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    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Yolk-sac-derived macrophages progressively expand in the mouse kidney with age

    Shintaro Ide, Yasuhito Yahara ... Tomokazu Souma
    A combination of genetic fate-mapping and parabiotic experiments reveals the chronological expansion of yolk-sac-derived renal tissue-resident macrophages with age by cellular proliferation and recruitment from circulating progenitors.
    1. Neuroscience

    Cerebellar Purkinje cell activity modulates aggressive behavior

    Skyler L Jackman, Christopher H Chen ... Wade G Regehr
    Optogenetic control of Purkinje cells in the cerebellar vermis enables bidirectional control of aggression.
    1. Medicine

    Potential harmful effects of discontinuing ACE-inhibitors and ARBs in COVID-19 patients

    Gian Paolo Rossi, Viola Sanga, Matthias Barton
    Current evidence does not suggest adverse effects of ACE inhibitors or ARBs in COVID-19 patients and, to the contrary, discontinuing these drugs in these patients may potentially be harmful.
    1. Neuroscience

    Loss of Doc2b does not influence transmission at Purkinje cell to deep nuclei synapses under physiological conditions

    Mehak M Khan, Wade G Regehr
    Eliminating the calcium-binding protein Doc2b does not alter transmission at a mature synapse under physiological conditions, counter to the prevailing view of Doc2b based on cultured neurons.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    A molecular view on the escape of lipoplexed DNA from the endosome

    Bart MH Bruininks, Paulo CT Souza ... Siewert J Marrink
    The molecular insight in lipoplex transfection mechanisms helps in the development of efficient and affordable gene delivery systems.
    1. Neuroscience

    Correcting for physical distortions in visual stimuli improves reproducibility in zebrafish neuroscience

    Timothy W Dunn, James E Fitzgerald
    Computational analyses quantitatively account for optical refraction at air-water interfaces to enable visual neuroscientists to present distortion-free stimuli to underwater animals.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    Characterising a healthy adult with a rare HAO1 knockout to support a therapeutic strategy for primary hyperoxaluria

    Tracy L McGregor, Karen A Hunt ... David A van Heel
    Lifelong HAO1 knockout was safe and without clinical phenotype in an identified healthy woman, de-risking a rare disease therapeutic approach through the power of naturally occurring human genetic variation.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    The membrane periodic skeleton is an actomyosin network that regulates axonal diameter and conduction

    Ana Rita Costa, Sara C Sousa ... Monica M Sousa
    The axonal cytoskeletal contains an actomyosin-II network that controls circumferential axonal contraction and expansion with the potential of regulating fluctuations in diameter during action potential firing, trafficking, and degeneration.
    1. Neuroscience

    Saccade suppression depends on context

    Eckart Zimmermann
    The ability to smoothly perceive the environment across saccades without disturbing retinal motion sensations is generated by eye movement contingent habituation.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Plant Biology

    Adaptation of hydroxymethylbutenyl diphosphate reductase enables volatile isoprenoid production

    Mareike Bongers, Jordi Perez-Gil ... Claudia E Vickers
    Differences in HDR product preference present a novel mechanism in plants to control substrate availability for short- and long-chain isoprenoids.