Pushing the frontiers: tools for monitoring neurotransmitters and neuromodulators

Z Wu, D Lin, Y Li - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neurotransmitters and neuromodulators have a wide range of key roles throughout the
nervous system. However, their dynamics in both health and disease have been challenging …

Real-time monitoring of neurotransmitters in the brain of living animals

Y Da, S Luo, Y Tian - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022 - ACS Publications
Neurotransmitters, as important chemical small molecules, perform the function of neural
signal transmission from cell to cell. Excess concentrations of neurotransmitters are often …

Toward Plasmonic Neural Probes: SERS Detection of Neurotransmitters through Gold‐Nanoislands‐Decorated Tapered Optical Fibers with Sub‐10 nm Gaps

D Zheng, F Pisano, L Collard, A Balena… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Integration of plasmonic nanostructures with fiber‐optics‐based neural probes enables label‐
free detection of molecular fingerprints via surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) …

VMHvllCckar cells dynamically control female sexual behaviors over the reproductive cycle

L Yin, K Hashikawa, Y Hashikawa, T Osakada… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Sexual behavior is fundamental for the survival of mammalian species and thus supported
by dedicated neural substrates. The ventrolateral part of ventromedial hypothalamus …

Janus effect of the anterior cingulate cortex: Pain and emotion

SH Journée, VP Mathis, C Fillinger, P Veinante… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, clinical and preclinical studies point to the anterior cingulate cortex
(ACC) as a site of interest for several neurological and psychiatric conditions. The ACC …

Multiregion neuronal activity: the forest and the trees

TA Machado, IV Kauvar, K Deisseroth - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
The past decade has witnessed remarkable advances in the simultaneous measurement of
neuronal activity across many brain regions, enabling fundamentally new explorations of the …

Organization of neural circuits underlying social behavior: a consideration of the medial amygdala

T Raam, W Hong - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
The medial amygdala (MeA) is critical for the expression of a broad range of social
behaviors, and is also connected to many other brain regions that mediate those same …

[HTML][HTML] Lights, fiber, action! A primer on in vivo fiber photometry

EH Simpson, T Akam, T Patriarchi, M Blanco-Pozo… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Fiber photometry is a key technique for characterizing brain-behavior relationships in vivo.
Initially, it was primarily used to report calcium dynamics as a proxy for neural activity via …

[HTML][HTML] GuPPy, a Python toolbox for the analysis of fiber photometry data

VN Sherathiya, MD Schaid, JL Seiler, GC Lopez… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Fiber photometry (FP) is an adaptable method for recording in vivo neural activity in freely
behaving animals. It has become a popular tool in neuroscience due to its ease of use, low …

pMAT: An open-source software suite for the analysis of fiber photometry data

CA Bruno, C O'Brien, S Bryant, JI Mejaes… - Pharmacology …, 2021 - Elsevier
The combined development of new technologies for neuronal recordings and the
development of novel sensors for recording both cellular activity and neurotransmitter …