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Generating Cortical Pyramidal Neurons from Human Neural Stem Cells
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2025
This video describes a method for preparing glass coverslips coated with polyornithine and laminin to enhance the adhesion and growth of neural stem cells. The technique involves sequential incubations and washes, facilitating the formation of a supportive matrix that promotes neuronal cell growth and differentiation, mimicking structures found in the neurons.
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A Method for High Fidelity Optogenetic Control of Individual Pyramidal Neurons In vivo
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2013
The recent development of neuroscience tools that combine genetics and optics, termed "optogenetics", enables control over neural circuit activity with an unprecedented level of spatial and temporal resolution. Here we provide a protocol for integrating in vivo recording with optogenetic manipulation of genetically-defined subsets of prefrontal cortical and subicular pyramidal neurons.
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Ballistic Labeling of Pyramidal Neurons in Brain Slices and in Primary Cell Culture
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2020
We present a protocol to label and analyze pyramidal neurons, which is critical for evaluating potential morphological alterations in neurons and dendritic spines that may underlie neurochemical and behavioral abnormalities.
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Three-dimensional Quantification of Dendritic Spines from Pyramidal Neurons Derived from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
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2015
Dendritic spines of pyramidal neurons are the sites of most excitatory synapses in mammalian brain cortex. This method describes a 3D quantitative analysis of spine morphologies in human cortical pyramidal glutamatergic neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.
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Identification and Classification of Position-specific GABAA Receptor Subunit Missense Variants for Their Role In Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons
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2025
This study introduces a multiscale framework, spanning from DNA to protein function and neural behavior. It presents a novel approach for investigating predicted pathogenic mutations in the GABAA receptor subunit, hypothesizing that epileptogenic mutations and proximal mutations, predicted as pathogenic, may produce similar effects on the CA1 pyramidal neuron model.
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Their separation into apical and basal dendritic compartments allows pyramidal neurons to integrate synaptic inputs across distinct parts of the cell. This arrangement means that incoming signals can be combined rather than treated as isolated events. Studying these compartments helps explain how pyramidal neurons perform complex information processing in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus.
Compartmental organization enables a single pyramidal neuron to combine inputs arriving at different dendritic locations before transmitting an output through its axon. This integration provides a cellular basis for processing information from multiple sources. In biological research, examining how these compartments interact is therefore relevant to sensory integration, learning, memory, and voluntary behavior.
Most pyramidal neurons use glutamate as their neurotransmitter, linking their activity to excitatory communication within neural circuits. Their influence can therefore affect how information moves through local networks and toward distant targets. Investigating this signaling is important for understanding how cortical and hippocampal circuits process information and how altered signaling may relate to disease.
Changes in synaptic strength involving pyramidal neurons provide a mechanism for modifying how these cells respond to incoming information. Because pyramidal neurons participate in cortical and hippocampal processing, their synaptic plasticity is relevant to learning and memory. Researchers study these changes to connect cellular activity with broader behavioral functions and altered brain states.
Research commonly focuses on three complementary properties: connectivity, electrical activity, and synaptic plasticity. Connectivity reveals how pyramidal neurons communicate with local and distant targets, electrical activity shows how they transmit information, and plasticity indicates how their synaptic responses can change. Together, these lines of investigation relate cellular behavior to information processing in the brain.
Studies of pyramidal neurons can show how changes in connectivity, electrical activity, or synaptic plasticity affect brain information processing. Because these cells contribute to cortical and hippocampal functions, altered signaling may help researchers investigate mechanisms associated with neurological and psychiatric disorders. The findings also connect cellular-level changes with learning, memory, sensory integration, and behavior.