The extracellular calcium-sensing receptor increases the number of calcium steps and action currents in pituitary melanotrope cells.

abstract：:Inflammation is an important contributor to the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Anti-inflammatory medication may offer promising treatment for AD. Hydroxy-safflor yellow A (HSYA), a chemical component of the safflower yellow pigments, has been reported to exert potent immunosuppressive effects. This study exa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhang Z,Wu Z,Zhu X,Hui X,Pan J,Xu Y

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons simultaneously immunoreactive with anti-beta-endorphin and anti-(17-39) corticotropin (anti(17-39) ACTH) have been detected in the arcuate and ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus of colchicine-treated rats. These neurons are different from those fluorescent with the Falck and Hillarp technique. These resul...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bugnon C,Bloch B,Lenys D,Gouget A,Fellmann D

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced supply of glucose involves in many pathological conditions such as stroke and contributes to ischemic injuries. In contrast, hyperglycemia has also been regarded as an important factor in causing and exaggerating stroke damage. Although the molecular mechanism(s) of imbalanced glucose-induced cellular injuries...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shi H,Liu KJ

更新日期：2006-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to validate a pictorial rating scale to evaluate the child's ability to produce grip forces. Thirty-seven children aged 3 to 6 years participated as subjects in this investigation. We used a tailor-made pictorial scale and a hand grip strength meter, as well as a Piaget's clinical interview aim...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Defrasne Ait-Said E,Groslambert A,Courty D

更新日期：2007-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) is crucial for the development of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), where the pathogenic scrapie isoform (PrP(Sc)) of the same protein, is considered to be the principal or sole infectious agent. Here, we report findings on PrP(C) expression in the rat forebrain, usi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Verghese-Nikolakaki S,Michaloudi H,Polymenidou M,Groschup MH,Papadopoulos GC,Sklaviadis T

更新日期：1999-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hrk, a regulator of cell death, belongs to the family of pro-apoptotic BH3-only proteins and is known to induce apoptosis in nerve tissue. We examined Hrk gene expression to clarify the role of BH3-only proteins in apoptosis of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) after optic nerve transection in the adult rat. Reverse trans...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wakabayashi T,Kosaka J,Hommura S

更新日期：2002-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The paraoxonase (PON1) Gln192-->Arg polymorphism was examined in a group of sporadic late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, in a group of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients, and in normal subjects. The AD sample showed a PON1*R allele frequency significantly lower than the control group (0.225 vs. 0.281, P=...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Scacchi R,Gambina G,Martini MC,Broggio E,Vilardo T,Corbo RM

更新日期：2003-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of aging on the neuroanatomical sex dimorphisms of the rat hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus (VMN). Stereological methods were used to estimate the volume of the VMN and the total number and size of its neurons, including their dendritic trees, in males and females aged 6 and 24 months. No ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Madeira MD,Ferreira-Silva L,Ruela C,Paula-Barbosa MM

更新日期：2001-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) is the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, and the cognitive impairment is one of the common effects of VCI. Unfortunately, it lacks effective therapeutic treatments at present. In our previous study, environmental enrichment (EE), as an early interventio...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xu L,Qu C,Qu C,Shen J,Song H,Li Y,Li T,Zheng J,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of single units in the striatum of urethane-anesthetized rats was recorded before and after the systemic administration of 7-nitro-indazole (7-NI; 50 mg/kg intraperitoneally), a selective inhibitor of neuronal nitric oxide (NO) synthase. Two neuronal types were clearly distinguishable electrophysiological...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sardo P,Ferraro G,Di Giovanni G,Galati S,La Grutta V

更新日期：2002-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the working mechanism of the conflict processing system, pairs of colored numbers were sequentially presented on a screen to subjects. They were asked to determine if the magnitude or the color of the two numbers was identical. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded at the same time. A negative p...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wang H,Wang Y,Kong J,Cui L,Tian S

更新日期：2001-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The breakdown in brain ionic homeostasis during energy deprivation (anoxic depolarization [AD]) is intimately linked to neuronal injury. We studied the role of one particular route of Na+ influx, voltage-sensitive Na+ channels, in the AD induced by O2 and/or glucose deprivation. We recorded extracellular Na+ concentra...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fung ML,Croning MD,Haddad GG

更新日期：1999-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The p53 gene is mutated in pluripotential human neuroectodermal tumor DAOY cells which express both glial and neuronal markers. In most cells, nuclear m-p53 immunostaining was intense while cytoplasmic glial specific proteins (GSPs) were present at low levels. Conversely, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and glu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： U HS,Banaie A,Rigby L,Chen J

更新日期：1998-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:New psychoactive substances (NPSs), i.e., newly designed substances with chemical residues that are slightly different from those of known psychoactive substances, have been emerging since the late 2000s, and social problems related to the use of these substances are increasing globally. Two such NPSs are 4-chloro-2,5...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cha HJ,Jeon SY,Jang HJ,Shin J,Kim YH,Suh SK

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of ibotenic acid induced unilateral lesion of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (nBM) on carbachol- and serotonin-stimulated phosphoinositide (PI) breakdown in miniprisms obtained from rat fronto-parietal cortex 1 week following the lesion. Lesion-side muscarinic and serotoninergic receptor r...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Erfurth A,Holmes TC

更新日期：1995-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:NCB-20 cells expressed m1- and m4-muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) mRNAs, while NG108-15 cells expressed only m4-mAChR mRNA. Butyrate induced a time-dependent increase in the level of m1-mAChR mRNA with no change in the m4-mAChR mRNA level in NCB-20 cells. Similarly, butyrate did not affect the m4-mAChR mRNA ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fukamauchi F,Mataga N,Wang YJ,Chuang DM

更新日期：1996-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:TRPA1 agonists cinnamaldehyde (CA) and mustard oil (allyl isothiocyanate=AITC) induce heat hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia in human skin, and sensitize responses of spinal and trigeminal dorsal horn neurons to noxious skin heating in rats. TRPA1 is also implicated in cold nociception. We presently used behaviora...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tsagareli MG,Tsiklauri N,Zanotto KL,Carstens MI,Klein AH,Sawyer CM,Gurtskaia G,Abzianidze E,Carstens E

更新日期：2010-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of neuronal type of nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) has been studied by immunocytochemistry in the brain of rats receiving a single daily (for up to 14 consecutive days) intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of the HIV-1 recombinant protein gp 120 (100 ng/day). This treatment failed to affect nNOS exp...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bagetta G,Corasaniti MT,Costa N,Berliocchi L,Finazzi-Agrò A,Nisticò G

更新日期：1997-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Strychnine blocked the vagal-induced cardiac inhibition in both perfused frog heart and dog's heart in situ. This effect was antagonized by eserine. The present results are consistent with our previous findings that strychnine blocks the cholinergic inhibitory mechanisms both in the central nervous system as well as i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bhargava VK,Bhargava P,Tripathi KD

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of substance P and extracellular [K(+)](o) on respiratory motor activity in the ventrolateral medulla in neonatal rat (0-4 days old) brainstem-spinal cord preparation were studied. In addition to fictive eupneic rhythm (8-13 bursts/minute), the respiratory motor output was composed of biphasic bursts which mig...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shvarev YN,Lagercrantz H,Yamamoto Y

更新日期：2003-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the normal inner ear, there are elements that belong to the immune system. Different inner ear disorders can be explained by autoimmune mechanisms, affecting both humoral and cellular immunity. Melatonin, the principal hormone of the pineal gland, modulates the immune system and extensively participates in the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lopez-Gonzalez MA,Guerrero JM,Delgado F

更新日期：1997-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although abnormal processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) leads to early onset of Alzheimer's disease, the normal function of this protein is poorly understood. APP is widely expressed in axons, dendrites, and synapses in both central and peripheral nervous systems. Mice homozygous for APP or its homologue APP-l...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yang G,Gong YD,Gong K,Jiang WL,Kwon E,Wang P,Zheng H,Zhang XF,Gan WB,Zhao NM

更新日期：2005-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanosensitivity is a crucial but poorly understood property of the sensory nervous system. Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, which have been found to be responsible for the detection of other sensory stimuli such as temperature and pungent chemicals, have been suggested to also recognize stretch or press...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Staaf S,Maxvall I,Lind U,Husmark J,Mattsson JP,Ernfors P,Pierrou S

更新日期：2009-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it has been hypothesized that the N-terminal portion of substance P (SP), SP(1-7), which results from the action of endopeptidase 24.11 (EC3.4.24.11), could be involved in mediating the depressor effects of baroreceptor afferent activation via its action on cells in the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS). In t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lasher RS,Lutz EM,Mulholland F,Sanderson R,Stewart JM,Bublitz C

更新日期：1990-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Face processing is unique to human beings and is likely to have special neuronal properties. We studied one of these properties, categorical representation of the face in perception processing (perception) and in memory recall processing (imagery), using the face and building stimuli. The same building-selective areas...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sung YW,Ogawa S

更新日期：2008-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a push-pull device, the release of endogenous proteins in the extracellular space was investigated in the CA1 region of the hippocampus of anaesthetized rats. With low-frequency stimulation of the Schaffer collaterals, there was a relatively stable release of 5 proteins (64, 54, 48, 45 and 16 kDa). A train of hi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Charriaut-Marlangue C,Aniksztejn L,Roisin MP,Ben-Ari Y

更新日期：1988-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at differentiate, within the parietal cortex, the areas underlying visuospatial working memory/attentionnal processes and those devoted to arithmetic processing. We compared, using positron emission tomography, the cerebral networks activated in two groups of subjects, one solving two-by-tw...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zago L,Tzourio-Mazoyer N

更新日期：2002-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult hagfish, Myxine glutinosa, does not exhibit a lateral line system. The hypodermal layer of the dorsal head and body skin contains a prominent receptor system--lamellated corpuscles--arranged in a segmental pattern close to the body fascia. The topography and the structural organization of the lamellated rece...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Andres KH,von Düring M

更新日期：1993-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:GABAergic modulation of enkephalin, substance P and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD67) gene expression and the alterations induced by dopamine receptor blockade were studied in the rat striatum. Following subchronic treatment with the GABA-A agonist muscimol, the GABA-B agonist baclofen or the GABA transaminase inhib...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jolkkonen J,Jenner P,Marsden CD

更新日期：1994-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons of the rat amygdaloid body were labeled with horseradish peroxidase following its injection into contralateral nuclei of the amygdala. The results strongly suggest that there is a contralateral amygdaloid projection from the basal (dorsal and ventral) nuclei of amygdala; it terminates in the medial, central an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nitecka L,Amerski L,Narkiewicz O

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00