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10 November 2004; 24 (45)

This Week in the Journal

Brief Communications

  • Decreased Signs of Nicotine Withdrawal in Mice Null for the β4 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Subunit

    • Ramiro Salas,
    • Fredalina Pieri,
    • and Mariella De Biasi
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10035-10039; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1939-04.2004

  • The Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor val66met Polymorphism and Variation in Human Cortical Morphology

    • Lukas Pezawas,
    • Beth A. Verchinski,
    • Venkata S. Mattay,
    • Joseph H. Callicott,
    • Bhaskar S. Kolachana,
    • Richard E. Straub,
    • Michael F. Egan,
    • Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg,
    • and Daniel R. Weinberger
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10099-10102; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2680-04.2004

  • Plasticity in the Entorhinal Cortex Suppresses Memory for Contextual Fear

    • April E. Hebert and
    • Pramod K. Dash
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10111-10116; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3491-04.2004

  • Plasticity of the Avian Song Control System in Response to Localized Environmental Cues in an Equatorial Songbird

    • Ignacio T. Moore,
    • John C. Wingfield,
    • and Eliot A. Brenowitz
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10182-10185; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3475-04.2004

  • Prestimulus Oscillations Enhance Psychophysical Performance in Humans

    • Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen,
    • Vadim V. Nikulin,
    • Satu Palva,
    • Risto J. Ilmoniemi,
    • and J. Matias Palva
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10186-10190; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2584-04.2004

Articles

Cellular/Molecular

  • Highly Efficient Small Interfering RNA Delivery to Primary Mammalian Neurons Induces MicroRNA-Like Effects before mRNA Degradation

    • Thomas J. Davidson,
    • Sivan Harel,
    • Valerie A. Arboleda,
    • Giselle F. Prunell,
    • Michael L. Shelanski,
    • Lloyd A. Greene,
    • and Carol M. Troy
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10040-10046; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3643-04.2004

  • Assessing the Role of GLUK5 and GLUK6 at Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses

    • Jörg Breustedt and
    • Dietmar Schmitz
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10093-10098; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3078-04.2004

  • Molecular Determinants of Ligand Selectivity in a Vertebrate Odorant Receptor

    • Percy Luu,
    • Francine Acher,
    • Hugues-Olivier Bertrand,
    • Jinhong Fan,
    • and John Ngai
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10128-10137; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3117-04.2004

  • Postsynaptic Density Protein-95 Regulates NMDA Channel Gating and Surface Expression

    • Ying Lin,
    • V. Arvydas Skeberdis,
    • Anna Francesconi,
    • Michael V. L. Bennett,
    • and R. Suzanne Zukin
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10138-10148; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3159-04.2004

  • Increased GABA Release in the Central Amygdala of Ethanol-Dependent Rats

    • Marisa Roberto,
    • Samuel G. Madamba,
    • David G. Stouffer,
    • Loren H. Parsons,
    • and George Robert Siggins
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10159-10166; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3004-04.2004

  • Acid-Sensing Ion Channel 2 Contributes a Major Component to Acid-Evoked Excitatory Responses in Spiral Ganglion Neurons and Plays a Role in Noise Susceptibility of Mice

    • Ben-Gang Peng,
    • Shoab Ahmad,
    • Shanping Chen,
    • Ping Chen,
    • Margaret P. Price,
    • and Xi Lin
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10167-10175; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3196-04.2004

  • Role of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Activation in Injured and Intact Primary Afferent Neurons for Mechanical and Heat Hypersensitivity after Spinal Nerve Ligation

    • Koichi Obata,
    • Hiroki Yamanaka,
    • Kimiko Kobayashi,
    • Yi Dai,
    • Toshiyuki Mizushima,
    • Hirokazu Katsura,
    • Tetsuo Fukuoka,
    • Atsushi Tokunaga,
    • and Koichi Noguchi
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10211-10222; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3388-04.2004

  • Regulation of the NMDA Receptor Complex and Trafficking by Activity-Dependent Phosphorylation of the NR2B Subunit PDZ Ligand

    • Hee Jung Chung,
    • Yan Hua Huang,
    • Lit-Fui Lau,
    • and Richard L. Huganir
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10248-10259; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0546-04.2004

  • Bitter Taste Receptors for Saccharin and Acesulfame K

    • Christina Kuhn,
    • Bernd Bufe,
    • Marcel Winnig,
    • Thomas Hofmann,
    • Oliver Frank,
    • Maik Behrens,
    • Tatjana Lewtschenko,
    • Jay P. Slack,
    • Cynthia D. Ward,
    • and Wolfgang Meyerhof
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10260-10265; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1225-04.2004

Development/Plasticity/Repair

  • Axonal Regeneration and Lack of Astrocytic Gliosis in EphA4-Deficient Mice

    • Yona Goldshmit,
    • Mary P. Galea,
    • Graham Wise,
    • Perry F. Bartlett,
    • and Ann M. Turnley
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10064-10073; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2981-04.2004

  • Glutamate-Evoked Alterations of Glial and Neuronal Cell Morphology in the Guinea Pig Retina

    • Ortrud Uckermann,
    • Lydia Vargová,
    • Elke Ulbricht,
    • Christoph Klaus,
    • Michael Weick,
    • Katja Rillich,
    • Peter Wiedemann,
    • Andreas Reichenbach,
    • Eva Syková,
    • and Andreas Bringmann
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10149-10158; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3203-04.2004

  • Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Accelerates the Cell Cycle by Decreasing G1 Phase Length and Increases Cell Cycle Reentry in the Embryonic Cerebral Cortex

    • Rebecca D. Hodge,
    • A. Joseph D'Ercole,
    • and John R. O'Kusky
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10201-10210; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3246-04.2004

Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive

  • Independent Coding of Movement Direction and Reward Prediction by Single Pallidal Neurons

    • David Arkadir,
    • Genela Morris,
    • Eilon Vaadia,
    • and Hagai Bergman
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10047-10056; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2583-04.2004

  • Organ of Corti Potentials and the Motion of the Basilar Membrane

    • Anders Fridberger,
    • Jacques Boutet de Monvel,
    • Jiefu Zheng,
    • Ning Hu,
    • Yuan Zou,
    • Tianying Ren,
    • and Alfred Nuttall
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10057-10063; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2711-04.2004

  • Functional-Anatomic Correlates of Memory Retrieval That Suggest Nontraditional Processing Roles for Multiple Distinct Regions within Posterior Parietal Cortex

    • Benjamin J. Shannon and
    • Randy L. Buckner
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10084-10092; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2625-04.2004

  • Role of Neurokinin 3 Receptors in Supraoptic Vasopressin and Oxytocin Neurons

    • Heather E. Howe,
    • Suwit J. Somponpun,
    • and Celia D. Sladek
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10103-10110; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3164-04.2004

  • M2 Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Knock-Out Mice Show Deficits in Behavioral Flexibility, Working Memory, and Hippocampal Plasticity

    • Thomas Seeger,
    • Irina Fedorova,
    • Fang Zheng,
    • Tsuyoshi Miyakawa,
    • Elena Koustova,
    • Jesus Gomeza,
    • Anthony S. Basile,
    • Christian Alzheimer,
    • and Jürgen Wess
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10117-10127; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3581-04.2004

  • Cortical Areas Involved in Object, Background, and Object-Background Processing Revealed with Functional Magnetic Resonance Adaptation

    • Joshua O. S. Goh,
    • Soon Chun Siong,
    • Denise Park,
    • Angela Gutchess,
    • Andy Hebrank,
    • and Michael W. L. Chee
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10223-10228; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3373-04.2004

  • Progesterone Attenuates Corticotropin-Releasing Factor-Enhanced But Not Fear-Potentiated Startle via the Activity of Its Neuroactive Metabolite, Allopregnanolone

    • Donna J. Toufexis,
    • Carrie Davis,
    • Alexis Hammond,
    • and Michael Davis
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10280-10287; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1386-04.2004

Neurobiology of Disease

  • Interferon-γ Induced Medulloblastoma in the Developing Cerebellum

    • Wensheng Lin,
    • April Kemper,
    • Ken D. McCarthy,
    • Peter Pytel,
    • Jian-Ping Wang,
    • Iain L. Campbell,
    • Manuel F. Utset,
    • and Brian Popko
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10074-10083; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2604-04.2004

  • Induction of Brain Region-Specific Forms of Obesity by Agouti

    • Martien J. H. Kas,
    • Birgitte Tiesjema,
    • Gertjan van Dijk,
    • Keith M. Garner,
    • Gregory S. Barsh,
    • Olivier Ter Brake,
    • Joost Verhaagen,
    • and Roger A. H. Adan
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10176-10181; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3442-04.2004

  • Synaptic Targeting by Alzheimer's-Related Amyloid β Oligomers

    • Pascale N. Lacor,
    • Maria C. Buniel,
    • Lei Chang,
    • Sara J. Fernandez,
    • Yuesong Gong,
    • Kirsten L. Viola,
    • Mary P. Lambert,
    • Pauline T. Velasco,
    • Eileen H. Bigio,
    • Caleb E. Finch,
    • Grant A. Krafft,
    • and William L. Klein
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10191-10200; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3432-04.2004

  • Improved Behavior and Neuropathology in the Mouse Model of Sanfilippo Type IIIB Disease after Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Gene Transfer in the Striatum

    • Arnaud Cressant,
    • Nathalie Desmaris,
    • Lucie Verot,
    • Thomas Bréjot,
    • Roseline Froissart,
    • Marie-T. Vanier,
    • Irène Maire,
    • and Jean Michel Heard
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10229-10239; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3558-04.2004

  • Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase 1/2 Signaling Pathway in Solitary Nucleus Mediates Cholecystokinin-Induced Suppression of Food Intake in Rats

    • Gregory M. Sutton,
    • Laurel M. Patterson,
    • and Hans-Rudolf Berthoud
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10240-10247; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2764-04.2004

  • A Mutant Ataxin-3 Putative-Cleavage Fragment in Brains of Machado-Joseph Disease Patients and Transgenic Mice Is Cytotoxic above a Critical Concentration

    • Daniel Goti,
    • Scott M. Katzen,
    • Jesse Mez,
    • Noam Kurtis,
    • Jennifer Kiluk,
    • Lea Ben-Haïem,
    • Nancy A. Jenkins,
    • Neal G. Copeland,
    • Akira Kakizuka,
    • Alan H. Sharp,
    • Christopher A. Ross,
    • Peter R. Mouton,
    • and Veronica Colomer
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 10 November 2004, 24(45):10266-10279; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2734-04.2004
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10 November 2004; 24 (45)

In This Issue

    1. This Week in the Journal
    2. Brief Communications
    3. Articles
      1. Cellular/Molecular
      2. Development/Plasticity/Repair
      3. Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive
      4. Neurobiology of Disease
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