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Expanding ligand-receptor interaction networks for axon guidance: Structural insights into signal crosstalk and specificity

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102999

Shaotong Zhu , Alexander Jaworski , Rob Meijers

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Vagal sensory circuits of the lower airway in respiratory physiology: Insights from neuronal diversity

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.103000

Jie Li, Yin Liu

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Common marmoset: An emerging non-human primate model for translational applications in brain disorders 普通狨猴：用于脑部疾病转化应用的新兴非人灵长类动物模型

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102998

Yefei Chen , William Menegas , Qiangge Zhang , Guoping Feng

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Neurodevelopmental impact of CNV models in ASD: Recent advances and future directions

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.103001

Kota Tamada, Toru Takumi

{"title":"Neurodevelopmental impact of CNV models in ASD: Recent advances and future directions","authors":"Kota Tamada, Toru Takumi","doi":"10.1016/j.conb.2025.103001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.conb.2025.103001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social communication impairments and restricted, repetitive behaviors. ASD exhibits a strong genetic basis, with rare and common genetic variants contributing to its etiology. Copy number variations (CNVs), deletions or duplications of chromosomal segments, have emerged as key contributors to ASD risk. Rare CNVs often demonstrate large effect sizes and can directly cause ASD, while common variants collectively exert subtle influences. Recent advances have identified numerous ASD-associated CNVs, including recurrent loci such as 1q21.1, 2p16.3, 7q11.23, 15q11.2, 15q11-q13, 16p11.2 and 22q11.2. Mouse models carrying these CNVs have provided profound insights into the underlying neurobiological mechanisms. Recent studies integrating transcriptomic, proteomic, and functional imaging approaches have revealed alterations in synaptic function, neuronal differentiation, myelination, metabolic pathways, and circuit connectivity. Notably, investigations leveraging conditional knockout models, high magnetic field MRI, and single-cell analyses highlight disruptions in excitatory-inhibitory balance, white matter integrity, and dynamic gene regulatory networks. Parallel human-based approaches, including iPSC-derived neurons, cerebral organoids, and large-scale single-nucleus sequencing, are combined with animal model data. These integrative strategies promise to refine our understanding of ASD's genetic architecture, bridging the gap between fundamental discoveries in model organisms and clinically relevant biomarkers, subtypes, and therapeutic targets in humans. This review summarizes key findings from recent CNV mouse model studies and highlights emerging technologies applied to human ASD samples. Finally, we outline prospects for translating findings from mouse studies to humans. By illuminating both unique and convergent genetic mechanisms, these advances offer a critical framework for unraveling etiological complexity in ASD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":10999,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Neurobiology","volume":"92 ","pages":"Article 103001"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143629056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Serotonin signaling at cilia synapses

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102994

Katherine DeLong , Shu-Hsien Sheu

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Building and modifying diverse synaptic properties: Insights from Drosophila

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102995

Kaikai He, Dion Dickman

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Cutting-edge methodologies for tagging and tracing active neuronal coding in the brain 标记和追踪大脑中活跃神经元编码的尖端方法

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102997

Kenichiro Nagahama , Veronica Hyeyoon Jung , Hyung-Bae Kwon

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Diverse synaptic mechanisms underlying learning and memory consolidation

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102996

Yuki Murai , Akihiro Goto

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Comparative approaches to the neurobiology of avian vocal learning

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102993

Zhilei Zhao, Jesse H. Goldberg

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Single-cell technology grows up: Leveraging high-resolution omics approaches to understand neurodevelopmental disorders

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Current Opinion in Neurobiology Pub Date : 2025-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102990

Joseph D. Dougherty , Simona Sarafinovska , Sneha M. Chaturvedi , Travis E. Law , Titilope M. Akinwe , Harrison W. Gabel

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