The synapse in traumatic brain injury

AAB Jamjoom, J Rhodes, PJD Andrews, SGN Grant - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide and is a risk
factor for dementia later in life. Research into the pathophysiology of TBI has focused on the …

Recent advances on the molecular mechanisms of exercise-induced improvements of cognitive dysfunction

Y Lu, FQ Bu, F Wang, L Liu, S Zhang, G Wang… - Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Physical exercise is of great significance for maintaining human health. Exercise can
provide varying degrees of benefits to cognitive function at all stages of life cycle. Currently …

A large-scale nanoscopy and biochemistry analysis of postsynaptic dendritic spines

MS Helm, TM Dankovich, S Mandad, B Rammner… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Dendritic spines, the postsynaptic compartments of excitatory neurotransmission, have
different shapes classified from 'stubby'to 'mushroom-like'. Whereas mushroom spines are …

Merged magnetic resonance and light sheet microscopy of the whole mouse brain

GA Johnson, Y Tian, DG Ashbrook… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We have developed workflows to align 3D magnetic resonance histology (MRH) of the
mouse brain with light sheet microscopy (LSM) and 3D delineations of the same specimen …

Revealing nanostructures in brain tissue via protein decrowding by iterative expansion microscopy

D Sarkar, J Kang, AT Wassie, ME Schroeder… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Many crowded biomolecular structures in cells and tissues are inaccessible to labelling
antibodies. To understand how proteins within these structures are arranged with nanoscale …

[HTML][HTML] Synapse pathology in Alzheimer's disease

J Griffiths, SGN Grant - Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Synapse loss and damage are central features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and contribute to
the onset and progression of its behavioural and physiological features. Here we review the …

A brainwide atlas of synapses across the mouse life span

M Cizeron, Z Qiu, B Koniaris, R Gokhale… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Synapses connect neurons together to form the circuits of the brain, and their molecular
composition controls innate and learned behavior. We analyzed the molecular and …

Synaptic FUS accumulation triggers early misregulation of synaptic RNAs in a mouse model of ALS

S Sahadevan, KM Hembach, E Tantardini… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Mutations disrupting the nuclear localization of the RNA-binding protein FUS characterize a
subset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients (ALS-FUS). FUS regulates nuclear RNAs …

GluD1 is a signal transduction device disguised as an ionotropic receptor

J Dai, C Patzke, K Liakath-Ali, E Seigneur, TC Südhof - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Ionotropic glutamate delta receptors 1 (GluD1) and 2 (GluD2) exhibit the molecular
architecture of postsynaptic ionotropic glutamate receptors, but assemble into trans-synaptic …

Droplet-based transcriptome profiling of individual synapses

M Niu, W Cao, Y Wang, Q Zhu, J Luo, B Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Synapses are crucial structures that mediate signal transmission between neurons in
complex neural circuits and display considerable morphological and electrophysiological …