Arginine vasotocin activates phosphoinositide signal transduction system and potentiates N-acetyltransferase activity in the rat pineal gland.

abstract：:The voltage dependency of the ON and the OFF components of transient amacrine cell responses was studied using two-electrode voltage-clamp and current-clamp techniques in the isolated retina of the carp. The two independent approaches gave similar data. When cells were voltage clamped near their resting potentials, bo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Djamgoz MB,Low JC,Saito T,Toyoda JI,Yamada M

更新日期：1996-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced oxidative demand or neuronal hypometabolism is a neuroprotective strategy used by several anoxia and hypoxia-tolerant species. The epaulette shark, Hemiscyllium ocellatum inhabits shallow reef platforms that can become hypoxic. Hypoxic pre-conditioning (eight cycles of 0.34 mg O(2)/l for 120 min, 12 h apart) w...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mulvey JM,Renshaw GM

更新日期：2000-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies involving receptor protection have been used to define the functional involvement of specific receptor subtypes in tissues expressing multiple receptor subtypes. Previous functional studies from our laboratory demonstrate the feasibility of this approach when applied to neuronal tissues expressing multiple nic...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Free RB,Kaser DJ,Boyd RT,McKay DB

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance P (SP) stimulates striatal dopamine outflow through a cholinergic muscarinic link. SP-induced increase in acetylcholine (Ach) is concentration-dependent, whereas the stimulation of dopamine outflow is seen only over a limited concentration range. M(1) and M(2) receptor stimulation has opposite effects on dop...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Khan S,Whelpton R,Michael-Titus AT

更新日期：2000-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We observed ontogenetic changes of neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like-immunoreactivity in the terminal nerve (TN) of the chum salmon, a teleost, and the cloudy dogfish, an elasmobranch. In the chum salmon, NPY-like-immunoreactive (NPY-IR) cells first appeared in the olfactory placode of embryos at 16 days after fertilization, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Chiba A,Oka S,Honma Y

更新日期：1996-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that mild hypothermia significantly alleviate damage following cerebral ischemia though the precise mechanism is poorly defined. In the present study, middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo) was induced in Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats for 1 h followed by varying periods of reperfusion. Cerebral infa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Prakasa Babu P,Yoshida Y,Su M,Segura M,Kawamura S,Yasui N

更新日期：2000-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreaction for vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) in the ependymal cells was investigated using two different commercially available polyclonal antisera for VIP. Immunostaining with an anti-VIP serum showed strong reaction products in the ependymal cells of the central canal and the third ventricle, in additi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kawano H,Masuko S

更新日期：1989-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Local warming or cooling of the preoptic and anterior hypothalamus (PO/AH) areas evokes various thermoregulatory responses in mammals. We have hypothesized that warm- and cold-sensitive neurons recorded in the PO/AH are multiple thermostats that regulate the core temperature against heat and cold, respectively. Howeve...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Abe J,Okazawa M,Adachi R,Matsumura K,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2003-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard pseudohomophone effect in the lexical decision task, i.e. longer response times and higher error rates for pseudohomophones compared with spelling controls, is commonly explained by an orthography-phonology-conflict. This study tested this conflict account, using a multi-method approach including particip...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Briesemeister BB,Hofmann MJ,Tamm S,Kuchinke L,Braun M,Jacobs AM

更新日期：2009-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A large dose of carbachol (5 micrograms/0.5 microliters) unilaterally microinjected into the rostral substantia nigra of rats induced stereotypy characterized by biting, gnawing and licking. A lower dose (0.5 micrograms/0.5 microliter) of the cholinomimetic potentiated normal food intake in satiated animals. Both the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Taha EB,Redgrave P

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic nicotine administration has been shown previously to produce mechanical hypersensitivity in the rat although the mechanism of this effect is unknown. Rats treated with chronic systemic nicotine 3.6 or 8.6 mg/(kg day) for 14-21 days displayed mechanical hypersensitivity coincident with an increase of prodynorph...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lough C,Young T,Parker R,Wittenauer S,Vincler M

更新日期：2007-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of acetylcholine (ACh) in the mammalian pineal gland is unknown. To test the hypothesis that ACh exerts a modulatory role in this organ, in the present study electrophysiogical multiunit recordings were carried out in ex-vivo rat pineal glands superfused with different drugs. It was found that ACh (10(-7)...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schenda J,Vollrath L

更新日期：1998-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons simultaneously immunoreactive with anti-beta-endorphin and anti-(17-39) corticotropin (anti(17-39) ACTH) have been detected in the arcuate and ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus of colchicine-treated rats. These neurons are different from those fluorescent with the Falck and Hillarp technique. These resul...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bugnon C,Bloch B,Lenys D,Gouget A,Fellmann D

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The injection of oxytocin into the third ventricle during suckling in lactating rats not only enhances neurosecretory bursts but also the background activity of oxytocin cells. However, removing the young rats 10 min after the oxytocin injection is immediately followed by a decrease in background activity, while injec...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Meyer C,Freund-Mercier MJ,Richard P

更新日期：1987-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In anaesthetised cats, antibody microprobes were used to measure the release of immunoreactive calcitonin gene-related peptide (irCGRP) in the lumbar dorsal horn during stimulation of non-nociceptive or nociceptive primary afferent fibres. Release of irCGRP was detected in the substantia gelatinosa, where immunostaini...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Morton CR,Hutchison WD

更新日期：1990-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggested that statins have anti-inflammatory effects beyond their lipid-lowering properties. In the present study, we sought to investigate whether rosuvastatin could alleviate morphine tolerance by attenuating the glia mediated neuroinflammation in the spinal cord. Using a rat model of L5 spinal nerve...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Li W,Li Y,Zhu S,Ji Q,Shu Y,Zhang L,Liu J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intergeniculate leaflet (IGL) of the lateral geniculate complex is marked by the presence of neuro-peptide Y-containing neurons that project to the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN) of the hypothalamus. In the present study, we demonstrate that both the IGL and SCN in the hamster and rat are specifically delineated by ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Morin LP,Johnson RF,Moore RY

更新日期：1989-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In all mammals so far investigated the occurrence of ponto-geniculo-occipital (PGO) waves precedes the onset and maintenance of desynchronized (D) sleep. As unitary electrographic events, PGO waves provide an index for quantitative evaluation of physiological D sleep or the D sleep-like state evoked by centrally admin...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Baghdoyan HA,Lydic R,Callaway CW,Hobson JA

更新日期：1987-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A brief hammer tap applied passively (by the experimenter) to the forearm elicits a short-latency reflex response in the forearm flexors and extensors. When the same tap is performed actively (by the subject) using the opposite forearm, the reflex response is preceded by a short-lasting anticipatory reduction in the m...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Struppler A,Gerilovsky L,Jakob C

更新日期：1993-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA)-mediated neurotransmission from the granule cells to CA3 is transiently expressed during the first 3 weeks of age in the rat. In the adult, seizures provoke this inhibitory signaling to reappear. To gain insight into the origin of GABA in these cells, we explored the expression of both i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Maqueda J,Ramírez M,Lamas M,Gutiérrez R

更新日期：2003-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate whether repetitive/temporal hypoxia up-regulated P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in cultured rat brain microvascular endothelial cells (rBMECs). Cultured rBMECs were used as in vitro blood brain barrier (BBB) model. Cells reached confluence were subjected to temporal hypoxic exposure. Und...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xiao-Dong L,Zhi-Hong Y,Hui-Wen Y

更新日期：2008-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we have demonstrated that pressure-ejected application of angiotensin II and losartan, an angiotensin AT1 receptor antagonist, onto some neurons in the anterior hypothalamic area (AHA) of the rat increases and decreases, respectively, the basal firing rate of the neurons. To investigate possible participat...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hagiwara Y,Kubo T

更新日期：2007-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:This article has been withdrawn at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal. ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sun Y,Zhou M,Wang D,Chen F,Wang Q,Han X,Cheng W

更新日期：2020-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine how target-derived nerve growth factor (NGF) affects sensory neuronal survival and the development of topographic nerve projections in the spinal cord, anatomical studies were performed on transgenic mice that overexpress NGF in skin and other keratinized epithelial structures. Transgenic animals showed a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mendelson B,Albers KM,Goodness TP,Davis BM

更新日期：1996-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course of the event related potentials evoked within a delayed matching to sample task employing verbal and pictorial stimuli was analyzed with a source reconstruction method (minimum norm method). During signal stimulus presentation pictorial stimuli evoked more activity than verbal stimuli. Activity was par...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Dobel C,Hauk O,Zobel E,Eulitz C,Pulvermüller F,Cohen R,Schönle PW,Elbert T,Rockstroh B

更新日期：1998-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to confirm the functional regulation by alpha 2-adrenoceptors of the release of serotonin (5-HT) from the rat hippocampus in vivo. Under several pharmacological conditions, extracellular levels of 5-HT were estimated by assaying its concentrations in the perfusate by high performan...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Numazawa R,Yoshioka M,Matsumoto M,Togashi H,Kemmotsu O,Saito H

更新日期：1995-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The absence of smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER) in the dendritic spine of Purkinje cells was found in dilute-lethal (dl) mouse cerebella as detected by immunohistochemistry using anti-inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptor antibody and electron microscopy. Since SER in the spine has been suggested to play a crucial ro...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takagishi Y,Oda S,Hayasaka S,Dekker-Ohno K,Shikata T,Inouye M,Yamamura H

更新日期：1996-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:By observing the ultrastructural intracellular Ca2+ distribution with Ca(2+)-oxalate-pyroantimonate method, we examined whether the protective mechanism of the nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor, N omega-nitro-L-arginine (LNNA), involves change of the intracellular Ca2+ movement in delayed neuronal death (DND) in ge...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kohno K,Higuchi T,Ohta S,Kohno K,Kumon Y,Sakaki S

更新日期：1997-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome c oxidase (COX) is a key mitochondrial enzyme that catalyzes electron transfer at the terminal stage of respiratory chain and is composed of multisubunits. We hypothesize that ethanol withdrawal (EW) impairs the activity of COX and estrogen deprivation exacerbates this problem. Five-month-old ovariectomized...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jung ME,Agarwal R,Simpkins JW

更新日期：2007-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The inferior alveolar nerves (IAN) of young male Wistar rats (b.wt. greater than or equal to 200 g) were transected unilaterally, slightly proximal to the mandibular foramen under anesthesia with chloral hydrate (0.4 g/kg, i.p.). After various postoperative periods of time, the animals received horseradish peroxidase ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takemura M,Sugimoto T,Wakisaka S,Akai M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00