Presenilin mutations line up along transmembrane alpha-helices.

abstract：:Coenzyme Q(10) (CoQ(10)) exerts neuroprotective effects in several in vivo and in vitro models of neurodegenerative disorders. However, the mechanisms of action are not fully understood. The aim in this study was to investigate whether oral administration of CoQ(10) could inhibit cytochrome c (cyt c) release from mito...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mitsumoto Y,Kobayashi S,Matsushima H,Muroyama A,Yoshimura I

更新日期：2009-09-29 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：:Aggression reflects the psychological and physical behavior that perpetrator intends to harm victim. Initiation of aggression is influenced by the distal factors (e.g. personality) and proximate causes (e.g. affect) of perpetrator. However, few studies explored the brain structural basis of relationship between these ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhu X,Wang K,Cao A,Zhang Y,Qiu J

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Application of a GABAA (gamma-aminobutyric acid-A) receptor antagonist through a microdialysis probe into the forelimb primary motor cortex of ketamine-anesthetized rats induced electromyographic activity in the contralateral forelimb. This activity consisted of spontaneous forelimb movements with a frequency of 0.8 +...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Castro-Alamancos MA,Borrell J

更新日期：1993-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The coupling of muscarinic agonist receptors to guanine nucleotide-binding (G) proteins was investigated in the frontal, temporal cortices and thalamus of control and Alzheimer brains by using carbachol in competition experiments with [3H]QNB. In the presence of GppNHp, the carbachol/[3H]QNB competition binding data s...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Warpman U,Alafuzoff I,Nordberg A

更新日期：1993-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-like immunoreactivity was studied in semithin sections through the inferior olivary complex in two baboon species. About 5% of the olivary neurons were GABA-immunoreactive. The GABA-immunoreactive neurons differed from the large majority of olivary neurons by their sm...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Walberg F,Ottersen OP

更新日期：1989-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the caudate spindle in control and pargyline-pretreated rats following bilateral application of 3 doses (15, 50 and 150 micrograms/site) of dopamine (DA) into the caudate nucleus. The highest dose of DA (150 micrograms) suppressed the spindle, whereas lower doses (15, 50 micrograms) enhanced the spindle in...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Okuyama S,Hashimoto S,Aihara H

更新日期：1985-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The human hypothalamus is at the center of the human limbic system anatomically and physiologically. The hypothalamus plays pivotal roles in controlling autonomic responses and instinctive behaviors such as regulating fear, aggression, learning, feeding behavior, circadian rhythm, and reproductive activities. The deta...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kamali A,Ghazi Sherbaf F,Rahmani F,Khayat-Khoei M,Aein A,Gandhi A,Shah EG,Sair HI,Riascos RF,Esquenazi Y,Zhu JJ,Keser Z,Hasan KM

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenetic mechanisms leading to progressive neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have not been fully elucidated. One possible factor responsible for the selective motor neuron loss in the motor cortex, brain stem and spinal cord is glutamate-induced excitotoxicity particularly mediated via a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Petri S,Krampfl K,Hashemi F,Schmalbach S,Grothe C,Hori A,Dengler R,Bufler J

更新日期：2004-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroblastoma cells differentiate in response to retinoic acid and cyclic AMP. We have examined the expression of retinoic acid receptors (RARs) in relation to neuroblastoma differentiation and show that short term exposure of SK N SH, SH SY 5Y AND GI LI N cells to physiological concentrations of retinoic acid results...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lovat PE,Pearson AD,Malcolm A,Redfern CP

更新日期：1993-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Although synaptically released, vesicular Zn(2+) has been proposed to play a neuromodulatory or neuronal signaling role at the mossy fiber-CA3 synapse, Zn(2+) release remains controversial, especially when detected using fluorescent imaging. In the present study, we investigated synaptically released Zn(2+) at the mos...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bastian C,Li YV

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Light microscopic autoradiographic localization of specific recognition sites for thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) was determined on thin sections of rat brain using the potent analogue [3H](3-Me-His2)-TRH ([3H]MeTRH). Microdensitometric analysis of the relative optical densities of TRH receptor labelling revealed ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sharif NA,Burt DR

更新日期：1985-10-10 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：:The efficacy of acetylcholine muscarinic M2 receptor-G protein coupling was investigated in Alzheimer's disease and control neocortical membranes by measuring the effects of MgCl2 and 5'-guanylylimidodiphosphate (Gpp[NH]p) on high-affinity [3H]oxotremorine-M ([3H]OXO-M) binding. MgCl2 gave similar enhancements of [3H]...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hérnandez-Hérnandez A,Adem A,Ravid R,Cowburn RF

更新日期：1995-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reciprocal Ia inhibition from ankle flexors to extensors was studied in five patients with spasticity due to incomplete traumatic spinal cord lesions. Nine healthy subjects were tested as controls. Excitability of the soleus motoneuron pool was estimated by H-reflex testing in the resting state. Ia inhibition was acti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Boorman G,Hulliger M,Lee RG,Tako K,Tanaka R

更新日期：1991-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of sleep deprivation (SD) on one-trial recognition memory were investigated in rats using either a spontaneous novel-object or object-place recognition test. Rats were allowed to explore a field in which two identical objects were presented. After a delay period, they were placed again in the same field in whi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ishikawa H,Yamada K,Pavlides C,Ichitani Y

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The dentate gyrus of the hippocampus is one of few regions in the adult mammalian brain characterized by ongoing neurogenesis. It has been demonstrated that Noggin antagonizes bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP4) to create a niche for subventricular zone neurogenesis. We previously demonstrated that Noggin and BMP4 sho...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fan XT,Xu HW,Cai WQ,Yang H,Liu S

更新日期：2004-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligodendrocytes in different central nervous system regions have dissimilar morphologies. In order to find out if immature oligodendrocytes develop different phenotypes spontaneously, neonatal spinal and cerebral rat oligodendrocytes were cultured in vitro in the absence of neurons. The results show that spinal oligo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bjartmar C

更新日期：1998-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Although corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is thought to act as a neurotransmitter to activate the locus coeruleus (LC) during hypotensive stress, the consequences of LC activation by CRF are unknown. In the present study a hypotensive challenge that activated rat LC neurons also produced cortical electroencephalog...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Page ME,Berridge CW,Foote SL,Valentino RJ

更新日期：1993-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of cells concentrating R 5020, a potent synthetic progestin, in the brain and pituitary of estrogen-primed ovariectomized rat was investigated by radioautography. In the brain, radioactivity was found concentrated in nuclei of neurons in the preoptic region (nucleus (n.) preopticus pars suprachiasmati...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Warembourg M

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitotoxin lesion of nucleus basalis with kainate or ibotenate results in degeneration of cholinergic neurones and a subsequent cholinergic deficit in cerebral cortex ipsilateral to the lesion. This lesion is accompanied by a massive increase in ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity in ipsilateral cortex, which was ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wood H,de Belleroche J

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine system in the limbic-prefrontal cortex has been assumed to play an important role in the cognitive dysfunction of schizophrenia and phencyclidine (PCP)-induced psychosis. In the present study, the role of metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptor subtypes on PCP-induced cortical dopamine release was investig...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Maeda J,Suhara T,Okauchi T,Semba J

更新日期：2003-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with Xp21 muscular dystrophy Becker type showed absence of dystrophin in muscle biopsy tested with 4 antibodies (polyclonal anti-60 kDa, monoclonal against the rod domain, the C-terminus and the N-terminus). DNA analysis did not detect any deletion in one patient and demonstrated deletion of exons 3-7 in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mongini T,Palmucci L,Doriguzzi C,Chiadoò-Piat L,Restagno G

更新日期：1992-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is expressed in and defines a subset of motor neuron pools in the lumbar spinal cord of the chick embryo. The onset of CGRP expression in individual pools coincides with both the period of the initial innervation of the leg and the beginning of naturally occurring cell death in t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mason IJ,Mudge AW

更新日期：1992-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Using specific radioimmunoassays, melatonin was quantified in the aqueous humor and serum of male pigmented rabbits adapted to 12L:12D with lights on at 06.00 h. Melatonin concentrations in the aqueous humor at 08.00 and 16.00 h were similar (mean: 5.23 pg/ml) and significantly lower than those at 22.00 and 01.00 h (m...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yu HS,Yee RW,Howes KA,Reiter RJ

更新日期：1990-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OT) modulation of synaptic transmission between olfactory bulb neurones has been implicated in the induction of maternal behaviour, but the mechanism of action is unknown. We examined the action of OT on gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) (GABA(A)) receptor-mediated spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents (sIPS...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Osako Y,Otsuka T,Taniguchi M,Oka T,Kaba H

更新日期：2000-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We had previously reported that small gap neurorrhaphy by scissoring and sleeve-jointing epineurium could enhance the rate and quality of peripheral nerve regeneration. To date, local implantation and systemic delivery of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) have been routinely used in nerve tissue engineering, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wang P,Zhang Y,Zhao J,Jiang B

更新日期：2015-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss is a common sensory disorder that affects more than 360 million people worldwide, and is primarily caused by the loss of hair cells (HCs). Ototoxic drugs, viral infections, genetic predisposition, aging or noise all damage HCs. 3β-hydroxysteroid-Δ24 reductase (DHCR24), one enzyme in the cholesterol biosyn...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tian KY,Chang HM,Wang J,Qi MH,Wang WL,Qiu Y,Liang K,Chen FQ,Zha DJ,Qiu JH

更新日期：2019-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Occasional repetitions embedded in a sequence of ever-changing sounds elicit a frontally negative event-related potential peaking between 100 and 200 ms from the onset of sound repetition (repetition negativity, RN). Three interpretations have been suggested for the emergence of RN: (1) RN is a mismatch negativity (MM...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Horváth J,Winkler I

更新日期：2004-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The CHRNA7 gene encoding the α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) has repeatedly been linked with schizophrenia and the P50 sensory gating deficit. The α7 nAChR is considered a promising drug target for treatment of cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia and improves memory and executive functions in patients a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Dyrvig M,Mikkelsen JD,Lichota J

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00