Dr Mino Belle
Lecturer (E&R)
M.D.C.Belle@exeter.ac.uk
01392 72 3801
Hatherly
Hatherly Building, University of Exeter, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, EX4 4PS, UK
Publications
Journal articles
Belle MDC, Allen C (In Press). The circadian clock: a tale of genetic–electrical interplay and synaptic integration. Current Opinion in Physiology
Bano-Otalora B, Martial F, Harding C, Bechtold DA, Allen AE, Brown TM, Belle MDC, Lucas RJ (2021). Bright daytime light enhances circadian amplitude in a diurnal mammal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 118(22). Abstract. Author URL.
Bano-Otalora B, Moye MJ, Brown T, Lucas RJ, Diekman CO, Belle MDC (2021). Daily electrical activity in the master circadian clock of a diurnal mammal. ELIFE, 10 Author URL.
Chrobok L, Belle MDC, Myung J (2021). From Fast Oscillations to Circadian Rhythms: Coupling at Multiscale Frequency Bands in the Rodent Subcortical Visual System. Frontiers in Physiology, 12 Abstract.
Belle MDC, Baño-Otalora B, Piggins HD (2021). Perforated Multi-Electrode Array Recording in Hypothalamic Brain Slices. Methods Mol Biol, 2130, 263-285. Abstract. Author URL.
Hughes ATL, Samuels RE, Baño-Otálora B, Belle MDC, Wegner S, Guilding C, Northeast RC, Loudon ASI, Gigg J, Piggins HD, et al (2021). Timed daily exercise remodels circadian rhythms in mice. Communications Biology, 4(1). Abstract.
Rodgers J, Bano-Otalora B, Belle MDC, Paul S, Hughes R, Wright P, McDowell R, Milosavljevic N, Orlowska-Feuer P, Martial FP, et al (2021). Using a bistable animal opsin for switchable and scalable optogenetic inhibition of neurons. EMBO Rep, 22(5). Abstract. Author URL.
Collins B, Pierre-Ferrer S, Muheim C, Lukacsovich D, Cai Y, Spinnler A, Herrera CG, Wen S, Winterer J, Belle MDC, et al (2020). Circadian VIPergic Neurons of the Suprachiasmatic Nuclei Sculpt the Sleep-Wake Cycle. Neuron, 108(3), 486-499.e5. Abstract. Author URL.
Timothy JWS, Klas N, Sanghani HR, Al-Mansouri T, Hughes ATL, Kirshenbaum GS, Brienza V, Belle MDC, Ralph MR, Clapcote SJ, et al (2018). Circadian Disruptions in the Myshkin Mouse Model of Mania Are Independent of Deficits in Suprachiasmatic Molecular Clock Function. Biol Psychiatry, 84(11), 827-837. Abstract. Author URL.
Belle MDC, Diekman CO (2018). Neuronal oscillations on an ultra-slow timescale: daily rhythms in electrical activity and gene expression in the mammalian master circadian clockwork. Eur J Neurosci, 48(8), 2696-2717. Abstract. Author URL.
Khodai T, Nunn N, Worth AA, Feetham CH, Belle MDC, Piggins HD, Luckman SM (2018). PACAP Neurons in the Ventromedial Hypothalamic Nucleus Are Glucose Inhibited and Their Selective Activation Induces Hyperglycaemia. FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY, 9 Author URL.
Belle MDC, Piggins HD (2017). Circadian regulation of mouse suprachiasmatic nuclei neuronal states shapes responses to orexin. Eur J Neurosci, 45(5), 723-732. Abstract. Author URL.
Wegner S, Belle MDC, Hughes ATL, Diekman CO, Piggins HD (2017). Delayed Cryptochrome Degradation Asymmetrically Alters the Daily Rhythm in Suprachiasmatic Clock Neuron Excitability. J Neurosci, 37(33), 7824-7836. Abstract. Author URL.
Belle MDC (2015). Circadian Tick-Talking Across the Neuroendocrine System and Suprachiasmatic Nuclei Circuits: the Enigmatic Communication Between the Molecular and Electrical Membrane Clocks. J Neuroendocrinol, 27(7), 567-576. Abstract. Author URL.
DeWoskin D, Myung J, Belle MDC, Piggins HD, Takumi T, Forger DB (2015). Distinct roles for GABA across multiple timescales in mammalian circadian timekeeping. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 112(29), E3911-E3919. Abstract. Author URL.
Belle MDC, Hughes ATL, Bechtold DA, Cunningham P, Pierucci M, Burdakov D, Piggins HD (2014). Acute suppressive and long-term phase modulation actions of orexin on the mammalian circadian clock. J Neurosci, 34(10), 3607-3621. Abstract. Author URL.
Sakhi K, Belle MDC, Gossan N, Delagrange P, Piggins HD (2014). Daily variation in the electrophysiological activity of mouse medial habenula neurones. J Physiol, 592(4), 587-603. Abstract. Author URL.
Sakhi K, Wegner S, Belle MDC, Howarth M, Delagrange P, Brown TM, Piggins HD (2014). Intrinsic and extrinsic cues regulate the daily profile of mouse lateral habenula neuronal activity. J Physiol, 592(22), 5025-5045. Abstract. Author URL.
Diekman CO, Belle MDC, Irwin RP, Allen CN, Piggins HD, Forger DB (2013). Causes and consequences of hyperexcitation in central clock neurons. PLoS Comput Biol, 9(8). Abstract. Author URL.
Belle MDC, Piggins HD (2012). Physiology. Circadian time redoxed. Science, 337(6096), 805-806. Author URL.
Scott FF, Belle MDC, Delagrange P, Piggins HD (2010). Electrophysiological effects of melatonin on mouse Per1 and non-Per1 suprachiasmatic nuclei neurones in vitro. J Neuroendocrinol, 22(11), 1148-1156. Abstract. Author URL.
Belle MDC, Diekman CO, Forger DB, Piggins HD (2009). Daily electrical silencing in the mammalian circadian clock. Science, 326(5950), 281-284. Abstract. Author URL.
Belle MD, Pattison EF, Cheunsuang O, Stewart A, Kramer I, Sigrist M, Arber S, Morris R (2007). Characterization of a thy1.2 GFP transgenic mouse reveals a tissue-specific organization of the spinal dorsal horn. Genesis, 45(11), 679-688. Abstract. Author URL.
Maxwell DJ, Belle MD, Cheunsuang O, Stewart A, Morris R (2007). Morphology of inhibitory and excitatory interneurons in superficial laminae of the rat dorsal horn. J Physiol, 584(Pt 2), 521-533. Abstract. Author URL.
Belle MDC, Sharp PJ, Lea RW (2005). Aromatase inhibition abolishes courtship behaviours in the ring dove (Streptopelia risoria) and reduces androgen and progesterone receptors in the hypothalamus and anterior pituitary gland. Mol Cell Biochem, 276(1-2), 193-204. Abstract. Author URL.
Cummings E, Hundal HS, Wackerhage H, Hope M, Belle M, Adeghate E, Singh J (2004). Momordica charantia fruit juice stimulates glucose and amino acid uptakes in L6 myotubes. Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 261(1), 99-104.
Belle MDC, Tsutsui K, Lea RW (2003). Sex steroid communication in the ring dove brain during courtship. Can J Physiol Pharmacol, 81(4), 359-370. Abstract. Author URL.
Belle MD, Lea RW (2001). Androgen receptor immunolocalization in brains of courting and brooding male and female ring doves (Streptopelia risoria). Gen Comp Endocrinol, 124(2), 173-187. Abstract. Author URL.
Chapters
Joshi A, Belle MDC, Wong-Lin KF, Piggins HD (2015). Orexin and circadian influences in sleep and psychiatric disorders: a review of experimental and computational modelling studies. In (Ed) Orexin and Sleep: Molecular, Functional and Clinical Aspects, 299-322. Abstract.
Conferences
Belle MDC, Lea RW, Sharp PJ (2002). Effects of aromatase inhibition on courtship behaviour, and central progesterone and androgen receptor expression in the ring dove (<i>Streptopelia risoria</i>). Author URL.
Belle MDC, Lea RW, Olszewski J, Zisakis A (2000). Characterisation of avian glial cells <i>in vitro</i>. Author URL.
Belle MDC, Lea RW (2000). Hypothalamic connections in the ring dove (<i>Streptopelia risoria</i>) using an <i>in vitro</i> fluorescent tracing technique. Author URL.
