EphB2 induces proliferation and promotes a neuronal fate in adult subventricular neural precursor cells.

abstract：:Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) has been rediscovered as a hormone and immunomodulator as well as a proinflammatory cytokine. We investigated the expression of MIF protein and mRNA in the rat brain using optimized immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization, respectively. By immunohistochemical analysi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ogata A,Nishihira J,Suzuki T,Nagashima K,Tashiro K

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the actions of glucocorticoids (GCs) on astrocyte functions, interactions of dexamethasone and immediate early genes (IEGs) were studied in cell cultures of rat cerebral cortical astrocytes. Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) induces rapid c-fos mRNA expression and morphological changes (stellation) in...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hisanaga K,Sagar SM,Koistinaho J,Hicks KJ,Sharp FR

更新日期：1993-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic cell death is associated with condensation and fragmentation of the nuclear chromatin into apoptotic bodies. Such nuclei occur frequently following cerebral hypoxia-ischemia in 1 week old rats but seem sparse in older animals. We investigated the age dependence by counting pyknotic or punctate chromatin cont...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sidhu RS,Tuor UI,Del Bigio MR

更新日期：1997-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinomenine, one of the alkaloids extracted from roots or stems of Sinomenium acutum, is documented to show antinociceptive action but the action mechanism is still unclear. The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of sinomenine on opioid mu-receptor (OMR). In Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell transfected w...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wang MH,Chang CK,Cheng JH,Wu HT,Li YX,Cheng JT

更新日期：2008-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of sympathetic - sensory coupling after nerve injury is still not well understood. We have studied the changes in resting potential and excitability of sensory neurones induced by adrenergic stimulation, using whole-cell and perforated-patch recordings in cultured dorsal root ganglion neurones from norma...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pluteanu F,Ristoiu V,Flonta ML,Reid G

更新日期：2002-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Two electrophysiologically distinct cell types were found with intracellular recordings for the first time in an in vitro preparation of the olfactory epithelium of the salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum. Intracellular recordings showed that Type I cells did not discharge action potentials but had high resting membrane po...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Masukawa LM,Kauer JS,Shepherd GM

更新日期：1983-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the potent cholinesterase inhibitor (-)-huperzine A (HupA) was demonstrated to protect neuronal and glial cells against the cytotoxicity of beta-amyloid (Abeta). Since the unnatural (+)-HupA is a much less potent inhibitor, it was of interest to examine the stereoselectivity of cellular protection by the two...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhang HY,Liang YQ,Tang XC,He XC,Bai DL

更新日期：2002-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The ergoline derivatives, nicergoline (NIC) or dihydroergocristine (DHE) were administered at various doses (0.1, 0.5 and 1 mg/kg) to aged male rats subjected to labyrinth unilateral lesion (LBX). The nystagmus rate appeared to be lower in animals treated with DHE or NIC 1mg/kg than in saline-injected rats, when obser...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rampello L,Drago F

更新日期：1999-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimensions and innervation of muscle fibers in locust jumping muscle from 1st instar larva and adult are compared. Fibers innervated by only one motoneuron were investigated. During postembryonic development, the size, but not the number, of muscle fibers increases. The number of synaptic contacts per fiber increases ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Walther C

更新日期：1981-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the influence of caffeine treatment (50 mg/kg for 3 doses) on catecholamine utilization and adrenergic receptor binding in female rats. Caffeine enhanced the reduction in forebrain norepinephrine levels following alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine without altering the reduction in dopamine levels. Caffeine reduced the...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Goldberg MR,Curatolo PW,Tung CS,Robertson D

更新日期：1982-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of neural mechanisms of duration processing are essential for the understanding of psychological phenomena which evolve in time. Different mechanisms are presumably responsible for the processing of shorter (below 500 ms) and longer (above 500 ms) events but have not yet been a subject of an investigation wit...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gutyrchik E,Churan J,Meindl T,Bokde AL,von Bernewitz H,Born C,Reiser M,Pöppel E,Wittmann M

更新日期：2010-01-29 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：:The function of acetylcholine (ACh) in the mammalian pineal gland is unknown. To test the hypothesis that ACh exerts a modulatory role in this organ, in the present study electrophysiogical multiunit recordings were carried out in ex-vivo rat pineal glands superfused with different drugs. It was found that ACh (10(-7)...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schenda J,Vollrath L

更新日期：1998-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat pineal glands incubated in vitro with 10 or 100 microM norepinephrine (NE) released 51% and 415% more prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) to the medium than in the absence of NE. Phentolamine (10 microM) prevented fully the effect of NE at both concentrations, whereas propranolol failed to affect it significantly. After super...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ritta MN,Cardinali DP

更新日期：1982-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In micturition control, the roles of ionotropic glutamate (iGlu) receptors NMDA and AMPA are well established, whereas little is known about the function of metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors. Since antagonists for mGlu5 receptors are efficacious in animal models of inflammatory and neuropathic pain, we examined ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hu Y,Dong L,Sun B,Guillon MA,Burbach LR,Nunn PA,Liu X,Vilenski O,Ford AP,Zhong Y,Rong W

更新日期：2009-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural cell adhesion molecules (NCAMs) are members of the immunoglobulin superfamily and are involved in synaptic rearrangements in the mature brain. There are three major NCAM forms: NCAM 180, NCAM 140 and NCAM 120. Several studies report that NCAMs play a central role in memory. In the present study we investigated ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Baydas G,Nedzvetsky VS,Nerush PA,Kirichenko SV,Demchenko HM,Reiter RJ

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses of single neurones to vibrissal stimulation and to the iontophoretically applied putative neurotransmitters, L-glutamate and L-aspartate, were recorded in the trigeminal nucleus caudalis of the rat. Vibrissal responses were unaffected by the specific N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, D-alpha-aminoadi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Salt TE,Hill RG

更新日期：1981-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacologic blockade of excitatory amino acid receptors, especially the N-methyl-D-aspartate-preferring subclass of glutamate receptors, has been shown to reduce neuronal damage in models of global cerebral ischemia followed by reperfusion. The pharmacologic blockade at the NMDA receptor attenuates infarct size foll...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Roman R,Bartkowski H,Simon R

更新日期：1989-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified a 45-kDa protein by 2D electrophoresis that was enhanced following pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-mediated seizures. Mass-spectrography of this protein revealed the beta subunit of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKIIbeta), although no evidence for increase in bulk CaMKIIbeta transcripts was obta...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Matsu-ura T,Nakadai T,Oda Y,Nagasu T,Mikoshiba K,Tamura TA

更新日期：2002-04-12 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：:The effect of the neuropeptide, substance P, on the transport of D-[(3)H]aspartate into rat striatal synaptosomes was studied. Almost 90% of the total transport of D-[(3)H]aspartate was sodium-dependent and the maximum rate (V(max)) of this transport was increased by 34% of control by 2.5 nM substance P (EC(50)=0.52 n...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Healy J,Downes A,McBean GJ

更新日期：2000-08-25 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：:The effects of glutamate, glutamate receptor agonists and substances that affect glutamate responses were studied, using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique, on neurons isolated from adult rat dorsal root ganglia. In current-clamp, glutamate (100 microM) or the excitatory amino acid receptor agonist N-methyl-D-aspart...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lovinger DM,Weight FF

更新日期：1988-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine's enhancement of dopaminergic neurotransmission in the mesolimbic pathway plays a critical role in the initial reinforcing properties of this drug. However, other neurotransmitter systems are also integral to the addiction process. A large body of data indicates that opioids and dopamine together mediate emoti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ambrose LM,Gallagher SM,Unterwald EM,Van Bockstaele EJ

更新日期：2006-05-22 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：:The effects of Sr2+ on the transmitter release at the frog neuromuscular junction were examined electrophysiologically. The nerve trunk was stimulated by paired pulses at various time intervals after replacing extracellular Ca2+ by Sr2+, the paired-pulse facilitation at the 10 ms interval was smaller than that at 20-3...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tanabe N,Morota A

更新日期：1999-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of histamine (HA) on spontaneous firing of dopaminergic (DA) and GABAergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) and the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the rat in vitro. Single-unit extracellular recordings were obtained and drugs were bath applied. In both regions application of HA (10...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Korotkova TM,Haas HL,Brown RE

更新日期：2002-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular recordings were made from neurons in rabbit vesical pelvic ganglia (VPG), in vitro. Increasing the frequency of preganglionic-nerve stimulations from 0.1-1 Hz to 10-20 Hz facilitated fast excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs), resulting in a generation of action potentials. Acetylcholine-induced res...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nishimura T,Yoshida M,Nagatsu I,Akasu T

更新日期：1989-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study non-linear and linear global electroencephalogram (EEG) changes during a visual working memory task were studied using a separate analysis of theta, lower alpha and upper alpha band filtered data. EEGs were recorded in 21 healthy subjects (62.5 year; SD 2.1; 12 females, nine males) during an eyes-closed ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Stam CJ

更新日期：2000-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathy is observed in 50% of diabetic patients with diabetic foot. This study attempted to explore the potential role of human mesenchymal stem cells-umbilical cord blood (hMSCs-UC) in femoral nerve (FN) neuropathy. The model rats were established by one time administration of streptozotocin and empyrosis on the d...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xia N,Xu JM,Zhao N,Zhao QS,Li M,Cheng ZF

更新日期：2015-06-15 00:00:00