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Somatostatin enhances visual processing and perception by suppressing excitatory inputs to parvalbumin-positive interneurons in V1

Carl Petersen, Graham Knott, Catherine Maclachlan, Seung-Hee Lee

Somatostatin (SST) is a neuropeptide expressed in a major subtype of GABAergic interneurons in the cortex. Despite abundant expression of SST and its receptors, their modulatory function in cortical processing remains unclear. Here, we found that SST appli ...

2020

Ultrastructural comparison of dendritic spine morphology preserved with cryo and chemical fixation

Carl Petersen, Graham Knott, Natalya Korogod, Jérôme Blanc

Previously, we showed that cryo fixation of adult mouse brain tissue gave a truer representation of brain ultrastructure in comparison with a standard chemical fixation method (Korogod et al., 2015). Extracellular space matched physiological measurements, ...

2020

Dysfunction of homeostatic control of dopamine by astrocytes in the developing prefrontal cortex leads to cognitive impairments

Nicole Déglon, Graham Knott, Corrado Cali, Tamara Zehnder, Andrea Chicca, Luca Pucci

Astrocytes orchestrate neural development by powerfully coordinating synapse formation and function and, as such, may be critically involved in the pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental abnormalities and cognitive deficits commonly observed in psychiatric dis ...

2020

Gas cluster ion beam SEM for imaging of large tissue samples with 10 nm isotropic resolution

Graham Knott

We demonstrate gas cluster ion beam scanning electron microscopy (SEM), in which wide-area ion milling is performed on a series of thick tissue sections. This three-dimensional electron microscopy technique acquires datasets with

2020

The process of Lewy body formation, rather than simply α-synuclein fibrillization, is one of the major drivers of neurodegeneration

Graham Knott, Hilal Lashuel, Mary-Claude Croisier-Coeytaux, Fabien Kuttler, Marion Leleu, Anne-Laure Mahul Mellier, Niran Maharjan, Johannes Burtscher, Laura Emmeline H Weerens

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the accumulation of misfolded and aggregated α-synuclein (α-syn) into intraneuronal inclusions named Lewy bodies (LBs). Although it is widely believed that α-syn plays a central role in the pathogenesis of PD, t ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Amygdala GluN2B-NMDAR dysfunction is critical in abnormal aggression of neurodevelopmental origin induced by St8sia2 deficiency

Graham Knott, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Olivia Zanoletti, Jocelin Grosse, Elias Georges Gebara, Wei Tang, Alexandre Claude Gustave Bacq, Johannes Gräff, Catherine Maclachlan, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Bianca Ambrogina Silva, Simone Astori

Aggression is frequently observed in neurodevelopmental psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, autism, and bipolar disorder. Due to a lack of understanding of its underlying mechanisms, effective treatments for abnormal aggression are still missing. ...

2020

Combined deletion of Glut1 and Glut3 impairs lung adenocarcinoma growth

Bernard Lanz, Graham Knott, Rolf Gruetter, Nadine Fournier, Caroline Anne-Lyse Contat, Mario Gaetano Lepore, Etienne Meylan, Anders Meibom, Stéphane Laurent Escrig, Justine Pascual, Louise Helene Soegaard Jensen, Anouk Rossier, Pierre-Benoit Bernard Ancey, Silvia Sabatino, Inti Zlobec

Glucose utilization increases in tumors, a metabolic process that is observed clinically by F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (F-18-FDG-PET). However, is increased glucose uptake important for tumor cells, and which transporters are impl ...

2020

Nano-imaging trace elements at organelle levels in substantia nigra overexpressing alpha-synuclein to model Parkinson's disease

Philippe Colin, Bernard Schneider, Graham Knott

Sub-cellular trace element quantifications of nano-heterogeneities in brain tissues offer unprecedented ways to explore at elemental level the interplay between cellular compartments in neurodegenerative pathologies. We designed a quasi-correlative method ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Impairment of Glycolysis-Derived L-Serine Production in Astrocytes Contributes to Cognitive Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease

Graham Knott

Alteration of brain aerobic glycolysis is often observed early in the course of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Whether and how such metabolic dysregulation contributes to both synaptic plasticity and behavioral deficits in AD is not known. Here, we show that th ...

Cell Press2020

Voxel2Mesh: 3D Mesh Model Generation from Volumetric Data

Pascal Fua, Graham Knott, Pamuditha Udaranga Wickramasinghe, Edoardo Remelli

CNN-based volumetric methods that label individual voxels now dominate the field of biomedical segmentation. However, 3D surface representations are often required for proper analysis. They can be obtained by post-processing the labeled volumes which typic ...

2020

Synaptic proximity enables NMDAR signalling to promote brain metastasis

Graham Knott, Douglas Hanahan, Mohammad Sadegh Saghafinia, Iacovos Michael, Qiqun Zeng, Brian Donal McCabe, Wei Jiao, Giovanni Ciriello, Peng Zhang, Inti Zlobec

Metastasis-the disseminated growth of tumours in distant organs-underlies cancer mortality. Breast-to-brain metastasis (B2BM) is a common and disruptive form of cancer and is prevalent in the aggressive basal-like subtype, but is also found at varying freq ...

2019

The RNA-Binding Protein PUM2 Impairs Mitochondrial Dynamics and Mitophagy During Aging

Bernard Schneider, Graham Knott, Kristina Schoonjans, Johan Auwerx, Adrienne Joëlle Laurence Mottis, Vera Monica Lemos Da Silva, Hao Li, Vincenzo Sorrentino, Davide D'Amico, Mario Romani, Francesca Potenza

Little information is available about how post-transcriptional mechanisms regulate the aging process. Here, we show that the RNA-binding protein Pumilio2 (PUM2), which is a translation repressor, is induced upon aging and acts as a negative regulator of li ...

CELL PRESS2019

Cellular Uptake and Intracellular Trafficking of Poly(N-(2-Hydroxypropyl) Methacrylamide)

Harm-Anton Klok, Olivier Burri, Graham Knott, Arne Seitz, Claudia Battistella, Anders Meibom, Romain Guiet, Stéphane Laurent Escrig

Cellular uptake and intracellular trafficking of polymer conjugates or polymer nanoparticles is typically monitored using fluorescence-based techniques such as confocal microscopy. While these methods have provided a wealth of insight into the internalizat ...

American Chemical Society2019

Probabilistic Atlases to Enforce Topological Constraints

Pascal Fua, Graham Knott, Pamuditha Udaranga Wickramasinghe

Probabilistic atlases (PAs) have long been used in standard segmentation approaches and, more recently, in conjunction with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, their use has been restricted to relatively standardized structures such as the brain ...

2019

Diversity of Cortico-descending Projections: Histological and Diffusion MRI Characterization in the Monkey

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Graham Knott, Giorgio Innocenti, Maxime Descoteaux, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

The axonal composition of cortical projections originating in premotor, supplementary motor (SMA), primary motor (a4), somatosensory and parietal areas and descending towards the brain stem and spinal cord was characterized in the monkey with histological ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2019

Block Face Scanning Electron Microscopy of Fluorescently Labeled Axons Without Using Near Infra-Red Branding

Graham Knott, Catherine Maclachlan

In this article, we describe the method that allows fluorescently tagged structures such as axons to be targeted for electron microscopy (EM) analysis without the need to convert their labels into electron dense stains, introduce any fiducial marks, or ima ...

2018

Neuron Segmentation With High-Level Biological Priors

Graham Knott

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

The effects of aging on neuropil structure in mouse somatosensory cortex-A 3D electron microscopy analysis of layer 1

Pascal Fua, Marco Cantoni, Graham Knott, Bohumil Maco, Anne Alison Jorstad, Marta Wawrzyniak

2018

In vivo modeling of human neuron dynamics and Down syndrome

Graham Knott

Harnessing the potential of human stem cells for modeling the physiology and diseases of cortical circuitry requires monitoring cellular dynamics in vivo. We show that human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cortical neurons transplanted into th ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2018

Locally coordinated synaptic plasticity of visual cortex neurons in vivo

Sami El-Boustani, Graham Knott

Plasticity of cortical responses in vivo involves activity-dependent changes at synapses, but the manner in which different forms of synaptic plasticity act together to create functional changes in neurons remains unknown. We found that spike timing-induce ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2018

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