NMDAR blockade-induced neonatal brain injury: Reversal by the calcium channel agonist BayK 8644.

abstract：:Electrical stimulation of the A1 noradrenergic region of the ventrolateral medulla produced synatic excitation (n = 19, 9%), inhibition (n = 5, 2%) or no effect (n = 184, 89%) in the activity of a total of 208 neurons in the subfornical organ (SFO) in male rats under urethane anesthesia. Almost all (n = 18) of the exc...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tanaka J,Mashiko N,Kawakami A,Hatakenaka S,Fujisawa S,Nomura M

更新日期：2002-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An immobilisation stress (IS) of 2 h applied to rats at the beginning of the dark period (12 h), i.e. when the animals are more active, induces during the 10 consecutive h a significant rebound (+92%) of paradoxical sleep (PS) while slow-wave sleep state (SWS) is poorly affected. Two h of sleep deprivation, also appli...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rampin C,Cespuglio R,Chastrette N,Jouvet M

更新日期：1991-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic cerebrovascular diseases, usually involved in hypoxia and reoxygenation, have been reported to increase the risk of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). beta-site amyloid protein precursor (APP)-cleaving enzymes (BACE1) have been identified to participate in the secretion of beta-amyloid peptides (Abeta...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xue S,Jia L,Jia J

更新日期：2006-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of subcutaneous injection of nicotine on in vitro tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity in adrenal gland and brain of the transgenic mice carrying an 11-kb fragment containing the entire human TH gene. Injection of 5 mg nicotine/kg (as free base) for 3 days caused a statistically significant in...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ota A,Ichinose H,Kobayashi K,Morita S,Sawada H,Mizuguchi T,Nagatsu T

更新日期：1994-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation assessed the effect of chronic blockade of kainate/quisqualate binding sites with 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-dione (CNQX) on preproenkephalin (PPE) and preprotachykinin (PPT) mRNA abundance in the neostriatum of the rat brain. Daily injection of CNQX for seven consecutive days decreased P...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Villegas M,Angulo JA

更新日期：1995-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that single electrical shock stimulation of somatic afferent nerves could evoke a reflex response in vagal efferent nerves innervating the stomach was examined using anesthetized, artificially-ventilated rats. A single shock to a hindlimb afferent nerve (tibial nerve) produced two distinct reflex compo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kimura A,Sato A,Sato Y,Suzuki A

更新日期：1996-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro studies suggest that insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I is a mitogen for microglia/macrophages. The actions of IGF-I are mediated by IGF-I receptors and modulated by IGF binding proteins (IGFBPs). The aim of this study was to investigate IGF-I receptors and IGFBPs in human microglia in normal brain white matt...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Chesik D,De Keyser J,Wilczak N

更新日期：2004-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The excitability of the motoneuron (MN) pool in the resting state was compared between normal control subjects and patients with spasticity resulting from HTLV-I-associated myelopathy, using a new parameter, Hslp/Mslp, and the conventional parameters Hmax/Mmax and Hth/Mth. Differences in the excitability of the MN poo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Funase K,Higashi T,Yoshimura T,Imanaka K,Nishihira Y

更新日期：1996-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Gabaculine, a conformationally restricted analogue of GABA, is (i) a moderately potent inhibitor (IC(50) 69 muM) of the sodium-dependent uptake of GABA in rat brain slices, (ii) ineffective at 100 muM as an inhibitor of the sodium-independent binding of GABA to membranes from rat brain, (iii) a relatively weak inhibit...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Allan RD,Johnston GA,Twitchin B

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory responses have been shown to modulate the pattern and degree of ischemic injury. Previously, we demonstrated that intracorpus callosum microinjection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS, a well-known endotoxin) markedly induced inflammatory responses confined to ipsilateral hemisphere and aggravated cerebral ische...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cho GS,Lee JC,Ju C,Kim C,Kim WK

更新日期：2013-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is expressed in and defines a subset of motor neuron pools in the lumbar spinal cord of the chick embryo. The onset of CGRP expression in individual pools coincides with both the period of the initial innervation of the leg and the beginning of naturally occurring cell death in t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mason IJ,Mudge AW

更新日期：1992-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been indicated that Src family protein tyrosine kinases (SrcPTKs) potentiate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor function by phosphorylating NR2A subunits and that postsynaptic density protein 95 (PSD-95) facilitates this regulation. In this paper, we define the role of SrcPTKs in delayed neuronal damage follo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hou XY,Liu Y,Zhang GY

更新日期：2007-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is well known to be released from injured or inflamed tissues, and to excite/sensitize nociceptors in response to heat and mechanical stimulation. To determine whether muscle releases ATP when it is compressed, we measured ATP release from the extensor digitorum longus muscle (EDL). In add...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Taguchi T,Kozaki Y,Katanosaka K,Mizumura K

更新日期：2008-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist SR141716 (3-10 mg/kg i.p.) abolished neuropeptide Y-induced overeating and significantly reduced ethanol and sucrose intake in CB1 wild-type (+/+) mice. In CB1 receptor knockout (-/-) mice, neuropeptide Y totally lost its capacity to increase food consumption. ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Poncelet M,Maruani J,Calassi R,Soubrié P

更新日期：2003-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Glufosinate ammonium, a broad-spectrum herbicide, causes convulsion in rodents and humans. Because of the structural similarities between glufosinate and glutamate, the convulsion induced by glufosinate ammonium may be ascribed to glutamate receptor activation. Three N-methyl-D-asparate (NMDA) receptor antagonists, di...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Matsumura N,Takeuchi C,Hishikawa K,Fujii T,Nakaki T

更新日期：2001-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The transient appearance of GTP cyclohydrolase I (GCH)-immunoreactive (ir) cells in the ventral lateral geniculate nuclear region of mice was detected by use of an avidin-biotin peroxidase complex method with an antibody specific for an oligopeptide of rat GCH (residues from 12 to 23, GFPERELPRPGA). In this brain regi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nagatsu I,Takeuchi T,Sakai M,Arai R,Karasawa N,Nagatsu T

更新日期：1996-09-06 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

abstract：:Plasma renin activity (PRA) was determined in plasma samples obtained approximately at 6-min intervals during consecutive non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREMS) and rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) periods in rats chronically implanted with EEG electrodes, a brain thermistor, and an intracardiac catheter. PRA was low in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Obál F Jr,Beranek L,Brandenberger G

更新日期：1994-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The learned helplessness (LH) developed after repeat inescapable stress is a well validated animal model of human major depression and is not species specific. c-Fos, the protein product of the protooncogene c-fos, is expressed in neurons under a variety of stressors and could reflect the regional neuronal activation....

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Huang YH,Cheng CY,Hong CJ,Tsai SJ

更新日期：2004-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Bath-applied N-methyl-D,L-aspartate (NMA) was found to elicit locomotor electromyogram (EMG) activity in ankle flexor and extensor muscles in an in vitro lumbar cord-hindlimb preparation of the newborn rat. The frequency and burst duration of the NMA-induced rhythmic EMG activity varied in a dose-dependent manner. The...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kudo N,Yamada T

更新日期：1987-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disorder. It is characterized by selective degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Early-onset familial forms of PD are associated with mutations in several genes, including parkin, pink1 and dj-1. DJ-1 en...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jaramillo-Gómez J,Niño A,Arboleda H,Arboleda G

更新日期：2015-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the protective effect of gliclazide and the role of dynamin-related protein l (Drp-1)-mediated oxidative stress and apoptosis in diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN). METHODS:Diabetic rats developed through intra-peritoneal injection of streptozotocin were randomly assigned to treatment group ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wu YB,Shi LL,Wu YJ,Xu WH,Wang L,Ren MS

更新日期：2012-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Deimination is a post-translational modification of proteins in which selected arginine amino acids are enzymatically converted to citrullines. Using dual-color immunofluorescence, the present study is the first to examine the frontal cortex of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) versus age-matched controls with an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nicholas AP

更新日期：2013-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrin-associated protein (IAP) is normally localized to the synapse rich plexiform layers of the mammalian retina. In other neuronal systems, IAP and its ligand, P84, have been implicated in synaptic function. Previously, an abnormal distribution of P84 was noted in the IAP-null retina. To examine the potential rol...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ball SL,Lindberg FP,Lagenaur CF,Peachey NS

更新日期：2001-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tritiated dipyridamole, a specific adenosine uptake inhibitor binds in a saturable and reversible fashion to high-affinity receptor sites in guinea pig brain sections (Kd = 10 +/- 1.5 nM; Bmax = 650 +/- 100 fmol/mg prot.). The anatomical distribution of [3H]dipyridamole binding sites obtained with autoradiographic tec...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bisserbe JC,Deckert J,Marangos P

更新日期：1986-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in presenilins are the major cause of early onset familial Alzheimer disease. It has recently been argued that clinical presenilin mutations work as loss-of-function but not toxic gain-of-function. To investigate whether presenilins are involved in the regulation of the distribution of neuronal membrane lipi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Oikawa N,Goto M,Ikeda K,Taguchi R,Yanagisawa K

更新日期：2012-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuritogenic activity of human peripheral nerve myelin proteins in Lewis rats was examined. Experimental allergic neuritis (EAN) was induced by human myelin fraction in all Lewis rats examined. Purified human P2 protein induced mild but definite EAN. None of purified P0 protein, total myelin lipids, gangliosides a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Suzuki M,Kitamura K,Uyemura K,Ogawa Y,Ishihara Y,Matsuyama H

更新日期：1980-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine increases in brain extracellular space due to glutamate agonists were studied in vivo in the rat hippocampus using a dialysis technique, both in the absence and in the presence of glutamate receptor antagonists. Extracellular taurine levels increased during perfusions of agonists, listed in descending order of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Menéndez N,Herreras O,Solis JM,Herranz AS,Martín del Río R

更新日期：1989-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Glufosinate ammonium, a structural analogue of glutamate, is an active herbicidal ingredient. The neuronal activities of this compound were investigated by use of a microdialysis system that allowed us to measure nitric oxide production in the rat cerebellum in vivo. Kainate (0.3-30 nmol/10 microliter), N-methyl-D-asp...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nakaki T,Mishima A,Suzuki E,Shintani F,Fujii T

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To verify the hypothesis that the control of movement by the cortical masticatory area (CMA) is particularly important at the beginning of the mastication, we compared movements before and after bilateral CMA ablation. After ablation, the animal could not manipulate food placed in the front of the mouth for several da...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Enomoto S,Schwartz G,Lund JP

更新日期：1987-11-23 00:00:00