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The mysterious middlemen making your vision pop: understanding the function of amacrine cells

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend This review aims to illustrate the diversity and function of amacrine cells in the retina. The diversity of amacrine cell subtypes is depicted based on morphology, stratification and neurotransmitter expression, along with their synaptic connectivity with bipolar and ganglion cells, emphasizing inhibitory and modulatory roles ...
Victor Calbiague‐Garcia, Deborah Varro, Thomas Buffet, Olivier Marre   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A PI3K-mediated negative feedback regulates Drosophila motor neuron excitability [PDF]

, 2008
Negative feedback can act as a homeostatic mechanism to maintain neuronal activity at a particular specified value. At the Drosophila neuromuscular junction, a mutation in the type II metabotropic glutamate receptor gene (mGluRA) increased motor neuron ...
Curtis C. J. Lin, Eric Howlett, Michael Stern, William Lavery   +3 more
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Pharmacological And Genetic Reversal Of Age-Dependent Cognitive Deficits Attributable To Decreased Presenilin Function [PDF]

, 2010
Alzheimer\u27s disease (AD) is the leading cause of cognitive loss and neurodegeneration in the developed world. Although its genetic and environmental causes are not generally known, familial forms of the disease (FAD) are attributable to mutations in a
Bell, A. J., Chiorean, S., Choi, C. H., Choi, R. J., Ferreiro, D., Ferrick, N. J., Fortini, M. E., Hinchey, P., Jongens, T. A., Koenigsberg, E., Kollaros, M., Liebelt, D. A., McBride, S. M.J., McDonald, T. V., Nguyen, H. T., Rudominer, R. L., Schoenfeld, B. P., Siwicki, Kathleen King, Sumida, A., Terlizzi, A. M.   +19 more
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Implication of neuronal Ca2+-sensor protein VILIP-1 in the glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia

Neurobiology of Disease, 2008
Post mortem studies in the hippocampus of schizophrenia patients revealed increased expression of neuronal Ca2+-sensor VILIP-1 (visinin-like protein) and enhanced co-localization with α4β2 nAChR in interneurons. To study the pathological role of VILIP-1,
Paul Gierke, CongJian Zhao, Hans-Gert Bernstein, Cornelia Noack, Rene Anand, Uwe Heinemann, Karl-Heinz Braunewell   +6 more
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Dopamine neuron glutamate cotransmission evokes a delayed excitation in lateral dorsal striatal cholinergic interneurons

eLife, 2018
Dopamine neurons have different synaptic actions in the ventral and dorsal striatum (dStr), but whether this heterogeneity extends to dStr subregions has not been addressed.
Nao Chuhma, Susana Mingote, Leora Yetnikoff, Abigail Kalmbach, Thong Ma, Samira Ztaou, Anna-Claire Sienna, Sophia Tepler, Jean-Francois Poulin, Mark Ansorge, Rajeshwar Awatramani, Un Jung Kang, Stephen Rayport   +12 more
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Beyond the tumor: Enhancing pancreatic cancer therapy through glutamine metabolism and innovative drug delivery

Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling, Volume 19, Issue 3, September 2025.
The top row shows key drivers‐KRAS, c‐Myc and HIF‐1a‐alongside gut and tumor microbiota, all converging on glutamine metabolism in PDAC. At the center, glutamine handling is depicted as the linchpin of tumor growth, biosynthesis and immune modulation. The green panel lists major intervention strategies: DON‐loaded nanoparticles, prodrugs (DRP‐104/JHU ...
Min Su, Huan Qin, Jie Shen, Hao An, Yu Cao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate and N-acetyl-aspartate on white matter oligodendrocytes [PDF]

, 2009
Elevations of the levels of N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate (NAAG) and N-acetyl-aspartate (NAA) are associated with myelin loss in the leucodystrophies Canavan's disease and Pelizaeus-Merzbacher-like disease. NAAG and NAA can activate and antagonize neuronal
A. Wade, Berger, Bergeron, Billups, Burlina, Bzdega, Chakraborty, Chatterton, D'Angelo, D. Attwell, Fenwick, Fields, Follett, Jakobs, Jane, K. Kolodziejczyk, Karadottir, Karadottir, Khwaja, Koenig, Kumar, K  rad  ttir, Li, Micu, N. B. Hamilton, Pliss, R. Karadottir, Rubin, Salter, Sartori, Sekiguchi, Tortella, Valivullah, Westbrook, Wevers, Wolf, Wroblewska   +36 more
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Dimerisation of the VIP receptor VIPR2 is essential to its binding VIP and Gαi proteins, and to its functions in breast cancer cells

British Journal of Pharmacology, Volume 182, Issue 15, Page 3612-3627, August 2025.
Abstract Background and Purpose Several G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs) are known to homodimerise. Dimeric GPCRs may have different properties from their monomers, but the molecular basis and functional significance of GPCR dimerisation remain largely unknown.
Satoshi Asano, Kairi Ozasa, Teru Uehara, Rei Yokoyama, Takanobu Nakazawa, Souichi Yanamoto, Yukio Ago   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fluorescent and photo-oxidizing TimeSTAMP tags track protein fates in light and electron microscopy. [PDF]

, 2012
Protein synthesis is highly regulated throughout nervous system development, plasticity and regeneration. However, tracking the distributions of specific new protein species has not been possible in living neurons or at the ultrastructural level ...
Butko, Margaret T, Ellisman, Mark H, Geng, Yang, Jeon, Noo Li, Kim, Hyung Joon, Lin, Michael Z, Mackey, Mason R, Shu, Xiaokun, Tsien, Roger Y, Yang, Jin   +9 more
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Anti-Cancer Effect of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 1 Inhibition in Human Glioma U87 Cells: Involvement of PI3K/Akt/mTOR Pathway

Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry, 2015
Background: Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are G-protein-coupled receptors that mediate neuronal excitability and synaptic plasticity in the central nervous system, and emerging evidence suggests a role of mGluRs in the biology of cancer ...
Chi Zhang, Xian-rui Yuan, Hao-yu Li, Zi-jin Zhao, Yi-wei Liao, Xiang-yu Wang, Jun Su, Shu-shan Sang, Qing Liu   +8 more
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