Melatonin infusions restore sleep suppressed by continuous bright light in pigeons.

abstract：:The effects of gender and gonadal hormones on nociceptive responses to intraplantar carrageenan in the rat were investigated. A plantar analgesic meter was used to measure carrageenan-induced changes in paw withdrawal latency (PWL) values, and von Frey monofilaments were used to assess changes in paw withdrawal thresh...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tall JM,Crisp T

更新日期：2004-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Following unilateral transection of the medial forebrain bundle (MFB) within the anterior hypothalamic-preoptic region of cats, the biting attack upon a rat elicited by ipsilateral posterior hypothalamic or ventral midbrain stimulation is eliminated, although the cat continues to approach from 2.8 metres away to withi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Halliday R,Bandler R

更新日期：1981-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:DSP-4[N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-ethyl-2-bromobenzylamine hydrochloride] is a neurotoxin that depletes norepinephrine. The catecholaminergic system has been implicated in the regulation of blood glucose level. In the present study, the effect of DSP-4 administered intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) or intrathecally (i.t.) on...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Park SH,Kim SS,Lee JR,Sharma N,Suh HW

更新日期：2016-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult observers can quickly identify specific actions performed by an invisible actor from the points of lights attached to the actor's head and major joints. Infants are also sensitive to biological motion and prefer to see it depicted by a dynamic point-light display. In detecting biological motion such as whole bod...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ichikawa H,Kanazawa S,Yamaguchi MK,Kakigi R

更新日期：2010-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased expression of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) has been shown in adult stroke models. However, its expression and relationship with neuronal apoptosis in neonatal rats with transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) have not been clearly elucidated. We studied the expression and distribution of ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mao M,Hua Y,Jiang X,Li L,Zhang L,Mu D

更新日期：2006-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradykinin, an inflammatory mediator produced from plasma kallikreins, has potent effects on vascular functions, including increasing plasma extravasation and vasodilation. Attenuation in the response (desensitization to maintained exposure or tachyphylaxis to repeated administration) to bradykinin actions on synovial...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Miao FJ,Khasar SG,Green PG,Levine JD

更新日期：1996-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain and nasal region of a fetal (124 days) female rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) were fixed in situ, decalcified, sectioned and treated for the immunocytochemical demonstration of LHRH. Immunoreactive neurons and fibers were found in expected sites and also in sites not reported to date in primates: there was a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Witkin JW

更新日期：1987-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN), a part of the rostral ventrolateral medulla, is involved in the control of breathing. The mechanisms by which the RTN modulate the activity of respiratory neurons during chemoreceptor stimulation are not fully understood. This electrophysiological study performed in the cat demonstrat...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bodineau L,Frugière A,Marlot D,Wallois F

更新日期：2000-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The study investigated the effects of metabolic syndrome on urinary bladder nerve-growth factor (NGF) and p75(NTR) expression in fructose-fed obese rats. Age-matched male Wistar rats were divided into four groups; group I: normal control rats; group II: 6-week fructose-fed rats (FR); group III: 9-week FR; and group IV...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cheng JT,Tong YC

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To demonstrate the preference of lactate over glucose as an energy substrate in normal brain tissue under normoxic condition, the dynamic changes in glucose uptake by lactate loading were investigated in living rat brain slices using a positron autoradiography technique. Fresh rat brain slices were incubated with [18F...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Murata T,Waki A,Omata N,Fujibayashi Y,Sadato N,Yano R,Yoshimoto M,Isaki K,Yonekura Y

更新日期：1998-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol withdrawal is a serious clinical problem owing in part to over stimulation of ionotropic glutamate receptors in the brain and is linked to elevated oxidative damage. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that lipid peroxidation is elevated in the brain tissue of rats fed an ethanol-containing diet for 6 week...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Milne GL,Morrow JD,Picklo MJ Sr

更新日期：2006-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The circadian modulation of occurrence of non-rapid-eye-movement sleep (NREM) was investigated in 37 volunteers under dim-light conditions after 24-h total sleep deprivation using a 26-h 10/20-min ultra-short sleep-wake schedule. The propensity of NREM showed rapid increase followed by gradual decrease during the subj...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tagaya H,Uchiyama M,Shibui K,Kim K,Suzuki H,Kamei Y,Okawa M

更新日期：2002-04-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The depletion of dopamine in the striatum region and Lewy bodies are the hallmark characteristics of Parkinson's disease. The pathology also includes the upregulation of various Parkinson's disease (PARK) genes and kinases. Two such kinases, LRRK2 and GSK-3β have been directly implicated in the formation of tau and al...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kesh S,Kannan RR,Sivaji K,Balakrishnan A

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate potential trophic actions of extracellular ATP in human astrocytes, we have examined mitogenic signaling by purinergic receptors in cultures prepared from first trimester rostral central nervous system tissue. We found that ATP and ATPgammaS, a hydrolysis-resistant analog, stimulated DNA synthesis, ther...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Neary JT,McCarthy M,Kang Y,Zuniga S

更新日期：1998-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of neuromelanic pigment in neurons of the rat substantia nigra (SN) is a matter of controversy. The presence of neuromelanin in the SN of 15--24-month-old rats was investigated by electron microscopy (EM) and the findings compared to the morphology and distribution of neuromelanin in SN of dogs. In the ra...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： DeMattei M,Levi AC,Fariello RG

更新日期：1986-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the modulation of baroreceptor reflex (BRR) response by locus coeruleus (LC) in adult, male Sprague-Dawley rats anesthetized with urethane (1.5 g/kg, i.p.). Under an electrical stimulation condition that did not appreciably alter the basal systemic arterial pressure and heart rate, the LC significantly su...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Chan JY,Jang SF,Chan SH

更新日期：1992-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of five muscarinic receptor mRNAs (m1, m2, m3, m4, m5) was examined in neostriatum, hippocampus and frontal cortex of 3, 18, and 33 month old rats. Transcripts for ml (3.0 kb), m2 (6.2 kb), m3 (4.5 kb) and m4 (3.3 kb) were detected in all brain regions studied. A 6.0 kb transcript for the m5 muscarinic ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lee HJ,Clagett-Dame M,Heideman W,Weiler MS

更新日期：1994-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The modification of tuning properties in the cochlea has been studied by means of tuning curves from auditory nerve fibers in kittens of various ages. Comparison of tuning curves of three characteristic frequencies (CF) shows that the tuning of high CF units tends to approach adult values by the end of the second post...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Romand R

更新日期：1983-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative anti-addiction alkaloid ibogaine and its principal metabolite 12-hydroxyibogamine appear to act at the (+)-5 methyl-10,11,dihydro-5H- dibenzo[a,d]cycloheten-5-10-imine maleate (MK-801) binding site in the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-receptor cation channel. This conclusion is based on findings that both c...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mash DC,Staley JK,Pablo JP,Holohean AM,Hackman JC,Davidoff RA

更新日期：1995-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) from endothelial or neuronal NO synthases (eNOS or nNOS) may contribute both to the cerebrovascular responses to oxygen and potentially to the peroxynitrite-mediated toxic effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO(2)) on the central nervous system (CNS O(2) toxicity). In mice lacking eNOS or nNOS (-/-), regi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Demchenko IT,Atochin DN,Boso AE,Astern J,Huang PL,Piantadosi CA

更新日期：2003-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bay K 8644, nimodipine and omega-conotoxin GVIA (omega-CgTx) were used to study the different contribution of voltage-sensitive calcium channels (VSCC) to [3H]acetylcholine ([[3H]ACh) release in rat hippocampal synaptosomes. In our experimental conditions, the percentage of calcium-dependent ACh release was approximat...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Clos MV,Garcia Sanz A,Sabriá J,Pastor C,Badia A

更新日期：1994-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Bungarotoxin (BuTx)-binding cells were immunocytochemically examined in the developing rat cerebellum. The tissue was incubated with BuTx and then immunostained with antiserum against its toxoid. On postnatal day 6, only Golgi cells were positive for immunoreaction. Immunoreactive Golgi cells were reduced in numb...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Katoh-Semba R,Semba R,Kashiwamata S

更新日期：1987-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular recordings from luminosity-type horizontal cells of the turtle retina were used to analyze the effects of steady and flickering background illumination on the size of their receptive fields. Both types of background illumination reduce the size of the receptive field to about the same extent. The reducti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Weiler R,Akopian A

更新日期：1992-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) exert anticonvulsant effects against limbic seizures in rats mediated by hippocampal D(2) and 5-HT(1A) receptor stimulation. For exogenously administered monoamines, anticonvulsant activity was only observed following 70--400% and 80--350% increases in baselin...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Clinckers R,Smolders I,Meurs A,Ebinger G,Michotte Y

更新日期：2005-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence supports the association between a polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) and suicidal behaviour. Recently, a novel variant of the 5-HTTLPR L allele was identified. The previously unknown L(G) allele produced similar levels of gene expression to the S allele and mig...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hung CF,Lung FW,Chen CH,O'Nions E,Hung TH,Chong MY,Wu CK,Wen JK,Lin PY

更新日期：2011-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The sexual differences and the seasonal variation in the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) content of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of a desert rodent, the jerboa (Jaculus orientalis) were studied using immunocytochemical techniques. During the period of sexual activity (spring-early summer), the VIP immunoreact...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lakhdar-Ghazal N,Kalsbeek A,Pevet P

更新日期：1992-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous results demonstrated improved cognition in adolescent rats housed in environmental enrichment (EE) that underwent neonatal hypoxia-ischemia (HI). The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of early EE on neurobehavioral development and brain damage in rats submitted to neonatal HI. Wistar rats w...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schuch CP,Diaz R,Deckmann I,Rojas JJ,Deniz BF,Pereira LO

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Reflex responses of adrenal sympathetic nerve activity to stimulation of baroreceptor and cutaneous mechanoreceptors were compared in young adult (4 months old) and aged (26 months old) rats, under strictly controlled conditions for anesthesia, respiration and body temperature. Under these conditions the reflex depres...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kurosawa M,Sato A,Sato Y,Suzuki H

更新日期：1987-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha1-adrenergic receptors may contribute to cognitive functions relevant to schizophrenia. Following the discovery of an association between polymorphisms in the regulatory region of the alpha1A-adrenergic receptor and schizophrenia we investigated the expression of mRNA for this receptor between schizophrenics ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Clark DA,Mancama D,Kerwin RW,Arranz MJ

更新日期：2006-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin secretion and glucose homeostasis is implicated through serotonergic function. Pyridoxine is involved in decarboxylation step in synthesis of serotonin. The present study was carried out to find the role of insulin in combination with pyridoxine on the concentrations of 5-HT and 5-HIAA, 5-HT receptor binding, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Abraham PM,Anju TR,Jayanarayanan S,Paulose CS

更新日期：2010-10-08 00:00:00