Tonic facilitation of glutamate release by glycine binding sites on presynaptic NR2B-containing NMDA autoreceptors in the rat visual cortex.

abstract：:A peptide consisting of residues 25-35 of the amyloid beta protein was applied to single neurons while monitoring membrane current by whole cell voltage clamp recording. Within minutes of direct exposure of a neuron to the amyloid beta peptide, a paroxysmal increase in neuronal membrane conductance was observed. This ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Simmons MA,Schneider CR

更新日期：1993-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated two newly reported polymorphisms in association with late onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) in Chinese. They were a -491 A/T polymorphism in the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) promoter region and a five base pair deletion at exon 18 of alpha2-Macroglobin (A2M). There were 196 AD and 180 normal con...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Chen L,Baum L,Ng HK,Chan LY,Sastre I,Artíga MJ,Valdivieso F,Bullido MJ,Chiu HF,Pang CP

更新日期：1999-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine-hydroxylase immunoreactivity is demonstrable by the indirect immunofluorescence technique in a small sub-population of retinal neurones cultured from 2-day-old rabbits. Staining was only weak, restricted to a few neurones, and could not be observed in cultures of less than 10 days. Autoradiographical analysis...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Osborne NN,Beaton DW,Vigny A,Neuhoff V

更新日期：1984-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth/differentiation factor-5 (GDF-5), a member of the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) superfamily, has been shown to protect rat dopaminergic neurons against insult both in embryonic neuronal culture and in Parkinson's disease models. However, whether GDF-5 exerts neuroprotective effects in hippocampal neur...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhao Y,Zhang M,Liu H,Wang J

更新日期：2017-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is developed for PCR assay of mRNA using 28S rRNA as internal standard and its applicability is reported for 4 types of mRNA. It consists of reverse transcription of total RNA using primers selective for 28S rRNA and the message of interest. Routinely the 28S reaction mix is diluted 20,000-fold and the diluti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Khan I,Tabb T,Garfield RE,Grover AK

更新日期：1992-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of quinolinic acid (QUIN) on glutamate-induced excitotoxicity were examined in primary cultures of rat cerebellar granule neurons. Exposing these neurons to QUIN (< or =2.5 mM) in the presence of glucose and Mg2+ had no effect on their viability. Although pretreating neurons with QUIN (10 microM) for 6 h d...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sei Y,Fossom L,Goping G,Skolnick P,Basile AS

更新日期：1998-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivors of bacterial meningitis frequently suffer from long-term sequelae, particularly from learning and memory deficits. For this reason, spatial memory and learning was studied in a mouse model of ceftriaxone-treated Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis. Persistent deficits of spatial learning despite normal motor...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wellmer A,Noeske C,Gerber J,Munzel U,Nau R

更新日期：2000-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the lateral hypothalamus (LHT) in the regulation of feeding behavior has long been established. The major contribution of LHT glucose-sensitive neurons, activated by low glucose concentration, is well accepted. Two peptidergic neuron populations, whose perikarya are exclusively located within this area, ha...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bahjaoui-Bouhaddi M,Fellmann D,Bugnon C

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain content of leucine-enkephalin and methionine-enkephalin changes independently during kindling of the amygdala. Both peptides were measured after 4, 8, 15 and 21 days of stimulation. Leu-enkephalin showed a progressive increase during the kindling: the results on the 4th day did not differ significantly from the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Vindrola O,Briones R,Asai M,Fernández-Guardiola A

更新日期：1981-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that the distribution of the pathology in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) represents haematogenous spread of the disease, we studied the spatial correlation between the vacuolation, prion protein (PrP) deposits, and the blood vessel profiles in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus, dentate ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Armstrong RA,Cairns NJ,Ironside JW,Lantos PL

更新日期：2003-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The basal extracellular concentration of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens was quantified using the 'no net flux' microdialysis method, in rats undergoing withdrawal from D-amphetamine. Rats were initially pretreated with saline, or an escalating dose amphetamine regimen known to produce a robust withdrawal syndrome, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Crippens D,Camp DM,Robinson TE

更新日期：1993-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of CACNA1G, the gene encoding alpha1G, a human brain T Ca2+ channel alpha1 subunit, was determined by comparison of polymerase chain reaction-amplified brain cDNA and genomic sequences. The gene consists of at least 38 exons, two of them newly-identified, spanning at least 66490 basepairs of chromosome 1...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mittman S,Guo J,Agnew WS

更新日期：1999-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The optic nerve (ON) in adult rats was transected intraorbitally followed by retrograde labelling of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) with fluorescence dye (DiI). A two phase reduction of axotomized RGCs was represented in the retina until 15 days after ON transection. The critical period of RGC loss is around 7 days aft...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takano M,Horie H

更新日期：1994-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if the effect of downslope walking (DSW) on spinal excitability depends on walking duration and slope steepness, and if findings from the soleus (Sol) generalize to the tibialis anterior (TA). Sol and TA Hmax and Mmax were measured before and after four DSW doses (time/slope,...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Arnold E,Farmer B,Keightley M,Lee D,Rigel T,Hoque M,Sabatier MJ

更新日期：2017-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Oestrogen influences both oxytocin mRNA and peptide immunoreactivity in the preoptic area and the rat oxytocin gene contains functional oestrogen response elements. However, using combinations of immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization for oxytocin and oestrogen receptor, we found that preoptic oxytocin neurons ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cruttwell CJ,Herbison AE,Bicknell RJ

更新日期：1995-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To date only peptidergic innervation has been described in the alimentary tract of barnacles. In the present work the presence and distribution of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), the acetylcholine (ACh) synthesizing enzyme, was investigated by immunohistochemistry in the alimentary tract of the adult barnacle Balanu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gallus L,Ferrando S,Bottaro M,Girosi L,Ramoino P,Diaspro A,Aluigi MG,Tagliafierro G

更新日期：2006-12-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies demonstrated that the overexpression of miR-124 in neural stem cells (NSCs) could lead the NSCs to differentiate into neurons and astrocytes, which may be important for functional recovery in spinal cord injury. The present study attempted to explore the potential repairing effect of the NSCs transfect...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xu W,Li P,Qin K,Wang X,Jiang X

更新日期：2012-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of i.v. administration of thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) on regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were examined in both healthy adult (3-5 months old) and healthy aged (24-25 months old) male Wistar rats under halothane anesthesia. The rCBFs in 9 different brain regions-cerebral cortex, caudate putamen,...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Inanami O,Ohno K,Sato A

更新日期：1992-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of electrical stimulation of the central (CE) and basolateral (BL) amygdaloid nuclei on pancreatic exocrine secretion were tested in urethane-anesthetized rats. Electrical stimulation (0.1 mA, 1 ms, 40 Hz) of the CE significantly increased basal and hormone (secretin+cholecystokinin-8)-infused pancreatic e...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hahn SJ,Yoon SH,Sim SS,Rhie DJ,Jo YH,Kim MS

更新日期：1994-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of α-synuclein from its natively unfolded and α-helical tetrameric forms to an amyloid conformation is central to the emergence of Parkinson's disease. Therefore, prevention of this conversion may offer an effective way of avoiding the onset of this disease or delaying its progress. At different concent...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Giffin JC,Richards RC,Craft C,Jahan N,Leggiadro C,Chopin T,Szemerda M,MacKinnon SL,Ewart KV

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of NMDA receptor (NMDAR) activation and other mechanisms regulating neuronal excitability have not been thoroughly described. While excess activation of NMDARs results in excitotoxicity, partial activation of NMDARs by d-cycloserine (DCS) is nootropic, enhancing both acquisition and extinction of memor...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Donzis EJ,Thompson LT

更新日期：2014-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine, synthesized in the cytoplasm of cholinergic neurons by choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), is packaged in synaptic vesicles by vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT). The entire VAChT gene has been reported to be located within the first intron of the ChAT gene. In order to examine whether or not ChA...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Matsuura J,Ajiki K,Ichikawa T,Misawa H

更新日期：1997-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study assessed the mechanisms by which nerve growth factor (NGF) increased the level of apolipoprotein E (apoE) in PC12 cells. NGF (50ng/mL) significantly increased apoE protein levels following 72h of treatment. Similarly NGF increased luciferase activity in cells transfected with a luciferase reporter co...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Strachan-Whaley MR,Reilly K,Dobson J,Kalisch BE

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the effect of naloxone and morphine on the differentiation of pheochromocytoma cell, the PC12 cells, induced by nerve growth factor (NGF). PC12 cells were grown in medium containing NGF with or without the addition of naloxone or morphine for up to 10-day treatments. NGF-induced morphological differentia...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yeh GC,Hsieh TH,Chang SF

更新日期：1998-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy, the kainic acid lesioned rat hippocampus, we have evaluated the possibility of modulating glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-dependent evoked epileptiform activity through the manipulation of NMDA receptor redox sites. Epileptiform activity was recorded extr...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Quesada O,Hirsch J,Ben-Ari Y,Bernard C

更新日期：1996-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of evidence suggest that the amygdala is altered functionally in humans with temporal lobe epilepsy, but little is known about neuronal interactions in the amygdala of humans or animals with chronic epilepsy. Using extracellular and intracellular recordings in horizontal slices, we tested the hypothesis ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Smith BN,Dudek FE

更新日期：1997-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The simple cerebellar lobule is involved in several neuromotor processes and it is activated during guided exercise. Although guided exercises are essential for motor rehabilitation, the plastic events that occur in the simple cerebellar lobule during motor training remain unknown. In this study, normal adult rats wer...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： González-Burgos I,González-Tapia D,Zamora DA,Feria-Velasco A,Beas-Zárate C

更新日期：2011-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic arm movement significantly suppresses H-reflex amplitude in the soleus (SOL) muscle. This is evidence of neural linkages between the arms and legs which can be exploited during locomotion and have been ascribed to the descending effects of CPGs for arm cycling. However, the generalizability of the effects of ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Dragert K,Zehr EP

更新日期：2009-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone encoding a novel protein (Cer-1) was isolated from a mouse cerebellar cDNA library. The deduced amino acid sequence of Cer-1 is not homologous to other sequences in the protein sequence data base. RNA blot analysis suggests that expression of Cer-1 RNA occurs selectively in the adult cerebellum and in pur...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bulleit RF,Lin X,Jeppi JV

更新日期：1996-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Light microscopic autoradiographic localization of specific recognition sites for thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) was determined on thin sections of rat brain using the potent analogue [3H](3-Me-His2)-TRH ([3H]MeTRH). Microdensitometric analysis of the relative optical densities of TRH receptor labelling revealed ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sharif NA,Burt DR

更新日期：1985-10-10 00:00:00