[HTML][HTML] Excitatory/inhibitory balance and circuit homeostasis in autism spectrum disorders

SB Nelson, V Valakh�- Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and related neurological disorders are associated with
mutations in many genes affecting the ratio between neuronal excitation and inhibition�…

[HTML][HTML] Biophysics in tumor growth and progression: from single mechano-sensitive molecules to mechanomedicine

Y Xin, K Li, M Huang, C Liang, D Siemann, L Wu, Y Tan…�- Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Evidence from physical sciences in oncology increasingly suggests that the interplay
between the biophysical tumor microenvironment and genetic regulation has significant�…

[HTML][HTML] Identification of epilepsy-associated neuronal subtypes and gene expression underlying epileptogenesis

U Pfisterer, V Petukhov, S Demharter…�- Nature�…, 2020 - nature.com
Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, yet its pathophysiology is poorly
understood due to the high complexity of affected neuronal circuits. To identify dysfunctional�…

Somatostatin-expressing neurons in cortical networks

J Urban-Ciecko, AL Barth�- Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Somatostatin-expressing GABAergic neurons constitute a major class of inhibitory neurons
in the mammalian cortex and are characterized by dense wiring into the local network and�…

Inhibitory interneurons regulate temporal precision and correlations in cortical circuits

JA Cardin�- Trends in neurosciences, 2018 - cell.com
GABAergic interneurons, which are highly diverse, have long been thought to contribute to
the timing of neural activity as well as to the generation and shaping of brain rhythms�…

[HTML][HTML] The autism-associated gene Scn2a contributes to dendritic excitability and synaptic function in the prefrontal cortex

PWE Spratt, R Ben-Shalom, CM Keeshen, KJ Burke…�- Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is strongly associated with de novo gene mutations. One of
the most commonly affected genes is SCN2A. ASD-associated SCN2A mutations impair the�…

[HTML][HTML] dCas9-based Scn1a gene activation restores inhibitory interneuron excitability and attenuates seizures in Dravet syndrome mice

G Colasante, G Lignani, S Brusco, C Di Berardino…�- Molecular Therapy, 2020 - cell.com
Dravet syndrome (DS) is a severe epileptic encephalopathy caused mainly by heterozygous
loss-of-function mutations of the SCN1A gene, indicating haploinsufficiency as the�…

[HTML][HTML] Epilepsy-related voltage-gated sodium channelopathies: a review

LFS Menezes, EF Sabi� J�nior, DV Tibery…�- Frontiers in�…, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Epilepsy is a disease characterized by abnormal brain activity and a predisposition to
generate epileptic seizures, leading to neurobiological, cognitive, psychological, social, and�…

Microcircuits and their interactions in epilepsy: is the focus out of focus?

JT Paz, JR Huguenard�- Nature neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Epileptic seizures represent dysfunctional neural networks dominated by excessive and/or
hypersynchronous activity. Recent progress in the field has outlined two concepts regarding�…

[HTML][HTML] Nav1. 1-overexpressing interneuron transplants restore brain rhythms and cognition in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

M Martinez-Losa, TE Tracy, K Ma, L Verret…�- Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Inhibitory interneurons regulate the oscillatory rhythms and network synchrony that are
required for cognitive functions and disrupted in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Network�…