New era of optogenetics: from the central to peripheral nervous system

X Xu, T Mee, X Jia - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Optogenetics has recently gained recognition as a biological technique to control the activity
of cells using light stimulation. Many studies have applied optogenetics to cell lines in the …

Neurostimulation stabilizes spiking neural networks by disrupting seizure-like oscillatory transitions

S Rich, A Hutt, FK Skinner, TA Valiante, J Lefebvre - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
An improved understanding of the mechanisms underlying neuromodulatory approaches to
mitigate seizure onset is needed to identify clinical targets for the treatment of epilepsy …

BRAFV600E expression in neural progenitors results in a hyperexcitable phenotype in neocortical pyramidal neurons

RU Goz, G Akgül, JJ LoTurco - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Somatic mutations have emerged as the likely cause of focal epilepsies associated with
developmental malformations and epilepsy-associated glioneuronal tumors (GNT). Somatic …

Inhibitory network bistability explains increased interneuronal activity prior to seizure onset

S Rich, HM Chameh, M Rafiee, K Ferguson… - Frontiers in neural …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Recent experimental literature has revealed that GABAergic interneurons exhibit increased
activity prior to seizure onset, alongside additional evidence that such activity is …

Spontaneous activity of neuronal ensembles in mouse motor cortex: Changes after GABAergic blockade

M Serrano-Reyes, B García-Vilchis, R Reyes-Chapero… - Neuroscience, 2020 - Elsevier
The mouse motor cortex exhibits spontaneous activity in the form of temporal sequences of
neuronal ensembles in vitro without the need of tissue stimulation. These neuronal …

Simple models including energy and spike constraints reproduce complex activity patterns and metabolic disruptions

T Fardet, A Levina - PLoS Computational Biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In this work, we introduce new phenomenological neuronal models (e LIF and mAdExp) that
account for energy supply and demand in the cell as well as the inactivation of spike …

Optogenetic activation of the inhibitory nigro-collicular circuit evokes orienting movements in mice

CA Villalobos, MA Basso - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
In contrast to predictions from the current model of basal ganglia (BG) function, we report
here that increasing inhibition from the BG to the superior colliculus (SC) through the …

Role of acetylcholine and gabaergic inhibitory transmission in seizure pattern generation in neural networks integrating the neocortex, hippocampus, basal ganglia …

IG Silkis - Neurochemical Journal, 2020 - Springer
We have analyzed the influence of acetylcholine and GABAergic inhibitory transmission on
the functioning of parallel topically organized cortico-basal ganglia–thalamo-cortical neural …

Propagating activity in neocortex, mediated by gap junctions and modulated by extracellular potassium

CA Papasavvas, RR Parrish, AJ Trevelyan - Eneuro, 2020 - eneuro.org
Parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in cortical networks are coupled by gap junctions,
forming a syncytium that supports propagating epileptiform discharges, induced by 4 …

Роль ацетилхолина и ГАМК-торможения в генерации судорожной активности в нейронных сетях, объединяющих новую кору, гиппокамп, базальные ганглии и …

ИГ Силькис - Нейрохимия, 2020 - elibrary.ru
Проведен анализ влияний ацетилхолина и ГАМК-торможения на функционирование
параллельных, топически организованных нейронных цепей новая кора–базальные …