Lights, fiber, action! A primer on in vivo fiber photometry

EH Simpson, T Akam, T Patriarchi, M Blanco-Pozo… - Neuron, 2024‏ - cell.com
Fiber photometry is a key technique for characterizing brain-behavior relationships in vivo.
Initially, it was primarily used to report calcium dynamics as a proxy for neural activity via …

Astrocytes: new evidence, new models, new roles

A Brazhe, A Verisokin, D Verveyko, D Postnov - Biophysical Reviews, 2023‏ - Springer
Astrocytes have been in the limelight of active research for about 3 decades now. Over this
period, ideas about their function and role in the nervous system have evolved from simple …

Adenosine signalling to astrocytes coordinates brain metabolism and function

SM Theparambil, O Kopach, A Braga, S Nizari… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Brain computation performed by billions of nerve cells relies on a sufficient and
uninterrupted nutrient and oxygen supply,. Astrocytes, the ubiquitous glial neighbours of …

40 Hz light flickering promotes sleep through cortical adenosine signaling

X Zhou, Y He, T Xu, Z Wu, W Guo, X Xu, Y Liu, Y Zhang… - Cell Research, 2024‏ - nature.com
Flickering light stimulation has emerged as a promising non-invasive neuromodulation
strategy to alleviate neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the lack of a neurochemical …

40 Hz light flickering facilitates the glymphatic flow via adenosine signaling in mice

X Sun, L Dias, C Peng, Z Zhang, H Ge, Z Wang, J **… - Cell Discovery, 2024‏ - nature.com
The glymphatic-lymphatic system is increasingly recognized as fundamental for the
homeostasis of the brain milieu since it defines cerebral spinal fluid flow in the brain …

Optochemical control of slow-wave sleep in the nucleus accumbens of male mice by a photoactivatable allosteric modulator of adenosine A2A receptors

K Roy, X Zhou, R Otani, PC Yuan, S Ioka… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Optochemistry, an emerging pharmacologic approach in which light is used to selectively
activate or deactivate molecules, has the potential to alleviate symptoms, cure diseases, and …

Spatially resolved metabolomics and isotope tracing reveal dynamic metabolic responses of dentate granule neurons with acute stimulation

A Miller, EM York, SA Stopka, JR Martínez-François… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Neuronal activity creates an intense energy demand that must be met by rapid metabolic
responses. To investigate metabolic adaptations in the neuron-enriched dentate granule cell …

Astrocytes release ATP/ADP and glutamate in flashes via vesicular exocytosis

H Li, Y Zhao, R Dai, P Geng, D Weng, W Wu, F Yu… - Molecular …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Astrocytes regulate brain functions through gliotransmitters like ATP/ADP and glutamate, but
their release patterns and mechanisms remain controversial. Here, we visualized ATP/ADP …

Development of a genetically encoded sensor for probing endogenous nociceptin opioid peptide release

X Zhou, C Stine, PO Prada, D Fusca… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract Nociceptin/orphanin-FQ (N/OFQ) is a recently appreciated critical opioid peptide
with key regulatory functions in several central behavioral processes including motivation …

A high-performance GRAB sensor reveals differences in the dynamics and molecular regulation between neuropeptide and neurotransmitter release

X **a, Y Li - Nature communications, 2025‏ - nature.com
The co-existence and co-transmission of neuropeptides and small molecule
neurotransmitters within individual neuron represent a fundamental characteristic observed …