Li P, Janczewski W, Yackle K, Kam K, Pagliardini S, Krasnow M, Feldman J (2016) The peptidergic control circuit for sighing. Nature 530:293-297. doi: 10.1038/nature16964 Summary: Sighs are often associated with relief or sadness, but rodents sigh spontaneously dozens of times per hour. There are physiological benefits to sighing, including enhancement of gas exchange and […]
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Akagi S, Kono N, Ariyama H, Shindou H, Shimizu T, Arai H (2016) Lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase 1 protects against cytotoxicity induced by polyunsaturated fatty acids. FASEB J 30:2027-2039. doi: 10.1096/fj.201500149 PMID: 26887439 Summary: Dietary consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids can influence the degree of fatty acid unsaturation in membrane phospholipids, and consequently membrane-associated functions. Scientists set
Köppen J, Stuebing S, Sieg M, Blackwell A, Blankenship P, Cheatwood J, Wallace D (2016) Cholinergic deafferentation of the hippocampus causes non-temporally graded retrograde amnesia in an odor discrimination task. Behav Brain Res 299:97-104. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.11.021 Summary: The memory impairments experienced in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease have been well documented. One theory attributes
Archer T, Kostrzewa RM (2016) Neuroteratology and animal modeling of brain disorders. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 29:1-40. doi: 10.1007/7854_2015_434 Summary: This work covers development and use of the neurotoxins that are most commonly used as neuroteratologic agents – producing permanent, lifelong destruction of specific groups of neurons. Saporin conjugates are discussed, in terms of animal
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Webster C, Caram-Salas N, Haqqani A, Thom G, Brown L, Rennie K, Yogi A, Costain W, Brunette E, Stanimirovic D (2016) Brain penetration, target engagement, and disposition of the blood-brain barrier-crossing bispecific antibody antagonist of metabotropic glutamate receptor type 1. FASEB J 30:1927-1940. doi: 10.1096/fj.201500078 PMID: 26839377 Summary: To generate a BBB-transmigrating antibody that could
La J, Feng B, Kaji K, Schwartz E, Gebhart G (2016) Roles of isolectin B4-binding afferents in colorectal mechanical nociception. Pain 157:348-354. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000380 Summary: Primary afferent neurons are often classified as peptidergic or non-peptidergic. One characteristic of the non-peptidergic neurons is that they bind isolectin-B4. In the spinal cord these neurons terminate mainly in
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Tanigawa M, Suzuki C, Niwano K, Kanekatsu R, Tanaka H, Horiike K, Hamase K, Nagata Y (2016) Participation of D-serine in the development and reproduction of the silkworm Bombyx mori. J Insect Physiol 87:20-29. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2016.01.006 PMID: 26828952 Summary: The silkworm Bombyx mori is known to contain high levels of free D-serine, an optical isomer
Sakurai T, Kamiyoshi A, Kawate H, Mori C, Watanabe S, Tanaka M, Uetake R, Sato M, Shindo T (2016) A non-inheritable maternal Cas9-based multiple-gene editing system in mice. Sci Rep 6:20011. doi: 10.1038/srep20011 Summary: In this work, the authors generated transgenic mice with systemic Cas9 overexpression (Cas9 mice) in order to simplify the procedure of
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Lee SB, Frattini V, Bansal M, Castano AM, Sherman D, Hutchinson K, Bruce JN, Califano A, Liu G, Cardozo T, Iavarone A, Lasorella A (2016) An ID2-dependent mechanism for VHL inactivation in cancer. Nature 529(7585):172-177. doi: 10.1038/nature16475 PMID: 26735018 Usage: Western blot Related Products: Trans-4-Hydroxy-L-Proline Rabbit Polyclonal, Conjugated (Cat. #AB-T044)
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Lee J, Jeong D, Lee J, Chang W, Chang J (2016) The effect of nucleus basalis magnocellularis deep brain stimulation on memory function in a rat model of dementia. BMC Neurol 16:6. doi: 10.1186/s12883-016-0529-z Objective: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is the application of electrical impulses to specific parts of the brain for treating disorders such