...Jessica Mitchell; Jeffrey A. Chao Memory-relevant neuronal plasticity is believed to require local translation of new proteins at synapses. Understanding this process has necessitated the development of tools to visualize mRNA within relevant neuronal compartments. In this review, we summarize...

...Elisa Greggio; Luigi Bubacco; Isabella Russo Evidence indicates that leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) controls multiple processes in neurons and glia cells. Deregulated LRRK2 activity due to gene mutation represents the most common cause of autosomal dominant Parkinson's disease (PD). Protein...

... polyadenylation facilitates PABP recruitment and occurs in multiple cell types across metazoans (e.g. oocytes, male germ cells, early embryos and neurons [ 13 ]). All three X. laevis PABPs can stimulate poly(A)-dependent and mRNA-specific translation [ 14 – 16 ], both PABP1 and ePABP protect mRNAs from ‘default...

... on the individual mitochondrion and the cell within which they reside. Neurons are post-mitotic energy-dependent cells and, as such, are particularly vulnerable to alterations in cellular bioenergetics and increased stress that may occur as a direct or indirect result of mitochondrial dysfunction. The trafficking...

...Karen F.S. Bell Neurons are more vulnerable to oxidative stress than astrocytes, the reasons for which have yet to be fully elucidated. Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms which contribute to this enhanced vulnerability is key to efforts aimed at ameliorating neuronal health...

...Michael D. Ehlers Among the largest cells in the body, neurons possess an immense surface area and intricate geometry that poses many unique cell biological challenges. This morphological complexity is critical for neural circuit formation and enables neurons to compartmentalize cell–cell...

... cells. Functioning of the brain relies on synapses, and certain patterns of synaptic activity can change the strength of responses at sparse groups of synapses, to modulate circuits underlying associations and memory. These local changes of the synaptic physiology in one neuron driven by another have...

... suitable for use in cells with a higher basal level of cAMP where a significant change in cAMP concentration is still expected to occur. cAMP plays a major role in neuronal excitability, control of neurotransmitter release and numerous other neuronal functions. The Ca 2+ sensitive ACs (adenylate...

...Petra Popovics; Alan J. Stewart The most recently identified PLC (phospholipase C) enzymes belong to the PLCη family. Their unique Ca 2+ -sensitivity and their specific appearance in neurons have attracted great attention since their discovery; however, their physiological role(s) in neurons...

...Simon Paine; James Lowe; Lynn Bedford; R. John Mayer Chronic neurodegenerative disease is characterized by extensive regional loss of neurons in the brain and neuropathological hallmarks in surviving neurones. Genetic modelling by overexpression of hallmark proteins does not produce extensive...

...Alessandro Fantin; Charlotte H. Maden; Christiana Ruhrberg Blood vessels and neurons share guidance cues and cell-surface receptors to control their behaviour during embryogenesis. The transmembrane protein NRP1 (neuropilin 1) is present on both blood vessels and nerves and binds two structurally...

... that NRP1 is essential for neuronal and cardiovascular development, little is known concerning the molecular mechanisms through which NRPs mediate the functions of their ligands in different cell types. NRP1 forms complexes with its co-receptors and is required for optimal function, but NRPs lack a clearly...

... described for its capacity to bind to the calcium-binding protein, ALG-2. Alix regulates neuronal death in ways involving interactions with ALG-2 and with proteins of the ESCRT (endosomal sorting complex required for transport). Even though all Alix interactors characterized to date are involved...

... an absence of Cp results in neurodegeneration: is the iron accumulation a primary or secondary injury? Although it is attractive to invoke an iron-mediated oxidative stress mechanism for the neuronal injury and degeneration in aceruloplasminaemia, our data suggest limited redox injury in the brains of mice...

..., semi-independent of electrical activity, and allows the diffusion of peptides to distant targets. The peptide oxytocin regulates many behaviours; in particular, it inhibits food intake. Centrally, oxytocin is released in large amounts by the dendrites of hypothalamic magnocellular neurons. This mini...

...D.P. Mohapatra; K.-S. Park; J.S. Trimmer Voltage-gated K + channels are key regulators of neuronal excitability. The Kv2.1 voltage-gated K + channel is the major delayed rectifier K + channel expressed in most central neurons, where it exists as a highly phosphorylated protein. Kv2.1 plays...

... an independent lipoprotein transport system in which glial cells produce ApoE (apolipoprotein E)-containing lipoproteins that are thought to deliver cholesterol to neurons for axonal growth and repair. We have shown that ApoE-containing lipoproteins generated by glial cells stimulate axon extension. ApoE...

... and how this phosphorylation may control its function in the SV life cycle. 1 To whom correspondence should be addressed (email m.cousin@ed.ac.uk ). 13 6 2005 © 2005 The Biochemical Society 2005 exocytosis neuron phosphorylation plasticity synaptophysin tyrosine...

...J.M. Scholey; G. Ou; J. Snow; A. Gunnarson IFT (intraflagellar transport) assembles and maintains sensory cilia on the dendritic endings of chemosensory neurons within the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans . During IFT, macromolecular protein complexes called IFT particles (which carry ciliary...

... in the mammalian central nervous system. It has become apparent that these control processes involve complex sets of protein–protein interactions and many of the proteins responsible have been identified. We have been working to visualize AMPAR movement in living neurons in order to investigate the effects...

...M.P. Stavridis; A.G. Smith Pluripotent embryonic stem cells can give rise to neuroectodermal derivatives in culture. This potential could be harnessed to generate neurons and glia for cell-replacement therapies in the central nervous system and for use in drug discovery. However, current methods...

...T. Teesalu; A. Kulla; T. Asser; M. Koskiniemi; A. Vaheri Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is expressed by many types of neurons in the developing and adult rodent brain. We have now mapped tPA transcripts and protein in the human central nervous system using tissue arrays and find widespread...