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. Neuroscience

    Neural signatures of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning across prefrontal cortex and striatum

    Bruno Miranda, James L Butler ... Steven W Kennerley
    Single-neuron recordings reveal that anterior cingulate cortex and caudate nucleus encode the interaction between rewards, state transitions, and choices that underlies flexible, goal-directed decision-making.
    1. Neuroscience

    Paraventricular thalamus hyperactivity mediates stress-induced sensitization of unlearned fear but not stress-enhanced fear learning (SEFL)

    Kenji J Nishimura, Denisse Paredes ... Michael R Drew
    Chemogenetic and in vivo recording approaches reveal how persistent hyperactivity in the posterior paraventricular thalamus promotes sensitization of fear responses to unlearned threats after stress exposure.
    1. Ecology

    Dopamine and its receptor DcDop2 are involved in the coevolution between ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ and Diaphorina citri

    Xiaoge Nian, Jiayun Li ... Songdou Zhang
    CLas hijacks the DA/DcDop2-miR-31a-AKH-JH signaling cascade to improve D. citri lipid metabolism and fecundity, while simultaneously promoting its replication.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Exploration of precision coregulator TR-FRET identifies diverse signatures for LXR ligands relevant to discovery of nonlipogenic ABCA1 inducers

    Megan S Laham, Martha S Ackerman-Berrier ... Gregory RJ Thatcher
    Coregulator TR-FRET profiling reveals ligand-specific LXR signaling signatures that can guide the therapeutic design of ABCA1-inducing LXR agonists with attenuated risk of hepatic lipogenesis.
    1. Neuroscience

    Tunable Bessel beam two-photon fluorescence microscopy for high-speed volumetric imaging of brain dynamics

    Mengyang Jacky Li, Jinghui Wang ... Tian-Ming Fu
    Tunable Bessel beam two-photon fluorescence microscopy enables high-speed volumetric intravital imaging of subcellular dynamics within living mouse brains with fully tunable spatial resolution and volume coverage, allowing flexible sampling and measurements of vascular, neuronal, and immune dynamics.
    1. Neuroscience

    Esr1-dependent signaling and transcriptional maturation in the medial preoptic area of the hypothalamus shape the development of mating behavior during adolescence

    Koichi Hashikawa, Yoshiko Hashikawa ... Garret D Stuber
    Esr1 directs adolescent transcriptional maturation of medial preoptic GABAergic neurons, enabling the normal development of mating behavior in male and female mice.
    1. Neuroscience

    Multi-timescale neural adaptation underlying long-term musculoskeletal reorganization

    Roland Philipp, Yuki Hara ... Kazuhiko Seki
    Long-term motor recovery after musculoskeletal alteration relies on gradually developing novel compensatory movements to overcome the rigid, maladaptive timing of stable muscle synergies.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Neuroscience

    Enterovirus D68 2A protease causes nuclear pore complex dysfunction and independently contributes to motor neuron toxicity

    Katrina M Zinn, Mathew W McLaren ... Matthew J Elrick
    Enterovirus D68, a cause of acute flaccid myelitis, disrupts the composition and function of the nuclear pore complex primarily through its 2A protease, which is also toxic to motor neurons.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Single-step in vitro reconstitution of the Escherichia coli ribosome mediated by two GTPase factors, EngA and ObgE

    Aya Sato, Weng Yu Lai ... Yoshihiro Shimizu
    A multi-step ribosome assembly method involving changes in ion concentration and temperature can now be carried out in a single step using the two GTPase factors, EngA and ObgE.
    1. Neuroscience

    Developmental oligodendrocytes regulate brain function through the mediation of synchronized spontaneous activity

    Ryo Masumura, Kyosuke Goda ... Naofumi Uesaka
    Disrupting oligodendrocytes during a narrow early-life window leaves cerebellar circuits permanently mistimed, but adult re-synchronization restores social and motor behavior.