Meixner, Fatiha Nothias & Friedrich Propst
Nature Cell Biology 9, 1035–1045
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1625
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Nicotinic control of axon excitability regulates thalamocortical transmission
Hideki Kawai, Ronit Lazar & Raju Metherate
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1168–1175
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1956
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Kinase activity is not required for αCaMKII-dependent presynaptic plasticity at CA3-CA1 synapses
Mohammad Reza Hojjati, Geeske M van Woerden, William J Tyler, Karl Peter Giese, Alcino J Silva, Lucas Pozzo-Miller & Ype Elgersma
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1125–1127
(September 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1946
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Dual subcellular roles for LIS1 and dynein in radial neuronal migration in live brain tissue
Jin-Wu Tsai, K Helen Bremner & Richard B Vallee
Nature Neuroscience 10, 970–979
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1934
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A Drosophila kinesin required for synaptic bouton formation and synaptic vesicle transport
Eunju Pack-Chung, Peri T Kurshan, Dion K Dickman & Thomas L Schwarz
Nature Neuroscience 10, 980–989
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1936
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A hippocampal Cdk5 pathway regulates extinction of contextual fear
Farahnaz Sananbenesi, Andre Fischer, Xinyu Wang, Christina Schrick, Rachael Neve, Jelena Radulovic & Li-Huei Tsai
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1012–1019
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1943
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The sequence of events that underlie quantal transmission at central glutamatergic synapses
John E. Lisman, Sridhar Raghavachari & Richard W. Tsien
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 597–609
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2191
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Cortico-striatal synaptic defects and OCD-like behaviours in Sapap3-mutant mice
Jeffrey M. Welch, Jing Lu, Ramona M. Rodriguiz, Nicholas C. Trotta, Joao Peca, Jin-Dong Ding, Catia Feliciano, Meng Chen, J. Paige Adams, Jianhong Luo, Serena M. Dudek, Richard J. Weinberg, Nicole Calakos, William C. Wetsel & Guoping Feng
Nature 448, 894–900
(23 August 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06104
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Neuroscience: Obsessed with grooming
Steven E. Hyman
Nature 448, 871–872
(23 August 2007); doi:10.1038/448871a
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Gap junction adhesion is necessary for radial migration in the neocortex
Laura A. B. Elias, Doris D. Wang & Arnold R. Kriegstein
Nature 448, 901–907
(23 August 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06063
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Regulated ATP release from astrocytes through lysosome exocytosis
Zhijun Zhang, Gang Chen, Wei Zhou, Aihong Song, Tao Xu, Qingming Luo, Wei Wang, Xiao-song Gu & Shumin Duan
Nature Cell Biology 9, 945–953
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1620
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Opposing roles in neurite growth control by two seven-pass transmembrane cadherins
Yasuyuki Shima, Shin-ya Kawaguchi, Kazuyoshi Kosaka, Manabu Nakayama, Mikio Hoshino, Yoichi Nabeshima, Tomoo Hirano & Tadashi Uemura
Nature Neuroscience 10, 963–969
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1933
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Molecular genetic visualization of a rare subset of unmyelinated sensory neurons that may detect gentle touch
Qin Liu, Sophia Vrontou, Frank L Rice, Mark J Zylka, Xinzhong Dong & David J Anderson
Nature Neuroscience 10, 946–948
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1937
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Parkinson's disease: Pro-survival effects of PINK1
Asa Abeliovich
Nature 448, 759–760
(16 August 2007); doi:10.1038/448759a
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A tarantula peptide against pain via ASIC1a channels and opioid mechanisms
Michel Mazzuca, Catherine Heurteaux, Abdelkrim Alloui, Sylvie Diochot, Anne Baron, Nicolas Voilley, Nicolas Blondeau, Pierre Escoubas, Agnès Gélot, Anny Cupo, Andreas Zimmer, Anne M Zimmer, Alain Eschalier & Michel Lazdunski
Nature Neuroscience 10, 943–945
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1940
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Initiation to end point: the multiple roles of fibroblast growth factors in neural development
Ivor Mason
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 583–596
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2189
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A gastrin-releasing peptide receptor mediates the itch sensation in the spinal cord
Yan-Gang Sun & Zhou-Feng Chen
Nature 448, 700–703
(9 August 2007); doi:10.1038/nature06029
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A functional role for EGFR signaling in myelination and remyelination
Adan Aguirre, Jeff L Dupree, J M Mangin & Vittorio Gallo
Nature Neuroscience 10, 990–1002
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1938
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Dynamic BDNF activity in nucleus accumbens with cocaine use increases self-administration and relapse
Danielle L Graham, Scott Edwards, Ryan K Bachtell, Ralph J DiLeone, Maribel Rios & David W Self
Nature Neuroscience 10, 1029–1037
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1929
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A role for BDNF in cocaine reward and relapse
Geoffrey Schoenbaum, Thomas A Stalnaker & Yavin Shaham
Nature Neuroscience 10, 935–936
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn0807-935
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Exocytotic catecholamine release is not associated with cation flux through channels in the vesicle membrane but Na+ influx through the fusion pore
Liang-Wei Gong, Guillermo Alvarez de Toledo & Manfred Lindau
Nature Cell Biology 9, 915–922
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1617
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Crystal structure of the extracellular domain of nAChR α1 bound to α-bungarotoxin at 1.94 Å resolution
Cosma D Dellisanti, Yun Yao, James C Stroud, Zuo-Zhong Wang & Lin Chen
Nature Neuroscience 10, 953–962
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1942
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Nicotinic receptor structure emerging slowly
Titia K Sixma
Nature Neuroscience 10, 937–938
(August 2007); doi:10.1038/nn0807-937
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Protective and therapeutic role for αB-crystallin in autoimmune demyelination
Shalina S. Ousman, Beren H. Tomooka, Johannes M. van Noort, Eric F. Wawrousek, Kevin O'Conner, David A. Hafler, Raymond A. Sobel, William H. Robinson & Lawrence Steinman
Nature 448, 474–479
(26 July 2007); doi:10.1038/nature05935
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Inflammatory disease: Assault on the guardian
Richard M. Ransohoff
Nature 448, 421–422
(26 July 2007); doi:10.1038/448421a
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A central role for Necl4 (SynCAM4) in Schwann cell–axon interaction and myelination
Ivo Spiegel, Konstantin Adamsky, Yael Eshed, Ron Milo, Helena Sabanay, Offra Sarig-Nadir, Ido Horresh, Steven S Scherer, Matthew N Rasband & Elior Peles
Nature Neuroscience 10, 861–869
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1915
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Cannabinoids mediate analgesia largely via peripheral type 1 cannabinoid receptors in nociceptors
Nitin Agarwal, Pal Pacher, Irmgard Tegeder, Fumimasa Amaya, Cristina E Constantin, Gary J Brenner, Tiziana Rubino, Christoph W Michalski, Giovanni Marsicano, Krisztina Monory, Ken Mackie, Claudiu Marian, Sandor Batkai, Daniela Parolaro, Michael J Fischer, Peter Reeh, George Kunos, Michaela Kress, Beat Lutz, Clifford J Woolf & Rohini Kuner
Nature Neuroscience 10, 870–879
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1916
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TRP channels in mechanosensation: direct or indirect activation?
Adam P. Christensen & David P. Corey
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 510–521
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2149
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BACE1 regulates voltage-gated sodium channels and neuronal activity
Doo Yeon Kim, Bryce W. Carey, Haibin Wang, Laura A. M. Ingano, Alexander M. Binshtok, Mary H. Wertz, Warren H. Pettingell, Ping He, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, Clifford J. Woolf & Dora M. Kovacs
Nature Cell Biology 9, 755–764
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1602
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Neuropeptide Y acts directly in the periphery on fat tissue and mediates stress-induced obesity and metabolic syndrome
Lydia E Kuo, Joanna B Kitlinska, Jason U Tilan, Lijun Li, Stephen B Baker, Michael D Johnson, Edward W Lee, Mary Susan Burnett, Stanley T Fricke, Richard Kvetnansky, Herbert Herzog & Zofia Zukowska
Nature Medicine 13, 803–811
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nm1611
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Stress, diet and abdominal obesity: Y?
James P Warne & Mary F Dallman
Nature Medicine 13, 781–783
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nm0707-781
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Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 governs learning and synaptic plasticity via control of NMDAR degradation
Ammar H Hawasli, David R Benavides, Chan Nguyen, Janice W Kansy, Kanehiro Hayashi, Pierre Chambon, Paul Greengard, Craig M Powell, Donald C Cooper & James A Bibb
Nature Neuroscience 10, 880–886
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1914
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Bypassing interneurons: inhibition in neocortex
Barry W Connors & Scott J Cruikshank
Nature Neuroscience 10, 808–810
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn0707-808
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Regulation of T-type calcium channels by Rho-associated kinase
Mircea Iftinca, Jawed Hamid, Lina Chen, Diego Varela, Reza Tadayonnejad, Christophe Altier, Ray W Turner & Gerald W Zamponi
Nature Neuroscience 10, 854–860
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1921
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Dishevelled promotes axon differentiation by regulating atypical protein kinase C
Xian Zhang, Ji Zhu, Guo-Ying Yang, Qing-Jie Wang, Lei Qian, Yan-Min Chen, Fei Chen, Yu Tao, Han-Song Hu, Tong Wang & Zhen-Ge Luo
Nature Cell Biology 9, 743–754
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb1603
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Extrinsic Wnt signalling controls the polarity component aPKC
Shigeo Ohno
Nature Cell Biology 9, 738–740
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/ncb0707-738
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RECK modulates Notch signaling during cortical neurogenesis by regulating ADAM10 activity
Teruyuki Muraguchi, Yujiro Takegami, Toshiyuki Ohtsuka, Shunsuke Kitajima, Ediriweera P S Chandana, Akira Omura, Takao Miki, Rei Takahashi, Naoya Matsumoto, Andreas Ludwig, Makoto Noda & Chiaki Takahashi
Nature Neuroscience 10, 838–845
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1922
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UNC-46 is required for trafficking of the vesicular GABA transporter
Kim Schuske, Mark T Palfreyman, Shigeki Watanabe & Erik M Jorgensen
Nature Neuroscience 10, 846–853
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1920
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From synapse to behavior: rapid modulation of defined neuronal types with engineered GABAA receptors
Peer Wulff, Thomas Goetz, Elli Leppä, Anni-Maija Linden, Massimiliano Renzi, Jerome D Swinny, Olga Y Vekovischeva, Werner Sieghart, Peter Somogyi, Esa R Korpi, Mark Farrant & William Wisden
Nature Neuroscience 10, 923–929
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1927
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Intracellular amyloid-β in Alzheimer's disease
Frank M. LaFerla, Kim N. Green & Salvatore Oddo
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 499–509
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2168
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Novel neurotrophic factor CDNF protects and rescues midbrain dopamine neurons in vivo
Päivi Lindholm, Merja H. Voutilainen, Juha Laurén, Johan Peränen, Veli-Matti Leppänen, Jaan-Olle Andressoo, Maria Lindahl, Sanna Janhunen, Nisse Kalkkinen, Tõnis Timmusk, Raimo K. Tuominen & Mart Saarma
Nature 448, 73–77
(5 July 2007); doi:10.1038/nature05957
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Numb and Numbl are required for maintenance of cadherin-based adhesion and polarity of neural progenitors
Mladen-Roko Rašin, Valeswara-Rao Gazula, Joshua J Breunig, Kenneth Y Kwan, Matthew B Johnson, Susan Liu-Chen, Hua-Shun Li, Lily Yeh Jan, Yuh-Nung Jan, Pasko Rakic & Nenad Šestan
Nature Neuroscience 10, 819–827
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1924
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Numb, neurogenesis and epithelial polarity
Seonhee Kim & Chris A Walsh
Nature Neuroscience 10, 812–813
(July 2007); doi:10.1038/nn0707-812
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Ambra1 regulates autophagy and development of the nervous system
Gian Maria Fimia, Anastassia Stoykova, Alessandra Romagnoli, Luigi Giunta, Sabrina Di Bartolomeo, Roberta Nardacci, Marco Corazzari, Claudia Fuoco, Ahmet Ucar, Peter Schwartz, Peter Gruss, Mauro Piacentini, Kamal Chowdhury & Francesco Cecconi
Nature 447, 1121–1125
(28 June 2007); doi:10.1038/nature05925
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BDNF induces transport of PSD-95 to dendrites through PI3K-AKT signaling after NMDA receptor activation
Akira Yoshii & Martha Constantine-Paton
Nature Neuroscience 10, 702–711
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1903
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Identification of a lectin causing the degeneration of neuronal processes using engineered embryonic stem cells
Nicolas Plachta, Christine Annaheim, Stephanie Bissière, Shuo Lin, Markus Rüegg, Sjouke Hoving, Dieter Müller, Françoise Poirier, Miriam Bibel & Yves-Alain Barde
Nature Neuroscience 10, 712–719
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nn1897
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Cell-cycle control and cortical development
Colette Dehay & Henry Kennedy
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 438–450
(June 2007); doi:10.1038/nrn2097
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Environmental enrichment in adulthood promotes amblyopia recovery through a reduction of intracortical inhibition
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 413–426
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Sensory neuron sodium channel Nav1.8 is essential for pain at low temperatures
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HDAC6 rescues neurodegeneration and provides an essential link between autophagy and the UPS
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RIM1 confers sustained activity and neurotransmitter vesicle anchoring to presynaptic Ca2+ channels
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Serotonin and neuropeptide F have opposite modulatory effects on fly aggression
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Serotonin modulates the response of embryonic thalamocortical axons to netrin-1
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Serotonin guides the way
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SUMOylation regulates kainate-receptor-mediated synaptic transmission
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Caenorhabditis elegans TRPA-1 functions in mechanosensation
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CLOCK and NPAS2 have overlapping roles in the suprachiasmatic circadian clock
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Behavioural neuroscience: Down memory lane
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A new function for the fragile X mental retardation protein in regulation of PSD-95 mRNA stability
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The uncoupled chloride conductance of a bacterial glutamate transporter homolog
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A leak in the EAATs
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TRPC channels promote cerebellar granule neuron survival
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Transcriptional regulation of vertebrate axon guidance and synapse formation
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Opioids block long-term potentiation of inhibitory synapses
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UDP acting at P2Y6 receptors is a mediator of microglial phagocytosis
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The Drosophila DCO mutation suppresses age-related memory impairment without affecting lifespan
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Rho mediates calcium-dependent activation of p38α and subsequent excitotoxic cell death
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Reversal of neurosteroid effects at α4β2δ GABAA receptors triggers anxiety at puberty
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GABA receptors make teens resistant to input
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A mirror-symmetric cell division that orchestrates neuroepithelial morphogenesis
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Activity-dependent AIDA-1 nuclear signaling regulates nucleolar numbers and protein synthesis in neurons
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Nature Neuroscience 10, 427–435
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Synapses go nucle(ol)ar
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cAMP oscillations and retinal activity are permissive for ephrin signaling during the establishment of the retinotopic map
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Grb4 and GIT1 transduce ephrinB reverse signals modulating spine morphogenesis and synapse formation
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Neuronal polarity: from extracellular signals to intracellular mechanisms
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience 8, 194–205
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Alternative splicing controls G protein—dependent inhibition of N-type calcium channels in nociceptors
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Nature Neurobiology 10, 285–292
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Calcium channels diversify their signaling portfolio
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Nature Neurobiology 10, 269–271
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Neuronal calcium sensor proteins: generating diversity in neuronal Ca2+ signalling
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Vesicular glutamate release from axons in white matter
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Nature Neuroscience 10, 311 - 320
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Surprising synapses deep in the brain
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Direct activation of the ion channel TRPA1 by Ca2+
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CD38 is critical for social behaviour by regulating oxytocin secretion
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GDNF and GFRα1 promote formation of neuronal synapses by ligand-induced cell adhesion
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Nature Neuroscience 10, 293–300
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Glutamate exocytosis from astrocytes controls synaptic strength
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Astrocytes target presynaptic NMDA receptors to give synapses a boost
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Nature Neuroscience 10, 271–273
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Cell adhesion molecules: signalling functions at the synapse
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Soluble protein oligomers in neurodegeneration: lessons from the Alzheimer's amyloid β-peptide
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Drosophila spichthyin inhibits BMP signaling and regulates synaptic growth and axonal microtubules
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C. elegans VAB-8 and UNC-73 regulate the SAX-3 receptor to direct cell and growth-cone migrations
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Noxious compounds activate TRPA1 ion channels through covalent modification of cysteines
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The neuronal sortilin-related receptor SORL1 is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease
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Drosophila spichthyin inhibits BMP signaling and regulates synaptic growth and axonal microtubules
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Cdk5 regulates EphA4-mediated dendritic spine retraction through an ephexin1-dependent mechanism
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PKC-1 regulates secretion of neuropeptides
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How to make a mesodiencephalic dopaminergic neuron
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Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain
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IRS2-Akt pathway in midbrain dopamine neurons regulates behavioral and cellular responses to opiates
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Tolerance to opiate reward: role of midbrain IRS2-Akt pathway
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Nature Neuroscience 10, 9–10
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Essential function of HIPK2 in TGFβ-dependent survival of midbrain dopamine neurons
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How dopamine neurons survive
Annette Markus
Nature Neuroscience 10, 12
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Microglia-mediated neurotoxicity: uncovering the molecular mechanisms
Michelle L. Block, Luigi Zecca and Jau-Shyong Hong
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