Nerve growth factor (NGF) in rat brain following long-term barbital treatment: relation to convulsions and cognitive function.

abstract：:The content of two neuropeptides, somatostatin (SRIF) and neuropeptide Y (NPY) has been determined in two cerebral cortical areas of Alzheimer's disease brain and in age-matched control brains. The content of SRIF-like immunoreactivity (SRIF-LI) was found to be decreased in Alzheimer temporal cortex (Brodmann area 21)...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Dawbarn D,Rossor MN,Mountjoy CQ,Roth M,Emson PC

更新日期：1986-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factors AP-2alpha and AP-2beta are implicated to play an important role during embryonic development of different parts of the brain, and in targeted regulation of gene expression in the adult brain. Several monoaminergic genes have binding sites for AP-2 in regulatory regions. We have in the present...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Damberg M,Eller M,Tõnissaar M,Oreland L,Harro J

更新日期：2001-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific mRNA of myelin basic protein (MBP) was isolated from active myelinating rat brains. The isolated mRNA was able to direct the synthesis of immunochemically detectable MBP in a wheat-germ cell free protein synthesis system. There was, however, no evidence of neuronal translational control of the in vitro MB...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fan K

更新日期：1982-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The spatial extents of hand-held objects can be perceived nonvisually by wielding them. This ability of effortful or dynamic touch to exploit the mass moments of an object to perceive its length was evaluated with a 40-years old right-handed woman with surgically treated Arnold-Chiari Type 1 Malformation and cervical ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Carello C,Kinsella-Shaw J,Amazeen EL,Turvey MT

更新日期：2006-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Superfusion of the isolated spinal cord of neonatal rats (4-9 days postpartum) with physiological medium containing 2-chloroadenosine (2-CA) or anoxic medium (equilibrated with 95% N2-5% CO2) depressed the evoked monosynaptic reflex (MSR) recorded extracellularly from a ventral spinal root. The effectiveness of 2-CA o...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lloyd HG,Perkins A,Spence I

更新日期：1989-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Following various types of wounds and subsequent denervation, the reinnervation of the rabbit corneal epithelium was found to occur in two distinct phases that overlapped in time. In the first phase large numbers of collateral sprouts originated from the unmyelinated plexus at various distances proximal to the site of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Beuerman RW,Rózsa AJ

更新日期：1984-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:A great amount of evidence suggests that neuroinflammation may be a major pathogenetic mechanism in the pathophysiology of sporadic Alzheimer's Disease (sAD). Recently, polymorphisms in the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS3) gene have been associated to late onset Alzheimer's Disease in a British population. How...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Monastero R,Cefalù AB,Camarda C,Buglino CM,Mannino M,Barbagallo CM,Lopez G,Camarda LK,Travali S,Camarda R,Averna MR

更新日期：2003-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Following peripheral nerve section, the cell body and proximal axon undergo various physiological and morphological changes which may be associated with regrowth. We found that axotomy reduced the amplitude and duration of the afterhyperpolarization (AHP) of the action potential (AP) of bullfrog sympathetic neurones. ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kelly ME,Gordon T,Shapiro J,Smith PA

更新日期：1986-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Constant bright light (LL) suppresses 24-h melatonin and many other behavioral and physiological rhythms in pigeons. LL also strongly suppresses sleep. Daily melatonin infusions in LL restore sleep to normal nocturnal levels of a light-dark cycle and continuous infusions sustain it for at least 10 days. Restoration of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Phillips NH,Berger RJ

更新日期：1992-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was injected into the thalamic ventral tier of squirrel monkey and the brainstem was examined for the presence of HRP-reactive cells in the external cuneate nucleus (ECN), nuclei Z and X, and the mesencephalic nucleus of the trigeminal nerve (MNV). Results indicate that the ECN, Z and X ha...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pearson JC,Garfunkel DA

更新日期：1983-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrylamide is a chemical known to produce neurotoxicity in animals, as well as in humans. The mechanism of acrylamide-induced neurotoxicity is not fully known. However, recent studies have revealed that acrylamide affects the dopaminergic system. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of acryla...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tareke E,Lyn-Cook BD,Duhart H,Newport G,Ali S

更新日期：2009-07-17 00:00:00

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 discharge of 38 tibialis anterior (TA) muscle spindle endings was recorded at rest and during isometric voluntary contraction of the ankle joint in eight healthy human subjects. With the ankle joint in 110 degrees plantarflexion, 24 endings (61%) were tonically active in the resting subject. During weak voluntary ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nielsen J,Nagaoka M,Kagamihara Y,Kakuda N,Tanaka R

更新日期：1994-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) concentration were measured in cortical synaptosomes. Preincubation with adenosine deaminase reduced cAMP concentration by 45%. Oxotremorine, clonidine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and baclofen produced no change in basal concentration. 2-Chloroadenosine and no...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fillenz M,Bloomfield MR

更新日期：1986-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at investigating the role of gastrin in startle, startle habituation and prepulse inhibition (PPI). There were no significant differences between gastrin knockout mice and their wildtype controls in any of these baseline parameters. The disruption of PPI by treatment with 5 mg/kg of ampheta...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： van den Buuse M,van Driel IR,Samuelson LC,Pijnappel M,Martin S

更新日期：2005-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of histamine (HA) on the resting membrane potential and input resistance of rat medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) neurons were investigated using intracellular recording techniques from a submerged brain slice preparation. The exogenous application of HA predominantly produced a concentration-dependent membr...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Phelan KD,Nakamura J,Gallagher JP

更新日期：1990-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the hypothesis that cholinoceptive regions of the medial pontine reticular formation (mPRF), long known to play a role in regulating the sleep cycle, can also causally alter the respiratory cycle. In 4 cats, sleep and wakefulness were polygraphically recorded while simultaneous measures were taken of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lydic R,Baghdoyan HA

更新日期：1989-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) apolipoprotein (apo) A-I and apo E concentrations in early- and late-onset Alzheimer's disease (EOAD (n = 11), LOAD (n = 15), respectively) with those in control subjects (n = 23). CSF apo A-I levels in both EOAD and LOAD were consistent with control subjects. However, CSF apo E l...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Song H,Saito K,Seishima M,Noma A,Urakami K,Nakashima K

更新日期：1997-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with their intra-lingual taste nerves (the chorda tympani and the glossopharyngeal nerve) sectioned were trained to avoid drinking 0.5 M NaCl solution by associating NaCl drinking with subsequent LiCl poisoning. The acquired learned aversion in these rats was abolished after ablations of the neocortical area for ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yamamoto T,Takahashi T,Kawamura Y

更新日期：1981-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional neuroimaging suggests asymmetries of memory encoding and retrieval in the prefrontal lobes, but different hypotheses have been presented concerning the nature of prefrontal hemispheric specialization. We studied an associative memory task involving pairs of Kanji (Chinese) pictographs and unfamiliar abstrac...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Epstein CM,Sekino M,Yamaguchi K,Kamiya S,Ueno S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic vesicle fusion events are essential for synaptic transmission. Membrane docking and fusion events are highly regulated processes requiring the participation of a large number of soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factors (SNAREs) and SNARE-interacting proteins. We report the neuronal expression of mammalian h...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kim BY,Ueda M,Nakamura Y,Kohsaka S,Akazawa C

更新日期：2004-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical and biochemical investigations showed that significant protein nitration occurs in human gliomas, especially in grade IV glioblastomas at the level of astrocytes and oligodendrocytes and neurones. Enhanced alpha-tubulin immunoreactivity was co-present in the same elements in the glioblastomas. Prot...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fiore G,Di Cristo C,Monti G,Amoresano A,Columbano L,Pucci P,Cioffi FA,Di Cosmo A,Palumbo A,d'Ischia M

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins are a family of growth factor primarily acting in the nervous system, throughout two categories of membrane receptors on the basis of their high (Trk receptors) or low (p75NTR) affinity. Both neurotrophins and Trk receptors are phylogenetically conserved and are expressed not only in the central and peri...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Abbate F,Guerrera MC,Montalbano G,Levanti MB,Germanà GP,Navarra M,Laurà R,Vega JA,Ciriaco E,Germanà A

更新日期：2014-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) has been studied in the human brain with the indirect immunofluorescence technique. LH-RH positive perikarya are scattered from the septo-preoptic region up to the retromammillary area and give rise to two main tracts ending in the infundibulum and the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Barry J

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent discovery of pathogenic mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients in different ethnic groups have raised a hope of diagnostic screening and genetic counseling. We investigated the six most commonly reported mutations in LRRK2 gene among Indian PD patients, u...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Punia S,Behari M,Govindappa ST,Swaminath PV,Jayaram S,Goyal V,Muthane UB,Juyal RC,Thelma BK

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have shown that blockade of colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) or its receptor (CSF-1R) inhibits disease progression in rodent models of rheumatoid arthritis (RA); however, the role of the CSF-1/CSF-1R pathway in RA-induced pain and functional deficits has not been studied. Thus, we examined the effec...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Alvarado-Vazquez PA,Morado-Urbina CE,Castañeda-Corral G,Acosta-Gonzalez RI,Kitaura H,Kimura K,Takano-Yamamoto T,Jiménez-Andrade JM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) of two groups of rats was measured. One group was bred and kept under hypergravity (HG; 2.5 g) conditions, the other group lived under normal gravity (NG; 1 g). Eye position was recorded in response to horizontal rotatory stimuli. Measurements were made under NG (1 g), and ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wubbels RJ,de Jong HA

更新日期：2001-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic nicotine administration has been shown previously to produce mechanical hypersensitivity in the rat although the mechanism of this effect is unknown. Rats treated with chronic systemic nicotine 3.6 or 8.6 mg/(kg day) for 14-21 days displayed mechanical hypersensitivity coincident with an increase of prodynorph...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lough C,Young T,Parker R,Wittenauer S,Vincler M

更新日期：2007-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Subpopulations of cultured oligodendrocytes from mouse spinal cord respond with depolarization to glutamate and GABA. Heterogeneity in the oligodendrocyte population was indicated by the observation that some cells respond to both GABA and glutamate, while others respond to only one and some are not responsive to eith...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kettenmann H,Gilbert P,Schachner M

更新日期：1984-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the cobalt technique is limited by the fact that cobaltous ions travel within axons for a shorter distance than do other intracellular markers. In the present experiments different organic cobaltous complexes were tested in the rat's sciatic nerve. Cobaltous complexes containing ornithine, threonine, lysine...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gallyas F,Lénárd L,Lázár G

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00