Shia WW, Bailey RC (2013) Single domain antibodies for the detection of ricin using silicon photonic microring resonator arrays. Anal Chem 85(2):805-810. doi: 10.1021/ac3030416 PMID: 23268548 Summary: A major hurdle to clear in the fight against bioterrorism is the ability to identify various biowarfare agents. One of the more difficult substances to identify is ricin. […]
Hamlin AS, Windels F, Boskovic Z, Sah P, Coulson EJ (2013) Lesions of the basal forebrain cholinergic system in mice disrupt idiothetic navigation. PLoS One 8(1):e53472. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053472 Summary: Alzheimer’s disease patients perform poorly on spatial navigation tests requiring either distal cues (allothetic) or body-centered cues (idiothetic). The authors used 0.2 μg bilateral infusions of
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Choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) catalyzes the synthesis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine (ACh) from choline and acetyl-CoA in cholinergic neurons. ChAT serves as a specific marker for cholinergic neurons in both peripheral and central nervous systems. Dysfuntion of cholinergic neurons underlies aspects of clinical symptoms found in neurological and psychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Down and
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Ferrini F, Trang T, Mattioli TA, Laffray S, Del’Guidice T, Lorenzo LE, Castonguay A, Doyon N, Zhang W, Godin AG, Mohr D, Beggs S, Vandal K, Beaulieu JM, Cahill CM, Salter MW, De Koninck Y (2013) Morphine hyperalgesia gated through microglia-mediated disruption of neuronal Cl(-) homeostasis. Nat Neurosci 16(2):183-192. doi: 10.1038/nn.3295 Summary: Although morphine is
Menendez L, Kulik MJ, Page AT, Park SS, Lauderdale JD, Cunningham ML, Dalton S (2013) Directed differentiation of human pluripotent cells to neural crest stem cells. Nat Protoc 8(1):203-212. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2012.156 PMID: 23288320 Summary: This protocol describes in detail how to perform a highly efficient, lineage-specific differentiation of human pluripotent cells to a NCSC fate.
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LaPlante F (2013) Featured Article: Role of cholinergic neurons in the nucleus accumbens and their involvement in schizophrenic pathology. Targeting Trends 14(1) Related Products: Anti-ChAT-SAP (Cat. #IT-42), Rabbit IgG-SAP (Cat. #IT-35) Read the featured article in Targeting Trends. See Also: Laplante F et al. Reduction in cholinergic interneuron density in the nucleus accumbens attenuates local
Contributed by François LaPlante. Dept of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada A post-mortem reduction in the density of cholinergic interneurons in the ventral striatum or nucleus accumbens (N.Acc.) has been reported in schizophrenic brains.[1,2] In this region the cholinergic interneurons interact anatomically and functionally with the dopaminergic nerve terminals notably to dampen the effects
Kukkonen JP (2013) Physiology of the orexinergic/hypocretinergic system: a revisit in 2012. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 304(1):C2-32 . doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00227.2012 Summary: This review updates an original review from a decade ago on the subject of orexins. These neuropeptides have been shown to be involved in sleep, wakefulness, appetite, metabolism, stress response, reward/addiction, and analgesia.
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Read the 2012 Newsletters and recent scientific references 2012, issue 1: Motivation’s modulation of attention through the mesolimbic-corticopetal cholinergic circuitry / by M St. Peters, M Sarter / featuring 192-IgG-SAP (Cat. #IT-01), Mouse IgG-SAP (Cat. #IT-18) SFN Poster of the Year Targeting Talk: Anti-NGFr blocking antibody, Staining with FITC-labeled Anti-Saporin Targeting Tools: Antibody to Metabotropic Glutamate
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Anaclet C, Lin JS, Vetrivelan R, Krenzer M, Vong L, Fuller PM, Lu J (2012) Identification and characterization of a sleep-active cell group in the rostral medullary brainstem. J Neurosci 32(50):17970-17976. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0620-12.2012 Summary: The authors attempt to locate and identify specific neuronal populations that promote sleep. One method utilized was 130-330 pg injections of