No evidence of association between the alpha-2 macroglobulin gene and Parkinson's disease in a case-control sample.

abstract：:Although metabolic syndrome (MS) is recognized as a risk factor for ischemic stroke, little is known about genetic variants that confer susceptibility to ischemic stroke among individuals with or without MS. This study was completed to investigate whether the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677C>T polymorp...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kim OJ,Hong SH,Jeon YJ,Oh SH,Kim HS,Park YS,Kim EJ,Kim NK

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Five monoclonal antibodies specific for rat monocytes/macrophages were used to characterize macrophages/microglia bulk isolated from neonatal and adult rat brain. The majority of brain macrophages was positive for all antibodies tested with minor differences between cultures derived from developing and mature central ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Graeber MB,Banati RB,Streit WJ,Kreutzberg GW

更新日期：1989-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological differences between the shell and core of the rat nucleus accumbens were investigated by intracellular recordings from an in vitro slice preparation. The average input resistance of neurons recorded in the shell was larger than in the core. Neurons in the core were characterized by a more negative...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pennartz CM,Dolleman-Van der Weel MJ,Lopes da Silva FH

更新日期：1992-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the fact that schizophrenia is a highly complex disorder of the human brain, different models are needed to test specific causative or mechanistic hypotheses. The pathogenesis of schizophrenia is also characterized by abnormal neuronal development. It was found that schizophrenia as well as antipsychotic t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Keilhoff G,Grecksch G,Becker A

更新日期：2010-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin (GAL) is distributed in sympathetic nerves in the cat, and exogenous GAL inhibits cardiac vagal action and lowers blood pressure in this species. This study on anaesthetised cats compares the effects on cardiac vagal action and blood pressure of human, rat and porcine GAL. Human GAL has only recently been sequ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ulman LG,Evans HF,Iismaa TP,Potter EK,McCloskey DI,Shine J

更新日期：1992-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:L1 is a highly conserved cell adhesion molecule with complete homology of the cytoplasmic domain between the known mammalian protein sequences. Since the cytoplasmic domains of other adhesion molecules have been shown to influence adhesion, we have investigated the effects of deletion of the cytoplasmic domain on the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wong EV,Cheng G,Payne HR,Lemmon V

更新日期：1995-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical spreading depression (SD) may produce some symptoms of the aura of classical migraine but it is less probable that it can account for the headache. The aversiveness of SD was examined in unanesthetized rats. In Exp. 1, rats with implanted cortical cannulae were confined in the dark compartment of the step-thr...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Koroleva VI,Bures J

更新日期：1993-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid proteins are a group of proteins that can polymerize into cross beta-sheeted amyloid species. We have found that enhancing cellular 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) formazan exocytosis is a common property of bioactive amyloid species formed from all of the amyloid proteins te...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liu Y,Ritter C,Riek R,Schubert D

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the major inhibitory transmitter in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) and an understanding of the development of receptors for this compound is of considerable interest. In this study, 3 monoclonal antibodies directed against the GABAA/benzodiazepine (GABA/BDZ) receptor were ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ventimiglia R,Grierson JP,Gallombardo P,Sweetnam PM,Tallman JF,Geller HM

更新日期：1990-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional distribution of binding sites labeled by [3H]haloperidol, in the presence of excess spiroperidol, was compared to the regional distribution of receptors labeled by [3H]SCH 23390 and [3H]sulpiride, [3H]SCH 23390 and [3H]sulpiride labeled distinct nuclei, such as the olfactory tubercle, caudate, globus pall...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Contreras PC,Quirion R,Gehlert DR,Contreras ML,O'Donohue TL

更新日期：1987-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive beta-endorphin is localized mainly in the synaptosome-enriched subcellular fraction from rat hypothalami. In this report, we demonstrate that release of immunoreactive beta-endorphin from the synaptosome-enriched subcellular fraction is increased by 150% in a medium containing high potassium. This stimu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fukata J,Nakai Y,Imura H

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using collision tests of orthodromically and antidromically generated spikes, we studied the axonal pathways, axonal projection levels, and soma location of anterior semicircular canal (AC) nerve-activated vestibulospinal neurons in decerebrate cats. AC nerve-activated vestibulospinal neurons (n=74) were mainly locate...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kitajima N,Sugita-Kitajima A,Bai R,Sasaki M,Sato H,Imagawa M,Kawamoto E,Suzuki M,Uchino Y

更新日期：2006-10-02 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：:As overweight and obesity are a growing problem in industrialized societies, they become a main focus of many studies. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is an association between the occurrence of polymorphisms in serotonin-related genes and the prevalence of depressive symptoms in obese patients. T...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bieliński M,Tomaszewska M,Jaracz M,Pulkowska-Ulfig J,Długosz D,Sikora M,Tretyn A,Kamińska A,Junik R,Borkowska A

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of preconditioning (PC) on the changes of nerve growth factor-induced gene A (NGFI-A) expression induced by severe hypobaric hypoxia was studied by in situ hybridization. A PC consisted of three trials of mild hypobaric hypoxia (360 Torr, 2 h) spaced at 24 h. The last trial was followed by severe hypoxia (S...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rybnikova E,Tulkova E,Pelto-Huikko M,Samoilov M

更新日期：2002-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Anterograde labelling following focal injections of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin was used to identify the threedimensional cortical distribution of thalamocortical (TC) fibers from the ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus of the cat. The labelled TC fibers were distributed usually in layers I and III of the mot...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shinoda Y,Kakei S

更新日期：1989-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of fourth cerebroventricular injection of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) on respiration were studied in vagotomized rabbits. Phrenic neural activity was recorded and integrated. TRH (1.0 microgram) injection facilitated phrenic neural activity and increased respiratory rate. Peak phrenic nerve activity in...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Homma I,Oouchi M,Ichikawa S

更新日期：1984-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic preconditioning is considered to be the most robust endogenous neuroprotectant. However, the conventional ischemic preconditioning protocol is both invasive and impractical to apply. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether preconditioning with +Gz centrifuge acceleration (head-to-foot inertial lo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sang H,Li J,Liu J,Wang Z,Huo T,Sun J,Xiong L

更新日期：2008-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-HT) immunocytochemistry, was performed on the whole dissected nervous system of the blowfly. Employing the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique and osmium postfixation, it was possible to examine 5-HT-immunoreactive neuronal elements first light microscopically in 25 microns sections, and, after re-embeddi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nässel DR,Elekes K

更新日期：1984-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis is a currently incurable inflammatory demyelinating syndrome. Recent reports suggest that bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells may have therapeutic potential in experimental models of demyelinating disease, but various alternative mechanisms, ranging from systemic immune effects to local cell ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gordon D,Pavlovska G,Glover CP,Uney JB,Wraith D,Scolding NJ

更新日期：2008-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence has suggested that down-regulation of somatostatin (SST) expression in the human brain during early stages of aging leads to an elevation in the steady-state levels of Abeta and therefore may be involved in Alzheimer's disease (AD) progression. We hypothesized that alterations in the SST gene might alt...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xue S,Jia L,Jia J

更新日期：2009-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine potential associations between the brain damage induced by hypoxic-ischemic (HI) insult and spatial learning impairment in an eight-arm radial maze task. We first determined the pathological outcomes after 2, 5, 9, and 17 weeks of recovery following the HI insult. The result...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mishima K,Ikeda T,Aoo N,Takai N,Takahashi S,Egashira N,Ikenoue T,Iwasaki K,Fujiwara M

更新日期：2005-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of radioiodinated omega-conotoxin GVIA, a probable Ca channel antagonist, to synaptic plasma membranes of rat brain was examined. Two kinds of specific binding sites were found with apparent dissociation constants of 10 pM and 0.5 nM and maximum binding capacities of 0.5 and 3.4 pmol/mg prot., respectively...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Abe T,Koyano K,Saisu H,Nishiuchi Y,Sakakibara S

更新日期：1986-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A valinomycin-based membrane phase for microelectrodes with relatively low electrical membrane resistances is described. Microelectrodes with tip diameters of about 1 micron exhibit resistances of about 10(10) omega. Extremely high K+ selectivities are obtained, e.g. a rejection of Na+ by a factor of 5000 and of acety...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ammann D,Chao PS,Simon W

更新日期：1987-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotional processing in coma remains an open question. Skin conductance responses to emotional and neutral auditory stimuli were recorded in 13 low-responsive patients (12 of whom were in coma). A differential response between emotional and neutral stimuli was found, which significantly correlated with the Glasgow Com...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Daltrozzo J,Wioland N,Mutschler V,Lutun P,Calon B,Meyer A,Jaeger A,Pottecher T,Kotchoubey B

更新日期：2010-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We immunohistochemically examined the expression of glycogen synthase kinase-3beta (GSK-3beta) in the brains of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients. GSK-3beta was localized in punctate structures in the cytosol of subsets of neurons in the midbrain and upper pons. GSK-3beta was also localized in Lewy bodies (LBs) as was...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nagao M,Hayashi H

更新日期：2009-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of blood glucose level in intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration with opioid alone or opioid withdrawal model was studied in ICR mice. In the first group, we found that i.c.v. administered morphine or beta-endorphin alone causes an elevation of blood glucose level. Blood glucose level induced b...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Park SH,Sim YB,Kang YJ,Kim SM,Lee JK,Jung JS,Suh HW

更新日期：2010-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are resident immune cells of brain and activated by peripheral tissue injury. In the present study, we investigated the possible induction of several microglial surface immunomolecules in the spinal cord, including leukocyte common antigen (LCA/CD45), MHC class I antigen, MHC class II antigen, Fc receptor, a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fu KY,Tan YH,Sung B,Mao J

更新日期：2009-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the effects of fluvoxamine on the inhibition of gastrointestinal transit, antinociception and hyperlocomotion induced by morphine were investigated in mice. Treatment with morphine (10 mg/kg, subcutaneously (s.c.)) inhibited gastrointestinal transit and hyperlocomotion. These effects were attenua...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ise Y,Katayama S,Hirano M,Aoki T,Narita M,Suzuki T

更新日期：2001-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the ERP (event-related potential) correlates of categorization processing in brand extension with irrelative task. Participants faced two sequential stimuli in a pair consisting of a soft drink brand name (S1) and a product name (S2) which comprised two categories: beverage (typical product of the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wang X,Ma Q,Wang C

更新日期：2012-09-06 00:00:00