Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Interleukin-4 induces CD11c+ microglia leading to amelioration of neuropathic pain in mice

    Keita Kohno, Ryoji Shirasaka ... Makoto Tsuda
    Increasing CD11c+ microglial subsets in the spinal dorsal horn by intrathecal treatment of interleukin-4 alleviate pain hypersensitivity caused by nerve injury.
    1. Neuroscience

    Separable dorsal raphe dopamine projections mimic the facets of a loneliness-like state

    Christopher R Lee, Gillian A Matthews ... Kay M Tye
    Optogenetic manipulations and neural circuit interrogation reveal that dorsal raphe dopamine circuits can emulate different facets of a loneliness-like state, including prosociality, aversion, and vigilance.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

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

    Liz Weerdmeester, Jan-Hendrik Schleimer, Susanne Schreiber
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    1. Neuroscience

    Scheduled feeding improves behavioral outcomes and reduces inflammation in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome

    Huei Bin Wang, Natalie E Smale ... Christopher S Colwell
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Fundamental
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Hypothalamic deiodinase type-3 establishes the period of circannual interval timing in mammals

    Calum Stewart, T Adam Liddle ... Tyler J Stevenson
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    Phase-specific premotor inhibition modulates leech rhythmic motor output

    Martina Radice, Agustín Sanchez Merlinsky ... Lidia Szczupak
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    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    An applicable and efficient retrograde monosynaptic circuit mapping tool for larval zebrafish

    Tian-Lun Chen, Qiu-Sui Deng ... Xu-Fei Du
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Solid
    1. Neuroscience

    Social Experience Shapes Fighting Strategies for Reproductive Success

    Can Gao, Mingze Ma ... Yufeng Pan
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Neuroscience

    A stochastic explanation for observed local-to-global foraging states in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Andrew Margolis, Andrew Gordus
    Changes in internal state for stochastic behaviors can be more easily explained by a stochastic model with no state change.
    Version of Record
    Short Report
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Neuroscience

    The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer

    Octavia Soegyono, Elise Pepin ... Vincent Laurent
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Ribbon synapses in zebrafish

    Satish R Ghimire, Thomas M Coate
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Neuroscience
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    Stanford University School of Medicine, United States
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