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Molecular Brain

Issue 1/2023

Content (83 Articles)

Open Access Osteoarthrosis Research

Knee osteoarthritis accelerates amyloid beta deposition and neurodegeneration in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease

Deepak Prasad Gupta, Young-Sun Lee, Youngshik Choe, Kun-Tae Kim, Gyun Jee Song, Sun-Chul Hwang

Open Access Short Report

Temporal pain processing in the primary somatosensory cortex and anterior cingulate cortex

Guanghao Sun, Michael McCartin, Weizhuo Liu, Qiaosheng Zhang, George Kenefati, Zhe Sage Chen, Jing Wang

Open Access Research

Age-related attenuation of cortical synaptic tagging in the ACC is rescued by BDNF or a TrkB receptor agonist in both sex of mice

Si-Bo Zhou, Man Xue, Weiqi Liu, Yu-Xin Chen, Qi-Yu Chen, Jing-Shan Lu, Jinjun Wang, Keqiang Ye, Xu-Hui Li, Min Zhuo

Open Access Alzheimer's Disease Micro report

Tyrosine phosphatase STEP61 in human dementia and in animal models with amyloid and tau pathology

Deonne Taylor, Andrew Kneynsberg, Marloes van Roijen, Jürgen Götz

Open Access Parkinson's Disease Micro report

Genetic deletion of nitric oxide synthase 2 ameliorates Parkinson’s disease pathology and neuroinflammation in a transgenic mouse model of synucleinopathy

Jieun Kim, Jung-Youn Han, Yujeong Lee, Kipom Kim, Young Pyo Choi, Sehyun Chae, Hyang-Sook Hoe

Open Access Research

Cell-type-specific translational control of spatial working memory by the cap-binding protein 4EHP

Shane Wiebe, Ziying Huang, Reese Jalal Ladak, Agnieszka Skalecka, Roberta Cagnetta, Jean-Claude Lacaille, Argel Aguilar-Valles, Nahum Sonenberg

Open Access Short report

Role of Calcr expressing neurons in the medial amygdala in social contact among females

Kansai Fukumitsu, Arthur J. Huang, Thomas J. McHugh, Kumi O. Kuroda

Open Access Dyslipidemia Research

PDZD8-deficient mice manifest behavioral abnormalities related to emotion, cognition, and adaptation due to dyslipidemia in the brain

Yuji Kurihara, Kotone Mitsunari, Nagi Mukae, Hirotaka Shoji, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Michiko Shirane

Open Access Research

Modulating and monitoring the functionality of corticostriatal circuits using an electrostimulable microfluidic device

Sukmin Han, Seokyoung Bang, Hong Nam Kim, Nakwon Choi, Sung Hyun Kim

Open Access Alzheimer's Disease Research

Aβ42 treatment of the brain side reduced the level of flotillin from endothelial cells on the blood side via FGF-2 signaling in a blood–brain barrier model

Tomohisa Nakamura, Tadahiro Hashita, Yuxin Chen, Yuan Gao, Yang Sun, Sadequl Islam, Hiroyuki Sato, Yasuyuki Shibuya, Kun Zou, Tamihide Matsunaga, Makoto Michikawa

Open Access Glucocorticoid Research

Elucidation of the mechanisms underlying tumor aggravation by the activation of stress-related neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus

Sara Yoshida, Yusuke Hamada, Michiko Narita, Daisuke Sato, Kenichi Tanaka, Tomohisa Mori, Hiroyuki Tezuka, Yukari Suda, Hideki Tamura, Kazunori Aoki, Naoko Kuzumaki, Minoru Narita

Open Access Neuropathic Pain Research

Cancer aggravation due to persistent pain signals with the increased expression of pain-related mediators in sensory neurons of tumor-bearing mice

Kenichi Tanaka, Takashige Kondo, Michiko Narita, Takeru Muta, Sara Yoshida, Daisuke Sato, Yukari Suda, Yusuke Hamada, Takatsune Shimizu, Naoko Kuzumaki, Minoru Narita

The distribution of neuroligin4, an autism-related postsynaptic molecule, in the human brain

Akie Toya, Masahide Fukada, Eiko Aoki, Tohru Matsuki, Masashi Ueda, Shima Eda, Yoshio Hashizume, Akio Iio, Shigeo Masaki, Atsuo Nakayama

Open Access Research

Investigating the molecular mechanisms of delirium-like neuropsychiatric disorder induced by electromagnetic pulse based on bioinformatics analysis

Xia-Jing Zhang, Zhi-Bin Xiao, Jun-Xiang Gu, Kun Chen, Jian Wang, Sheng-Long Xu, Ke-Ke Xing, Tao Chen

Open Access Parkinson's Disease Research

The deficiency of Maged1 attenuates Parkinson's disease progression in mice

Jie Wang, Sheng-Ye Xu, Zhi-Yuan Ye, Zhou-Na Sun, Jia-Qi Zhang, Cui Qi, Rui Liu, Xiang Gao, Chuan He, Wei-Yan You, Jun Gao

Open Access Stroke Micro report

A Jacob/nsmf gene knockout does not protect against acute hypoxia- and NMDA-induced excitotoxic cell death

Guilherme M. Gomes, Julia Bär, Anna Karpova, Michael R. Kreutz

Open Access Research

Disruption of protein geranylgeranylation in the cerebellum causes cerebellar hypoplasia and ataxia via blocking granule cell progenitor proliferation

Qi Cheng, Jing Wu, Yingqian Xia, Qing Cheng, Yinjuan Zhao, Peixiang Zhu, Wangling Zhang, Shihu Zhang, Lei Zhang, Yushan Yuan, Chaojun Li, Guiquan Chen, Bin Xue

Open Access Research

Contraction of human brain vascular pericytes in response to islet amyloid polypeptide is reversed by pramlintide

Cristina Nuñez-Diaz, Dovilė Pocevičiūtė, Nina Schultz, Charlotte Welinder, Karl Swärd, Malin Wennström

Open Access Respiratory Microbiota Research

The gut microbiota and metabolite profiles are altered in patients with spinal cord injury

Ganggang Kong, Wenwu Zhang, Siyun Zhang, Jiewen Chen, kejun He, Changming Zhang, Xi Yuan, Baoshu Xie

Open Access Research

Properties of Nav1.8ChR2-positive and Nav1.8ChR2-negative afferent mechanoreceptors in the hindpaw glabrous skin of mice

Akihiro Yamada, Ayaka I. Yamada, Jennifer Ling, Hidemasa Furue, Wenqin Luo, Jianguo G. Gu

Experience-dependent changes in affective valence of taste in male mice

Shun Hamada, Kaori Mikami, Shuhei Ueda, Masashi Nagase, Takashi Nagashima, Mikiyasu Yamamoto, Haruhiko Bito, Sayaka Takemoto-Kimura, Toshihisa Ohtsuka, Ayako M. Watabe

Open Access Research

Spatiotemporal expression patterns of genes coding for plasmalemmal chloride transporters and channels in neurological diseases

Yanruo Huang, Qihang Wang, Yunsong Peng, Wenjie Du, Qi Wang, Jiangtao Qi, Zijian Hao, Yingwei Wang

Open Access Research

Diurnal variation in declarative memory and the involvement of SCOP in cognitive functions in nonhuman primates

Kimiko Shimizu, Ken-ichi Inoue, Takao Oishi, Masahiko Takada, Yoshitaka Fukada, Hiroo Imai

Open Access Research

FMRP binds Per1 mRNA and downregulates its protein expression in mice

Xiangrong Tang, Jing Zhang, Xin Li, Ying Hu, Dengfeng Liu, Jia-Da Li, Renbin Lu

Open Access Micro report

Ablation of microglia does not alter circadian rhythm of locomotor activity

Futaba Matsui, Sho T. Yamaguchi, Riho Kobayashi, Shiho Ito, Sakimi Nagashima, Zhiwen Zhou, Hiroaki Norimoto

Open Access Tibia Fracture Research

Tibial fracture surgery in elderly mice caused postoperative neurocognitive disorder via SOX2OT lncRNA in the hippocampus

Zhibin Xiao, Xiajing Zhang, Guangyao Li, Li Sun, Jiangjing Li, Ziwei Jing, Qingya Qiu, Guangxiang He, Changjun Gao, Xude Sun

Open Access Nano review

Towards multiplexed immunofluorescence of 3D tissues

Wonjin Cho, Sehun Kim, Young-Gyun Park

Open Access Methodology

A novel micro-ECoG recording method for recording multisensory neural activity from the parietal to temporal cortices in mice

Susumu Setogawa, Ryota Kanda, Shuto Tada, Takuya Hikima, Yoshito Saitoh, Mikiko Ishikawa, Satoshi Nakada, Fumiko Seki, Keigo Hikishima, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Kenji Mizuseki, Osamu Fukayama, Makoto Osanai, Hiroto Sekiguchi, Noriaki Ohkawa

Open Access Micro report

A new paradigm of learned cooperation reveals extensive social coordination and specific cortical activation in mice

Ke-Ming Zhang, Yan Shen, Chun-Hui Jia, Hao Wang, Guo-Qiang Bi, Pak-Ming Lau

Open Access Research

Enhanced primary ciliogenesis via mitochondrial oxidative stress activates AKT to prevent neurotoxicity in HSPA9/mortalin-depleted SH-SY5Y cells

Ji-Eun Bae, Soyoung Jang, Joon Bum Kim, Hyejin Hyung, Na Yeon Park, Yong Hwan Kim, So Hyun Kim, Seong Hyun Kim, Jin Min Ha, Gyeong Seok Oh, Kyuhee Park, Kwiwan Jeong, Jae Seon Jang, Doo Sin Jo, Pansoo Kim, Hyun-Shik Lee, Zae Young Ryoo, Dong-Hyung Cho

Open Access Short report

Ankyrin2 is essential for neuronal morphogenesis and long-term courtship memory in Drosophila

Silvia Schwartz, Sarah J Wilson, Tracy K Hale, Helen L Fitzsimons

Open Access Research

Interneuronal GluK1 kainate receptors control maturation of GABAergic transmission and network synchrony in the hippocampus

Simo Ojanen, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Zoia Kharybina, Vootele Voikar, Sari E. Lauri, Tomi Taira

Open Access Anxiety Research

Comprehensive behavioral analyses of mice with a glycine receptor alpha 4 deficiency

Mohamed Darwish, Satoko Hattori, Hirofumi Nishizono, Tsuyoshi Miyakawa, Nozomu Yachie, Keizo Takao

Open Access Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Maturation of nucleus accumbens synaptic transmission signals a critical period for the rescue of social deficits in a mouse model of autism spectrum disorder

Melina Matthiesen, Abdessattar Khlaifia, Carl Frank David Steininger Jr, Maryam Dadabhoy, Unza Mumtaz, Maithe Arruda-Carvalho

Open Access Cannabinoid Micro report

Analgesia by intrathecal delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is dependent on Cav3.2 calcium channels

Vinicius de Maria Gadotti, Flavia Tasmin Techera Antunes, Gerald W. Zamponi

Open Access Micro report

Partial inactivation of songbird auditory cortex impairs both tempo and pitch discrimination

Gunsoo Kim, Miguel Sánchez-Valpuesta, Mimi H. Kao

Open Access Methodology

A new AAV tool for highly preferentially targeting hippocampal CA2

Siqi Peng, Wenzhen Gu, Wenxiu Zhu, Yan Zhuang, Xiuqi Yang, Yaochen Lv, Sibie Meng, Wei Xie, Moyi Li

Open Access Micro report

Loosely synchronized activation of anterior cingulate cortical neurons for scratching response during histamine-induced itch

Chiwoo Lee, Jihae Oh, Jae-Hyung Lee, Bong-Kiun Kaang, Hyoung-Gon Ko

Open Access Antidepressant Drugs Research

Activation of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 produces an antidepressant-like effect via MAS receptors in mice

Osamu Nakagawasai, Kohei Takahashi, Taisei Koyama, Ryota Yamagata, Wataru Nemoto, Koichi Tan-No

Open Access Research

BCAT1 controls embryonic neural stem cells proliferation and differentiation in the upper layer neurons

Shukui Zhang, Jinyue Zhao, Cheng Zhao, Libo Su, Jianwei Jiao

Open Access Pruritus Research

The lateral habenula nucleus regulates pruritic sensation and emotion

Rui Chen, Xiang Xu, Xin-Yue Wang, Wen-Bin Jia, De-Shan Zhao, Na Liu, Zhen Pang, Xiao-Qing Liu, Yan Zhang

Open Access Research

mTORC1-mediated acquisition of reward-related representations by hippocampal somatostatin interneurons

François-Xavier Michon, Isabel Laplante, Anthony Bosson, Richard Robitaille, Jean-Claude Lacaille

Open Access Molecular Imaging Research

Reactive astrocytes mediate TSPO overexpression in response to sustained CNTF exposure in the rat striatum

Kelly Ceyzériat, Alekos Nicolaides, Quentin Amossé, Christine Fossey, Thomas Cailly, Frédéric Fabis, Valentina Garibotto, Carole Escartin, Benjamin B. Tournier, Philippe Millet

Open Access Research

Dynamic alteration of intrinsic properties of the cerebellar Purkinje cell during the motor memory consolidation

Dong Cheol Jang, Geehoon Chung, Sun Kwang Kim, Sang Jeong Kim

Open Access Fingolimod Research

Ameliorative effects of Fingolimod (FTY720) on microglial activation and psychosis-related behavior in short term cuprizone exposed mice

Siyao Li, Koki Sakurai, Masahiro Ohgidani, Takahiro A. Kato, Takatoshi Hikida

Open Access Cannabinoid Micro report

Antihyperalgesic effect of joint mobilization requires Cav3.2 calcium channels

Daniel F. Martins, Victor Sorrentino, Leidiane Mazzardo-Martins, William R. Reed, Adair R. S. Santos, Vinícius M. Gadotti, Gerald W. Zamponi

Open Access Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research

Specific vulnerability of iPSC-derived motor neurons with TDP-43 gene mutation to oxidative stress

Asako Onda-Ohto, Minami Hasegawa-Ogawa, Hiromasa Matsuno, Tomotaka Shiraishi, Keiko Bono, Hiromi Hiraki, Yumi Kanegae, Yasuyuki Iguchi, Hirotaka James Okano

Open Access Micro report

Profiling tyrosine kinase inhibitors as AD therapeutics in a mouse model of AD

Hyun-ju Lee, Jeong-Woo Hwang, Jin-Hee Park, Yoo Joo Jeong, Ji-Yeong Jang, Hyang-Sook Hoe

Open Access Micro report

Inhibitory insula-ACC projections modulate affective but not sensory aspects of neuropathic pain

Heloísa Alonso-Matielo, Zizhen Zhang, Eder Gambeta, Junting Huang, Lina Chen, Gabriel Oliveira de Melo, Camila Squarzoni Dale, Gerald W. Zamponi

Open Access Micro report

Changes in oligodendroglial subpopulations in Parkinson’s disease

Eun-Jin Bae, Dayana Pérez-Acuña, Ka Hyun Rhee, Seung-Jae Lee

Open Access Micro report

Recombinase-independent AAV for anterograde transsynaptic tracing

Islam Faress, Valentina Khalil, Haruka Yamamoto, Szilard Sajgo, Keisuke Yonehara, Sadegh Nabavi

Open Access Research

Comparison of Huntington’s disease phenotype progression in male and female heterozygous FDNQ175 mice

Si Han Li, Tash-Lynn L. Colson, Jingwei Chen, Khaled S. Abd-Elrahman, Stephen S. G. Ferguson

Open Access Micro report

Electrophysiological characterization of a Cav3.2 calcium channel missense variant associated with epilepsy and hearing loss

Robin N. Stringer, Leos Cmarko, Gerald W. Zamponi, Michel De Waard, Norbert Weiss

Open Access Research

Novelty-induced memory consolidation is accompanied by increased Agap3 transcription: a cross-species study

Kristoffer Højgaard, Bianka Szöllősi, Kim Henningsen, Natsumi Minami, Nobuhiro Nakanishi, Erik Kaadt, Makoto Tamura, Richard G.M. Morris, Tomonori Takeuchi, Betina Elfving

Open Access Research

Rab11a in the spinal cord: an essential contributor to complete Freund’s adjuvant-induced inflammatory pain in mice

Jun-Xiang Gu, Jian Wang, Fu-Juan Ma, Miao-Miao Liu, Si-Hai Chen, Yi Wei, Yi-Fan Xiao, Pei-Yuan Lv, Xin Liu, Jian-Qiang Qu, Xian-Xia Yan, Tao Chen

Open Access Research

Anterior cingulate cortex regulates pain catastrophizing-like behaviors in rats

Hyun Jung Jee, Elaine Zhu, Mengqi Sun, Weizhuo Liu, Qiaosheng Zhang, Jing Wang

Open Access Research

α-Synuclein propagation leads to synaptic abnormalities in the cortex through microglial synapse phagocytosis

Dayana Pérez-Acuña, Soo Jean Shin, Ka Hyun Rhee, Sang Jeong Kim, Seung-Jae Lee

Open Access Methodology

AAV-compatible optogenetic tools for activating endogenous calcium channels in vivo

Yeon Hee Kook, Hyoin Lee, Jinsu Lee, Yeonji Jeong, Jaerang Rho, Won Do Heo, Sangkyu Lee

Open Access Research

MLKL regulates Cx43 ubiquitinational degradation and mediates neuronal necroptosis in ipsilateral thalamus after focal cortical infarction

Yanyan Tang, Quanhong Chu, Guanfeng Xie, Yafu Tan, Ziming Ye, Chao Qin

Open Access Alzheimer's Disease Micro report

Limitations of the human iPSC-derived neuron model for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease

Phoebe Valdes, Kenneth W. Henry, Michael Q. Fitzgerald, Koushik Muralidharan, Andrew B. Caldwell, Srinivasan Ramachandran, Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, William C. Mobley, Douglas R. Galasko, Shankar Subramaniam

Open Access Pregabalin Research

Chronic pregabalin treatment protects against spreading depolarization and alters hippocampal synaptic characteristics in a model of familial hemiplegic migraine-type 1

Stuart M. Cain, Sascha R. A. Alles, Ray Gopaul, Louis-Philippe Bernier, Andrew C. Yung, Andrew Bauman, Yi Yang, Glen B. Baker, Piotr Kozlowski, Brian A. MacVicar, Terrance P. Snutch

Open Access Micro report

Impact of volume and expression time in an AAV-delivered channelrhodopsin

Sanaz Ansarifar, Gabija Andreikė, Milad Nazari, Rodrigo Labouriau, Sadegh Nabavi, Andrea Moreno

Open Access Micro report

Effects of MAP4K inhibition on neurite outgrowth

Di Ja Lasham, Reza K. Arta, Abdul Fuad Hadi, Jun Egawa, Vance P. Lemmon, Toshiyuki Takasugi, Michihiro Igarashi, Toshiyuki Someya

Open Access Estrogens Research

Attenuation of estrogen and its receptors in the post-menopausal stage exacerbates dyslipidemia and leads to cognitive impairment

Qinghai Meng, Ying Chao, Shurui Zhang, Xue Ding, Han Feng, Chenyan Zhang, Bowen Liu, Weijie Zhu, Yu Li, Qichun Zhang, Huangjin Tong, Lixing Wu, Huimin Bian

Open Access Review

Role of spinal astrocytes through the perisynaptic astrocytic process in pathological pain

Hyoung-Gon Ko, Heejung Chun, Seunghyo Han, Bong-Kiun Kaang

Open Access Short report

Exploring Piezo1, Piezo2, and TMEM150C in human brain tissues and their correlation with brain biomechanical characteristics

Arjun Raha, Yuning Wu, Lily Zhong, Jatheeshan Raveenthiran, Minji Hong, Aftab Taiyab, Li Wang, Bill Wang, Fei Geng