Neural Cell News Volume 14.27 | July 22 2020

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    Vol. 14.27 – 22 July, 2020
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    Disrupted Place Cell Remapping and Impaired Grid Cells in a Knockin Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

    Investigators tested remapping in amyloid precursor protein knockin mice with impaired spatial memory. CA1 neurons, including place cells, showed disrupted remapping, although their spatial tuning was only mildly diminished.
    [Neuron]

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    An OTX2-PAX3 Signaling Axis Regulates Group 3 Medulloblastoma Cell Fate

    Scientists performed extensive multiomic analyses to identify an OTX2 regulatory network that controlled Group 3 medulloblastoma cell fate.
    [Nature Communications]

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    A Single-Cell Raman-Based Platform to Identify Developmental Stages of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neurons

    Researchers demonstrated that a label-free and noninvasive single-cell Raman microspectroscopy platform was able to identify neural cell lineages derived from clinically relevant human induced pluripotent stem cells.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    FTO Inhibition Enhances the Anti-Tumor Effect of Temozolomide by Targeting MYC-miR-155/23a Cluster-MXI1 Feedback Circuit in Glioma

    Investigators elucidated a MYC-miRNA-MXI1 feedback loop that regulates proliferation and tumorigenesis in glioma.
    [Cancer Research]

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    Axon Growth of CNS Neurons in Three Dimensions Is Amoeboid and Independent of Adhesions

    Researchers explored the mechanisms underlying axon growth in three dimensions. They found that CNS neurons used amoeboid mechanisms to drive axon growth.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Maturational Changes in Mouse Cutaneous Touch and Piezo2-Mediated Mechanotransduction

    The authors identified distinct transcript changes in individual Piezo2-expressing mechanosensitive dorsal root ganglia neurons by combining electrophysiology with single-cell RNA sequencing.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Heterogeneity in Human Hippocampal CaMKII Transcripts Reveals Allosteric Hub-Dependent Regulation

    Researchers showed that hippocampal cells contained a diverse collection of over 70 CaMKII transcripts from all four CaMKII-encoding genes.
    [Science Signaling]

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    Neuronal Activity Remodels the F-Actin Based Submembrane Lattice in Dendrites but Not Axons of Hippocampal Neurons

    The authors developed a weakly supervised deep learning segmentation approach of fluorescence nanoscopy images of F-actin in cultured hippocampal neurons.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Sonic Hedgehog Accelerates DNA Replication to Cause Replication Stress Promoting Cancer Initiation in Medulloblastoma

    Scientists investigated the role of the developmental mitogen sonic hedgehog in initiating carcinogenesis in the cells of origin: granule cell progenitors
    [Nature Cancer]

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    Emerging Importance of Satellite Glia in Nervous System Function and Dysfunction

    The authors describe how satellite glial cells are altered in rodent models of four common types of pain: systemic inflammation, post-surgical pain, diabetic neuropathic pain and post-herpetic pain.
    [Nature Reviews Neuroscience]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    CytRx Corporation Highlights Orphazyme’s Announcement of its Collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation on Parkinson’s Disease Research

    CytRx Corporation highlighted Orphayzme A/S’s announcement that it will join The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Parkinson’s Disease Research Tools Consortium.
    [CytRx Corporation]

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    Banner Life Sciences Announces Commercial Launch of BAFIERTAM, a Novel Oral Fumarate Treatment for Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis

    Banner Life Sciences LLC announced that BAFIERTAMâ„¢, a novel fumarate for adults for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis, including clinically isolated syndrome, relapsing-remitting disease, and active secondary progressive disease, will be commercially available in the US.
    [Banner Life Sciences ]

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    Science Money Slashed in EU’s €1.8-Trillion Budget Deal

    A historic €1.8-trillion (US$2.1-trillion) budget deal reached by European Union (EU) leaders to fund its next seven years — and its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic — has left scientists and research advocates disappointed.
    [Nature News]

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