Modulation of SF1 Neuron Activity Coordinately Regulates Both Feeding Behavior and Associated Emotional States by Paulius Viskaitis, Elaine E. Irvine, Mark A. Smith, Agharul I. Choudhury, Elisa Alvarez-Curto, Justyna A. Glegola, Darran G. Hardy, Silvia M.A. Pedroni, Maria R. Paiva Pessoa, Anushka B.P. Fernando, Loukia Katsouri, Alessandro Sardini, Mark A. Ungless, Graeme Milligan, Dominic J. Withers

“…Using pharmacogenetic, optogenetic, and calcium imaging approaches with a battery of behavioral assays, we demonstrate that VMH steroidogenic factor 1 (SF1) neurons constitute a nutritionally sensitive switch, modulating the competing motivations of feeding and avoidance of potentially dangerous environments. …”
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Structure and function of axo-axonic inhibition by Casey M Schneider-Mizell, Agnes L Bodor, Forrest Collman, Derrick Brittain, Adam Bleckert, Sven Dorkenwald, Nicholas L Turner, Thomas Macrina, Kisuk Lee, Ran Lu, Jingpeng Wu, Jun Zhuang, Anirban Nandi, Brian Hu, JoAnn Buchanan, Marc M Takeno, Russel Torres, Gayathri Mahalingam, Daniel J Bumbarger, Yang Li, Thomas Chartrand, Nico Kemnitz, William M Silversmith, Dodam Ih, Jonathan Zung, Aleksandar Zlateski, Ignacio Tartavull, Sergiy Popovych, William Wong, Manuel Castro, Chris S Jordan, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Lynne Becker, Shelby Suckow, Jacob Reimer, Andreas S Tolias, Costas A Anastassiou, H Sebastian Seung, R Clay Reid, Nuno Maçarico da Costa

“…Finally, we measured chandelier cell activity in awake animals using a cell-type-specific calcium imaging approach and saw highly correlated activity across chandelier cells. …”
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Distinct reward processing by subregions of the nucleus accumbens by Gaowei Chen, Shishi Lai, Guo Bao, Jincan Ke, Xiaogao Meng, Shanshan Lu, Xiaocong Wu, Hua Xu, Fengyi Wu, Yu Xu, Fang Xu, Guo-Qiang Bi, Guangdun Peng, Kuikui Zhou, Yingjie Zhu

“…Using in vivo single-cell resolution calcium imaging, we find diverse patterns of reward encoding in the medial and lateral shell subdivision of the NAc (NAcMed and NAcLat, respectively). …”
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Astrocytes in the Ventral Hippocampus Bidirectionally Regulate Innate and Stress‐Induced Anxiety‐Like Behaviors in Male Mice by Jing‐Ting Li, Shi‐Yang Jin, Jian Hu, Ru‐Xia Xu, Jun‐Nan Xu, Zi‐Ming Li, Meng‐Ling Wang, Yi‐Wen Fu, Shi‐Han Liao, Xiao‐Wen Li, Yi‐Hua Chen, Tian‐Ming Gao, Jian‐Ming Yang

“…Here, genetically encoded Ca2+ indicator GCaMP6m and in vivo fiber photometry calcium imaging are used to label vHPC astrocytes and monitor their activity, respectively, genetic and chemogenetic approaches to inhibit and activate vHPC astrocytes, respectively, patch‐clamp recordings to measure glutamate currents, and behavioral assays to assess anxiety‐like behaviors. …”
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A non-canonical retina-ipRGCs-SCN-PVT visual pathway for mediating contagious itch behavior by Fang Gao, Jun Ma, Yao-Qing Yu, Xiao-Fei Gao, Yang Bai, Yi Sun, Juan Liu, Xianyu Liu, Devin M. Barry, Steven Wilhelm, Tyler Piccinni-Ash, Na Wang, Dongyang Liu, Rachel A. Ross, Yan Hao, Xu Huang, Jin-Jing Jia, Qianyi Yang, Hao Zheng, Johan van Nispen, Jun Chen, Hui Li, Jiayi Zhang, Yun-Qing Li, Zhou-Feng Chen

“…Surprisingly, neither the visual cortex nor superior colliculus is involved in contagious itch. In vivo calcium imaging and extracellular recordings reveal contagious itch-specific neural dynamics of GRPR neurons. …”
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Vólvulo de vesícula con colecistitis: Reporte de un caso Gallbladder volvulus with cholecystitis: Case report by Mariano Kreplak, Marcelo Zamboni, Lucrecia Quenard

“…CT scan revealed infraumbilical oblong mass, fluid content and thick walls (3-5 mm), with calcium images. The image was interpreted as intestinal volvulus or peritoneal cystic tumor. …”
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Cortical propagation tracks functional recovery after stroke. by Gloria Cecchini, Alessandro Scaglione, Anna Letizia Allegra Mascaro, Curzio Checcucci, Emilia Conti, Ihusan Adam, Duccio Fanelli, Roberto Livi, Francesco Saverio Pavone, Thomas Kreuz

“…To achieve this goal, we perform a spatiotemporal analysis of cortical activity obtained by wide-field calcium images in mice before and after stroke. We compare spontaneous recovery with three different post-stroke rehabilitation paradigms, motor training alone, pharmacological contralesional inactivation and both combined. …”
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Upregulation of TRPC1 Contributes to Contractile Function in Isoproterenol-induced Hypertrophic Myocardium of Rat by Mo-Si Chen, Jun-Hua Xiao, Yong Wang, Bo-Ming Xu, Lu Gao, Jia-Ling Wang

“…The intracellular calcium images, the action potential of myocardium, the length-dependent contractile force of ventricle muscle and the cardiac output of isolated heart were investigated. …”
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Cue-Evoked Dopamine Neuron Activity Helps Maintain but Does Not Encode Expected Value by Jesse A. Mendoza, Christopher K. Lafferty, Angela K. Yang, Jonathan P. Britt

“…Keywords: dopamine, ventral tegmental area, expected value, reinforcement learning, reward prediction error, overexpectation, motivation, optogenetics, calcium imaging…”
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Overlapping Activities of Two Neuronal Splicing Factors Switch the GABA Effect from Excitatory to Inhibitory by Regulating REST by Yoko Nakano, Susan Wiechert, Botond Bánfi

“…Keywords: alternative splicing, gene expression regulation, neuronal development, GABAergic neurotransmission, SRRM3, SRRM4, REST, KCC2, GABA-A receptor, calcium imaging…”
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Diagnostic efficacy of dual-energy CT virtual non-calcium technique in the diagnosis of bone marrow edema of sacroiliac joints in ankylosing spondylitis by Hongyue Lu, Zhi Li, Ziheng Liang, Yuqi Liu

“…Results Visual qualitative assessment analysis showed good agreement between the results of BME analysis on virtual non-calcium images and MRI images by both physicians (Kappa > 0.61). …”
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Dual Energy Computed Tomography of Internal Carotid Artery: A Modified Dual-Energy Algorithm for Calcified Plaque Removal, Compared With Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hongying Qu, Hongying Qu, Yongan Gao, Yongan Gao, Meiling Li, Meiling Li, Shuo Zhai, Shuo Zhai, Miao Zhang, Miao Zhang, Jie Lu, Jie Lu, Jie Lu

“…The correlation coefficient (r2) between the results generated by the modified algorithm and DSA was also calculated.Results: The virtual non-calcium images (VNCa) produced by the previous non-modified calcium removal algorithm were named VNCa 1, and those produced by the modified algorithm were named VNCa 2. …”
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