Here, in samples of mouse hypothalamus — the brain center that detects and regulates internal temperature — Kun Song and
colleagues identified neurons that were uniquely activated in response to warming at temperatures above the physiological set point of 37 °C.
Not exact matches
Next, Anderson and his
colleagues used a set of genetic tools to
identify exactly which
neurons were responsible for the effect on aggression and to see if the gene that encodes for Tk also controls aggressive behavior by acting in that cell.
Duke University biologist Pelin Volkan and
colleagues have
identified a set of genetic control switches that interact early in a fly's development to generate dozens of types of olfactory
neurons, specialized nerve cells for smell.
In this study, Xu and
colleagues identified a neural circuit where a group of serotonin
neurons project to and activate dopamine
neurons.
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with
colleagues at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the University of Manitoba and St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre in Canada, have
identified a molecular signaling pathway that, when blocked, promotes sensory
neuron growth and prevents or reverses peripheral neuropathy in cell and rodent models of type 1 and 2 diabetes, chemotherapy - induced neuropathy and HIV.
So far, Koyuncu and her
colleagues have
identified two ways for herpes viruses that are destined to be silenced to escape from silencing: a stress - mediated slow route that is initiated by the
neuron, and a fast route that is activated by viral tegument proteins.
Subsequently, Shatz and
colleagues identified a receptor on
neurons called PirB (paired immunoglobulin - like receptor B), through which MHC molecules normally delivered the «off» signal.