Distinct effect of orphanin FQ in nucleus raphe magnus and nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis on the rat tail flick reflex.

abstract：:The non-invasive imaging technique of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been used to investigate the microstructural properties of white matter (WM). The present study investigated whether individual differences in the WM structure of normal subjects as measured by fractional anisotropy (FA) values correlate with cog...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takahashi M,Iwamoto K,Fukatsu H,Naganawa S,Iidaka T,Ozaki N

更新日期：2010-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of apoptosis associated proteins Bcl(2), Bax, cytochrome-c and p53 was investigated in mice cerebral cortex and cerebellum, using an experimental model of fatal murine cerebral malaria (FMCM). Owing to the activation of events central to mitochondrial dysfunctions, we monitored the structural integrity of m...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kumar KA,Babu PP

更新日期：2002-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the neural mechanism underlying illusory-contour perception, we measured the magnetic responses of the human visual cortex to an abutting-line grating inducing illusory contours (test stimulus) and a non-abutting-line grating (control stimulus) using the technique of magnetoencephalography (MEG). In the ini...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ohtani Y,Okamura S,Shibasaki T,Arakawa A,Yoshida Y,Toyama K,Ejima Y

更新日期：2002-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) is suggested to be involved, e.g. in the central nervous modulation of food intake, possibly by acting within specific hypothalamic nuclei. Perinatal overnutrition predisposes to permanent obesity and hyperphagia, while underlying mechanisms are unclear. By reducing the litter size from the 3rd t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Plagemann A,Rake A,Harder T,Melchior K,Rohde W,Dörner G

更新日期：1998-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual mental imagery is a process that draws on different cognitive abilities and is affected by the contents of mental images. Several studies have demonstrated that different brain areas subtend the mental imagery of navigational and non-navigational contents. Here, we set out to determine whether there are distinc...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Boccia M,Piccardi L,Palermo L,Nemmi F,Sulpizio V,Galati G,Guariglia C

更新日期：2014-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that administration of low extracellular levels of magnesium ions ([Mg(2+)](o)) to primary cultured cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells will cause lipid peroxidation, degradation of IkappaB-alpha, and activation of nuclear transcription factor kappa B (NF-kappaB)...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Altura BM,Gebrewold A,Zhang A,Altura BT

更新日期：2003-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:A combination of immunocytochemistry with transmitter specific autoradiography at the electron microscopic level was used to identify vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)- or ACTH-containing neurons and serotoninergic nerve terminals in the suprachiasmatic (SCN) and arcuate nuclei (AN). We observed nerve terminals ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kiss J,Léránth C,Halász B

更新日期：1984-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies demonstrated that Diabetes mellitus (DM) enhances the risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Although hyperglycemia and perturbed function of insulin signaling have been proposed to contribute to AD pathogenesis, the molecular mechanisms behind this association is not clear yet. Seladin-1 is an enzyme cata...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kazkayasi I,Ismail MA,Parrado-Fernandez C,Björkhem I,Pekiner C,Uma S,Cedazo-Minguez A,Burul-Bozkurt N

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern and distribution of the cortical projections from intermediate parts of the cholinergic basal magnocellular nucleus were studied by anterogradely transported Phaseolus vulgaris-leucoagglutinin. This immunocytochemical tracing technique reveals the detailed morphology and distribution of efferents from this...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Luiten PG,Spencer DG Jr,Traber J,Gaykema RP

更新日期：1985-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Down syndrome (DS) is caused by either complete or partial triplication of chromosome 21, affecting approximately 1/1000 live births, and it is widely accepted that individuals with DS are more likely to develop dementia of Alzheimer's disease (DAD) compared with the general population. Many studies have inv...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Patel A,Rees SD,Kelly MA,Bain SC,Barnett AH,Thalitaya D,Prasher VP

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In precontracted, endothelium-free guinea pig mesenteric artery rings, in which adrenergic vasoconstrictor responses had been eliminated, guanethidine (1-30 microM) produced a vasodilatation of 69.3+/-4.4%. The vasodilatation was reduced 89% by capsaicin (10 microM) or 55% by tetrodotoxin (10 microM), indicating media...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zheng ZL,Shimamura K,Anthony TL,Kreulen DL

更新日期：2000-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunocytochemical methods, both calbindin and GABA were found to be colocalized in the somas of all the cells of the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (NMTB) of the rat auditory system. In the lateral superior olive (LSO), calbindin was also found in the terminals but not in the cells. Some terminal labellin...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Webster WR,Batini C,Buisseret-Delmas C,Compoint C,Guegan M,Thomasset M

更新日期：1990-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings (WCR) were made from sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPN) in neonate rat spinal cord slices. SPN were identified histologically by filling them with the fluorescent dye Lucifer Yellow contained within the patch pipette solution. Current clamp recordings were obtained from SPN with ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pickering AE,Spanswick D,Logan SD

更新日期：1991-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical depolarizations in the periphery of focal ischemia result in metabolic disturbances which contribute to the progression of the ischemic injury. In this experimental study, therefore, it was examined whether the duration of peri-infarct depolarizations, which reflects the severity of a metabolic mismatch, is d...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mies G

更新日期：1997-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Deimination is a post-translational modification of proteins in which selected arginine amino acids are enzymatically converted to citrullines. Using dual-color immunofluorescence, the present study is the first to examine the frontal cortex of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) versus age-matched controls with an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nicholas AP

更新日期：2013-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing body of evidence that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) is implicated in the new learning of visual items. Little is known, however, as to the involvement of that portion of the prefrontal cortex in the learning of temporal and spatial relationship of those items. The aim of the present stu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Szatkowska I,Szymańska O,Grabowska A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is little information available on the mechanisms underlying the neuroprotective actions of the organoselenium compound ebselen. In this study, we sought to determine the relationship between alterations in the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax proteins and intracellular levels of calcium and the protective effects of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xu JH,Hu HT,Liu Y,Qian YH,Liu ZH,Tan QR,Zhang ZJ

更新日期：2006-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:In animal models endogenous cannabinoids have an inhibitory effect on trigeminovascular activation through the cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1), although there is no evidence of the potential role of CB1 in human migraine. In this study we applied single marker association and haplotypic trend regression analysis to inves...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Juhasz G,Lazary J,Chase D,Pegg E,Downey D,Toth ZG,Stones K,Platt H,Mekli K,Payton A,Anderson IM,Deakin JF,Bagdy G

更新日期：2009-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotine is known to stimulate energy expenditure, although the precise mechanism is unclear. To clarify the involvement of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) in the mechanism by which nicotine increases energy expenditure, the effect of intraperitoneal injection of nicotine (0.1 or 0.5mg/kg) on the release of norad...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mano-Otagiri A,Iwasaki-Sekino A,Ohata H,Arai K,Shibasaki T

更新日期：2009-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we aimed to investigate whether self-reported mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) was associated with decreased AD-vulnerable cortical thickness, and to assess the relationship between AD-vulnerable cortical thickness and AD-related biomarker in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative subjects. W...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wang ML,Wei XE,Yu MM,Li PY,Li WB,Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2017-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated effect of aging, gender and eye (sighting) dominance on relationship between visual evoked flow response (VEFR) and visual evoked potential (VEP), which refers to neurovascular coupling. The VEFR was defined as a percentage increase of the ratio of mean blood flow velocity in the contralateral (according ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Topcuoglu MA,Aydin H,Saka E

更新日期：2009-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular localisation of benzodiazepine receptors was studied. Kainic acid induced neuronal lesions (2 x 0.25-2 x 2 micrograms; 2-26 days in rat cerebellum decreased specific binding of [3H]flunitrazepam down to 35% of controls. Specific binding of [3H]flunitrazepam was also decreased (to 80% of controls) in the c...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Braestrup C,Nielsen M,Biggio G,Squires RF

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic soluble Aβ oligomers are often used as a surrogate for biologic material in a number of model systems. We compared the activity of Aβ oligomers (synthetic and cell culture media derived) on the human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma and C2C12 mouse myoblast cell lines in a novel, modified MTT assay. Separating oligomer...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Weidner AM,Housley M,Murphy MP,Levine H 3rd

更新日期：2011-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine (Ach) has been considered a major neurotransmitter in the inner ear efferent nerve endings. A bioassay analysis has shown that the electrical stimulation of the crossed olivocochlear bundle increased the Ach-like activity in the perilymph. Applying in vivo microdialysis techniques and high-performance li...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hoya N,Ogawa K,Inoue Y,Takiguchi Y,Kanzaki J

更新日期：2001-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-cell recordings were obtained from respiratory neurons by applying patch-clamp techniques in the en bloc medulla of in vitro neonatal rat brainstem-spinal cord preparations. Stable voltage-clamp recordings of excitatory or inhibitory synaptic drive currents and current-clamp recordings of spike discharge of insp...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Smith JC,Ballanyi K,Richter DW

更新日期：1992-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent neuroimaging studies indicate that there may be common ground for esthetic and moral judgments. However, because previous studies focused on either esthetic or moral judgments and did not compare the two directly, the issue remains open whether a common ground actually exists. We employed functional magnetic re...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Avram M,Gutyrchik E,Bao Y,Pöppel E,Reiser M,Blautzik J

更新日期：2013-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Both autoradiographic and horseradish peroxidase tracing techniques were used to characterize a projection from the dorsal lateral geniculate (DLG) nucleus of the thalamus to visual association cortex (extrastriate cortex) in the macaque monkey. The results show that medium to large caliber DLG axons end to discontinu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yoshida K,Benevento LA

更新日期：1981-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT)-mediated modulation of phrenic motoneuronal activity was evaluated by microapplication of 5-HT and methysergide into the phrenic nuclei of the rabbit. 5-HT facilitated phrenic nerve activity (PNA) considerably resulting in a long-lasting augmentation of the peak amplit...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schmid K,Böhmer G,Merkelbach S

更新日期：1990-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer patients with bone metastases often suffer breakthrough pain. However, little progress has been made in the treatment of breakthrough pain and its associated mechanism(s) in the patient with cancer due to lacking of resembling and predictive animal models. We previously have demonstrated that endothelin-1 plays...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tang Y,Peng H,Liao Q,Gan L,Zhang R,Huang L,Ding Z,Yang H,Yan X,Gu Y,Zang X,Huang D,Cao S

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammals navigate a complex environment using a variety of strategies, which can operate in parallel and even compete with one another. We have recently described a variant water maze task in which two of these strategies, hippocampus-dependent spatial learning and striatum-dependent cued learning, can be dissociated. ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Baldan Ramsey LC,Pittenger C

更新日期：2010-10-11 00:00:00