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Visualizing Mushroom Body Neurons in Drosophila Brains via Immunostaining
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2025
This video demonstrates a detailed immunostaining protocol to visualize phenotypic defects in the mushroom bodies of mutant Drosophila brains. The protocol involves using antibodies against Fas2, a protein involved in axonal guidance that facilitates the proper morphological and functional development of the mushroom body.
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In vivo Ca2+- Imaging of Mushroom Body Neurons During Olfactory Learning in the Honey Bee
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2009
Bees can be conditioned in an appetitive olfactory learning paradigm (PER-conditioning). Using odors as stimuli, we established a method in which behavior is recorded while simultaneously Calcium Imaging is used to measure odor evoked activity in mushroom body neurons in vivo.
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Dissection and Immunofluorescent Staining of Mushroom Body and Photoreceptor Neurons in Adult Drosophila melanogaster Brains
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2017
This protocol describes the dissection and immunostaining of adult Drosophila melanogaster brain tissues. Specifically, this protocol highlights the use of Drosophila mushroom body and photoreceptor neurons as example neuronal subsets that can be accurately used to uncover general principles underlying many aspects of neuronal development.
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Equilibrium and Free-body Diagrams
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2023
Source: Ketron Mitchell-Wynne, PhD, Asantha Cooray, PhD, Department of Physics & Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA Equilibrium is a special case in mechanics that is very important in everyday life. It occurs when the net force and the net torque on an object or system are both zero. This means that both the linear and angular accelerations are zero. Thus, the object is at rest, or its center of mass is moving at a constant velocity. However, this...
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Visualization of Flow Past a Bluff Body
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2023
Source: Ricardo Mejia-Alvarez, Hussam Hikmat Jabbar and Mahmoud N. Abdullatif, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Owing to the non-linear nature of its governing laws, fluid motion induces complicated flow patterns. Understanding the nature of these patterns has been the subject of intense scrutiny for centuries. Although personal computers and supercomputers are extensively used to deduce fluid flow patterns, their capabilities are still...
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Kenyon cells receive signals from sensory projection neurons, particularly those carrying olfactory information. They represent experiences through sparse patterns of activity, so only a limited subset of cells is active for a given experience. This encoding stage allows sensory inputs to be linked with later reinforcement signals and behavioral outcomes.
Sensory projection neurons provide the incoming relay, with olfactory pathways specifically identified as an important example. Kenyon cells receive this information and encode experiences sparsely, while mushroom body output neurons represent a later stage through which altered synaptic connections can influence behavior. Considering these components together helps relate stimulus processing to learned responses.
Neuromodulatory reinforcement signals are important because they modify synaptic connections after sensory information has been represented by Kenyon cells. The change links a previously encountered cue with a reinforcing consequence, such as a reward or punishment. Studying this interaction shows how experience can alter circuit function rather than merely change momentary sensory activity.
Research on the mushroom body can address how neural circuits combine sensory information with reinforcement and how those interactions produce learned behavior. It also offers a setting for examining sensory coding and synaptic plasticity in the same system. These linked questions help connect cellular changes, circuit activity, and behavioral outcomes within one research program.
Because the mushroom body is tractable, researchers can examine sensory coding, synaptic plasticity, neural circuits, and behavior as related parts of one problem. This is especially useful when the goal is to connect a change in synaptic connections with the way an animal learns from environmental cues and later responds to them.
Findings from insects and other arthropods may have relevance beyond those animals because the mushroom body exposes relationships among environmental cues, reinforcement, synaptic change, and behavior. Its study may therefore clarify general principles of learning and memory across animals, while also showing how sensory representations become associated with rewards or punishments.