No association between the lipoprotein lipase S447X polymorphism and Alzheimer's disease.

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：:Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a common autosomal dominant disorder in which affected individuals develop benign and malignant tumors as well as non-tumor-related abnormalities, such as seizures and learning disabilities. Here, we report an NF1 isoform arising from the alternative splicing of exon 9a with predominant ce...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Geist RT,Gutmann DH

更新日期：1996-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia is one of the important physiological stimuli that are often associated with a variety of pathological states such as ischemia, respiratory diseases, and tumorigenesis. In the central nervous system, hypoxia that is accompanied by cerebral ischemia not only causes neuronal cell injury, but may also induce path...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Suk K

更新日期：2004-08-12 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：:Estrogen was shown to promote neuronal survival against several neurotoxic insults including β-amyloid (Aβ). The proposed mechanism includes the activation of the mitogen activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase (Mapk/Erk), phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathways and the upregulation of antiap...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mateos L,Persson T,Katoozi S,Gil-Bea FJ,Cedazo-Minguez A

更新日期：2012-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Tritiated dipyridamole, a specific adenosine uptake inhibitor binds in a saturable and reversible fashion to high-affinity receptor sites in guinea pig brain sections (Kd = 10 +/- 1.5 nM; Bmax = 650 +/- 100 fmol/mg prot.). The anatomical distribution of [3H]dipyridamole binding sites obtained with autoradiographic tec...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bisserbe JC,Deckert J,Marangos P

更新日期：1986-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In brainstem slices of guinea pigs perfused with artificial cerebro-spinal fluid (ACSF), the discharge of all the spontaneously active neurons of the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) is regular. It has been reported that prolonged exposure to a low Ca(2+) medium could induce these neurons to fire bursts of spikes. In t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ris L,Godaux E

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The discharge of 38 tibialis anterior (TA) muscle spindle endings was recorded at rest and during isometric voluntary contraction of the ankle joint in eight healthy human subjects. With the ankle joint in 110 degrees plantarflexion, 24 endings (61%) were tonically active in the resting subject. During weak voluntary ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nielsen J,Nagaoka M,Kagamihara Y,Kakuda N,Tanaka R

更新日期：1994-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain, are activated in response to any kind of CNS injury, and their activation is critical for maintaining homeostasis within the CNS. However, during inflammatory conditions, sustained microglial activation results in damage to surrounding neuronal cells. beta-Glucans are...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shah VB,Williams DL,Keshvara L

更新日期：2009-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Afferent baroreceptor information is transmitted to the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) in the dorsal medulla where glutamate is thought to be the primary neurotransmitter. However, the subtypes of glutamate receptors involved in the baroreflex remain to be established. The present study compared the distribution of ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Botsford SA,Dean C,Hopp FA,Seagard JL

更新日期：1999-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive technique for monitoring electrical activity and has good time resolution. Combining these advantages of EEG with dipole-tracing analysis incorporating a realistic three-layer head model (scalp-skull-brain head model; SSB/DT) allows for the detection of dipoles in the mil...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Inoue M,Masaoka Y,Kawamura M,Okamoto Y,Homma I

更新日期：2008-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of intravenous guanethidine for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome type I is of variable efficacy. Guanethidine injection is painful, so local anaesthetic is co-administered. We hypothesize that local anaesthetic inhibits uptake of guanethidine and hence reduces its efficacy. In this study we have exa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Joyce PI,Atcheson R,Marcus RJ,Heffernan AM,Rowbotham DJ,Lambert DG

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the functional C957T single-nucleotide polymorphism of the dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) gene and the risk for schizophrenia. We therefore conducted a case-control association study of 188 Finnish schizophrenia patients meeting the DSM-IV criteria and 384...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hänninen K,Katila H,Kampman O,Anttila S,Illi A,Rontu R,Mattila KM,Hietala J,Hurme M,Leinonen E,Lehtimäki T

更新日期：2006-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular regulation of seizure-induced neuronal death may involve interactions between proteins of the Bcl-2 and 14-3-3 families. To further examine these pathways we performed subcellular fractionation on hippocampi obtained following a brief period of status epilepticus in the rat. Western blotting determined s...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schindler CK,Shinoda S,Simon RP,Henshall DC

更新日期：2004-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Two types of cone horizontal cells were identified morphologically in the retina of a trichromatic fish by fluorescent labelling with Lucifer Yellow and confocal laser scanning microscopy. H1 cells are located adjacent to the outer plexiform layer, have large somata, small dendritic fields, and contact all cone types....

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Braun SC,Kröger RH,Wagner HJ

更新日期：1997-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We immunohistochemically investigated the degeneration processes of the nigro-striatal and nigro-amygdaloid pathways and the relationship between the loss of dopaminergic neurons and Lewy bodies (LB) formation in the substantia nigra using 15 autopsied cases of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). The number of tyrosine h...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Iseki E,Marui W,Yamamoto R,Togo T,Katsuse O,Kato M,Iwatsubo T,Kosaka K,Arai H

更新日期：2005-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An anti-Fos protein antiserum was used to elucidate the diurnal expression of Fos protein in the normal and degenerate rd/rd mice retina. We have found that Fos expression is stimulated in cells of both inner nuclear layer (INL) and ganglion cell layer (GCL) at the onset of light period and reaches its maximum after 2...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Huerta JJ,Llamosas MM,Cernuda-Cernuda R,García-Fernández JM

更新日期：1997-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is an essential enzymatic component of the neuromuscular junction where it is responsible for terminating neurotransmission by the cholinergic motor neurons. The enzyme at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) is contributed primarily by the skeletal muscle where it is produced at higher levels ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rotundo RL

更新日期：2020-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Kynurenic acid (KYNA), a neuroactive metabolite of tryptophan that acts on different receptors (e.g. those of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and presynaptic α7 nicotinic acetylcholine (nACh)), exerts fundamentally antiglutamatergic effects. In view of its antiglutamatergic properties, an elevation of the KYNA level withi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Demeter I,Nagy K,Farkas T,Kis Z,Kocsis K,Knapp L,Gellert L,Fülöp F,Vecsei L,Toldi J

更新日期：2013-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Mirror neurons, which have now been found in the human and songbird as well as the macaque, respond to both the observation and the performance of the same action. It has been suggested that their matching response properties have evolved as an adaptation for action understanding; alternatively, these properties may a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Catmur C

更新日期：2013-04-12 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 present study was undertaken to determine whether the postsynaptic inhibition of motoneurons that occurs following the pontine microinjection of carbachol in the decerebrate cat is due to the activity of Renshaw cells. Thirty-two out of 37 Renshaw cells (86%) were spontaneously active prior to the administration o...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Morales FR,Engelhardt JK,Pereda AE,Yamuy J,Chase MH

更新日期：1988-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that synuclein is upregulated in the substantia nigra following developmental lesion of the target striatum. In this model, synuclein is preferentially expressed in normal-appearing neurons, rather than those which undergo apoptosis. It has been proposed, however, that synuclein may mediate ap...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kholodilov NG,Oo TF,Burke RE

更新日期：1999-11-12 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：:Studies in humans use blood lactate to determine the degree of the exercise intensity, suggesting that exercise with elevated blood lactate concentrations results in increased BDNF plasma concentrations. However, it is not clear if lactate per se or rather other mechanisms are responsible for changes in blood BDNF con...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schiffer T,Schulte S,Sperlich B,Achtzehn S,Fricke H,Strüder HK

更新日期：2011-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of chronic alcoholism in the neuronal nuclear area (karyometry) of the lateral entorhinal cortex at three rostro-caudal levels (rostral, intermediate and caudal) has been studied in 19 alcoholic subjects and in 15 aged-matched controls. Cases were distributed into three groups according to their age (29-44,...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ibáñez J,Herrero MT,Insausti R,Belzunegui T,Tuñón T,García-Bragado F,Gonzalo LM

更新日期：1995-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)/serum albumin ratio has been used a marker for blood CSF barrier permeability in 116 normal patients. We attempted to correlate the CSF/serum albumin ratio with a number of clinically measurable parameters including alcohol consumption. Alcohol consumption had a significant effect on the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kornhuber J,Kaiserauer CH,Kornhuber AW,Kornhuber ME

更新日期：1987-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Convergence of cardiac and cutaneous afferents onto neurons in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord was demonstrated in the cat. Responses of neurons to cutaneous stimulation revealed that they were either nociceptive specific (NS) or wide dynamic range (WDR) neurons. NS neurons were located in lamina I and outer zone o...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takahashi M,Yokota T

更新日期：1983-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatosensory amplification refers to the tendency to experience benign and ambiguous somatic sensation as intense, noxious, and disturbing. The construct is helpful in assessing the perceptual style of a variety of somatizing conditions, but there is no human study clarifying the effects of neurological function on s...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nakao M,Barsky AJ,Nishikitani M,Yano E,Murata K

更新日期：2007-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of microiontophoretic application of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) on the neuronal firing rate of the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) were studied in anaesthetized rats. Ninety-three % of the units modified their background activity following 5-HT iontophoresis, enhancements of the firing rate being recorded ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Licata F,Li Volsi G,Maugeri G,Santangelo F

更新日期：1993-05-14 00:00:00