Bing Dai

TL;DR: The GRABDA sensors resolve evoked DA release in mouse brain slices, detect evoked compartmental DA release from a single neuron in live flies, and report optogenetically elicited nigrostriatal DA release as well as mesoaccumbens dopaminergic activity during sexual behavior in freely behaving mice.

TL;DR: In this article , a genetically encoded DA sensor, GRABDA2m, was used to record DA activity in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) core during various social behaviors in male and female mice.

TL;DR: The first red fluorescent GPCR-activation–based DA (GRABDA) sensors and optimized versions of green fluorescent GRAB DA sensors are developed to provide a robust tool for simultaneously tracking neuronal activity and dopaminergic signaling in distinct circuits in vivo.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a genetically encoded dopamine sensor, GRABDA2h, to record dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) core in mice and find acute changes in extracellular dopamine levels during all three phases of social behaviors: approach, investigation and consummation.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify oxytocin neurons in the retrochiasmatic supraoptic nucleus (SOROXT) and receptor expressing cells in the anterior subdivision of ventromedial hypothalamus, ventrolateral part (aVMHvlOXTR) as a key circuit motif for defeat-induced social avoidance learning.