Maciej Gawlak

TL;DR: The observations show that the maintenance and growth-inhibitory function of perineuronal nets are regulated by a dynamic interplay between pre- and postsynaptic neurons, and external stimuli act on this interaction to facilitate neuritic growth by locally dampening the activity of inhibitory cues.

TL;DR: A high-resolution fluorescent in situ zymography (ISZ) technique, performed in thin sections of the alcohol-fixed and polyester wax-embedded brain tissue of the rat, which is superior to the current ISZ protocols and could be used to investigate proteinase involvement in a range of physiological and pathological phenomena in the nervous system.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated if hypertension was associated with changes in the colon permeability to trimethylamine (TMA), a TMAO precursor, and found that hypertensive rats show an increased permeability of the colon to TMA.

TL;DR: It is reported that matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9, extracellularly operating enzyme) in the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) is crucial for appetitive, but not for aversive, learning in mice.

TL;DR: The present study suggests that TnC contributes to the regulation of structural plasticity in the cerebellum and that interactions between TNC and MMP-9 are likely to be important for these processes to occur.