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1. Mapping circuit dynamics during function and dysfunction

   This article has 8 authors:

   1. Srinivas Gorur-Shandilya
   2. Elizabeth M Cronin
   3. Anna C Schneider
   4. Sara Ann Haddad
   5. Philipp Rosenbaum
   6. Dirk Bucher
   7. Farzan Nadim
   8. Eve Marder

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This manuscript presents a method to characterize diverse neural activity patterns arising from a small invertebrate circuit. This is of practical interest to invertebrate neuroscientists. The application of unsupervised methods to characterize qualitatively distinct regimes of spiking neural circuits is very interesting. The challenges and lessons learned in this study are therefore of broader interest to those seeking to quantitatively characterize large sets of neural data across many subjects. The survey could be improved by further validation of the derived clusters.

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2. Emergence and function of cortical offset responses in sound termination detection

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Magdalena Solyga
   2. Tania Rinaldi Barkat

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     Evaluation Summary:

     There has been a great deal of recent interest in the neural basis for offset responses given their hypothesised importance to perception. This tests the relevance of offset responses to duration perception in a mouse model in addition to examining the brain basis. The work is thorough and well executed. The work demonstrates offset responses that occurs for the first time in auditory cortex distinct from A1 where prevention of offsets by activating cells causes worsening of behavioural performance.

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3. Zika virus causes placental pyroptosis and associated adverse fetal outcomes by activating GSDME

   This article has 11 authors:

   1. Zikai Zhao
   2. Qi Li
   3. Usama Ashraf
   4. Mengjie Yang
   5. Wenjing Zhu
   6. Jun Gu
   7. Zheng Chen
   8. Changqin Gu
   9. Youhui Si
   10. Shengbo Cao
   11. Jing Ye

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     Evaluation Summary:

     The manuscript addresses an important question with broad relevance to the fields of virology, reproductive biology and immunology, and cell death. The primary conclusion of viral-induced cell death is well supported. Some mechanistic details of the pathway remain unclear.

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4. Transition to siblinghood causes a substantial and long-lasting increase in urinary cortisol levels in wild bonobos

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Verena Behringer
   2. Andreas Berghänel
   3. Tobias Deschner
   4. Sean M Lee
   5. Barbara Fruth
   6. Gottfried Hohmann

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This paper documents in wild bonobos significant physiological changes in response to becoming a sibling for the first time. The authors find that new siblings' cortisol increases dramatically, while their neopterin (a marker of immune function) decreases. This paper will be of interest to those who study development, life history transitions, and colleagues at the intersection of physiology and behavior, in particular in primates and other mammals with slow life histories.

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5. Cytotoxic CD4+ T cells driven by T-cell intrinsic IL-18R/MyD88 signaling predominantly infiltrate Trypanosoma cruzi-infected hearts

   This article has 12 authors:

   1. Carlos-Henrique D Barbosa
   2. Fábio B Canto
   3. Ariel Gomes
   4. Layza M Brandao
   5. Jéssica R Lima
   6. Guilherme A Melo
   7. Alessandra Granato
   8. Eula GA Neves
   9. Walderez O Dutra
   10. Ana-Carolina Oliveira
   11. Alberto Nóbrega
   12. Maria Bellio

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     Evaluation Summary:

     This is an interesting study, conducted in mice, that demonstrates for the first time the presence of a large population of cytotoxic CD4+ T lymphocytes in infection with Trypanosoma cruzi, a relevant human pathogen. At present, the relevance of these cells in protective immunity engendered by the host remains unclear. Additional experiments are needed to characterize the functionality of these cytotoxic CD4 T cells vis-a-vis the canonical Th1 T cells. This paper can be of interest to scientists interested in immune responses to parasitic infections.

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6. Redox-controlled reorganization and flavin strain within the ribonucleotide reductase R2b–NrdI complex monitored by serial femtosecond crystallography

   This article has 27 authors:

   1. Juliane John
   2. Oskar Aurelius
   3. Vivek Srinivas
   4. Patricia Saura
   5. In-Sik Kim
   6. Asmit Bhowmick
   7. Philipp S Simon
   8. Medhanjali Dasgupta
   9. Cindy Pham
   10. Sheraz Gul
   11. Kyle D Sutherlin
   12. Pierre Aller
   13. Agata Butryn
   14. Allen M Orville
   15. Mun Hon Cheah
   16. Shigeki Owada
   17. Kensuke Tono
   18. Franklin D Fuller
   19. Alexander Batyuk
   20. Aaron S Brewster
   21. Nicholas K Sauter
   22. Vittal K Yachandra
   23. Junko Yano
   24. Ville RI Kaila
   25. Jan Kern
   26. Hugo Lebrette
   27. Martin Högbom

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     Evaluation Summary:

     The manuscript will be of interest to a broad audience in structural biology, biochemistry, and enzymology. The work demonstrates the use of a cutting-edge approach in protein crystallography to investigate and visualize the complex mechanism of an enzyme, the paradigm being Mn-dependent ribonucleotide reductase R2b in complex with flavin-bound NrdI at different redox states. The work is timely and has implications for future investigation of complex biochemical processes.

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7. Tree species and genetic diversity increase productivity via functional diversity and trophic feedbacks

   This article has 18 authors:

   1. Ting Tang
   2. Naili Zhang
   3. Franca J Bongers
   4. Michael Staab
   5. Andreas Schuldt
   6. Felix Fornoff
   7. Hong Lin
   8. Jeannine Cavender-Bares
   9. Andrew L Hipp
   10. Shan Li
   11. Yu Liang
   12. Baocai Han
   13. Alexandra-Maria Klein
   14. Helge Bruelheide
   15. Walter Durka
   16. Bernhard Schmid
   17. Keping Ma
   18. Xiaojuan Liu

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     Evaluation Summary:

     Using an impressive experimental design, Tang et al. analyzed the effects of intraspecific (genetic) and interspecific (species) diversity in ecosystem processes carried out by forest communities. The results show that both species and genotype diversity influence productivity via changes in overall functional diversity, herbivory, and soil fungal diversity. This study will be important to ecologists and environmentalists interested in ecosystem processes and restoration efforts.

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8. Centrally expressed Cav3.2 T-type calcium channel is critical for the initiation and maintenance of neuropathic pain

   This article has 14 authors:

   1. Sophie L Fayad
   2. Guillaume Ourties
   3. Benjamin Le Gac
   4. Baptiste Jouffre
   5. Sylvain Lamoine
   6. Antoine Fruquière
   7. Sophie Laffray
   8. Laila Gasmi
   9. Bruno Cauli
   10. Christophe Mallet
   11. Emmanuel Bourinet
   12. Thomas Bessaih
   13. Régis C Lambert
   14. Nathalie Leresche

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     Evaluation Summary:

     The manuscript shows an important role for Cav2.3 channels in SNI-mediated allodynia and firing properties of PV-expressing APT neurons. Mechanisms that underlie adaptations in chronic pain models are extremely important for the development of novel therapeutics for chronic pain and this could be a significant contribution in that regard. However, the discussion asserts that these studies are the "first direct evidence that supra-spinal Cav3.2 channels play a fundamental role in pain pathophysiology." This is an overstatement as Chen and colleagues examined the role of these channels in the anterior cingulate cortex in CCI-mediated neuropathic pain (Shen, et al., 2015, Molecular Pain).

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9. GPR183 mediates the capacity of the novel CD47-CD19 bispecific antibody TG-1801 to heighten ublituximab-umbralisib (U2) anti-lymphoma activity

   This article has 12 authors:

   1. Marcelo Lima Ribeiro
   2. Núria Profitós-Pelejà
   3. Juliana Carvalho Santos
   4. Pedro Blecua
   5. Diana Reyes Garau
   6. Marc Armengol
   7. Miranda Fernández-Serrano
   8. Hari P. Miskin
   9. Francesc Bosch
   10. Manel Esteller
   11. Emmanuel Normant
   12. Gael Roué

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     Evaluation Summary:

     Ribeiro M et al investigate the ability of a novel bispecific CD19-CD47 antibody to enhance the cell mediated killing mediated by existing drug combinations - anti-CD20 plus PIK3d/CK1E inhibitor. The novelty of this study is the restriction to CD19 positive lymphoma cells, thus potentially avoiding toxicity to non-lymphoma lineages, and the gene expression profiling to identify up regulation of GPR183 after combined treatment of CD19/47 plus CD20/PI3K/CK1E vs CD19/47 alone. Genetic and drug studies suggest that GPR183 is essential for the full activity of the triplet drug combination.

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10. Neural dynamics of causal inference in the macaque frontoparietal circuit

    This article has 5 authors:

    1. Guangyao Qi
    2. Wen Fang
    3. Shenghao Li
    4. Junru Li
    5. Liping Wang

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      Evaluation summary:

      This study investigates the neural basis of the hidden causal structure between visual and proprioceptive signals in the primate premotor and parietal circuit during reaching tasks executed in a virtual reality environment, where information between the two modalities can be dissociated. Modelling is used to characterize the proprioceptive drift of the monkeys when integrating bimodal information. The key novel result is that premotor neurons represent the integration of bimodal information for small disparities and the segregation for large disparities between the proprioceptive and visual information, while parietal cells show reaching tuning changes that support the updating sensory uncertainty between tasks. Overall, the experiments are technically sound, and the conclusions are mostly well supported. However, a simpler framing of the paper could make the main message easier to grasp, the analysis of Bayesian models seems to lack major details, the statistical reporting is below standard, and a large part of the extensive literature on the role of premotor and parietal cortex in visuomotor behavior is lacking.

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