Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, apolipoprotein E genetic variants and cognitive performance in Alzheimer's disease.

abstract：:The deposition of amyloid beta protein (Abeta), a proteolytic cleavage product of amyloid precursor protein (APP), is an invariable pathological feature of the Alzheimer's disease brain, while APP gene is widely expressed in all neuronal and non-neuronal tissues with the highest levels of expression in the brain, and ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tsuzuki K,Fukatsu R,Yamaguchi H,Tateno M,Imai K,Fujii N,Yamauchi T

更新日期：2000-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The dorsal visual processing stream that includes V1, motion sensitive area V5 and the posterior parietal lobe, supports visually guided motor function. Two recent studies have reported associations between global motion perception, a behavioural measure of processing in V5, and motor function in pre-school and school...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Thompson B,McKinlay CJD,Chakraborty A,Anstice NS,Jacobs RJ,Paudel N,Yu TY,Ansell JM,Wouldes TA,Harding JE,CHYLD Study Team.

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of conceptual fusion on episodic associative retrieval were examined. Subjects attempted to fuse sequentially displayed (800 ms offset) word pairs; pairs subjects were unable to fuse were instead considered associated by juxtaposition. Next, dense-array event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while the p...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kounios J,Bachman P,Casasanto D,Grossman M,Smith RW,Yang W

更新日期：2003-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In the superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1)(G93A G1H) transgenic mouse, the primary pathology and disease signs are associated with the degeneration of motor neurons in the lumbar spinal cord. It is unclear if the descending motor pathways from the cortex and brainstem are also compromised. The retrograde tracer Fluorogold w...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zang DW,Cheema SS

更新日期：2002-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found an APOE epsilon 4 allelic frequency of 0.289 (95% CI 0.195-0.383) in Spanish AD patients (n = 88; average age = 71.2 +/- 9.37) and of 0.061 (95% CI 0.023-0.099) in age-matched controls (n = 147; average age = 71.5 +/- 10.29). Remarkably no ApoE 4/4 subjects were observed in any of the age-matched control...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Adroer R,Santacruz P,Blesa R,López-Pousa S,Ascaso C,Oliva R

更新日期：1995-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Divalent metals such as cobalt are frequently used by neurophysiologists to prevent synaptic transmission, because they are thought to selectively block presynaptic calcium conductance. Recording intracellularly from hippocampal CA3 pyramidal cells we show that Co2+ (2 mM) is not specific in this action but also dimin...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gerber U,Gähwiler BH

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, chronic low-dose methylphenidate (MPH) administration during early development has been shown to increase emotional responding in adulthood. However, most studies employed male subjects, which generally show enhanced fear relative to females in laboratory tests of anxious behaviors. The present st...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bethancourt JA,Vásquez CE,Britton GB

更新日期：2011-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Freezing is one of the most widely recognized defensive reactions to approaching threats in animals. Here we tested whether the same stimuli can elicit freeze-like responses in healthy humans as well. We used a modified version of the two-frame apparent motion paradigm, in which both size and location of a stimulus wi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sagliano L,Cappuccio A,Trojano L,Conson M

更新日期：2014-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we have reported that erythropoietin (Epo) provides neuroprotection in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,5,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced neurotoxicity in vivo. In the present study, we investigated the effects of single Epo administration on brain antioxidant enzyme (superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathion perox...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Genc S,Akhisaroglu M,Kuralay F,Genc K

更新日期：2002-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we attempt to extend to the schizophrenia's research the evidence that different frequency bands may emerge from different sources during early-stage visual processing, in a mental state-specific manner, while subjects are passively viewing a visual stimulus. We applied standard pattern reversal stimulat...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： González-Hernández JA,Pita-Alcorta C,Castañeda H,Trujillo-Barreto N,Scherbaum WA

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of cognitive behavior in rodent models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are the mainstay of academic and industrial efforts to find effective treatments for this disorder. However, in the majority of such studies, the nature of rodent behavioral tests is considerably different from the setting associated with cogni...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Piiponniemi TO,Bragge T,Vauhkonen EE,Vartiainen P,Puoliväli JT,Sweeney PJ,Kopanitsa MV

更新日期：2017-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) antagonist alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha-Btx) binds to two different classes of high affinity binding sites from the Drosophila central nervous system. We have used the bivalent reagent 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide (EDAC) to cross-link 125I-alpha-Btx (M(r) = ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schloss P,Mayser W,Gundelfinger ED,Betz H

更新日期：1992-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractalkine is a CX3C chemonkine that appears to be a neuron-to-microglia signal molecule in the central nervous system. We studied the expression of fractalkine in normal human astrocytes in culture, by using semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. We f...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yoshida H,Imaizumi T,Fujimoto K,Matsuo N,Kimura K,Cui X,Matsumiya T,Tanji K,Shibata T,Tamo W,Kumagai M,Satoh K

更新日期：2001-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The critical period for visual system development in rats normally peaks at postnatal three weeks and ends at postnatal five weeks. However, the change of short-term synaptic plasticity during this period has rarely been investigated. In the present study, we compared the short-term plasticity of visual cortical respo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jia F,Wei H,Li X,Xie X,Zhou Y

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies using short-interval paired-pulse TMS have provided valuable insights into physiology of human motor cortex. Depending on the interstimulus interval (ISI) between the two pulses intra-cortical facilitation (ICF) or intra-cortical inhibition (ICI) can be observed. Similar patterns of inhibition and fac...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sparing R,Dambeck N,Stock K,Meister IG,Huetter D,Boroojerdi B

更新日期：2005-07-15 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：:The adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-dependent sodium/potassium pump extrudes intracellular sodium in exchange for extracellular potassium. Low ATP causes pump dysfunction increasing both intracellular sodium and water thereby enhancing metabolite mobility. This should be detectable by proton magnetic resonance spectrosco...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cady EB,Lorek A,Penrice J,Wylezinska M,Cooper CE,Brown GC,Owen-Reece H,Kirkbride V,Wyatt JS,Osmund E

更新日期：1994-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of noradrenaline (NA) on synaptic responses in layer II of the entorhinal cortex (EC) were studied in normal and spontaneously epileptic mutant mice tottering using intracellular recording in a slice preparation. Neither the membrane properties of neurones nor the responses to NA differed between normal an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pralong E,Magistretti PJ

更新日期：1994-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term potentiation (LTP) in the dentate gyrus was previously shown to be enhanced by nicotine, an effect dependent on both homomeric α7 and heteromeric α2β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR). In our experiments, bath-applied nicotine produced no significant enhancement of LTP. The α7 nAChR silent agonist N...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Papke RL,Peng C,Kumar A,Stokes C

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment has been designed to evaluate the basal serum BDNF level and memory performance, and also the change in BDNF in response to acute aerobic and anaerobic training in athletes and sedentary groups. Nineteen middle aged elite athletes (45-65 years) who used to be competing at domestic championship for more...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Babaei P,Damirchi A,Mehdipoor M,Tehrani BS

更新日期：2014-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous recordings of cortical activity, recorded as the cortical local field potential (CLFP) in the contralateral posterior sigmoid gyrus, and the spinal activity, recorded as the cord dorsum potential (CDP) of the L6 lumbar segment, were made in the anaesthetized cat. The electrodes were positioned in somatose...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Manjarrez E,Rojas-Piloni G,Vazquez D,Flores A

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bound and free acetylcholine (ACh) were measured in frog sartorius muscles by mass fragmentography. Upon incubation of the muscles for 5 min with potassium propionate, which stimulated the release of ACh, there was a 2-fold reduction of bound ACh. In contrast, the amount of free ACh remained unchanged. After 65 min re...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Molenaar PC,Polak RL

更新日期：1983-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of 5-HT(2A) and 5-HT(2C) receptors in atypical absence seizures (AAS) induced by trans-1,4-bis[2-chloro-benzylaminomethyl] cyclohexane, dihydrocholoride (AY-9944). The total duration and number and mean duration of the spontaneous bursts of slow spike-and-wave discharges (SSWD) that characteri...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bercovici E,Cortez MA,Snead OC 3rd

更新日期：2007-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Involvement of the ipsilateral hemisphere during planning of reaching movements is still matter of debate. While it has been demonstrated that the contralateral hemisphere is dominant in visuo-motor integration, involvement of the ipsilateral hemisphere has also been proposed. Furthermore, a dominant role for left pos...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Busan P,Jarmolowska J,Semenic M,Monti F,Pelamatti G,Pizzolato G,Battaglini PP

更新日期：2009-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-N-Oxalylamino-L-alanine (BOAA) and beta-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) were tested for their ability to produce acute excitotoxicity in in embryonic chick retina. gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) release and histology were monitored in retina treated with various concentrations of BOAA, BMAA, kainate (KA), N-methyl...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zeevalk GD,Nicklas WJ

更新日期：1989-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that over-exercise or forced running interrupts the regular ovulatory (estrous) cycle in female mammals, including women. The serotonin content of the brain changes under stress conditions. In this experiment, radiofrequency lesions were made in the dorsal (DRL) or median (MRL) raphe nuclei of the midbrain...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shimizu H,Yamanouchi K

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type neuronal calcium-binding protein VILIP (visinin-like protein), and a myristoylation mutant of VILIP which lacks the consensus sequence for N-terminal myristoylation, have been stably transfected in PC12 cells. Immunocytochemical studies of VILIP-transfected PC12 cells have revealed the wild-type VILIP is str...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Spilker C,Gundelfinger ED,Braunewell KH

更新日期：1997-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathoexcitatory neurons in the C1 adrenergic area of the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVL) are tonically inhibited by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). To identify the source of this GABAergic input, the distribution of neurons containing glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) was determined immunocytochemically in rats tre...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Meeley MP,Ruggiero DA,Ishitsuka T,Reis DJ

更新日期：1985-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by a loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Adenosine is a neuromodulator that inhibit the release of dopamine via a disinhibitory mechanism. In this study, we investigated the neuroprotective effect of 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine and...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fathalla AM,Soliman AM,Moustafa AA

更新日期：2017-03-16 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