Research Articles

Research Articles published by eLife are full-length studies that present important breakthroughs across the life sciences and biomedicine. There is no maximum length and no limits on the number of display items.

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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    The electrogenicity of the Na+/K+-ATPase poses challenges for computation in highly active spiking cells

    Liz Weerdmeester, Jan-Hendrik Schleimer, Susanne Schreiber
    The electrogenic Na+/K+-ATPase generates a slow activity-dependent feedback signal that influences the computation of excitable cells and requires additional compensatory mechanisms during periods of high sustained activity.
    1. Cell Biology

    Dominant spinal muscular atrophy linked mutations in the cargo binding domain of BICD2 result in altered interactomes and dynein hyperactivity

    Hannah Neiswender, Jessica E Pride ... Graydon B Gonsalvez
    Disease-associated mutations in BICD2 result in loss- and gain-of-function interactions and dynein hyperactivity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Dorsal hippocampus mediates light–tone associations in male mice

    Julia S Pinho, Carla Ramon-Duaso ... Arnau Busquets-Garcia
    A light–tone sensory preconditioning task in male mice is developed revealing sex differences and demonstrating that dorsal, but not ventral, hippocampal CaMKII-positive neurons encode innocuous stimulus associations.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The primate Major Histocompatibility Complex as a case study of gene family evolution

    Alyssa Lyn Fortier, Jonathan K Pritchard
    The Major Histocompatibility Complex region evolves via gene birth-and-death, resulting in short-lived genes, rapidly expanding gene subfamilies, and many gene fragments.
    1. Developmental Biology

    Eed controls craniofacial osteoblast differentiation and mesenchymal proliferation from the neural crest

    Tim Casey-Clyde, S John Liu ... David R Raleigh
    Eed, a core subunit of Polycomb repressive complex 2, is required for craniofacial osteoblast differentiation and mesenchymal proliferation after induction of the neural crest.
    1. Neuroscience

    Individual differences in tail risk sensitive exploration using Bayes-adaptive Markov decision processes

    Tingke Shen, Peter Dayan
    A normative computational model of individual differences in mouse exploration driven by reward and threat uncertainty as well as risk sensitivity when faced with a novel object in an open field.
    1. Neuroscience

    Complex opioid-driven modulation of glutamatergic and cholinergic neurotransmission in a GABAergic brain nucleus associated with emotion, reward, and addiction

    Ramesh Chittajallu, Anna Vlachos ... Chris J McBain
    A pharmacogenetic approach provides a foundational dataset describing the influence of opioids on synaptic processing in a brain microcircuit known to be critical for driving hedonic behaviors.
    1. Neuroscience

    C. elegans food choice exhibits effort discounting-like behavior

    Jonathan RM Millet, Serge Faumont ... Shawn R Lockery
    The demonstration of effort discounting-like behavior in a lower invertebrate sets a new phylogenetic boundary on discounting behavior.
    1. Cell Biology

    Acidocalcisome-like vacuoles constitute a feedback-controlled phosphate buffering system for the cytosol

    Samuel Bru, Lydie Michaillat Mayer ... Andreas Mayer
    In vitro reconstitution identifies how lysosome-related vacuoles coordinate the synthesis and turnover of inorganic polyphosphates to create a powerful buffer system stabilising a vital metabolic parameter, the cytosolic concentration of phosphate.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cross-species standardised cortico-subcortical tractography

    Stephania Assimopoulos, Shaun Warrington ... Stamatios N Sotiropoulos
    By providing new ways to map cortico-subcortical connectivity patterns, the proposed cross-species tractography approaches directly allow novel comparative studies between the human and macaque brain and enable subsequent explorations of brain-behaviour/disease symptom associations across individuals.