...Daniel A. Berg; Laure Belnoue; Hongjun Song; András Simon It was long thought that no new neurons are added to the adult brain. Similarly, neurotransmitter signaling was primarily associated with communication between differentiated neurons. Both of these ideas have been challenged, and a crosstalk...

... located in the ventral dopaminergic nuclei, suggesting a distinct developmental pathway for these neurons. These studies identify Gata2 as an essential post-mitotic selector gene of the GABAergic neurotransmitter identity and demonstrate developmental heterogeneity of GABAergic neurons in the midbrain...

...Ji Ying Sze; Shenyuan Zhang; Jie Li; Gary Ruvkun A fundamental question in developmental neurobiology is how a common neurotransmitter is specified in different neuronal types?. We describe cell-specific regulation of the serotonergic phenotype by the C. elegans POU-transcription factor UNC-86. We...

.... , Brunet , J.-F. and Anderson , D. J. ( 1999 ). Specification of neurotransmitter identity by Phox2 proteins in neural crest stem cells . Neuron 22 , 693 – 705 . 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80729-1 Loer , C. M. and Kenyon , C. J. ( 1993 ). Serotonin-deficient mutants and male...

...Masahito Yamagata; Joshua R. Sanes ABSTRACT In diverse vertebrate species, defined subsets of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs, the neurons that project from retina to brain) are distinguishable on the basis of their dendritic morphology, physiological properties, neurotransmitter content and synaptic...

..., ceased all movement, became tack-shaped and died within 72 h. These results meet multiple criteria for the identification of catecholamines in hydrozoan planulae and suggest that such catecholamines may function as neurotransmitters, neurohormones or neuromodulators during larval development...

... regulates the maturation of TOH pre-mRNAs, and that the unprocessed transcripts are rapidly degraded. The long-term regulation of TOH by NGF may thus constitute a case of process-versus-discard control, as defined by J. E. Darnell. neurotransmitter tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA nerve growth factor NGF...

... if similar phenomena occurred when CM and high K + medium were given sequentially rather than simultaneously. neurotransmitter plasticity muscle-conditioned medium (CM) choline acetyltransferase sympathetic neurone culture rat Although mature neurones only express a limited set...