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In female rats, social touch activates parvocellular oxytocin neurons, leading to activation of the larger population of magnocellular oxytocin neurons and facilitating sociability.
In the hippocampus of adult mice, neuronally expressed interleukin-33 acts as a signal for microglial cell-mediated extracellular matrix remodelling, regulating synaptic plasticity and promoting memory consolidation.
Gina Poe and Denise Cai reflect on the challenges to research team management presented by the widespread closure of laboratories during the COVID-19 pandemic and consider the unexpected opportunities that have arisen from the lockdown
Activation of mitochondrial cannabinoid 1 receptors in mouse astrocytes disrupts astrocyte metabolism, bioenergetic support for neurons and social behaviour.
Postnatal brain development is highly influenced by sensory experience, in part via de novo activation of enhancer sequences by inducible transcription factors.
The activity of a subset of projections neurons in the song premotor nucleus HVC of canaries depends on preceding steps in the bird’s song and can predict future song phrases.