Non-independent quantum bumps in Limulus ventral nerve photoreceptors--a new insight in the light transduction mechanism.

abstract：:Sex differences in basal extracellular striatal dopamine concentrations in gonadectomized male and female rats have been reported previously. In the current experiment, estrous cycle-dependent variation, sex differences and the effect of gonadectomy on extracellular striatal dopamine concentrations were determined usi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xiao L,Becker JB

更新日期：1994-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron microscopic findings in cats after complete interruption of all afferents to caudate nucleus as well as of its efferent fibers, suggest that the type IX synapses, the presynaptic component of which contains large empty round vesicles, are formed by the axon terminals of intrinsic neurons. They make synapt...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hassler R,Chung JW,Wagner A,Rinne U

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was made of the effect of presynaptic inhibition on paired-pulse facilitation (PPF) of group Ia afferent excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs). The main finding from this study was that PPF was enhanced during presynaptic inhibition of compound Ia EPSPs. This increase in PPF is identical to that ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Stuart GJ,Redman SJ

更新日期：1991-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C (PKC) pathway plays important roles in different phenomena in nervous system development. Our previous data demonstrated that phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) treatment, a PKC activator, for 48 h decreases retinal cells proliferation by a mechanism mediated by muscarinic receptor activation, invo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Braga LE,Granja MG,da Silva GM,Giestal-de-Araujo E,dos Santos AA

更新日期：2013-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the medial septum (MS) enhances the synchronized firing of pyramidal cells in the hippocampus. At least two distinct mechanisms might be recruited in this process: GABAergic inhibition of hippocampal inhibitory interneurons and cholinergic enhancement of pyramidal cell excitability. In the present study,...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ovsepian SV

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Badminton players of varying skill levels viewed normal and point-light video clips of opponents striking the shuttle towards the viewer; their task was to predict in which quadrant of the court the shuttle would land. In a whole-brain fMRI analysis we identified bilateral cortical networks sensitive to the anticipati...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wright MJ,Bishop DT,Jackson RC,Abernethy B

更新日期：2011-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures and death are the more important toxic consequences related to cocaine overdose. Some reports have shown that pharmacological manipulations in dopaminergic, serotonergic and noradrenergic systems alter the occurrence of cocaine-induced convulsions and death. Based on this fact, this work was performed to dete...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Macêdo DS,Vasconcelos SM,Belchior LD,Santos RS,Viana GS,Sousa FC

更新日期：2004-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage dependency of the ON and the OFF components of transient amacrine cell responses was studied using two-electrode voltage-clamp and current-clamp techniques in the isolated retina of the carp. The two independent approaches gave similar data. When cells were voltage clamped near their resting potentials, bo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Djamgoz MB,Low JC,Saito T,Toyoda JI,Yamada M

更新日期：1996-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-initiated leg movement in standing humans is preceded by a medio-lateral preparatory balance adjustment (PBA); however, such preparatory balance control is often absent in reflex-like stepping responses evoked by whole-body instability. The presence or absence of the PBA may reflect a task-dependent modulation of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： McIlroy WE,Bent LR,Potvin JR,Brooke JD,Maki BE

更新日期：1999-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Localized moderate cooling (+10 degrees C) of the anterior and ventral part of the raphe dorsalis induced cortical synchronization and ponto-geniculo-occipital (PGO) waves followed sometimes by paradoxical sleep. Cooling the region of the raphe magnus produced cortical arousal. After depletion of brain 5-hydroxytrypta...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cespuglio R,Walker E,Gomez ME,Musolino R

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electromyographic responses elicited in the first dorsal interosseus muscle by small muscle stretches or by electrical stimulation of the median nerve were investigated in parkinsonian patients and in age-matched healthy subjects. Stimuli were applied during a steady level of contraction in the intrinsic hand musc...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Noth J,Schürmann M,Podoll K,Schwarz M

更新日期：1988-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The permeation of 36Cl from blood into choroid plexus (CP) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was studied in adult rats intraventricularly injected with either dibutyryl (db)-cAMP, theophylline with db-cAMP, or forskolin. All 3 treatments significantly enhanced the 15-min distribution (Vd) of 36Cl into CSF, by an average o...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Deng QS,Johanson CE

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:While it has been shown that the Global Optic Flow Rate (GOFR) is used in the control of self-motion speed, this study examined its relevance in the control of interceptive actions while walking. We asked participants to intercept approaching targets by adjusting their walking speed in a virtual environment, and predi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Morice AH,Wallet G,Montagne G

更新日期：2014-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal-learning children (NL) and children with learning disabilities (LD) reported their perceptions of unisensory (auditory or visual), concordant audiovisual (e.g. visual /apa/ and auditory /apa/) and conflicting (e.g. visual /aka/ and auditory /apa/) speech stimuli in quiet and noise (0 dB and -12 dB signal-to-noi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hayes EA,Tiippana K,Nicol TG,Sams M,Kraus N

更新日期：2003-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunohistochemistry we studied the presence of calbindin in myenteric neurones of the guinea-pig stomach. A rabbit anti recombinant rat calbindin-D28k (CALB) stained 12, 12 and 25% of all myenteric neurones in the fundus, corpus and antrum, respectively. A rabbit anti recombinant human CALB stained 4, 4 and 16%...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Reiche D,Pfannkuche H,Michel K,Hoppe S,Schemann M

更新日期：1999-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The fine structure of striato-nigral efferent neurons, retrogradely labeled with HRP, was studied. The neuron showed a medium sized ovoid or tri-angular perikaryon. Short or medium lengthened granular endoplasmic reticula, having a tendency to wind and pile up in stacks were observed. This neurons corresponds to a typ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kaiya H,Okinaga M,Namba M,Shoumura K,Watanabe S

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of cholecystokinin (CCK) receptor binding to sections of rat, mouse and guinea pig brain has been performed using 125I-Bolton Hunter CCK and the selective peripheral CCK receptor antagonist L-365,031. In both rat and mouse, 125I-Bolton Hunter CCK binding in the region of the interpeduncular nucleus (IPN) ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hill DR,Shaw TM,Woodruff GN

更新日期：1987-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid kappa-agonists had much more potent inhibitory effects on the high K+-evoked Met-enkephalin release from rat brain slices than did the mu- or delta-agonists. The opioid kappa- antagonist, MR2266 enhanced the evoked release of Met-enkephalin to a greater extent than did mu- or delta-antagonists in vitro and had ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ueda H,Fukushima N,Ge M,Takagi H,Satoh M

更新日期：1987-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of diffuse luminance flicker stimulation of a large area (approximately 30 degrees diameter) on red blood cell flux (F) in the optic nerve head was measured in the anesthetized cat. F increased markedly during sustained flicker. The F-response to the initiation and cessation of the stimulation was found to ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Riva CE,Harino S,Shonat RD,Petrig BL

更新日期：1991-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Double retrograde axonal tracers (horseradish peroxidase, (HRP) and [3H]apo-HRP) have been used to study the distribution of labeled cells in the cat claustrum. Paired injections were made into different fields of the visual cortical areas. Although the areas of distribution of single-labeled claustral neurons from di...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Norita M

更新日期：1983-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The synaptic relationships between gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-immunoreactive and enkephalin-immunoreactive profiles in the cat spinal cord were examined using combined pre-embedding immunoperoxidase and post-embedding immunogold electron microscopic immunocytochemistry. Although colchicine was not used, enkephalin...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liu H,Llewellyn-Smith IJ,Pilowsky P,Basbaum AI

更新日期：1992-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Remacemide is a potential anticonvulsant drug with an active metabolite, desglycinyl-remacemide (DGR). Both moieties have been reported to block neuronal Na(+) channels and the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) subtype of glutamate receptor. The effects of remacemide and DGR on zero Mg(2+)/4-aminopyridine-induced epileptifo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Santangeli S,Sills GJ,Stone TW,Brodie MJ

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report of the presence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) immunoreactivity and NADPH-diaphorase (NADPH-d) activity in a subpopulation of the intrinsic neurones that innervate the heart. A cytochemical technique to detect NADPH-d and antisera raised against purified rat cerebellar NOS were employed to exa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hassall CJ,Saffrey MJ,Belai A,Hoyle CH,Moules EW,Moss J,Schmidt HH,Murad F,Förstermann U,Burnstock G

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian Period1 gene is rhythmically expressed and its proteins are found within the nucleus of the cells of the suprachiasmatic nuclei (SCN), the central circadian pacemaker in mammals; however, whether the target of the PER1 proteins is also the nucleus in the retinal peripheral clock cells is yet to be determ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： García-Fernández JM,Alvarez-López C,Cernuda-Cernuda R

更新日期：2007-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chronic Constriction Injury of the Infraorbital Nerve (CCI-ION) is a well-established model to study facial sensory changes related to trigeminal neuropathic pain. CCI-ION induces heat hypersensitivity that resolves within 2-3 weeks and a delayed mechanical hypersensitivity that emerges during the second week post...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nones CFM,Claudino RF,Ferreira LEN,Dos Reis RC,King T,Chichorro JG

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) is an opioid-like neuropeptide that has been shown to cause peripheral sensitization of knee joint afferents; however, the effect of the peptide on joint pain behaviour is unknown. In addition to having a direct effect on peripheral nerves, N/OFQ has also been shown to activate connectiv...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： McDougall JJ,Larson SE

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of murine primary microglia with Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists enhances their ability to phagocytose and kill bacteria. Here we show that the viral TLR3 agonist poly(I:C) stimulates the release of cyto-/chemokines and nitric oxide by microglia. Poly(I:C) increases microglial phagocytosis and intracellu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ribes S,Adam N,Ebert S,Regen T,Bunkowski S,Hanisch UK,Nau R

更新日期：2010-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic mRNA precursors are co-transcriptionally assembled into ribonucleoprotein complexes. Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) complexes are involved in mRNA translocation, stability, subcellular localization and regulation of mRNA translation. About 20 major classes of hnRNPs have been identified in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lopes GS,Lico DTP,Silva-Rocha R,de Oliveira RR,Sebollela A,Paçó-Larson ML,Larson RE

更新日期：2019-03-23 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：:Adenosine has been proposed to be a chemical link between cerebral metabolism and blood flow. In the present study, we investigated whether the intravenous or intracarotid administration of adenosine could influence regional cerebral blood flow in anesthetized rabbits. The study was performed with the [14C]ethanol tis...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Puiroud S,Pinard E,Miller MC,Seylaz J

更新日期：1987-09-23 00:00:00