Adapting terminology: clarifying prism adaptation vocabulary, concepts, and methods
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2019Source: Neuroscience ResearchAuthor(s): C. Prablanc, F. Panico, L. Fleury, L. Pisella, T. Nijboer, S. Kitazawa, Y. RossettiAbstractWhen individuals are exposed to a constant change of the interplay with their environment, they are able to develop compensatory alterations of visuo-motor coordination in order to counteract the perturbation. Prism adaptation (PA) is a very simple tool that has been used for several decades to investigate adaptive processes. However, the specific terminology used in PA literature has continuously evolved and is still subjected to broad inconsiste...
Source: Neuroscience Research - May 3, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Genome editing-based approaches for imaging protein localization and dynamics in the mammalian brain
Publication date: Available online 26 April 2019Source: Neuroscience ResearchAuthor(s): Takayasu MikuniAbstractA neuron contains thousands of proteins, each of which mediates neuronal processes at distinct subcellular compartments. Thus, precise mapping of each protein with subcellular resolution in the brain is essential to understand neuronal processes at the molecular level. However, no conventional methods have provided rapid, generalizable, and high-throughput readouts for the subcellular localization of endogenous proteins in the mammalian brain. Recently, new methods based on in vivo genome editing have been develop...
Source: Neuroscience Research - April 27, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Serotonergic modulation of feeding behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans and other related nematodes
Publication date: Available online 24 April 2019Source: Neuroscience ResearchAuthor(s): Yuuki Ishita, Takahiro Chihara, Misako OkumuraAbstractSerotonin is a conserved neuromodulator that controls feeding behavior in response to environmental inputs in a wide range of species, including the nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans. To understand the detailed mechanism and evolution of serotonergic neuromodulation, the feeding behaviors of C. elegans and related species have been studied intensively because of their simple neural anatomy and genetic manipulability. C. elegans shows patterned movements of a feeding structure called t...
Source: Neuroscience Research - April 25, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Ovarian progesterone suppresses depression and anxiety-like behaviors by increasing the Lactobacillus population of gut microbiota in ovariectomized mice
This study investigated whether progesterone affects depressant and anxious behaviors via gut microbiota. In ovariectomized (OVX) mice, treatment with progesterone improved depressive and anxious behaviors, and gut microbiota composition was significantly changed. In particular, increased Lactobacillus spp. were observed in these mice. Reduction of microbiota by antibiotic treatment abolished the effect of progesterone on depression and anxiety. In addition, administration of Lactobacillus (L.) reuteri that was increased by progesterone also reduced the depressant behavior in OVX mice, and BDNF gene expression was elevated...
Source: Neuroscience Research - April 24, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
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Publication date: May 2019Source: Neuroscience Research, Volume 142Author(s): (Source: Neuroscience Research)
Source: Neuroscience Research - April 21, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
