Heterogeneity within classical cell types is the rule: lessons from hippocampal pyramidal neurons

MS Cembrowski, N Spruston - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019‏ - nature.com
The mechanistic operation of brain regions is often interpreted by partitioning constituent
neurons into 'cell types'. Historically, such cell types were broadly defined by their …

The action potential in mammalian central neurons

BP Bean - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007‏ - nature.com
The action potential of the squid giant axon is formed by just two voltage-dependent
conductances in the cell membrane, yet mammalian central neurons typically express more …

Distinct neural circuits for the formation and retrieval of episodic memories

DS Roy, T Kitamura, T Okuyama, SK Ogawa, C Sun… - Cell, 2017‏ - cell.com
The formation and retrieval of a memory is thought to be accomplished by activation and
reactivation, respectively, of the memory-holding cells (engram cells) by a common set of …

High-fidelity optical reporting of neuronal electrical activity with an ultrafast fluorescent voltage sensor

F St-Pierre, JD Marshall, Y Yang, Y Gong… - Nature …, 2014‏ - nature.com
Accurate optical reporting of electrical activity in genetically defined neuronal populations is
a long-standing goal in neuroscience. We developed Accelerated Sensor of Action …

Pyramidal neurons: dendritic structure and synaptic integration

N Spruston - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2008‏ - nature.com
Pyramidal neurons are characterized by their distinct apical and basal dendritic trees and
the pyramidal shape of their soma. They are found in several regions of the CNS and …

Dissociable structural and functional hippocampal outputs via distinct subiculum cell classes

MS Cembrowski, MG Phillips, SF DiLisio, BC Shields… - Cell, 2018‏ - cell.com
The mammalian hippocampus, comprised of serially connected subfields, participates in
diverse behavioral and cognitive functions. It has been postulated that parallel circuitry …

[HTML][HTML] Presynaptic neurexin-3 alternative splicing trans-synaptically controls postsynaptic AMPA receptor trafficking

J Aoto, DC Martinelli, RC Malenka, K Tabuchi… - Cell, 2013‏ - cell.com
Neurexins are essential presynaptic cell adhesion molecules that are linked to
schizophrenia and autism and are subject to extensive alternative splicing. Here, we used a …

Intracellular determinants of hippocampal CA1 place and silent cell activity in a novel environment

J Epsztein, M Brecht, AK Lee - Neuron, 2011‏ - cell.com
For each environment a rodent has explored, its hippocampus contains a map consisting of
a unique subset of neurons, called place cells, that have spatially tuned spiking there, with …

[HTML][HTML] Hippocampal pyramidal neurons comprise two distinct cell types that are countermodulated by metabotropic receptors

AR Graves, SJ Moore, EB Bloss, BD Mensh, WL Kath… - Neuron, 2012‏ - cell.com
Relating the function of neuronal cell types to information processing and behavior is a
central goal of neuroscience. In the hippocampus, pyramidal cells in CA1 and the subiculum …

Single-cell RNAseq reveals cell adhesion molecule profiles in electrophysiologically defined neurons

C Földy, S Darmanis, J Aoto, RC Malenka… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
In brain, signaling mediated by cell adhesion molecules defines the identity and functional
properties of synapses. The specificity of presynaptic and postsynaptic interactions that is …