{"title":"Recovery of node of ranvier structure in optic nerve under visual deprivation","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Neural activity can increase the length of nodes of Ranvier (NOR) and slow impulse transmission; however, little is known about the biologically and clinically important recovery process. Sensory deprivation promotes neural plasticity in many phenomena, raising the question of whether recovery of NOR morphology is influenced by sensory deprivation. The results show that NOR gap length recovery in mouse optic nerve was not affected significantly by binocular visual deprivation imposed by maintaining mice in 24 hr dark for 30 days compared to mice recovering under normal visual experience. The findings provide insight into the cellular mechanism of NOR plasticity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":"206 ","pages":"Pages 35-40"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010224000506/pdfft?md5=5446a90ecf11b7f6bab487b21961b51a&pid=1-s2.0-S0168010224000506-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140330039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural MRI analysis of age-related changes and sex differences in marmoset brain volume","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The field of aging biology, which aims to extend healthy lifespans and prevent age-related diseases, has turned its focus to the Callithrix jacchus (common marmoset) to understand the aging process better. This study utilized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to non-invasively analyze the brains of 216 marmosets, investigating age-related changes in brain structure; the relationship between body weight and brain volume; and potential differences between males and females. The key findings revealed that, similar to humans, Callithrix jacchus experiences a reduction in total intracranial volume, cortex, subcortex, thalamus, and cingulate volumes as they age, highlighting site-dependent changes in brain tissue. Notably, the study also uncovered sex differences in cerebellar volume. These insights into the structural connectivity and volumetric changes in the marmoset brain throughout aging contribute to accumulating valuable knowledge in the field, promising to inform future aging research and interventions for enhancing healthspan.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":"206 ","pages":"Pages 20-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010224000531/pdfft?md5=c778303959df20403d55a45a215246a9&pid=1-s2.0-S0168010224000531-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140763283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic activity changes in transcription factors: Unlocking the mechanisms regulating physiological changes in the brain.","authors":"Kentaro Abe","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcription factors (TFs) regulate the establishment and modulation of the transcriptome within cells, thereby playing a crucial role in various aspects of cellular physiology throughout the body. Quantitative measurement of TF activity during the development, function, and dysfunction of the brain is essential for gaining a deeper understanding of the regulatory mechanisms governing gene expression during these processes. Due to their role as regulators of gene expression, assessing and modulating detailed TF activity contributes to the development of practical methods to intervene in these processes, potentially offering more efficient treatments for diseases. Recent methodologies have revealed that TF activity is dynamically regulated within cells and organisms, including the adult brain. This review summarizes the regulatory mechanisms of TF activities and the methodologies used to assess them, emphasizing their importance in both fundamental research and clinical applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141971532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily D Schlafly, Daniel Carbonero, Catherine J Chu, Mark A Kramer
{"title":"A data augmentation procedure to improve detection of spike ripples in brain voltage recordings.","authors":"Emily D Schlafly, Daniel Carbonero, Catherine J Chu, Mark A Kramer","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.07.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.07.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Epilepsy is a major neurological disorder characterized by recurrent, spontaneous seizures. For patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, treatments include neurostimulation or surgical removal of the epileptogenic zone (EZ), the brain region responsible for seizure generation. Precise targeting of the EZ requires reliable biomarkers. Spike ripples - high-frequency oscillations that co-occur with large amplitude epileptic discharges - have gained prominence as a candidate biomarker. However, spike ripple detection remains a challenge. The gold-standard approach requires an expert manually visualize and interpret brain voltage recordings, which limits reproducibility and high-throughput analysis. Addressing these limitations requires more objective, efficient, and automated methods for spike ripple detection, including approaches that utilize deep neural networks. Despite advancements, dataset heterogeneity and scarcity severely limit machine learning performance. Our study explores long-short term memory (LSTM) neural network architectures for spike ripple detection, leveraging data augmentation to improve classifier performance. We highlight the potential of combining training on augmented and in vivo data for enhanced spike ripple detection and ultimately improving diagnostic accuracy in epilepsy treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11788445/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141893967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inference of monosynaptic connections from parallel spike trains: A review.","authors":"Ryota Kobayashi, Shigeru Shinomoto","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.07.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.07.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents a mini-review about the progress in inferring monosynaptic connections from spike trains of multiple neurons over the past twenty years. First, we explain a variety of meanings of \"neuronal connectivity\" in different research areas of neuroscience, such as structural connectivity, monosynaptic connectivity, and functional connectivity. Among these, we focus on the methods used to infer the monosynaptic connectivity from spike data. We then summarize the inference methods based on two main approaches, i.e., correlation-based and model-based approaches. Finally, we describe available source codes for connectivity inference and future challenges. Although inference will never be perfect, the accuracy of identifying the monosynaptic connections has improved dramatically in recent years due to continuous efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141889831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neuronal activity in the anterior paraventricular nucleus of thalamus positively correlated with sweetener consumption in mice","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.02.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although the brain can discriminate between various sweet substances, the underlying neural mechanisms of this complex behavior remain elusive. This study examines the role of the anterior paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (aPVT) in governing sweet preference in mice. We fed the mice six different diets with equal sweetness for six weeks: control diet (CD), high sucrose diet (HSD), high stevioside diet (HSSD), high xylitol diet (HXD), high glycyrrhizin diet (HGD), and high mogroside diet (HMD). The mice exhibited a marked preference specifically for the HSD and HSSD. Following consumption of these diets, c-Fos expression levels in the aPVT were significantly higher in these two groups compared to the others. Utilizing fiber photometry calcium imaging, we observed rapid activation of aPVT neurons in response to sucrose and stevioside intake, but not to xylitol or water. Our findings suggest that aPVT activity aligns with sweet preference in mice, and notably, stevioside is the sole plant-based sweetener that elicits an aPVT response comparable to that of sucrose.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":"205 ","pages":"Pages 16-26"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010224000269/pdfft?md5=61234f8f1288f304b09f74dfdc1ff41f&pid=1-s2.0-S0168010224000269-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139747076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transient sleep apnea results in long-lasting increase in β-amyloid generation and tau hyperphosphorylation","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sleep apnea is regarded as an important risk factor in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease (AD). Chronic intermittent hypoxia treatment (IHT) given during the sleep period of the circadian cycle in experimental animals is a well-established sleep apnea model. Here we report that transient IHT for 4 days on AD model mice causes Aβ overproduction 2 months after IHT presumably via upregulation of synaptic BACE1, side-by-side with tau hyperphosphorylation. These results suggest that even transient IHT may be sufficient to cause long-lasting changes in the molecules measured as AD biomarkers in the brain.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":"205 ","pages":"Pages 40-46"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010224000415/pdfft?md5=e6e3d08d6c9b78371a7d4595b70c303d&pid=1-s2.0-S0168010224000415-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140175693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The serotonergic neurons derived from rhombomere 2 are localized in the median raphe and project to the dorsal pallium in zebrafish","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The serotonergic neurons in the raphe nucleus are implicated in various cognitive functions such as learning and emotion. In vertebrates, the raphe nucleus is divided into the dorsal raphe and the median raphe. In contrast to the abundance of knowledge on the functions of the dorsal raphe, the roles of the serotonergic neurons in the median raphe are relatively unknown. The studies using zebrafish revealed that the median raphe serotonergic neurons receive input from the two distinct pathways from the habenula and the IPN. The use of zebrafish may reveal the function of the Hb-IPN-median raphe pathway. To clarify the functions of the median raphe serotonergic neurons, it is necessary to distinguish them from those in the dorsal raphe. Most median raphe serotonergic neurons originate from rhombomere 2 in mice, and we generated the transgenic zebrafish which can label the serotonergic neurons derived from rhombomere 2. In this study, we found the serotonergic neurons derived from rhombomere 2 are localized in the median raphe and project axons to the rostral dorsal pallium in zebrafish. This study suggests that this transgenic system has the potential to specifically reveal the function and information processing of the Hb-IPN-raphe-telencephalon circuit in learning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":"205 ","pages":"Pages 27-33"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010224000397/pdfft?md5=2a8f8ef156a124a750176322e8ee3ce3&pid=1-s2.0-S0168010224000397-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140049984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fatty acid amides present in Camembert cheese improved cognitive decline after oral administration in mice","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Herein, we investigated the effects of Camembert cheese (CC) and its fatty acid contents on cognitive function in mice by employing the object recognition test to evaluate hippocampus-dependent memory. Orally administered CC improved the cognitive decline induced by a high-fat diet. Next, we focused on myristamide (MA), oleamide, and stearamide, which are fatty acid amides produced during the fermentation process of CC. We found that oral administration of MA improved cognitive decline. Notably, an improvement was not observed using myristic acid, a free fatty acid that is not amidated. Thus, fatty acid amidation may contribute to the physiological activity. Moreover, we investigated changes in gene expression related to neurogenesis in the hippocampus. After MA administration, mRNA expression analysis indicated that MA increased hippocampal <em>brain-derived neurotrophic factor</em> expression.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":"205 ","pages":"Pages 34-39"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010224000403/pdfft?md5=a0a419989f4c28a1ce4f35ad75b2b299&pid=1-s2.0-S0168010224000403-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140065601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anxiety control by astrocytes in the lateral habenula","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.01.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.neures.2024.01.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The potential role of astrocytes in lateral habenula (LHb) in modulating anxiety was explored in this study. The habenula are a pair of small nuclei located above the thalamus, known for their involvement in punishment avoidance and anxiety. Herein, we observed an increase in theta-band oscillations of local field potentials (LFPs) in the LHb when mice were exposed to anxiety-inducing environments. Electrical stimulation of LHb at theta-band frequency promoted anxiety-like behavior. Calcium (Ca<sup>2+</sup>) levels and pH in the cytosol of astrocytes and local brain blood volume changes were studied in mice expressing either a Ca<sup>2+</sup> or a pH sensor protein specifically in astrocytes and mScarlet fluorescent protein in the blood plasma using fiber photometry. An acidification response to anxiety was observed. Photoactivation of archaerhopsin-T (ArchT), an optogenetic tool that acts as an outward proton pump, results in intracellular alkalinization. Photostimulation of LHb in astrocyte-specific ArchT-expressing mice resulted in dissipation of theta-band LFP oscillation in an anxiogenic environment and suppression of anxiety-like behavior. These findings provide evidence that LHb astrocytes modulate anxiety and may offer a new target for treatment of anxiety disorders.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19146,"journal":{"name":"Neuroscience Research","volume":"205 ","pages":"Pages 1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168010224000105/pdfft?md5=f0e2392d15e283e1c6433b7b01e7ad3e&pid=1-s2.0-S0168010224000105-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139664766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}