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18 February 2009; 29 (7)

This Week in The Journal

Editorial

  • Prepublication of Manuscripts

    • John Maunsell
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):1947

Brief Communications

  • STAT5 Mediates Antiapoptotic Effects of Methylprednisolone on Oligodendrocytes

    • Jan Xu,
    • Shawei Chen,
    • Hong Chen,
    • Qingli Xiao,
    • Chung Y. Hsu,
    • Drew Michael,
    • and Jianxin Bao
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2022-2026; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2621-08.2009

  • Carriers of Recessive WNK1/HSN2 Mutations for Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy Type 2 (HSAN2) Are More Sensitive to Thermal Stimuli

    • Marco L. Loggia,
    • M. Catherine Bushnell,
    • Martine Tétreault,
    • Isabelle Thiffault,
    • Claude Bhérer,
    • Nazma K. Mohammed,
    • Anil A. Kuchinad,
    • Audrey Laferrière,
    • Marie-Josée Dicaire,
    • Lina Loisel,
    • Jeffrey S. Mogil,
    • and Bernard Brais
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2162-2166; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4633-08.2009

  • Economic Games Quantify Diminished Sense of Guilt in Patients with Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex

    • Ian Krajbich,
    • Ralph Adolphs,
    • Daniel Tranel,
    • Natalie L. Denburg,
    • and Colin F. Camerer
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2188-2192; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5086-08.2009

  • A Switch from Cycloheximide-Resistant Consolidated Memory to Cycloheximide-Sensitive Reconsolidation and Extinction in Drosophila

    • Fabrice Lagasse,
    • Jean-Marc Devaud,
    • and Frederic Mery
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2225-2230; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3789-08.2009

Articles

Cellular/Molecular

  • Regulation of Persistent Na Current by Interactions between β Subunits of Voltage-Gated Na Channels

    • Teresa K. Aman,
    • Tina M. Grieco-Calub,
    • Chunling Chen,
    • Raffaella Rusconi,
    • Emily A. Slat,
    • Lori L. Isom,
    • and Indira M. Raman
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2027-2042; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4531-08.2009

  • External Tufted Cells Drive the Output of Olfactory Bulb Glomeruli

    • Didier De Saint Jan,
    • Daniela Hirnet,
    • Gary L. Westbrook,
    • and Serge Charpak
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2043-2052; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5317-08.2009

  • Cannabidiol Targets Mitochondria to Regulate Intracellular Ca2+ Levels

    • Duncan Ryan,
    • Alison J. Drysdale,
    • Carlos Lafourcade,
    • Roger G. Pertwee,
    • and Bettina Platt
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2053-2063; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4212-08.2009

  • Ca2+–Calmodulin Feedback Mediates Sensory Adaptation and Inhibits Pheromone-Sensitive Ion Channels in the Vomeronasal Organ

    • Jennifer Spehr,
    • Silke Hagendorf,
    • Jan Weiss,
    • Marc Spehr,
    • Trese Leinders-Zufall,
    • and Frank Zufall
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2125-2135; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5416-08.2009

  • The Involvement of Hypothalamic Sleep Pathways in General Anesthesia: Testing the Hypothesis Using the GABAA Receptor β3N265M Knock-In Mouse

    • Anna Y. Zecharia,
    • Laura E. Nelson,
    • Thomas C. Gent,
    • Mark Schumacher,
    • Rachel Jurd,
    • Uwe Rudolph,
    • Stephen G. Brickley,
    • Mervyn Maze,
    • and Nicholas P. Franks
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2177-2187; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4997-08.2009

  • Restricted Cortical and Amygdaloid Removal of Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 2 in Preadolescent Mice Impacts Dopaminergic Activity and Neuronal Circuitry of Higher Brain Function

    • Åsa Wallén-Mackenzie,
    • Karin Nordenankar,
    • Kim Fejgin,
    • Malin C. Lagerström,
    • Lina Emilsson,
    • Robert Fredriksson,
    • Caroline Wass,
    • Daniel Andersson,
    • Emil Egecioglu,
    • My Andersson,
    • Joakim Strandberg,
    • Örjan Lindhe,
    • Helgi B. Schiöth,
    • Karima Chergui,
    • Eric Hanse,
    • Bengt Långström,
    • Anders Fredriksson,
    • Lennart Svensson,
    • Erika Roman,
    • and Klas Kullander
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2238-2251; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5851-08.2009

  • Rodent Habenulo–Interpeduncular Pathway Expresses a Large Variety of Uncommon nAChR Subtypes, But Only the α3β4 and α3β3β4 Subtypes Mediate Acetylcholine Release

    • Sharon R. Grady,
    • Milena Moretti,
    • Michele Zoli,
    • Michael J. Marks,
    • Alessio Zanardi,
    • Luca Pucci,
    • Francesco Clementi,
    • and Cecilia Gotti
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2272-2282; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5121-08.2009

Development/Plasticity/Repair

  • The Drosophila Fragile X Mental Retardation Gene Regulates Sleep Need

    • Daniel Bushey,
    • Giulio Tononi,
    • and Chiara Cirelli
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):1948-1961; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4830-08.2009

  • Involvement of the Cytoplasmic C-Terminal Domain of Connexin43 in Neuronal Migration

    • Cima Cina,
    • Karen Maass,
    • Martin Theis,
    • Klaus Willecke,
    • John F. Bechberger,
    • and Christian C. Naus
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2009-2021; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5025-08.2009

  • Suppression of Oct4 by Germ Cell Nuclear Factor Restricts Pluripotency and Promotes Neural Stem Cell Development in the Early Neural Lineage

    • Wado Akamatsu,
    • Brian DeVeale,
    • Hideyuki Okano,
    • Austin J Cooney,
    • and Derek van der Kooy
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2113-2124; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4527-08.2009

  • Trophic Factor-Induced Intracellular Calcium Oscillations Are Required for the Expression of Postsynaptic Acetylcholine Receptors during Synapse Formation between Lymnaea Neurons

    • Fenglian Xu,
    • Deirdre A. Hennessy,
    • Thomas K. M. Lee,
    • and Naweed I. Syed
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2167-2176; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4682-08.2009

  • Thick Visual Cortex in the Early Blind

    • Jiefeng Jiang,
    • Wanlin Zhu,
    • Feng Shi,
    • Yong Liu,
    • Jun Li,
    • Wen Qin,
    • Kuncheng Li,
    • Chunshui Yu,
    • and Tianzi Jiang
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2205-2211; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5451-08.2009

Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive

  • Role of the Superior Colliculus in Choosing Mixed-Strategy Saccades

    • Dhushan Thevarajah,
    • Areh Mikulić,
    • and Michael C. Dorris
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):1998-2008; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4764-08.2009

  • Interdependent Encoding of Pitch, Timbre, and Spatial Location in Auditory Cortex

    • Jennifer K. Bizley,
    • Kerry M. M. Walker,
    • Bernard W. Silverman,
    • Andrew J. King,
    • and Jan W. H. Schnupp
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2064-2075; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4755-08.2009

  • Broadband Coding with Dynamic Synapses

    • Benjamin Lindner,
    • Dorian Gangloff,
    • André Longtin,
    • and John E. Lewis
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2076-2087; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3702-08.2009

  • Correlates of Perceptual Learning in an Oculomotor Decision Variable

    • Patrick M. Connolly,
    • Sharath Bennur,
    • and Joshua I. Gold
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2136-2150; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3962-08.2009

  • Genetics of Brain Fiber Architecture and Intellectual Performance

    • Ming-Chang Chiang,
    • Marina Barysheva,
    • David W. Shattuck,
    • Agatha D. Lee,
    • Sarah K. Madsen,
    • Christina Avedissian,
    • Andrea D. Klunder,
    • Arthur W. Toga,
    • Katie L. McMahon,
    • Greig I. de Zubicaray,
    • Margaret J. Wright,
    • Anuj Srivastava,
    • Nikolay Balov,
    • and Paul M. Thompson
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2212-2224; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4184-08.2009

  • Neural Response to Reward Anticipation under Risk Is Nonlinear in Probabilities

    • Ming Hsu,
    • Ian Krajbich,
    • Chen Zhao,
    • and Colin F. Camerer
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2231-2237; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5296-08.2009

  • Own-Song Recognition in the Songbird Auditory Pathway: Selectivity and Lateralization

    • Colline Poirier,
    • Tiny Boumans,
    • Marleen Verhoye,
    • Jacques Balthazart,
    • and Annemie Van der Linden
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2252-2258; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4650-08.2009

  • Evidence That Oxytocin Exerts Anxiolytic Effects via Oxytocin Receptor Expressed in Serotonergic Neurons in Mice

    • Masahide Yoshida,
    • Yuki Takayanagi,
    • Kiyoshi Inoue,
    • Tadashi Kimura,
    • Larry J. Young,
    • Tatsushi Onaka,
    • and Katsuhiko Nishimori
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2259-2271; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5593-08.2009

  • Human Cortical Organization for Processing Vocalizations Indicates Representation of Harmonic Structure as a Signal Attribute

    • James W. Lewis,
    • William J. Talkington,
    • Nathan A. Walker,
    • George A. Spirou,
    • Audrey Jajosky,
    • Chris Frum,
    • and Julie A. Brefczynski-Lewis
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2283-2296; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4145-08.2009

Neurobiology of Disease

  • Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Transgenic Mice Expressing a Truncated Mutant Parkin Exhibit Age-Dependent Hypokinetic Motor Deficits, Dopaminergic Neuron Degeneration, and Accumulation of Proteinase K-Resistant α-Synuclein

    • Xiao-Hong Lu,
    • Sheila M. Fleming,
    • Bernhard Meurers,
    • Larry C. Ackerson,
    • Farzad Mortazavi,
    • Victor Lo,
    • Daniela Hernandez,
    • David Sulzer,
    • George R. Jackson,
    • Nigel T. Maidment,
    • Marie-Francoise Chesselet,
    • and X. William Yang
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):1962-1976; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5351-08.2009

  • Neprilysin Overexpression Inhibits Plaque Formation But Fails to Reduce Pathogenic Aβ Oligomers and Associated Cognitive Deficits in Human Amyloid Precursor Protein Transgenic Mice

    • William J. Meilandt,
    • Moustapha Cisse,
    • Kaitlyn Ho,
    • Tiffany Wu,
    • Luke A. Esposito,
    • Kimberly Scearce-Levie,
    • Irene H. Cheng,
    • Gui-Qiu Yu,
    • and Lennart Mucke
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):1977-1986; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2984-08.2009

  • Polyglutamine-Expanded Androgen Receptor Truncation Fragments Activate a Bax-Dependent Apoptotic Cascade Mediated by DP5/Hrk

    • Jessica E. Young,
    • Gwenn A. Garden,
    • Refugio A. Martinez,
    • Fumiaki Tanaka,
    • C. Miguel Sandoval,
    • Annette C. Smith,
    • Bryce L. Sopher,
    • Amy Lin,
    • Kenneth H. Fischbeck,
    • Lisa M. Ellerby,
    • Richard S. Morrison,
    • J. Paul Taylor,
    • and Albert R. La Spada
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):1987-1997; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4072-08.2009

  • Cerebral Microglia Recruit Monocytes into the Brain in Response to Tumor Necrosis Factorα Signaling during Peripheral Organ Inflammation

    • Charlotte D'Mello,
    • Tai Le,
    • and Mark G. Swain
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2089-2102; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3567-08.2009

  • Development of Spontaneous Recurrent Seizures after Kainate-Induced Status Epilepticus

    • Philip A. Williams,
    • Andrew M. White,
    • Suzanne Clark,
    • Damien J. Ferraro,
    • Waldemar Swiercz,
    • Kevin J. Staley,
    • and F. Edward Dudek
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2103-2112; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0980-08.2009

  • The Cochaperone BAG2 Sweeps Paired Helical Filament- Insoluble Tau from the Microtubule

    • Daniel C. Carrettiero,
    • Israel Hernandez,
    • Pierre Neveu,
    • Thales Papagiannakopoulos,
    • and Kenneth S. Kosik
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2151-2161; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4660-08.2009

  • Differential Susceptibility to Excitotoxic Stress in YAC128 Mouse Models of Huntington Disease between Initiation and Progression of Disease

    • Rona K. Graham,
    • Mahmoud A. Pouladi,
    • Prasad Joshi,
    • Ge Lu,
    • Yu Deng,
    • Nan-Ping Wu,
    • Bryan E. Figueroa,
    • Martina Metzler,
    • Véronique M. André,
    • Elizabeth J. Slow,
    • Lynn Raymond,
    • Robert Friedlander,
    • Michael S. Levine,
    • Blair R. Leavitt,
    • and Michael R. Hayden
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2193-2204; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5473-08.2009

  • Loss of the Cholesterol-Binding Protein Prominin-1/CD133 Causes Disk Dysmorphogenesis and Photoreceptor Degeneration

    • Serena Zacchigna,
    • Hideyasu Oh,
    • Michaela Wilsch-Bräuninger,
    • Ewa Missol-Kolka,
    • József Jászai,
    • Sandra Jansen,
    • Naoyuki Tanimoto,
    • Felix Tonagel,
    • Mathias Seeliger,
    • Wieland B. Huttner,
    • Denis Corbeil,
    • Mieke Dewerchin,
    • Stefan Vinckier,
    • Lieve Moons,
    • and Peter Carmeliet
    The Journal of Neuroscience, 18 February 2009, 29(7):2297-2308; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2034-08.2009
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This Issue

18 February 2009; 29 (7)

In This Issue

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