β-adrenergic signaling promotes morphological maturation of astrocytes in female mice

MF Rosenberg, MI Godoy, SD Wade… - Journal of …, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Astrocytes play essential roles in the developing nervous system, including supporting
synapse function. These astrocyte support functions emerge coincident with brain …

Centripetal integration of past events by hippocampal astrocytes and its regulation by the locus coeruleus

P Rupprecht, SN Duss, D Becker, CM Lewis… - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
An essential feature of neurons is their ability to centrally integrate information from their
dendrites. The activity of astrocytes, on the other hand, has been described to be mostly …

Exploratory Rearing Is Governed by Hypothalamic Melanin-Concentrating Hormone Neurons According to Locus Ceruleus

C Concetti, P Viskaitis, N Grujic, SN Duss… - Journal of …, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Information seeking, such as standing on tiptoes to look around in humans, is observed
across animals and helps survival. Its rodent analog—unsupported rearing on hind legs …

Analysis of behavioral flow resolves latent phenotypes

LM von Ziegler, FK Roessler, O Sturman, R Waag… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The nuanced detection of rodent behavior in preclinical biomedical research is essential for
understanding disease conditions, genetic phenotypes, and internal states. Recent …