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ArticleeLife2021

Ciliary neuropeptidergic signaling dynamically regulates excitatory synapses in postnatal neocortical pyramidal neurons.

Lauren Tereshko, Ya Gao, Brian A Cary, Gina G Turrigiano, Piali Sengupta

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Form and function in biological filaments: a physicist's review.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2025
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  14. Identification of New Ciliary Signaling Pathways in the Brain and Insights into Neurological Disorders.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  17. The Primary Cilia are Associated with the Axon Initial Segment in Neurons.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  18. Convergence of autism proteins at the cilium.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lauren TereshkoDepartment of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3136-753X
Ya GaoDepartment of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9608-8988
Brian A CaryDepartment of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1759-164X
Gina G TurrigianoDepartment of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4476-4059
Piali SenguptaDepartment of Biology, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7468-0035
Brandeis University · US

Funding

NEUROSCIENCE: FROM CHANNELS TO BEHAVIORT32MH019929 · NIMH · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI GRIFFITH, LESLIE C · 1994 to 2023
$8.5M
Mechanisms of sensory neuron morphological diversification, signaling, and functional plasticityR35GM122463 · NIGMS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI Piali Sengupta · 2017 to 2026
$7.7M
Mechanisms and Function of Firing Rate Homeostasis in Cortical CircuitsR35NS111562 · NINDS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI GINA G TURRIGIANO · 2019 to 2026
$7.3M
Maintenance of excitatory/inhibitory synapse balance by ciliary signalingR21MH118464 · NIMH · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI SENGUPTA, PIALI, TURRIGIANO, GINA G · 2019 to 2020
$447k
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM122463NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH118464NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH019929NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS111562
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary cilia are compartmentalized sensory organelles present on the majority of neurons in the mammalian brain throughout adulthood. Recent evidence suggests that cilia regulate multiple aspects of neuronal development, including the maintenance of neuronal connectivity. However, whether ciliary signals can dynamically modulate postnatal circuit excitability is unknown. Here we show that acute cell-autonomous knockdown of ciliary signaling rapidly strengthens glutamatergic inputs onto cultured rat neocortical pyramidal neurons and increases spontaneous firing. This increased excitability occurs without changes to passive neuronal properties or intrinsic excitability. Further, the neuropeptide receptor somatostatin receptor 3 (SSTR3) is localized nearly exclusively to excitatory neuron cilia both

Indexed as

AnimalsCells, CulturedCiliaFemaleMaleNeocortexPatch-Clamp TechniquesPyramidal CellsRatsRats, Long-EvansReceptors, SomatostatinSignal TransductionSynapsesReceptors, Somatostatinsomatostatin receptor 3cell biologyciliacortexneuropeptideneuroscienceratSSTR3synapse

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PMID33650969
PMCPMC7952091
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