Mechanisms of endocannabinoid control of synaptic plasticity

BL Winters, CW Vaughan - Neuropharmacology, 2021 - Elsevier
The endogenous cannabinoid transmitter system regulates synaptic transmission
throughout the nervous system. Unlike conventional transmitters, specific stimuli induce …

Lights on endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic potentiation

C Piette, Y Cui, N Gervasi, L Venance - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The endocannabinoid (eCB) system is a lipid-based neurotransmitter complex that plays
crucial roles in the neural control of learning and memory. The current model of eCB …

Hippocampal somatostatin interneurons, long-term synaptic plasticity and memory

E Honoré, A Khlaifia, A Bosson… - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A distinctive feature of the hippocampal structure is the diversity of inhibitory interneurons.
These complex inhibitory interconnections largely contribute to the tight modulation of …

Synaptic plasticity at the dentate gyrus granule cell to somatostatin-expressing interneuron synapses supports object location memory

G Grigoryan, H Harada… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Somatostatin-expressing interneurons (SOMIs) in the mouse dentate gyrus (DG) receive
feedforward excitation from granule cell (GC) mossy fiber (MF) synapses and provide …

Targeting the endocannabinoid system: a predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine-directed approach to the management of brain pathologies

V Reddy, D Grogan, M Ahluwalia, ÉL Salles… - EPMA Journal, 2020 - Springer
Cannabis-inspired medical products are garnering increasing attention from the scientific
community, general public, and health policy makers. A plethora of scientific literature …

GABAergic microcircuitry of fear memory encoding

KA Cummings, AF Lacagnina, RL Clem - Neurobiology of learning and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The paradigm of fear conditioning is largely responsible for our current understanding of
how memories are encoded at the cellular level. Its most fundamental underlying …

Phosphodiesterase 9A in brain regulates cGMP signaling independent of nitric-oxide

JF Harms, FS Menniti, CJ Schmidt - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
PDE9A is a cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase expressed in neurons throughout the brain
that has attracted attention as a therapeutic target to treat cognitive disorders. Indeed …

Targeting mGlu1 Receptors in the Treatment of Motor and Cognitive Dysfunctions in Mice Modeling Type 1 Spinocerebellar Ataxia

F Liberatore, N Antenucci, D Tortolani, G Mascio… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Type 1 spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA1) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with no
effective treatment to date. Using mice modeling SCA1, it has been demonstrated that a drug …

Prenatal ethanol and cannabis exposure have sex‐and region‐specific effects on somatostatin and neuropeptide Y interneurons in the rat hippocampus

HMO Reid, O Trepanier, A Gross… - Alcohol: Clinical and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cannabis is increasingly being legalized and socially accepted around the
world and is often used with alcohol in social settings. We recently showed that in utero …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating physiological and transcriptomic analyses at the single-neuron level

H Yagishita, T Sasaki - Neuroscience Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Neurons generate various spike patterns to execute different functions. Understanding how
these physiological neuronal spike patterns are related to their molecular characteristics is a …