BIDCell: Biologically-informed self-supervised learning for segmentation of subcellular spatial transcriptomics data

X Fu, Y Lin, DM Lin, D Mechtersheimer, C Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in subcellular imaging transcriptomics platforms have enabled high-
resolution spatial mapping of gene expression, while also introducing significant analytical …

Activity-dependent compartmentalization of dendritic mitochondria morphology through local regulation of fusion-fission balance in neurons in vivo

DM Virga, S Hamilton, B Osei, A Morgan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Neuronal mitochondria play important roles beyond ATP generation, including Ca2+ uptake,
and therefore have instructive roles in synaptic function and neuronal response properties …

Axon guidance molecules in the islets of langerhans

BJ Waters, B Blum - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The islets of Langerhans, responsible for regulating blood glucose in vertebrates, are
clusters of endocrine cells distributed throughout the exocrine pancreas. The spatial …

The neocortical infrastructure for language involves region-specific patterns of laminar gene expression

MMK Wong, Z Sha, L Lütje, XZ Kong… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The language network of the human brain has core components in the inferior frontal cortex
and superior/middle temporal cortex, with left-hemisphere dominance in most people …

Aβ42 oligomers trigger synaptic loss through CAMKK2-AMPK-dependent effectors coordinating mitochondrial fission and mitophagy

A Lee, C Kondapalli, DM Virga, TL Lewis Jr… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
During the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in both mouse models and human
patients, soluble forms of Amyloid-β 1–42 oligomers (Aβ42o) trigger loss of excitatory …

Pre-and Postsynaptic MEF2C Promotes Experience-Dependent, Input-Specific Development of Cortical Layer 4 to Layer 2/3 Excitatory Synapses and Regulates …

JN Putman, SD Watson, Z Zhang… - Journal of …, 2024 - jneurosci.org
Experience-and activity-dependent transcription is a candidate mechanism to mediate
development and refinement of specific cortical circuits. Here, we demonstrate that the …

behaviorMate: An Intranet of Things Approach for Adaptable Control of Behavioral and Navigation-Based Experiments

JC Bowler, G Zakka, HC Yong, W Li, B Rao, Z Liao… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Investigators conducting behavioral experiments often need precise control over the timing
of the delivery of stimuli to subjects and to collect the precise times of the subsequent …

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Synaptic Subcellular Specificity

M Wang, J Fan, Z Shao - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Chemical synapses are essential for neuronal information storage and relay. The synaptic
signal received or sent from spatially distinct subcellular compartments often generates …

Single-nucleus RNA velocity reveals critical synaptic and cell-cycle dysregulations in neuropathologically confirmed Alzheimer's disease

Q Adewale, AF Khan, DA Bennett, Y Iturria-Medina - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Typical differential single-nucleus gene expression (snRNA-seq) analyses in Alzheimer's
disease (AD) provide fixed snapshots of cellular alterations, making the accurate detection …

Disrupted glucose homeostasis and glucagon and insulin secretion defects in Robo βKO mice

MT Adams, BJ Waters, SD Nimkulrat… - The FASEB …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The axon guidance proteins, Roundabout (Robo) receptors play a critical role in
morphogenesis of the islets of Langerhans. Mice with a β cell‐selective deletion of Robo …