DREADDs for neuroscientists

BL Roth - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
To understand brain function, it is essential that we discover how cellular signaling specifies
normal and pathological brain function. In this regard, chemogenetic technologies represent …

Genetic dissection of neural circuits: a decade of progress

L Luo, EM Callaway, K Svoboda - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Tremendous progress has been made since Neuron published our Primer on genetic
dissection of neural circuits 10 years ago. Since then, cell-type-specific anatomical …

Microglia-specific overexpression of α-synuclein leads to severe dopaminergic neurodegeneration by phagocytic exhaustion and oxidative toxicity

S Bido, S Muggeo, L Massimino, MJ Marzi… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent findings in human samples and animal models support the involvement of
inflammation in the development of Parkinson's disease. Nevertheless, it is currently …

Concurrent activation of striatal direct and indirect pathways during action initiation

G Cui, SB Jun, X Jin, MD Pham, SS Vogel… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The basal ganglia are subcortical nuclei that control voluntary actions, and they are affected
by a number of debilitating neurological disorders,,,. The prevailing model of basal ganglia …

Adult restoration of Shank3 expression rescues selective autistic-like phenotypes

Y Mei, P Monteiro, Y Zhou, JA Kim, X Gao, Z Fu… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Because autism spectrum disorders are neurodevelopmental disorders and patients
typically display symptoms before the age of three, one of the key questions in autism …

DREADDs (designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs): chemogenetic tools with therapeutic utility

DJ Urban, BL Roth - Annual review of pharmacology and …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
In the past decade, emerging synthetic biology technologies such as chemogenetics have
dramatically transformed how pharmacologists and systems biologists deconstruct the …

ACVR1R206H receptor mutation causes fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva by imparting responsiveness to activin A

SJ Hatsell, V Idone, DMA Wolken, L Huang… - Science translational …, 2015 - science.org
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by
episodically exuberant heterotopic ossification (HO), whereby skeletal muscle is abnormally …

High-throughput dual-colour precision imaging for brain-wide connectome with cytoarchitectonic landmarks at the cellular level

H Gong, D Xu, J Yuan, X Li, C Guo, J Peng, Y Li… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The precise annotation and accurate identification of neural structures are prerequisites for
studying mammalian brain function. The orientation of neurons and neural circuits is usually …

T-Scan: a genome-wide method for the systematic discovery of T cell epitopes

T Kula, MH Dezfulian, CI Wang, NS Abdelfattah… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
T cell recognition of specific antigens mediates protection from pathogens and controls
neoplasias, but can also cause autoimmunity. Our knowledge of T cell antigens and their …

A student's guide to neural circuit tracing

C Saleeba, B Dempsey, S Le, A Goodchild… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The mammalian nervous system is comprised of a seemingly infinitely complex network of
specialized synaptic connections that coordinate the flow of information through it. The field …