Visualization of cortical, subcortical and deep brain neural circuit dynamics during naturalistic mammalian behavior with head-mounted microscopes and chronically …

SL Resendez, JH Jennings, RL Ung… - Nature protocols, 2016 - nature.com
Genetically encoded calcium indicators for visualizing dynamic cellular activity have greatly
expanded our understanding of the brain. However, owing to the light-scattering properties …

Approaches to manipulating microRNAs in neurogenesis

H Zhang, B Shykind, T Sun - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Neurogenesis in the nervous system is regulated by both protein coding genes and non-
coding RNA molecules. microRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small non-coding RNAs and …

Targeted in vivo genetic manipulation of the mouse or rat brain by in utero electroporation with a triple-electrode probe

J Szczurkowska, AW Cwetsch, M Dal Maschio… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
This protocol is an extension to: Nat. Protoc. 1, 1552–1558 (2006); doi: 10.1038/nprot.
2006.276; published online 9 November 2006 This article describes how to reliably …

Targeted approaches to delineate neuronal morphology during early development

B Liu, Y Li, M Ren, X Li - Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the developmental changes that affect neurons is a key step in exploring the
assembly and maturation of neural circuits in the brain. For decades, researchers have used …

Dentate granule neurons generated during perinatal life display distinct morphological features compared with later-born neurons in the mouse hippocampus

T Kerloch, S Clavreul, A Goron, DN Abrous… - Cerebral …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In nonhuman mammals and in particular in rodents, most granule neurons of the dentate
gyrus (DG) are generated during development and yet little is known about their properties …

An antagonistic interaction between PlexinB2 and Rnd3 controls RhoA activity and cortical neuron migration

R Azzarelli, E Pacary, R Garg, P Garcez… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
A transcriptional programme initiated by the proneural factors Neurog2 and Ascl1 controls
successive steps of neurogenesis in the embryonic cerebral cortex. Previous work has …

The oxygen sensor PHD2 controls dendritic spines and synapses via modification of filamin A

I Segura, C Lange, E Knevels, A Moskalyuk, R Pulizzi… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Neuronal function is highly sensitive to changes in oxygen levels, but how hypoxia affects
dendritic spine formation and synaptogenesis is unknown. Here we report that hypoxia …

Rnd3 coordinates early steps of cortical neurogenesis through actin-dependent and-independent mechanisms

E Pacary, R Azzarelli, F Guillemot - Nature communications, 2013 - nature.com
The generation of neurons by neural stem cells is a highly choreographed process that
requires extensive and dynamic remodelling of the cytoskeleton at each step of the process …

Alterations to dendritic spine morphology, but not dendrite patterning, of cortical projection neurons in Tc1 and Ts1Rhr mouse models of Down syndrome

MA Haas, D Bell, A Slender, E Lana-Elola… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Down Syndrome (DS) is a highly prevalent developmental disorder, affecting 1/700 births.
Intellectual disability, which affects learning and memory, is present in all cases and is …

Imaging activity in astrocytes and neurons with genetically encoded calcium indicators following in utero electroporation

JM Gee, MB Gibbons, M Taheri, S Palumbos… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Complex interactions between networks of astrocytes and neurons are beginning to be
appreciated, but remain poorly understood. Transgenic mice expressing fluorescent protein …