Jean-pierre Changeux

Abbreviated title: Nicotine and synaptic transmission in the developing hippocampus (2008)

Corentin Le Magueresse, Victoria Safiulina, Jean-pierre Changeux

Nicotinic modulation of network and synaptic transmission in the immature hippocampus investigated with genetically modified mice

DOI 10.1007/s00213-005-0295-x ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION (2008)

Carrie L. Walters, Sharon Brown, Jean-pierre Changeux, Billy Martin, M. Imad Damaj, ...

The β2 but not α7 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor is required for nicotine-conditioned place preference in mice

Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive �2-Containing Nicotinic Receptors Contribute to the Organization of Sleep and Regulate Putative Micro-Arousals in Mice (2008)

Clément Léna, Daniela Popa, Régis Grailhe, Pierre Escourrou, Jean-pierre Changeux, Joëlle Adrien

The cholinergic system is involved in arousal and in rapid eye movement sleep (REMS). To evaluate the contribution of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) to these functions, we studied with...

1424 REVIEW Allosteric Mechanisms of Signal Transduction (2008)

Jean-pierre Changeux, Stuart J. Edelstein

Forty years ago, a simple model of allosteric mechanisms (indirect interactions between distinct sites), used initially to explain feedback-inhibited enzymes, was presented by Monod, Wyman, and...

to the activation mechanism (2008)

Thomas Grutter, Jean-pierre Changeux

An H-bond between two residues from different

European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol.12, pp.3664±3674, 2000 Ó Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Localization of nAChR subunit mRNAs in the brain of (2008)

Macaca Mulatta, Zhi-yan Han, Nicolas Le Noveáre, Michele Zoli, Joseph A. Hill, Nicolas Champtiaux, ...

We present here a systematic mapping of nAChR subunit mRNAs in Macaca mulatta brain. A fragment, from the transmembrane segments MIII to MIV of Macaca neuronal nAChR subunits was cloned, and shown to...

SUMMARY (2008)

Annie Cartaud, Bernard J. Jasmin, Jean-pierre Changeux, Jean Cartaud

Direct involvement of a lamin-B-related (54 kDa) protein in the association of intermediate filaments with the postsynaptic membrane of the Torpedo marmorata electrocyte

Ultrastructural Localization of the �4-Subunit of the Neuronal Acetylcholine Nicotinic Receptor in the Rat Substantia Nigra (2007)

Jean-pierre Bourgeois, Lisa M. Marubio, Ole Petter Ottersen, Eric Rinvik, ...

The distribution of the �4-subunit of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) in the rat brain was examined at light and electron microscopy levels using immunohistochemical staining....

ELSEVIER (2007)

Michele Zoli B, Nicolas Lenovre B, Jean-pierre Changeux, Kjell Fuxe A

A single (-)-nicotine injection causes change with a time delay in the affinity of striatal D 2 receptors for antagonist, but not for agonist, nor in the D 2 receptor mRNA levels in the rat...

Salmon et al. (2007)

Anne-marie Salmon, Corinne Bru, Ana Cardona, Jean-pierre Changeux, Sonia Berrih-aknin

by antiacetylcholinesterase drugs. It is widely accepted that the neuromuscular abnormalities in MG are largely due to anti-Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease targetbodies directed...

Desensitization of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Conferred by N-Terminal Segments of the �2 Subunit † (2007)

Sébastien Bohler, Steven Gay, Sonia Bertr, Pierre Jean Corringer, Stuart J. Edelstein, Jean-pierre Changeux, ...

ABSTRACT: Desensitization is a general property of ligand-gated ion channels. Because of a wide array of available subunit combinations, it generates different time constants for channel closure,...

Research Update Research News TRENDS in Biochemical Sciences Vol.26 No.8 August 2001 (2007)

Thomas Grutter, Jean-pierre Changeux

The structure of a soluble homopentameric homologue of the N-terminal extracellular domain of the nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptor has recently been determined at the atomic level. These data...

LGICdb: the ligand-gated ion channel database (2007)

Nicolas Le Novre, Jean-pierre Changeux, Rcepteurs Et

Ligand-Gated Ion Channels (LGIC) are polymeric transmembrane proteins involved in the fast response to numerous neurotransmitters. All these receptors are formed by homologous subunits and the last...

Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy (2006)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Naccache, Lionel, Sackur, Jérôme, Sergent, Claire

Of the many brain events evoked by a visual stimulus, which are specifically associated with conscious perception, andwhichmerely reflect non-conscious processing? Several recent neuroimaging studies...

Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: A testable taxonomy (2006)

Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-pierre Changeux, Lionel Naccache, Jérôme Sackur, Claire Sergent

Of the many brain events evoked by a visual stimulus, which are specifically associated with conscious perception, andwhichmerelyreflectnon-conscious processing? Several recent neuroimaging studies...

Ongoing spontaneous activity controls access to consciousness: a neuronal model for inattentional blindness (2005)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Ongoing Spontaneous Activity Controls Access to Consciousness: A Neuronal Model for Inattentional Blindness (2005)

Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-Pierre Changeux

Computer simulations of the circuits of activity in the cerebral cortex and underlying thalamus suggest that precisely controlled oscillatory states can control the central neural processing of...

Ongoing Spontaneous Activity Controls Access to Consciousness: A Neuronal Model for Inattentional Blindness (2005)

Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-Pierre Changeux

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

El hombre de verdad (2005)

Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Traducción de: L'Homme de vérité

Ongoing spontaneous activity controls access to consciousness: a neuronal model for inattentional blindness. (2005)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Ongoing spontaneous activity controls access to consciousness: a neuronal model for inattentional blindness. (2005)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Ongoing spontaneous activity controls access to consciousness: a neuronal model for inattentional blindness. (2005)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Ongoing spontaneous activity controls access to consciousness: a neuronal model for inattentional blindness. (2005)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Ongoing spontaneous activity controls access to consciousness: a neuronal model for inattentional blindness. (2005)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Altered map of visual space in the superior colliculus of mice lacking early retinal waves (2005)

Sonja B. Hofer, Claire Creutzfeldt, Isabelle Cloëz-tayarani, Jean-pierre Changeux, Tobias Bonhoeffer, ...

During the development of the mammalian retinocollicular projection, a coarse retinotopic map is set up by the graded distribution of axon guidance molecules. Subsequent refinement of the initially...

Ongoing spontaneous activity controls access to consciousness: a neuronal model for inattentional blindness. (2005)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Acquisition and Performance of Delayed-response Tasks: a Neural Network Model (2005)

Gisiger, Thomas, Kerszberg, Michel, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We study the time evolution of a neural network model as it learns the three stages of a visual delayed-matching-to-sample (DMS) task: identification of the sample, retention during delay, and...

Mol Pharmacol 66:1712–1718, 2004 Printed in U.S.A. Long-Term Exposure to Nicotine Modulates the Level and Activity of Acetylcholine Receptors in White Blood Cells of Smokers and Model Mice (2004)

Anne Cormier, Yoav Paas, Jean-paul Tillement, Gilbert Lagrue, Jean-pierre Changeux, Régis Grailhe

Long-term consumption of tobacco by smokers causes addiction and increases the level of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in the brain, a phenomenon known as up-regulation. Here, we...

Nicotine (2004)

Matilde Cordero-erausquin, Stéphanie Pons, Jean-pierre Changeux

differentially activates inhibitory and excitatory neurons in the dorsal spinal cord

Acquisition and Performance of Delayed-response Tasks: a Neural Network Model (2004)

Gisiger, Thomas, Kerszberg, Michel, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We study the time evolution of a neural network model as it learns the three stages of a visual delayed-matching-to-sample (DMS) task: identification of the sample, retention during delay, and...

Acquisition and Performance of Delayed-response Tasks: a Neural Network Model (2004)

Gisiger, Thomas, Kerszberg, Michel, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We study the time evolution of a neural network model as it learns the three stages of a visual delayed-matching-to-sample (DMS) task: identification of the sample, retention during delay, and...

Neural Mechanisms for Access to Consciousness (2003)

Stanislas Dehaene, Jean-pierre Changeux

Introduction: the challenge of a science of consciousness Understanding consciousness has become the ultimate intellectual challenge of this new millennium. Even if philosophers now accept the notion...

Phosphorylation-Elicited Quaternary Changes of GA Binding Protein in Transcriptional Activation (2003)

Morten Sunesen, Monique Huchet-dymanus, Morten O. Christensen, Jean-pierre Changeux

Enrichment of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) on the tip of the subjunctional folds of the postsynaptic membrane is a central event in the development of the vertebrate neuromuscular...

Abnormal functional organization in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of mice lacking the beta2 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. Neuron 40 (2003)

Matthew S. Grubb, Francesco M. Rossi, Jean-pierre Changeux, Ian D. Thompson

activity. Between postnatal day 1 (P1) and P10 in this species, spontaneous activity is mediated by nicotinic cholinergic transmission (Feller et al., 1996; Penn et al., 1998) and, in the form of...

Subunit composition of functional nicotinic receptors in dopaminergic neurons investigated with knock-out mice (2003)

Nicolas Champtiaux, Cecilia Gotti, Matilde Cordero-erausquin, Denis J. David, Cédric Przybylski, Clément Léna, ...

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) expressed by dopaminergic (DA) neurons have long been considered as potential therapeutic targets for the treatment of several neuropsychiatric diseases,...

Rapsyn Escorts the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Along the (2002)

Exocytic Pathway Via, Sophie March, Anne Devillers-thiéry, Stéphanie Pons, Jean-pierre Changeux, Jean Cartaud

ent centrifugation demonstrated that rapsyn and AChR are recovered in low-density fractions enriched in two rafts markers: caveolin-1 and flotillin-1. We propose that sorting and targeting of these...

Distribution and Pharmacology of 6-Containing Nicotinic (2002)

Acetylcholine Receptors Analyzed, Nicolas Champtiaux, Zhi-yan Han, Alain Bessis, Francesco Mattia Rossi, Michele Zoli, ...

this paper. Correspondence should be addressed to Nicolas Champtiaux, Institut Pasteur, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Moleculaire, 25-28 Rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Paris, France. E-mail: champtia@pasteur.fr

The Diversity of Subunit Composition in nAChRs: (2002)

Evolutionary Origins Physiologic, Nicolas Le Novère, Pierre-jean Corringer, Jean-pierre Changeux

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are made up of homologous subunits, which are encoded by a large multigene family. The wide number of receptor oligomers generated display variable pharmacological...

La naturaleza y la norma : lo que nos hace pensar (2001)

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Ricoeur, Paul

Traducción de: La nature et la règle. Ce qui nous fait penser

Targeting transcription to the neuromuscular synapse. Neuron (2001)

Laurent Schaeffer, Jean-pierre Changeux

by the fundamental nuclei (for references to papers demonstrating compartmentalized transcription, see Duclert and Changeux, 1995, and Sanes and Lichtman, 1999). Laboratoire de Neurobiologie...

Molecular and physiological diversity of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the midbrain dopaminergic nuclei (2001)

Ruby Klink, Michele Zoli, Jean-pierre Changeux

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) on dopaminergic (DA) and GABAergic (Gaba) projection neurons of the substantia nigra (SN) and ventral tegmental area (VTA) are characterized by single-cell...

The Ligand Gated Ion Channel database: an example of a sequence database in neuroscience (2001)

Nicolas Le Novère, Jean-pierre Changeux

Multiple comparisons of receptor sequences, or receptor subunit sequences, has proved to be an invaluable tool in modern...

LGICdb: the ligand-gated ion channel database (2001)

Le Novère, Nicolas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Ligand-Gated Ion Channels (LGIC) are polymeric transmembrane proteins involved in the fast response to numerous neurotransmitters. All these receptors are formed by homologous subunits and the last...

Specific phosphorylation of Torpedo 43K rapsyn by endogenous kinase(s) with thiamine triphosphate as the phosphate donor (2000)

Hoang-Oanh Nghiem, Lucien Bettendorff, Jean-Pierre Changeux

43K rapsyn is a peripheral protein specifically associated with the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) present in the postsynaptic membrane of the neuromuscular junction and of the electrocyte,...

Pharmacological and Null Mutation Approaches Reveal Nicotinic Receptor Diversity (2000)

Paul Whiteaker, Michael J. Marks, Sharon R. Grady, Ying Lu, Marina R. Picciotto, Jean-Pierre Changeux, ...

w 125 x Z.w 3 x We have developed an array of assays for nicotinic acetylcholine receptor binding and function. I a-Bungarotoxin-, y - H nico- w 3 x tine-, and H epibatidine-binding nicotinic...

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Knockout Mice as Animal Models for Studying Receptor Function (2000)

Lisa M. Marubio, Jean-pierre Changeux

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are pentameric ligand-gated ion channels, which are involved in a wide range of neuronal functions. During the past decade, a large number of nicotinic acetylcholine...

Two Pharmacologically Distinct Components of Nicotinic Receptor-Mediated Rubidium Efflux in Mouse Brain Require the (1999)

Subunit Michael Marks, Michael J. Marks, Paul Whiteaker, Jennifer Calcaterra, Jerry A. Stitzel, Amy E. Bullock, ...

Nicotinic agonist-stimulated efflux of 86 Rb 1 from mouse brain synaptosomes was monitored continuously by on-line radioactivity detection. The concentration-effect curve following a 5-s stimulation...

Improved Secondary Structure Predictions for a Nicotinic Receptor Subunit: Incorporation of Solvent Accessibility and Experimental Data into a Two-Dimensional Representation (1999)

Nicolas Le Nove, Pierre-jean Corringer, Jean-pierre Changeux

A refined prediction of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits' secondary structure was computed with third-generation algorithms. The four selected programs, PHD, Predator, DSC,...

Increased Neurodegeneration During Ageing in Mice Lacking High-Affinity Nicotine Receptors (1999)

Michele Zoli, Marina R. Picciotto, Rosaria Ferrari, Daniela Cocchi, Jean-pierre Changeux

ring ageing. b2 --/-- mice may thus serve as one possible animal model for some of the cognitive deficits and degenerative processes which take place during physiological ageing and in...

Mutational Analysis of the Charge Selectivity Filter of the α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor (1999)

Pierre-jean Corringer, Sonia Bertr, Jean-luc Galzi, Anne Devillers-thiéry, Jean-pierre Changeux, Daniel Bertr, ...

ummary cessible to charged organic reagents (Akabas et al., 1994). Moreover, site-directed mutagenesis experi- In the a7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, we analyze ments carried out within or in...

Modulation of morphine analgesia in alphaCGRP mutant mice (1999)

Anne-Marie Salmon, Imad Damaj, Susumu Sekine, Marina R. Picciotto, Lisa Marubio, Jean-Pierre Changeux

9.454> 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Key words: # and # CGRP; Homologous recombination; Hot plate; Knock-out mice; Morphine analgesia; Tail ick Introduction The calcitonin gene-related...

ON THE COOPERATIVITY OF BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES. (1998)

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Thiery, Jean, Tung, Yvonne, Kittel, C.

We extend the Monod-Wyman-Changeux of allosteric transitions in enzyme-substrate reactions to a membrane composed of identical units (protomers). It is supposed that each protomer can exist in two...

Identification ´ of four classes of brain nicotinic receptors using beta-2 mutant mice (1998)

Michele Zoli, Clément Léna, Marina R. Picciotto, Jean-pierre Changeux

Although the expression patterns of the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits thus far described are known, the subunit composition of functional receptors in different brain...

A Simple Molecular Model of Neurulation (1998)

Michel Kerszberg, Jean-pierre Changeux

98. r 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Introduction The central nervous system (CNS) of the vertebrates is very different from that of invertebrates such as insects. The former acquire, from dorsal...

Pharmacological Characterization of Nicotinic Receptorstimulated GABA Release From Mouse Brain Synaptosomes (1998)

Ying Lu, Sharon Grady, Michael J. Marks, Marina Picciotto, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Allan C. Collins

Several recent electrophysiological studies have demonstrated that nicotinic agonists stimulate the release of #-aminobutyric acid (GABA) from rodent brain tissue. Our studies used a neurochemical...

Critical Elements Determining Diversity in Agonist Binding and Desensitization of Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (1998)

Desensitization Neuronal, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors, Sonia Bertr, Sébastien Bohler, Stuart J. Edelstein, ...

Introduction of the #4 residues 183--191 into #7 subunit sequence (chimera C 2 ) selectively increased the apparent affinities for equilibrium binding and for ion channel activation by acetylcholine,...

Ivermectin: A Positive Allosteric Effector of the (1998)

Neuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor, Ryoko M. Krause, Bruno Buisson, Sonia Bertrand, Pierre-jean Corringer, ...

We report that preapplication of ivermectin, in the micromolar range, strongly enhances the subsequent acetylcholine-evoked current of the neuronal chick or human #7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors...

Implication of a multisubunit Ets-related transcription factor in synaptic expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (1998)

Laurent Schaeffer, Nathalie Duclert, Monique Huchet-dymanus, Jean-pierre Changeux

this report, we have demonstrated that the N-box, which we previously had shown to be a crucial element for the subsynaptic expression of the AChR d- and e-subunits, is also an activating element in...

Single Binding Versus Single Channel Recordings: A New Approach to Study Ionotropic Receptors (1997)

Stuart Edelstein Olivier, Ionotropic Receptors, Jean-pierre Changeux

: The observation of ligand binding to a single molecule has become feasible with recent developments in laser-based fluorescence microscopy. We have simulated such single ligand-binding events for...

Ions in Nicotinic Facilitation of GABA Release in Mouse Thalamus (1997)

Cle Ment Le, Clément Léna, Jean-pierre Changeux

this paper is to further examine the mechanisms of action of nAChRs that increase the release of neurotransmitter in the absence of sodium channel activity.

Differential regulation of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit gene promoters by Brn-3 POU family transcription factors (1996)

Alain Bessis, Jean-pierre Changeux, David S. LATCHMAN

this paper). The division of Brn-3a and Brn-3b subdomains I, II, III and IV is as follows, Brn-3a : subdomain I, amino acids (aa) 1 to 40 ; subdomain II, aa 41 to 108 ; subdomain III, aa 109 to 267 ;...

Identification of an Element Crucial for the Sub-synaptic Expression of the Acetylcholine Receptor (1996)

Subunit Gene Received, Aymeric Duclert, Nathalie Savatier, Laurent Schaeffer, Jean-pierre Changeux

this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate...

Developmental regulation of nicotinic ACh receptor subunit mrnas in the rat central and peripheral nervous systems (1995)

Michele Zoli, Nicolas Le Novkre, Joseph A. Hill, Jean-pierre Changeux

In the present study we have investigated the anatomical distribution pattern of nAChR (~3, 0~4, p2, and f34 subunit mRNAs during prenatal and perinatal development of the rat CNS and PNS. Three main...

The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: Theoretical Analysis and Modeling in a Neuronal Network (1991)

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Neuropsychologists commonly use the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test as a test of the integrity of frontal lobe functions. However, an account of its range of validity and of the neuronal mechanisms...

El hombre neuronal (1985)

Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Traducción de: L'homme neuronal

Conductance increases produced by bath application of cholinergic agonists to Electrophorus electroplaques (1975)

Lester, Henry A., Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Sheridan, Robert E.

When solutions containing agonists are applied to the innervated face of an Electrophorus electroplaque, the membrane's conductance increases. The agonist-induced conductance is increased at more...

Conductance increases produced by bath application of cholinergic agonists to Electrophorus electroplaques (1975)

Lester, Henry A., Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Sheridan, Robert E.

When solutions containing agonists are applied to the innervated face of an Electrophorus electroplaque, the membrane's conductance increases. The agonist-induced conductance is increased at more...

Oral administration of a dual analog of two myasthenogenic T cell epitopes down-regulates experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis in mice

Paas-Rozner, Miri, Dayan, Molly, Paas, Yoav, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Wirguin, Itzhak, Sela, Michael, ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) and experimental autoimmune MG (EAMG) are T cell-regulated, antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases. The major autoantigen in MG is the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR)....

Induction of utrophin gene expression by heregulin in skeletal muscle cells: Role of the N-box motif and GA binding protein

Gramolini, Anthony O., Angus, Lindsay M., Schaeffer, Laurent, Burton, Edward A., Tinsley, Jonathon M., Davies, Kay E., ...

The modulation of utrophin gene expression in muscle by the nerve-derived factor agrin plausibly involves the trophic factor ARIA/heregulin. Here we show that heregulin treatment of mouse and human...

Diversity and distribution of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the locus ceruleus neurons

Léna, Clément, De Kerchove D’Exaerde, Alban, Cordero-Erausquin, Matilde, Le Novère, Nicolas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The neurons of the locus ceruleus are responsible for most of the noradrenergic innervation in the brain and nicotine potentiates noradrenaline release from their terminals. Here we investigated the...

The neuron-restrictive silencer element: A dual enhancer/silencer crucial for patterned expression of a nicotinic receptor gene in the brain

Bessis, Alain, Champtiaux, Nicolas, Chatelin, Laurent, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The neuron-restrictive silencer element (NRSE) has been identified in several neuronal genes and confers neuron specificity by silencing transcription in nonneuronal cells. NRSE is present in the...

A hierarchical neuronal network for planning behavior

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Planning a goal-directed sequence of behavior is a higher function of the human brain that relies on the integrity of prefrontal cortical areas. In the Tower of London test, a puzzle in which beads...

A neuronal model of a global workspace in effortful cognitive tasks

Dehaene, Stanislas, Kerszberg, Michel, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

A minimal hypothesis is proposed concerning the brain processes underlying effortful tasks. It distinguishes two main computational spaces: a unique global workspace composed of distributed and...

LGICdb: the ligand-gated ion channel database

Le Novère, Nicolas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Ligand-Gated Ion Channels (LGIC) are polymeric transmembrane proteins involved in the fast response to numerous neurotransmitters. All these receptors are formed by homologous subunits and the last...

Tonic nicotinic modulation of serotoninergic transmission in the spinal cord

Cordero-Erausquin, Matilde, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The spinal serotoninergic projection from the raphe magnus has been shown to modulate nociceptive inputs, and activation of this projection mediates nicotine-elicited analgesia. Here, we investigate...

A method for soluble overexpression of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor extracellular domain

Fischer, Markus, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, Schott, Karin, Bacher, Adelbert, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We describe the construction of a soluble protein carrying the N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD) of the α7 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The approach was to fuse the α7 ECD...

Requirement of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor β2 subunit for the anatomical and functional development of the visual system

Rossi, Francesco Mattia, Pizzorusso, Tommaso, Porciatti, Vittorio, Marubio, Lisa M., Maffei, Lamberto, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

In the mammalian visual system the formation of eye-specific layers at the thalamic level depends on retinal waves of spontaneous activity, which rely on nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activation....

Models of the extracellular domain of the nicotinic receptors and of agonist- and Ca2+-binding sites

Le Novère, Nicolas, Grutter, Thomas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We constructed a three-dimensional model of the amino-terminal extracellular domain of three major types of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, (α7)5, (α4)2(β2)3, and (α1)2β1γδ, on the basis of...

Experimentally based model of a complex between a snake toxin and the α7 nicotinic receptor

Fruchart-Gaillard, Carole, Gilquin, Bernard, Antil-Delbeke, Stéphanie, Le Novère, Nicolas, Tamiya, Toru, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, ...

To understand how snake neurotoxins interact with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, we have elaborated an experimentally based model of the α–cobratoxin–α7 receptor complex. This model was...

β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit modulates protective responses to stress: A receptor basis for sleep-disordered breathing after nicotine exposure

Cohen, Gary, Han, Zhi-Yan, Grailhe, Régis, Gallego, Jorge, Gaultier, Claude, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, ...

Nicotine exposure diminishes the protective breathing and arousal responses to stress (hypoxia). By exacerbating sleep-disordered breathing, this disturbance could underpin the well established...

Nicotine activates immature “silent” connections in the developing hippocampus

Maggi, Laura, Le Magueresse, Corentin, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Cherubini, Enrico

In the hippocampus at birth, most glutamatergic synapses are immature and functionally “silent” either because the neurotransmitter is released in insufficient amount to activate low-affinity...

An H-bond between two residues from different loops of the acetylcholine binding site contributes to the activation mechanism of nicotinic receptors

Grutter, Thomas, Prado De Carvalho, Lia, Le Novère, Nicolas, Corringer, Pierre Jean, Edelstein, Stuart, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The molecular mechanisms of nicotinic receptor activation are still largely unknown. The crystallographic structure of the acetylcholine binding protein (AChBP) reveals a single H-bond between two...

A neuronal network model linking subjective reports and objective physiological data during conscious perception

Dehaene, Stanislas, Sergent, Claire, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The subjective experience of perceiving visual stimuli is accompanied by objective neuronal activity patterns such as sustained activity in primary visual area (V1), amplification of perceptual...

Executive and social behaviors under nicotinic receptor regulation

Granon, Sylvie, Faure, Philippe, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Nicotine enhances several cognitive and psychomotor behaviors, and nicotinic antagonists cause impairments in tasks requiring cognitive effort. To explore the contribution of nicotinic receptors to...

Electron microscopic evidence for nucleation and growth of 3D acetylcholine receptor microcrystals in structured lipid–detergent matrices

Paas, Yoav, Cartaud, Jean, Recouvreur, Michel, Grailhe, Regis, Dufresne, Virginie, Pebay-Peyroula, Eva, ...

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) belong to a superfamily of oligomeric proteins that transduce electric signals across the cell membrane on binding of neurotransmitters. These receptors...

COMPARED EFFECTS OF DITHIOTHREITOL ON THE INTERACTION OF AN AFFINITY-LABELING REAGENT WITH ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND THE EXCITABLE MEMBRANE OF THE ELECTROPLAX*

Podleski, Thomas, Meunier, Jean-Claude, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

p-(trimethyl ammonium) benzene diazonium difluoroborate (TDF), an affinity-labeling reagent of the acetylcholine receptor site(s), which in the normal cell acts as an irreversible inhibitor becomes a...

ON THE ASSOCIATION OF TYROCIDINE WITH ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE*

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Ryter, Antoinette, Leuzinger, Walo, Barrand, Plana, Podleski, Thomas

In studies of several polypeptide antibiotics with a high affinity for a variety of biological membranes, tyrocidine was found to bind specifically to acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme localized in...

Phosphorylation-Elicited Quaternary Changes of GA Binding Protein in Transcriptional Activation

Sunesen, Morten, Huchet-Dymanus, Monique, Christensen, Morten O., Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Enrichment of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) on the tip of the subjunctional folds of the postsynaptic membrane is a central event in the development of the vertebrate neuromuscular...

Use of a Snake Venom Toxin to Characterize the Cholinergic Receptor Protein*

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Kasai, Michiki, Lee, Chen-Yuan

α-Bungarotoxin, a polypeptide of mol wt 8000 purified from the venom of Bungarus multicinctus, blocks irreversibly and specifically the excitation by cholinergic agonists on the isolated electroplax...

Reconstitution of a Chemically Excitable Membrane

Hazelbauer, Gerald L., Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Membrane fragments rich in cholinergic (nicotinic) receptor sites, purified from homogenates of Torpedo marmorata electric organ, are dissolved in high concentrations of Na cholate and Tris buffer in...

A Theory of the Epigenesis of Neuronal Networks by Selective Stabilization of Synapses

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Courrége, Philippe, Danchin, Antoine

A formalism is introduced to represent the connective organization of an evolving neuronal network and the effects of environment on this organization by stabilization or degeneration of labile...

Nicotinic receptors regulate the survival of newborn neurons in the adult olfactory bulb

Mechawar, Naguib, Saghatelyan, Armen, Grailhe, Régis, Scoriels, Linda, Gheusi, Gilles, Gabellec, Marie-Madeleine, ...

Cholinergic axons and nicotinic receptors are abundant in all layers of the olfactory bulb (OB), the main region of newborn neuron integration in the adult brain. Here, we report that the OB granule...

14-3-3 γ associates with muscle specific kinase and regulates synaptic gene transcription at vertebrate neuromuscular synapse

Strochlic, Laure, Cartaud, Annie, Mejat, Alexandre, Grailhe, Régis, Schaeffer, Laurent, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, ...

The muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK) is part of a receptor complex, activated by neural agrin, that orchestrates the differentiation of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). To gain...

Ongoing Spontaneous Activity Controls Access to Consciousness: A Neuronal Model for Inattentional Blindness

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Expression of mutant Ets protein at the neuromuscular synapse causes alterations in morphology and gene expression

De Kerchove D'Exaerde, Alban, Cartaud, Jean, Ravel-Chapuis, Aymeric, Seroz, Thierry, Pasteau, Fabien, Angus, Lindsay M., ...

The localized transcription of several muscle genes at the motor endplate is controlled by the Ets transcription factor GABP. To evaluate directly its contribution to the formation of the...

Pore conformations and gating mechanism of a Cys-loop receptor

Paas, Yoav, Gibor, Gilad, Grailhe, Regis, Savatier-Duclert, Nathalie, Dufresne, Virginie, Sunesen, Morten, ...

Neurons regulate the propagation of chemoelectric signals throughout the nervous system by opening and closing ion channels, a process known as gating. Here, histidine-based metal-binding sites were...

Normal Mode Analysis Suggests a Quaternary Twist Model for the Nicotinic Receptor Gating Mechanism

Taly, Antoine, Delarue, Marc, Grutter, Thomas, Nilges, Michael, Le Novère, Nicolas, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, ...

We present a three-dimensional model of the homopentameric α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), that includes the extracellular and membrane domains, developed by comparative modeling on the...

Molecular tuning of fast gating in pentameric ligand-gated ion channels

Grutter, Thomas, De Carvalho, Lia Prado, Dufresne, Virginie, Taly, Antoine, Edelstein, Stuart J., Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine (ACh) and glycine mediate fast synaptic neurotransmission by activating pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs). These receptors are allosteric...

A neurocomputational hypothesis for nicotine addiction

Gutkin, Boris S., Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We present a hypothetical neurocomputational model that combines a set of neural circuits at the molecular, cellular, and system levels and accounts for several neurobiological and behavioral...

Oral administration of a dual analog of two myasthenogenic T cell epitopes down-regulates experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis in mice

Paas-Rozner, Miri, Dayan, Molly, Paas, Yoav, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Wirguin, Itzhak, Sela, Michael, ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) and experimental autoimmune MG (EAMG) are T cell-regulated, antibody-mediated autoimmune diseases. The major autoantigen in MG is the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AChR)....

Induction of utrophin gene expression by heregulin in skeletal muscle cells: Role of the N-box motif and GA binding protein

Gramolini, Anthony O., Angus, Lindsay M., Schaeffer, Laurent, Burton, Edward A., Tinsley, Jonathon M., Davies, Kay E., ...

The modulation of utrophin gene expression in muscle by the nerve-derived factor agrin plausibly involves the trophic factor ARIA/heregulin. Here we show that heregulin treatment of mouse and human...

Diversity and distribution of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the locus ceruleus neurons

Léna, Clément, De Kerchove D’Exaerde, Alban, Cordero-Erausquin, Matilde, Le Novère, Nicolas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The neurons of the locus ceruleus are responsible for most of the noradrenergic innervation in the brain and nicotine potentiates noradrenaline release from their terminals. Here we investigated the...

The neuron-restrictive silencer element: A dual enhancer/silencer crucial for patterned expression of a nicotinic receptor gene in the brain

Bessis, Alain, Champtiaux, Nicolas, Chatelin, Laurent, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The neuron-restrictive silencer element (NRSE) has been identified in several neuronal genes and confers neuron specificity by silencing transcription in nonneuronal cells. NRSE is present in the...

A hierarchical neuronal network for planning behavior

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Planning a goal-directed sequence of behavior is a higher function of the human brain that relies on the integrity of prefrontal cortical areas. In the Tower of London test, a puzzle in which beads...

A neuronal model of a global workspace in effortful cognitive tasks

Dehaene, Stanislas, Kerszberg, Michel, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

A minimal hypothesis is proposed concerning the brain processes underlying effortful tasks. It distinguishes two main computational spaces: a unique global workspace composed of distributed and...

LGICdb: the ligand-gated ion channel database

Le Novère, Nicolas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Ligand-Gated Ion Channels (LGIC) are polymeric transmembrane proteins involved in the fast response to numerous neurotransmitters. All these receptors are formed by homologous subunits and the last...

Tonic nicotinic modulation of serotoninergic transmission in the spinal cord

Cordero-Erausquin, Matilde, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The spinal serotoninergic projection from the raphe magnus has been shown to modulate nociceptive inputs, and activation of this projection mediates nicotine-elicited analgesia. Here, we investigate...

A method for soluble overexpression of the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor extracellular domain

Fischer, Markus, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, Schott, Karin, Bacher, Adelbert, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We describe the construction of a soluble protein carrying the N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD) of the α7 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor. The approach was to fuse the α7 ECD...

Requirement of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor β2 subunit for the anatomical and functional development of the visual system

Rossi, Francesco Mattia, Pizzorusso, Tommaso, Porciatti, Vittorio, Marubio, Lisa M., Maffei, Lamberto, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

In the mammalian visual system the formation of eye-specific layers at the thalamic level depends on retinal waves of spontaneous activity, which rely on nicotinic acetylcholine receptor activation....

Models of the extracellular domain of the nicotinic receptors and of agonist- and Ca2+-binding sites

Le Novère, Nicolas, Grutter, Thomas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We constructed a three-dimensional model of the amino-terminal extracellular domain of three major types of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, (α7)5, (α4)2(β2)3, and (α1)2β1γδ, on the basis of...

Experimentally based model of a complex between a snake toxin and the α7 nicotinic receptor

Fruchart-Gaillard, Carole, Gilquin, Bernard, Antil-Delbeke, Stéphanie, Le Novère, Nicolas, Tamiya, Toru, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, ...

To understand how snake neurotoxins interact with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, we have elaborated an experimentally based model of the α–cobratoxin–α7 receptor complex. This model was...

β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit modulates protective responses to stress: A receptor basis for sleep-disordered breathing after nicotine exposure

Cohen, Gary, Han, Zhi-Yan, Grailhe, Régis, Gallego, Jorge, Gaultier, Claude, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, ...

Nicotine exposure diminishes the protective breathing and arousal responses to stress (hypoxia). By exacerbating sleep-disordered breathing, this disturbance could underpin the well established...

Nicotine activates immature “silent” connections in the developing hippocampus

Maggi, Laura, Le Magueresse, Corentin, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Cherubini, Enrico

In the hippocampus at birth, most glutamatergic synapses are immature and functionally “silent” either because the neurotransmitter is released in insufficient amount to activate low-affinity...

An H-bond between two residues from different loops of the acetylcholine binding site contributes to the activation mechanism of nicotinic receptors

Grutter, Thomas, Prado De Carvalho, Lia, Le Novère, Nicolas, Corringer, Pierre Jean, Edelstein, Stuart, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The molecular mechanisms of nicotinic receptor activation are still largely unknown. The crystallographic structure of the acetylcholine binding protein (AChBP) reveals a single H-bond between two...

A neuronal network model linking subjective reports and objective physiological data during conscious perception

Dehaene, Stanislas, Sergent, Claire, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The subjective experience of perceiving visual stimuli is accompanied by objective neuronal activity patterns such as sustained activity in primary visual area (V1), amplification of perceptual...

Executive and social behaviors under nicotinic receptor regulation

Granon, Sylvie, Faure, Philippe, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Nicotine enhances several cognitive and psychomotor behaviors, and nicotinic antagonists cause impairments in tasks requiring cognitive effort. To explore the contribution of nicotinic receptors to...

Electron microscopic evidence for nucleation and growth of 3D acetylcholine receptor microcrystals in structured lipid–detergent matrices

Paas, Yoav, Cartaud, Jean, Recouvreur, Michel, Grailhe, Regis, Dufresne, Virginie, Pebay-Peyroula, Eva, ...

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) belong to a superfamily of oligomeric proteins that transduce electric signals across the cell membrane on binding of neurotransmitters. These receptors...

COMPARED EFFECTS OF DITHIOTHREITOL ON THE INTERACTION OF AN AFFINITY-LABELING REAGENT WITH ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND THE EXCITABLE MEMBRANE OF THE ELECTROPLAX*

Podleski, Thomas, Meunier, Jean-Claude, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

p-(trimethyl ammonium) benzene diazonium difluoroborate (TDF), an affinity-labeling reagent of the acetylcholine receptor site(s), which in the normal cell acts as an irreversible inhibitor becomes a...

ON THE ASSOCIATION OF TYROCIDINE WITH ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE*

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Ryter, Antoinette, Leuzinger, Walo, Barrand, Plana, Podleski, Thomas

In studies of several polypeptide antibiotics with a high affinity for a variety of biological membranes, tyrocidine was found to bind specifically to acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme localized in...

Phosphorylation-Elicited Quaternary Changes of GA Binding Protein in Transcriptional Activation

Sunesen, Morten, Huchet-Dymanus, Monique, Christensen, Morten O., Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Enrichment of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) on the tip of the subjunctional folds of the postsynaptic membrane is a central event in the development of the vertebrate neuromuscular...

Use of a Snake Venom Toxin to Characterize the Cholinergic Receptor Protein*

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Kasai, Michiki, Lee, Chen-Yuan

α-Bungarotoxin, a polypeptide of mol wt 8000 purified from the venom of Bungarus multicinctus, blocks irreversibly and specifically the excitation by cholinergic agonists on the isolated electroplax...

Reconstitution of a Chemically Excitable Membrane

Hazelbauer, Gerald L., Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Membrane fragments rich in cholinergic (nicotinic) receptor sites, purified from homogenates of Torpedo marmorata electric organ, are dissolved in high concentrations of Na cholate and Tris buffer in...

A Theory of the Epigenesis of Neuronal Networks by Selective Stabilization of Synapses

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Courrége, Philippe, Danchin, Antoine

A formalism is introduced to represent the connective organization of an evolving neuronal network and the effects of environment on this organization by stabilization or degeneration of labile...

Nicotinic receptors regulate the survival of newborn neurons in the adult olfactory bulb

Mechawar, Naguib, Saghatelyan, Armen, Grailhe, Régis, Scoriels, Linda, Gheusi, Gilles, Gabellec, Marie-Madeleine, ...

Cholinergic axons and nicotinic receptors are abundant in all layers of the olfactory bulb (OB), the main region of newborn neuron integration in the adult brain. Here, we report that the OB granule...

14-3-3 γ associates with muscle specific kinase and regulates synaptic gene transcription at vertebrate neuromuscular synapse

Strochlic, Laure, Cartaud, Annie, Mejat, Alexandre, Grailhe, Régis, Schaeffer, Laurent, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, ...

The muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK) is part of a receptor complex, activated by neural agrin, that orchestrates the differentiation of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). To gain...

Perinatal exposure to nicotine causes deficits associated with a loss of nicotinic receptor function

Cohen, Gary, Roux, Jean-Christophe, Grailhe, Régis, Malcolm, Girvan, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Lagercrantz, Hugo

We investigated the role played by β2-containing neuronal nicotinic receptors [nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs)] in mediating nicotine's side effects in the fetus and newborn. Pregnant WT...

Ongoing Spontaneous Activity Controls Access to Consciousness: A Neuronal Model for Inattentional Blindness

Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Even in the absence of sensory inputs, cortical and thalamic neurons can show structured patterns of ongoing spontaneous activity, whose origins and functional significance are not well understood....

Pore conformations and gating mechanism of a Cys-loop receptor

Paas, Yoav, Gibor, Gilad, Grailhe, Regis, Savatier-Duclert, Nathalie, Dufresne, Virginie, Sunesen, Morten, ...

Neurons regulate the propagation of chemoelectric signals throughout the nervous system by opening and closing ion channels, a process known as gating. Here, histidine-based metal-binding sites were...

Normal Mode Analysis Suggests a Quaternary Twist Model for the Nicotinic Receptor Gating Mechanism

Taly, Antoine, Delarue, Marc, Grutter, Thomas, Nilges, Michael, Le Novère, Nicolas, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, ...

We present a three-dimensional model of the homopentameric α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR), that includes the extracellular and membrane domains, developed by comparative modeling on the...

Expression of mutant Ets protein at the neuromuscular synapse causes alterations in morphology and gene expression

De Kerchove D'Exaerde, Alban, Cartaud, Jean, Ravel-Chapuis, Aymeric, Seroz, Thierry, Pasteau, Fabien, Angus, Lindsay M., ...

The localized transcription of several muscle genes at the motor endplate is controlled by the Ets transcription factor GABP. To evaluate directly its contribution to the formation of the...

Molecular tuning of fast gating in pentameric ligand-gated ion channels

Grutter, Thomas, De Carvalho, Lia Prado, Dufresne, Virginie, Taly, Antoine, Edelstein, Stuart J., Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine (ACh) and glycine mediate fast synaptic neurotransmission by activating pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs). These receptors are allosteric...

A neurocomputational hypothesis for nicotine addiction

Gutkin, Boris S., Dehaene, Stanislas, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

We present a hypothetical neurocomputational model that combines a set of neural circuits at the molecular, cellular, and system levels and accounts for several neurobiological and behavioral...

Implications of the quaternary twist allosteric model for the physiology and pathology of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

Taly, Antoine, Corringer, Pierre-Jean, Grutter, Thomas, De Carvalho, Lia Prado, Karplus, Martin, Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR) are pentameric ligand-gated ion channels composed of subunits that consist of an extracellular domain that carries the ligand-binding site and a distinct...

Nicotinic modulation of network and synaptic transmission in the immature hippocampus investigated with genetically modified mice

Le Magueresse, Corentin, Safiulina, Victoria, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Cherubini, Enrico

The hippocampus, a key structure in learning and memory processes, receives a powerful cholinergic innervation from the septum and contains nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). Early in...

Live imaging of neural structure and function by fibred fluorescence microscopy

Vincent, Pierre, Maskos, Uwe, Charvet, Igor, Bourgeais, Laurence, Stoppini, Luc, Leresche, Nathalie, ...

Only a few methods permit researchers to study selected regions of the central and peripheral nervous systems with a spatial and time resolution sufficient to image the function of neural structures....

Long-term effects of chronic nicotine exposure on brain nicotinic receptors

Besson, Morgane, Granon, Sylvie, Mameli-Engvall, Monica, Cloëz-Tayarani, Isabelle, Maubourguet, Nicolas, Cormier, Anne, ...

Chronic nicotine exposure results in long-term homeostatic regulation of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) that play a key role in the adaptative cellular processes leading to addiction....

The Ferrier Lecture 1998: The molecular biology of consciousness investigated with genetically modified mice

Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The question is raised of the relevance of experimental work with the mouse and some of its genetically modified individuals in the study of consciousness. Even if this species does not go far beyond...

On Some Structural Analogies between Acetylcholinesterase and the Macromolecular Receptor of Acetylcholine

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Podleski, Thomas, Meunier, Jean-Claude

Several properties of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) isolated in vitro are compared with those of the membrane receptor(s) of acetylcholine expressed by the in vivo electrical response of the...

Intracellular complexes of the β2 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in brain identified by proteomics

Kabbani, Nadine, Woll, Matthew P., Levenson, Robert, Lindstrom, Jon M., Changeux, Jean-Pierre

Nicotine acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) comprise a family of ligand-gated channels widely expressed in the mammalian brain. The β2 subunit is an abundant protein subunit critically involved in the...

Behavioral Sequence Analysis Reveals a Novel Role for ß2* Nicotinic Receptors in Exploration

Maubourguet, Nicolas, Lesne, Annick, Changeux, Jean-Pierre, Maskos, Uwe, Faure, Philippe

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are widely expressed throughout the central nervous system and modulate neuronal function in most mammalian brain structures. The contribution of defined...

Interplay of β2* nicotinic receptors and dopamine pathways in the control of spontaneous locomotion

Avale, Maria Elena, Faure, Philippe, Pons, Stéphanie, Robledo, Patricia, Deltheil, Thierry, David, Denis J., ...

Acetylcholine (ACh) is a known modulator of the activity of dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons through the stimulation of nicotinic ACh receptors (nAChRs). Yet, the subunit composition and specific...

Reflections of a neuroscientist on the origins of ethics

Changeux, Jean-Pierre

The increased globalization of economics, communications and of medical care raises many issues of ethics and science and their applications on the global scale. A critical question to consider is...