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A Role For Adult Neurogenesis In Dentate Synaptic Plasticity Deficits And Memory Impairment In Down Syndrome

In the mammalian dentate gyrus (DG) neurogenesis continues throughout life. Accumulating evidence suggests a unique contribution of adult-generated neurons in DG synaptic plasticity and hippocampal-mediated learning and memory functions. However, the preci ...

2012

How Recurrent Dynamics Explain Crowding

Michael Herzog, Aaron Michael Clarke

In crowding, flankers impair perception of a target. For example, Vernier offset discrimination deteriorates when the Vernier is flanked by parallel lines. Pooling models explain crowding by averaging of neural activity corresponding to the Vernier and the ...

2012

A role for adult neurogenesis in dentate synaptic plasticity deficits and memory impairment in Down syndrome

Diego Ghezzi

The hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) is one of the two sites where neurogenesis continues throughout life in the mammalian brain. Accumulating evidence suggests a unique contribution of adult-generated dentate neurons in hippocampal synaptic plasticity and h ...

2012

Facilitation of AMPA receptor synaptic delivery as a molecular mechanism for cognitive enhancement

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Erika Myrna Borcel Novoa, Lidia Alonso-Nanclares

Cell adhesion molecules and downstream growth factor-dependent signaling are critical for brain development and synaptic plasticity, and they have been linked to cognitive function in adult animals. We have previously developed a mimetic peptide (FGL) from ...

2012

A Notch-dependent molecular circuitry initiates pancreatic endocrine and ductal cell differentiation

Anne Grapin-Botton

In the pancreas, Notch signaling is thought to prevent cell differentiation, thereby maintaining progenitors in an undifferentiated state. Here, we show that Notch renders progenitors competent to differentiate into ductal and endocrine cells by inducing a ...

2012

Breast cancer suppressor candidate-1 (BCSC-1) is a melanoma tumor suppressor that down regulates MITF

Mauro Delorenzi

Understanding the molecular aberrations involved in the development and progression of metastatic melanoma (MM) is essential for a better diagnosis and targeted therapy. We identified breast cancer suppressor candidate-1 (BCSC-1) as a novel tumor suppresso ...

2012

Automated biomanipulation of single cells

Mahmut Selman Sakar

Transport of individual cells or chemical payloads on a subcellular scale is an enabling tool for the study of cellular communication, cell migration, and other localized phenomena. We present a magnetically actuated robotic system for the fully automated ...

2012

Neurogenin3 Initiates Stepwise Delamination of Differentiating Endocrine Cells During Pancreas Development

Anne Grapin-Botton, Mathieu Gouzi, Yung Hae Kim, Keiichi Katsumoto

During development, pancreatic endocrine cells are specified within the pancreatic epithelium. They subsequently delaminate out of the epithelium and cluster in the mesenchyme to form the islets of Langerhans. Neurogenin3 (Ngn3) is a transcription factor r ...

2011

Neural stem cells are increased after loss of β-catenin, but neural progenitors undergo cell death

Neurons and glia in the central nervous system originate from neural stem and progenitor cells that reside in the ventricular zones. Here we examine the role of beta-catenin in neural stem cell (NSC) regulation in mouse embryos lacking beta-catenin specifi ...

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Role of the Glyoxalase System in Astrocyte-Mediated Neuroprotection

Pierre Magistretti, Igor Allaman, Thierry Laroche, Jean-Marie Petit, Jiangyan Yang

The glyoxalase system is the most important pathway for the detoxification of methylglyoxal (MG), a highly reactive dicarbonyl compound mainly formed as a by-product of glycolysis. MG is a major precursor of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), which ar ...

2011

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