High-capacity adenoviral vectors: expanding the scope of gene therapy

A Ricobaraza, M Gonzalez-Aparicio… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The adaptation of adenoviruses as gene delivery tools has resulted in the development of
high-capacity adenoviral vectors (HC-AdVs), also known, helper-dependent or “gutless” …

Update on adenovirus and its vectors

WC Russell - Journal of general virology, 2000 - microbiologyresearch.org
Adenoviruses have been characterized extensively since their initial description in the early
1950s (Hillemann & Werner, 1954; Rowe et al., 1953) and there is now a panoply of …

[HTML][HTML] A designer AAV variant permits efficient retrograde access to projection neurons

DGR Tervo, BY Hwang, S Viswanathan, T Gaj… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Efficient retrograde access to projection neurons for the delivery of sensors and effectors
constitutes an important and enabling capability for neural circuit dissection. Such an …

Viral-genetic tracing of the input–output organization of a central noradrenaline circuit

LA Schwarz, K Miyamichi, XJ Gao, KT Beier… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Deciphering how neural circuits are anatomically organized with regard to input and output
is instrumental in understanding how the brain processes information. For example, locus …

Organization of valence-encoding and projection-defined neurons in the basolateral amygdala

A Beyeler, CJ Chang, M Silvestre, C Lévêque… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
The basolateral amygdala (BLA) mediates associative learning for both fear and reward.
Accumulating evidence supports the notion that different BLA projections distinctly alter …

Dopamine enhances signal-to-noise ratio in cortical-brainstem encoding of aversive stimuli

CM Vander Weele, CA Siciliano, GA Matthews… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Dopamine modulates medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) activity to mediate diverse
behavioural functions,; however, the precise circuit computations remain unknown. One …

Genetic identification of a neural circuit that suppresses appetite

ME Carter, ME Soden, LS Zweifel, RD Palmiter - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Appetite suppression occurs after a meal and in conditions when it is unfavourable to eat,
such as during illness or exposure to toxins. A brain region proposed to play a role in …

Amygdala inputs to prefrontal cortex guide behavior amid conflicting cues of reward and punishment

A Burgos-Robles, EY Kimchi, EM Izadmehr… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Orchestrating appropriate behavioral responses in the face of competing signals that predict
either rewards or threats in the environment is crucial for survival. The basolateral nucleus of …

5-HT modulation of a medial septal circuit tunes social memory stability

X Wu, W Morishita, KT Beier, BD Heifets, RC Malenka - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Social memory—the ability to recognize and remember familiar conspecifics—is critical for
the survival of an animal in its social group,. The dorsal CA2 (dCA2),–and ventral CA1 …

Breathing control center neurons that promote arousal in mice

K Yackle, LA Schwarz, K Kam, JM Sorokin… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Slow, controlled breathing has been used for centuries to promote mental calming, and it is
used clinically to suppress excessive arousal such as panic attacks. However, the …