The neuropeptide schistosomin and haemolymph from parasitized snails induce similar changes in excitability in neuroendocrine cells controlling reproduction and growth in a freshwater snail.

abstract：:An approximately 54-kDa protein that has binding sites for the competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists 3-((+-)-2-carboxypiperazine-4-yl)-propyl-1-phosphonic acid (CPP) and (+-)-(E)-2-amino-4-propyl-5-phosphonopentenoic acid (CGP 39653) was purified from rat brain synaptic membranes. Polyclonal ant...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Eggeman KT,Pal R,Walsh J,Kumar KN,Michaelis EK

更新日期：1993-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the mechanism of intracellular sorting and processing of the Alzheimer's disease amyloid precursor protein (APP), we deleted two potential N-linked glycosylation sites of APP by site-directed mutagenesis. Substitution of alanines for the critical asparagine residues Asn467 and Asn496 was performed. W...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yazaki M,Tagawa K,Maruyama K,Sorimachi H,Tsuchiya T,Ishiura S,Suzuki K

更新日期：1996-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequent and persistent stressful events caused depressive illness. Stress is an aversive stimulus which disturbs physiological homeostasis and reflects a variety of biological systems. The present study was designed to investigate the nitric oxide mechanism in the protective effect of imipramine and venlafaxine again...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kumar A,Garg R,Gaur V,Kumar P

更新日期：2009-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain is the exclusive or almost exclusive site of formation of 24S-hydroxycholesterol and we have shown that the circulating level of 24S-hydroxycholesterol is dependent upon the relation between cerebral production and hepatic clearance. In the present work we determined plasma levels of 24S-hydroxycholesterol i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bretillon L,Sidén A,Wahlund LO,Lütjohann D,Minthon L,Crisby M,Hillert J,Groth CG,Diczfalusy U,Björkhem I

更新日期：2000-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive data addressing the regulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in vertebrates, the neuroendocrine regulation of stress in birds remains incomplete. The paraventricular nucleus (PVN) contains the key neuropeptides, corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) and arginine vasotocin (AVT), con...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nagarajan G,Kang SW,Kuenzel WJ

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of neurons containing the messenger RNA encoding preprotachykinin, the precursor of the neuropeptides substance P and K, was examined in the striatum of the rat. The large majority of cells densely labelled by in situ hybridization histochemistry (using a 35S-radiolabelled RNA probe complementary of t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Chesselet MF,Robbins E

更新日期：1989-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic increases in spontaneous multiunit activity can be induced in the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) of hamsters by intense sound exposure (Kaltenbach and McCaslin, 1996). It has been hypothesized that this hyperactivity may represent a neural code that could underlie the sound percepts of tinnitus. The goal of the...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kaltenbach JA,Zacharek MA,Zhang J,Frederick S

更新日期：2004-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Precursor cells have been shown to be affected by oxidative stress, in vivo and vitro, but little is known about the expression of antioxidant mechanisms in neuronal/glial differentiation. We have characterized the expression of Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (Cu/Zn SOD), one of the main antioxidant proteins involved in t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Faiz M,Acarin L,Peluffo H,Villapol S,Castellano B,González B

更新日期：2006-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes model is widely used for the induction of neuropathy in the rat. In this model, diabetic animals often display chronic illness, which raises objections not only on ethical but also on scientific grounds. In this study, the investigators set out to determine the impact of bodyw...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hoybergs YM,Biermans RL,Meert TF

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied axonal branching of 14 parabrachial nucleus neurons, activated antidromically from 2 of the 3 stimulation sites, i.e. the ipsi- and contralateral thalamic taste area (TTAs) and the ipsilateral central nucleus of the amygdala (CA). Making use of antidromic latencies, collision times and refractory periods at...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hayama T,Ogawa H

更新日期：1987-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke in rodents is associated with increased neurogenesis and the migration of newborn neurons to sites of brain ischemia, where they may participate in repair and recovery. To determine if neurogenesis following stroke yields functional new neurons, we labeled neuronal precursors in the mouse subventricular zone (S...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lai B,Mao XO,Xie L,Jin K,Greenberg DA

更新日期：2008-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurite outgrowth is elicited from whole explants or dissociated neurons of 8--10-day-old chick embryo sensory, dorsal root ganglia when cultured in the presence of a high speed supernatant fraction (105,000 g) from homogenates of chick or rat heart, liver or brain. The neurite promoting activity is not identical to m...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lindsay RM,Tarbit J

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occurring at rates up to 6-7 syllables per second, speech perception and understanding involves rapid identification of speech sounds and pre-activation of morphemes and words. Using event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated the time-course and neural sources of ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Roll M,Söderström P,Frid J,Mannfolk P,Horne M

更新日期：2017-09-29 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：:This study used ERPs to determine whether older adults use prosody in resolving early and late closure ambiguities comparably to young adults. Participants made off-line acceptability judgments on well-formed sentences or those containing prosody-syntax mismatches. Behaviorally, both groups identified mismatches, but ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Steinhauer K,Abada SH,Pauker E,Itzhak I,Baum SR

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Noradrenergic fibers from the locus ceruleus were identified in close proximity to brain microvessels, and adrenoceptors exist in isolated brain capillaries. Yet, proof of innervation of brain microvessels by locus ceruleus remains elusive. We now demonstrate increased density of beta-adrenoceptors by pindolol binding...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kalaria RN,Stockmeier CA,Harik SI

更新日期：1989-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The prioritized processing of threat is suggested to be motivated by anxiety, regulated by the parasympatheticus, and biased to the right hemisphere. However, according to an anterior dimensional model of negative affect this is unlikely to be true when threat is of social origin. Social threat is communicated by the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： van Honk J,Hermans EJ,d'Alfonso AA,Schutter DJ,van Doornen L,de Haan EH

更新日期：2002-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a reproducible two-vessel occlusion model for forebrain ischemia in rats, we investigated the temporal and spatial changes of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression after transient forebrain ischemia with Northern blot analysis and in situ hybridization. Northern blot analysis revealed that VEGF mR...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lee MY,Ju WK,Cha JH,Son BC,Chun MH,Kang JK,Park CK

更新日期：1999-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tris-HCl is the most commonly used buffer in studies of radioligand binding to sigma receptors, with concentrations as high as 50 or 100 mM often used. We report here that these concentrations of Tris substantially inhibit (+)-[3H]SKF-10,047 binding to sigma receptors. The well-established inhibitory effect of Tris-HC...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： McCann DJ,Su TP

更新日期：1992-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:APPsw transgenic mice showing substantial features of brain Abeta amyloidosis such as senile plaques and behavioral abnormalities were examined by immunostaining to determine whether Abeta deposits could induce the subsequent disturbance of neurotransmitter systems including somatostatin, substance P and choline acety...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tomidokoro Y,Harigaya Y,Matsubara E,Ikeda M,Kawarabayashi T,Okamoto K,Shoji M

更新日期：2000-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats become susceptible to audiogenic seizures (AS) when they are exposed to intense noise during a certain critical period of development (priming). Antagonism of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor NR2B subunit by injecting an antagonist ifenprodil at priming enhanced the later susceptibility to AS. An weak NR2A an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hironaka N,Niki H

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein profiling of cerebrospinal fluid in Guillain-Barrè syndrome (GBS), an acute and immune-mediated disease affecting the peripheral nervous system, was performed by two-dimensional electrophoresis. Significant modulated spots in GBS patients vs. control groups (a group of multiple sclerosis patients and one of he...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： D'Aguanno S,Franciotta D,Lupisella S,Barassi A,Pieragostino D,Lugaresi A,Centonze D,D'Eril GM,Bernardini S,Federici G,Urbani A

更新日期：2010-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Aβ-mediated oxidative stress damage is considered a direct cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Therefore, drugs that have been developed to block oxidative stress are considered effective for AD treatment. Isosilybin is a flavonoid compound extracted from Silybum marianum, and it has been confirmed to have many pharmac...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhou J,Chao G,Li Y,Wu M,Zhong S,Feng Z

更新日期：2016-10-06 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 aim of our experiments was to assess the effect of acutely administered corticosterone on the expression of glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) in the brain of rats with high (HR) and low (LR) levels of anxiety. The rats were divided into groups according to their conditioned fear-induced freezing responses and then we...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wisłowska-Stanek A,Lehner M,Skórzewska A,Maciejak P,Szyndler J,Turzyńska D,Sobolewska A,Płaźnik A

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine system in the limbic-prefrontal cortex has been assumed to play an important role in the cognitive dysfunction of schizophrenia and phencyclidine (PCP)-induced psychosis. In the present study, the role of metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptor subtypes on PCP-induced cortical dopamine release was investig...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Maeda J,Suhara T,Okauchi T,Semba J

更新日期：2003-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Jet propulsion fuel-8 (JP-8) is the predominant fuel for military land vehicles and aircraft used in the US and NATO. Occupational exposure to jet fuel in military personnel has raised concern for the health risk associated with such exposure in the Department of Defense. Clinical studies of humans chronically exposed...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lin B,Ritchie GD,Rossi J 3rd,Pancrazio JJ

更新日期：2004-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen effects on pineal secretion of melatonin are controversial. Some feel that estrogen inhibits melatonin output in vitro but not in vivo. Melatonin levels vary with the age in chickens where circulating estrogen levels also vary. Laying hens have minimal melatonin levels and maximal serum iron concentrations. T...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pablos MI,Agapito MT,Recio JM,Pérez-Gallardo L,Córdova MD,Mori JO

更新日期：1993-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in coding exons or exon 10 5'-splice-site of the gene for microtubule-associated protein tau can cause chromosome 17-linked frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism (FTDP-17). We sequenced the 11 coding exons plus exon-intron boundaries of the tau gene in 15 cases of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bonifati V,Joosse M,Nicholl DJ,Vanacore N,Bennett P,Rizzu P,Fabbrini G,Marconi R,Colosimo C,Locuratolo N,Stocchi F,Bonuccelli U,De Mari M,Wenning G,Vieregge P,Oostra B,Meco G,Heutink P

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute alcohol challenge suppresses the mismatch negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential (ERP), however, the transmitter systems underlying MMN generation/mediating this effect have remained vague. To test adenosinergic contribution, 12 healthy social drinkers participated in four sessions, i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hirvonen J,Jääskeläinen IP,Näätänen R,Sillanaukee P

更新日期：2000-01-07 00:00:00