Kiichi Watanabe   Hui Chiu   Barret D Pfeiffer   Allan M Wong   Eric D Hoopfer   Gerald M Rubin   David J Anderson   
Neuron 95(5) 1112-1128 2017年8月
Diffuse neuromodulatory systems such as norepinephrine (NE) control brain-wide states such as arousal, but whether they control complex social behaviors more specifically is not clear. Octopamine (OA), the insect homolog of NE, is known to promote...
Males of most species are more aggressive than females, but the neural mechanisms underlying this dimorphism are not clear. Here, we identify a neuron and a gene that control the higher level of aggression characteristic of Drosophila melanogaster...
The neural fate is generally considered to be the intrinsic direction of embryonic stem (ES) cell differentiation. However, little is known about the intracellular mechanism that leads undifferentiated cells to adopt the neural fate in the absence...
Teruko Danjo   Mototsugu Eiraku   Keiko Muguruma   Kiichi Watanabe   Masako Kawada   Yuchio Yanagawa   John L R Rubenstein   Yoshiki Sasai   
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 31(5) 1919-33 2011年2月
During early telencephalic development, the major portion of the ventral telencephalic (subpallial) region becomes subdivided into three regions, the lateral (LGE), medial (MGE), and caudal (CGE) ganglionic eminences. In this study, we systematica...
Journal of cell science 122(Pt 17) 3169-79 2009年9月
The use of stem-cell therapy to treat retinal degeneration holds great promise. However, definitive methods of retinal differentiation that do not depend on recombinant proteins produced in animal or Escherichia coli cells have not been devised. H...