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    1. Neuroscience

    Bitter taste receptors confer diverse functions to neurons

    Rebecca Delventhal, John R Carlson
    Expression of Drosophila bitter receptors in taste neurons produced increased, decreased, or novel responses, supporting a model in which the response profile is determined by activation, inhibition, or competition among receptors.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Prediction of primary somatosensory neuron activity during active tactile exploration

    Dario Campagner, Mathew Hywel Evans ... Rasmus Strange Petersen
    Primary trigeminal neurons encode rotational forces in awake mice as they explore an object with their whiskers, allowing accurate prediction of spiking during behaviour.
    1. Neuroscience

    Using an achiasmic human visual system to quantify the relationship between the fMRI BOLD signal and neural response

    Pinglei Bao, Christopher J Purington, Bosco S Tjan
    The lower-level retinotopic visual cortex of humans born without the optic chiasm comprises two independent neuronal populations and forms a versatile model for quantifying the relationship between the fMRI BOLD signal and neural response.
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    Dbx1 precursor cells are a source of inspiratory XII premotoneurons

    Ann L Revill, Nikolas C Vann ... Gregory D Funk
    Building on previous work (Wang et al., 2014), we use a combination of genetic, electrophysiology and laser ablation approaches to identify a developmentally defined population of neurons that are a significant source of clinically relevant inspiratory drive to XII motoneurons.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Identity of neocortical layer 4 neurons is specified through correct positioning into the cortex

    Koji Oishi, Nao Nakagawa ... Kazunori Nakajima
    Layer 4 neuronal identity is specified by Protocadherin20 positioning the neurons into layer 4 so that they receive a positional cue from thalamocortical axons.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Synergistic integration of Netrin and ephrin axon guidance signals by spinal motor neurons

    Sebastian Poliak, Daniel Morales ... Artur Kania
    The Netrin-1 and ephrin-B2 proteins act synergistically in the developing nervous system.
    1. Neuroscience

    Membrane palmitoylated protein 2 is a synaptic scaffold protein required for synaptic SK2-containing channel function

    Gukhan Kim, Rafael Luján ... John P Adelman
    A new synaptic scaffold important for neurotransmission and synaptic plasticity has been identified.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Selectively driving cholinergic fibers optically in the thalamic reticular nucleus promotes sleep

    Kun-Ming Ni, Xiao-Jun Hou ... Xiao-Ming Li
    Cholinergic system play an important role in waking-to-sleep cycles and in sleep stabilization.
    1. Neuroscience

    NG2 glia are required for vessel network formation during embryonic development

    Shilpi Minocha, Delphine Valloton ... Cecile Lebrand
    The appearance of NG2+ glial cells in the dorsal telencephalon of the embryo coincides with the establishment of the brain blood vessel network in mice.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural coding in barrel cortex during whisker-guided locomotion

    Nicholas James Sofroniew, Yurii A Vlasov ... Karel Svoboda
    A tactile virtual reality system reveals the neural codes in the barrel cortex that underlie wall-tracking in mice.