Heinrich Dircksen

TL;DR: A preferential localization of APP is reported at synaptic sites of human and rat brain and at neuromuscular junctions, implying a role of APP in physiological synaptic activity and a potential and early impairment of central synapses when synaptic APP is converted to beta A4 amyloid during the pathological evolution of Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome.

TL;DR: This article provided an up-to-date review of the literature on the historical development of the field of "crustacean eyestalk hormones", and the names CHH, MIH, and GIH/VIH (gonad/vitellogenesis-inhibiting hormone), MOIH (mandibular organ-inhibititing hormone) were coined.

TL;DR: These findings emphasize that the LNds are heterogeneous both anatomically and with respect to content of neuropeptides, cryptochrome, and other markers and suggest diverse functions of these neurons.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported 43 novel genes in the water flea Daphnia pulex encoding 73 predicted neuropeptide and protein hormones as partly confirmed by RT-PCR.

TL;DR: The unusual branching patterns and the special neurochemical phenotype suggest a particular physiological role of these neurons in the brain of several orthopteroid insects, including locusts, crickets, a cockroach, and a phasmid.