Alcohol dehydrogenase polymorphism and Parkinson's disease.

abstract：:The atypical serine/threonine protein kinase, a mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), is believed to be essential to the regulation of cell growth and the functions of the central nervous system. By using calcium imaging and patch-clamping techniques to study the role of this signaling pathway in the activity of cultu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Li RX,Yu XZ,Fu M,Zong M,Liu RL,Xie ZP

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) is known as a neuro-survival factor in the developing and developed CNS, as well as in the CNS following injury. However, little is known about the expression of CNTF or that of its receptor (CNTFR-alpha) in cases of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). We investigated the temporal and sp...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yokota H,Yoshikawa M,Hirabayashi H,Nakase H,Uranishi R,Nishimura F,Sugie Y,Ishizaka S,Sakaki T

更新日期：2005-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether axonal terminals emanating from the central nucleus of amygdala (Ce) to the parabrachial nucleus (PBN) contain gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) as their neurotransmitter, an electron microscopic study was performed employing the combined techniques of WGA-HRP anterograde tracing and post-embedding i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jia HG,Zhang GY,Wan Q

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor activity of the rat bladder elicited by transmural electrical stimulation was abolished in the presence of 200 nM tetrodotoxin but not of 1 microM atropine plus 3.4 microM guanethidine. Tissue preincubation with 20 microM, alpha, beta-methylene ATP reduced but did not obliterate the electrically-induced moto...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Acevedo CG,Lewin J,Contreras E,Huidobro-Toro JP

更新日期：1990-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:By combining techniques designed to increase the amount of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) available for transport and to improve the sensitivity of the reaction for detecting HRP, we have produced an anterograde HRP technique suitable for labeling sparse efferent projections. The efficacy of this light, microscopic tech...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： West JR,Black AC Jr

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated one of the characteristics of No-go-related brain activity during somatosensory Go/No-go paradigms, by manipulating the stimulus site and response hand. Somatosensory event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in ten right-handed subjects. Electrical stimulation was delivered to the s...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nakata H,Sakamoto K,Kakigi R

更新日期：2010-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In elucidating the possible involvement of histamine (His) in hyperalgesia to heat, the effects of His on the heat response of testicular polymodal receptors were studied in vitro in canine testis-spermatic nerve preparations. His (100 and 1000 microM) induced discharges > 0.5 impulses/s (high-responders) in about one...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mizumura K,Minagawa M,Koda H,Kumazawa T

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have used slice cultures of hippocampus and in situ hybridization techniques in order to study the ability of hippocampal neurons to synthesize CCK mRNA in the absence of extrinsic afferents. Our results show that very similar types of hippocampal neurons express CCK mRNA in culture as in situ....

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Straube A,Bender R,Otten U,Frotscher M

更新日期：1994-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study compared performance and event-related brain potentials between dyslexic subjects and control subjects while they performed a spatial selective attention-shifting task. The subjects received a prestimulus cue on each trial, which indicated whether the subjects should attend to a position to the left ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wijers AA,Been PH,Romkes KS

更新日期：2005-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have shown that minocycline, an antibacterial tetracycline, suppresses experimental pain. While minocycline's positive effects on pain resolution suggest that clinical use of such drugs may prove beneficial, minocycline's antibiotic actions and divalent cation (Ca(2+); Mg(2+)) chelating effects detract fr...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bastos LF,Godin AM,Zhang Y,Jarussophon S,Ferreira BC,Machado RR,Maier SF,Konishi Y,de Freitas RP,Fiebich BL,Watkins LR,Coelho MM,Moraes MF

更新日期：2013-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of noradrenaline (NA) on synaptic responses in layer II of the entorhinal cortex (EC) were studied in normal and spontaneously epileptic mutant mice tottering using intracellular recording in a slice preparation. Neither the membrane properties of neurones nor the responses to NA differed between normal an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pralong E,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1994-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A restricted recovery of visual excitation occurs in the partially deafferented dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the cat after retinal lesions. In the absence of axonal growth an increase of retinogeniculate synapses at the peripheral dendrites of deafferented cells could be a possible underlying mechanism....

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Eysel UT,Neubacher U

更新日期：1984-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous action potentials were recorded longitudinally for 4-7 weeks from dissociated rat occipital cortex cells cultured on planar multi-electrode plates, during their development from isolated neurons into synaptically connected neuronal networks. Activity typically consisted of generalized bursts lasting up to ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Van Pelt J,Corner MA,Wolters PS,Rutten WL,Ramakers GJ

更新日期：2004-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) may be initiated or precipitated by endogenous toxins with a structure similar to 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine in genetically-predisposed individuals. Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) catalyzes N-methylation of nicotinamide and other pyridines to form pyridinium ions. Th...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Aoyama K,Matsubara K,Kondo M,Murakawa Y,Suno M,Yamashita K,Yamaguchi S,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2001-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12h sleep deprivation enhances the expression of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) 1A receptors in rat hippocampus that recedes with 48h sleep recovery. The depressant effect of applied 5-HT on the field excitatory postsynaptic potentials recorded in the CA1 area, is also enhanced in hippocampi of SD rats. Following a 24 o...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Azizi H,Hwang J,Suen V,Kang NZ,Somvanshi R,Tadavarty R,Kumar U,Sastry BR

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes an increase of inhibitory factors that may restrict axonal outgrowth after trauma. During the past decade, the Eph receptors and ephrin ligands have emerged as key repulsive cues known to be involved in neurite outgrowth, synapse formation, and axonal pathfinding during development. Giv...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cruz-Orengo L,Figueroa JD,Torrado A,Puig A,Whittemore SR,Miranda JD

更新日期：2007-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular location of kappa-opioid binding sites in the guinea pig cerebellum has been investigated. kappa-Opioid sites were labelled using [3H]ethylketocyclazocine in the presence of mu- and delta-blocking ligands. In vitro autoradiography demonstrated that this kappa-opioid binding was localized predominantly in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bunn SJ,Wilkin GP

更新日期：1988-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A retrograde tracer, Diamidino yellow, was injected into the hindlimb region of the supplementary motor area after intracortical microstimulation mapping in the Japanese monkey. As a result, a cluster of retrogradely labeled neurons was found in the caudal bank of the arcuate sulcus, which corresponds to the ventral p...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tokuno H,Inase M

更新日期：1994-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of vision loss and blindness. Increasing evidence has shown that the neuronal components of the retina are affected even before the detection of vascular lesions. Hyperglycemia is considered the main pathogenic factor for the development of diabetic complications. Nevertheless, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Baptista FI,Castilho ÁF,Gaspar JM,Liberal JT,Aveleira CA,Ambrósio AF

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of descending monoaminergic systems in the antinociceptive effect of kyotorphin (Tyr-Arg, KTP) was investigated in mice by means of the tail-pinch test. We compared this effect with that of the delta-opioid receptor agonist [D-Pen(2,5)]-enkephalin (DPDPE). The antinociceptive effect of KTP and DPDPE injected ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ochi T,Ohkubo Y,Mutoh S

更新日期：2002-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Both preischemic hyperglycemia and reduction of manganese superoxide dismutase activity are known to enhance neuronal death induced by transient cerebral ischemia. Transcriptional factor hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) regulates multiple downstream genes that modulate cell metabolism, survival, death, angiogenesis,...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bullock JJ,Mehta SL,Lin Y,Lolla P,Li PA

更新日期：2009-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress has been projected as a promising mechanism involved in lead exposure. The lead predisposition catalyzes oxidative reactions and generates reactive oxygen species. The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of oral administration of tannic acid (TA) on behavioral deficit, antioxidativ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ashafaq M,Tabassum H,Vishnoi S,Salman M,Raisuddin S,Parvez S

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluorescent carbocyanine dye (diI) was used to label the glossopharyngeal (IX) nerve in the fixed preparation of the Mexican salamander, axolotl. When the cell bodies were viewed with a confocal laser scanning microscope and Nomarski optics, the cytoplasm was brightly fluorescent, but not the cell nucleus. The cell bo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nagai T,Oka Y

更新日期：1991-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase (PMCA) pumps play a critical role in the maintenance of calcium (Ca2+) homeostasis, crucial for optimal neuronal function and cell survival. Loss of Ca2+ homeostasis is a key precursor in neuronal dysfunction associated with brain aging and in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disor...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zaidi A,Adewale M,McLean L,Ramlow P

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the onset of and recovery from desensitization of three types of responses to acetylcholine in Aplysia californica occurred by biphasic kinetics. The fast component of onset recovered at a slower rate than the slow component of onset. The rates of onset and recovery were widely different when the three response t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Chesnut TJ,Carpenter DO

更新日期：1983-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Bereitschaftspotentials (BPs) preceding muscle relaxation and contraction were compared by using subdural electrodes which were implanted onto the right medial frontal surface in two patients with supplementary motor area (SMA) seizure. The applied movement paradigm (muscle relaxation and contraction tasks) was comple...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yazawa S,Ikeda A,Kunieda T,Mima T,Nagamine T,Ohara S,Terada K,Taki W,Kimura J,Shibasaki H

更新日期：1998-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 8.5% of the unmyelinated and 2.5% of the myelinated primary afferent axons in lumbar dorsal roots of normal rats are immunostained for glutamate. Thus unmyelinated fibers are the predominantly immunostained population under the conditions of our experiments. The mean size of the unmyelinated fibers is gr...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Westlund KN,McNeill DL,Coggeshall RE

更新日期：1989-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Both feedforward and feedback mechanisms are used to ensure accurate movements. Feedback information comes primarily from vision and proprioception; the relative contributions of these modalities to on-line control of action and internal model maintenance remain unclear. We report data from an experiment in which a ch...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Medina J,Jax SA,Coslett HB

更新日期：2009-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) include the presence of extracellular amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) in the form of amyloid plaques in the brain parenchyma and neuronal loss. The mechanism associated with neuronal death by amyloid plaques is unclear but oxidative stress and glial activation h...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lee HJ,Lee JK,Lee H,Shin JW,Carter JE,Sakamoto T,Jin HK,Bae JS

更新日期：2010-08-30 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