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2011-09-04 New articles we read this week

The Cell Biology of the Senses

  • A good review series on the cell biology aspects of sensation published in the Journal of Cell Biology. In particular, this one is about vision.
  1. Sung CH, Chuang JZ. The cell biology of vision. J Cell Biol. 2010 Sep 20;190(6):953-63. Review. PubMed PMID: 20855501; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3101587.

Development

  1. Luciani F, Champeval D, Herbette A, Denat L, Aylaj B, Martinozzi S, Ballotti R, Kemler R, Goding CR, De Vuyst F, Larue L, Delmas V. Biological and mathematical modeling of melanocyte development. Development. 2011 Sep;138(18):3943-54. PubMed PMID: 21862558.

Zebrafish

  1. Castranova D, Lawton A, Lawrence C, Baumann DP, Best J, Coscolla J, Doherty A, Ramos J, Hakkesteeg J, Wang C, Wilson C, Malley J, Weinstein BM. The Effect of Stocking Densities on Reproductive Performance in Laboratory Zebrafish (Danio rerio). Zebrafish. 2011 Aug 19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21854208.
  2. Kaushik S, Georga I, Koumoundouros G. Growth and body composition of zebrafish (Danio rerio) larvae fed a compound feed from first feeding onward: toward implications on nutrient requirements. Zebrafish. 2011 Jun;8(2):87-95. Epub 2011 Jun 10. PubMed PMID: 21663450.
  3. Dahlbom SJ, Lagman D, Lundstedt-Enkel K, Sundström LF, Winberg S. Boldness Predicts Social Status in Zebrafish (Danio rerio). PLoS One. 2011;6(8):e23565. Epub 2011 Aug 17. PubMed PMID: 21858168; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3157393.
  4. Bussmann J, Schulte-Merker S. Rapid BAC selection for tol2-mediated transgenesis in zebrafish. Development. 2011 Aug 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21865323.

Retinal Development

  1. Montana CL, Lawrence KA, Williams NL, Tran NM, Peng GH, Chen S, Corbo JC. Transcriptional regulation of neural retina leucine zipper (Nrl), a photoreceptor cell fate determinant. J Biol Chem. 2011 Aug 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21865162.
  2. Lewis A, Wilson N, Stearns G, Johnson N, Nelson R, Brockerhoff SE. Celsr3 Is Required for Normal Development of GABA Circuits in the Inner Retina. PLoS Genet. 2011 Aug;7(8):e1002239. Epub 2011 Aug 11. PubMed PMID: 21852962; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3154962.
  3. Soto F, Bleckert A, Lewis R, Kang Y, Kerschensteiner D, Craig AM, Wong RO. Coordinated increase in inhibitory and excitatory synapses onto retinal ganglion cells during development. Neural Dev. 2011 Aug 24;6(1):31. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21864334.
  4. Sanuki R, Onishi A, Koike C, Muramatsu R, Watanabe S, Muranishi Y, Irie S, Uneo S, Koyasu T, Matsui R, Chérasse Y, Urade Y, Watanabe D, Kondo M, Yamashita T, Furukawa T. miR-124a is required for hippocampal axogenesis and retinal cone survival through Lhx2 suppression. Nat Neurosci. 2011 Aug 21. doi: 10.1038/nn.2897. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21857657.
  5. Tomlinson A, Mavromatakis YE, Struhl G. Three distinct roles for notch in Drosophila r7 photoreceptor specification. PLoS Biol. 2011 Aug;9(8):e1001132. Epub 2011 Aug 23. PubMed PMID: 21886484.

Genomics

  1. Eichler GS, Huang S, Ingber DE. Gene Expression Dynamics Inspector (GEDI): for integrative analysis of expression profiles. Bioinformatics. 2003 Nov 22;19(17):2321-2. PubMed PMID: 14630665.

Systems Biology

  1. Pilpel Y. Noise in biological systems: pros, cons, and mechanisms of control. Methods Mol Biol. 2011;759:407-25. PubMed PMID: 21863500.

Delta-Notch Signal Transduction

  1. Wanga MM. Notch signaling and Notch signaling modifiers. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2011 Aug 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21854867.
  2. Wright GJ, Giudicelli F, Soza-Ried C, Hanisch A, Ariza-McNaughton L, Lewis J. DeltaC and DeltaD interact as Notch ligands in the zebrafish segmentation clock. Development. 2011 Jul;138(14):2947-56. Epub 2011 Jun 8. PubMed PMID: 21653612.

Vision

  1. Huberman AD, Niell CM. What can mice tell us about how vision works? Trends Neurosci. 2011 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21840069.

Ethics, Legal and Social Issues

  • An interesting series about funding discrimination at the NIH
  1. Tabak LA, Collins FS. Sociology. Weaving a richer tapestry in biomedical science. Science. 2011 Aug 19;333(6045):940-1. PubMed PMID: 21852476.
  2. Kaiser J. Biomedical research funding. NIH uncovers racial disparity in grant awards. Science. 2011 Aug 19;333(6045):925-6. PubMed PMID: 21852462.
  3. Price M. Biomedical research funding. A minority viewpoint. Science. 2011 Aug 19;333(6045):926. PubMed PMID: 21852463.
  4. Ginther DK, Schaffer WT, Schnell J, Masimore B, Liu F, Haak LL, Kington R. Race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards. Science. 2011 Aug 19;333(6045):1015-9. PubMed PMID: 21852498.

Evolution

  1. Lowe CB, Kellis M, Siepel A, Raney BJ, Clamp M, Salama SR, Kingsley DM, Lindblad-Toh K, Haussler D. Three periods of regulatory innovation during vertebrate evolution. Science. 2011 Aug 19;333(6045):1019-24. PubMed PMID: 21852499.
  2. Marshall WF. Origins of cellular geometry. BMC Biol. 2011 Aug 31;9:57. PubMed PMID: 21880160.

Education

  1. Feldon DF, Peugh J, Timmerman BE, Maher MA, Hurst M, Strickland D, Gilmore JA, Stiegelmeyer C. Graduate students’ teaching experiences improve their methodological research skills. Science. 2011 Aug 19;333(6045):1037-9. PubMed PMID: 21852504.
  2. Lorsch JR, Nichols DG. Organizing Graduate Life Sciences Education around Nodes and Connections. Cell. 2011 Aug 19;146(4):506-9. PubMed PMID: 21854978.

Cancer

  1. Gupta PB, Fillmore CM, Jiang G, Shapira SD, Tao K, Kuperwasser C, Lander ES. Stochastic state transitions give rise to phenotypic equilibrium in populations of cancer cells. Cell. 2011 Aug 19;146(4):633-44. PubMed PMID: 21854987.

This was written by Yuk Fai Leung. Posted on Sunday, September 4, 2011, at 3:04 PM. Filed under journal watch. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.