Optogenetics for light control of biological systems

V Emiliani, E Entcheva, R Hedrich… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Optogenetic techniques have been developed to allow control over the activity of selected
cells within a highly heterogeneous tissue, using a combination of genetic engineering and …

Integration of optogenetics with complementary methodologies in systems neuroscience

CK Kim, A Adhikari, K Deisseroth - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017‏ - nature.com
Modern optogenetics can be tuned to evoke activity that corresponds to naturally occurring
local or global activity in timing, magnitude or individual-cell patterning. This outcome has …

Brain motor and fear circuits regulate leukocytes during acute stress

WC Poller, J Downey, AA Mooslechner, N Khan, L Li… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The nervous and immune systems are intricately linked. Although psychological stress is
known to modulate immune function, mechanistic pathways linking stress networks in the …

Climbing fibers provide essential instructive signals for associative learning

NT Silva, J Ramírez-Buriticá, DL Pritchett… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Supervised learning depends on instructive signals that shape the output of neural circuits to
support learned changes in behavior. Climbing fiber (CF) inputs to the cerebellar cortex …

Lipidome atlas of the adult human brain

M Osetrova, A Tkachev, W Mair… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Lipids are the most abundant but poorly explored components of the human brain. Here, we
present a lipidome map of the human brain comprising 75 regions, including 52 neocortical …

NF1 mutation drives neuronal activity-dependent initiation of optic glioma

Y Pan, JD Hysinger, T Barron, NF Schindler, O Cobb… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Neurons have recently emerged as essential cellular constituents of the tumour
microenvironment, and their activity has been shown to increase the growth of a diverse …

Preconfigured dynamics in the hippocampus are guided by embryonic birthdate and rate of neurogenesis

R Huszár, Y Zhang, H Blockus, G Buzsáki - Nature Neuroscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
The incorporation of new information into the hippocampal network is likely to be
constrained by its innate architecture and internally generated activity patterns. However, the …

Optogenetics: 10 years of microbial opsins in neuroscience

K Deisseroth - Nature neuroscience, 2015‏ - nature.com
Over the past 10 years, the development and convergence of microbial opsin engineering,
modular genetic methods for cell-type targeting and optical strategies for guiding light …

[HTML][HTML] Transgenic mice for intersectional targeting of neural sensors and effectors with high specificity and performance

L Madisen, AR Garner, D Shimaoka, AS Chuong… - Neuron, 2015‏ - cell.com
An increasingly powerful approach for studying brain circuits relies on targeting genetically
encoded sensors and effectors to specific cell types. However, current approaches for this …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal activity promotes glioma growth through neuroligin-3 secretion

HS Venkatesh, TB Johung, V Caretti, A Noll, Y Tang… - Cell, 2015‏ - cell.com
Active neurons exert a mitogenic effect on normal neural precursor and oligodendroglial
precursor cells, the putative cellular origins of high-grade glioma (HGG). By using …