A substance P mediated pathway contributes to 6-hydroxydopamine induced cell death.

abstract：:Recent imaging studies have reported the projection of semicircular canal signals onto wide regions of the cerebral cortex but little is known about otolith projections onto the cerebral cortex. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the activation of the cortex by loud clicks that selecti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Miyamoto T,Fukushima K,Takada T,de Waele C,Vidal PP

更新日期：2007-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied changes in the characteristics of action potentials of CA3 pyramidal cells accompanying electrographic seizure (EGS) induction, using an in vitro model similar to kindling. We found an increased propensity to fire action potentials which lack EPSPs or other triggering depolarizing potentials. Such 'baseline...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Stasheff SF,Wilson WA

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific (nerve growth factor, NGF) and non-specific (serum albumin, BSA) uptake followed by retrograde axonal transport was studied in the sciatic nerves of normal (C57BL/6J) and dystrophic (dy2J/dy2J) mice. In the dystrophic mouse there was a significant decrease in the amount of NGF transported to dorsal root gangl...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rutherford PS,Boegman RJ

更新日期：1982-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a neural component has been suggested to contribute to the energetic cost of muscle contraction in vivo, the association between neural and energetic factors has not been determined during voluntary contractions in humans. Twenty young (24±1years, 10 women) healthy individuals performed isometric ankle dorsif...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Christie AD,Foulis SA,Kent JA

更新日期：2016-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study is designed to screen the effect of syringin, an active principle purified from the rhizome and root parts of Eleutherococcus senticosus (Araliaceae), on the plasma glucose and investigate the possible mechanisms. Plasma glucose decreased in a dose-dependent manner 60 min after intravenous injection ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liu KY,Wu YC,Liu IM,Yu WC,Cheng JT

更新日期：2008-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic encephalopathy is a common cause of neonatal seizures and long-term neurological cognitive deficits. In rats at postnatal days 10-12 (P10-P12), global hypoxia induced spontaneous seizures and chronic brain injury, mimicking clinical aspects of neonatal hypoxia. Synaptic Ras-GTPase activating protein (SynGAP) h...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yang SN,Huang CB,Yang CH,Lai MC,Chen WF,Wang CL,Wu CL,Huang LT

更新日期：2004-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) is a common type of intractable epilepsy characterized by astroglial gliosis. The S100B was viewed as an astrocyte marker and experimental studies indicated that S100B might be involved in the pathophysiology of temporal lobe epilepsy. In this study, we measured plasma S100B levels...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lu C,Li J,Sun W,Feng L,Li L,Liu A,Li J,Mao W,Wei H,Gao L,Zhang X,Huang Z,Meng X,Wang Y

更新日期：2010-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this paper is to study possible differences between the processing of inflectional vs. derivational morphology in Spanish word recognition using electrophysiological measures. A lexical decision task to target words preceded by morphological-related (or unrelated) primes was used. The orthographic and phon...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Alvarez CJ,Urrutia M,Domínguez A,Sánchez-Casas R

更新日期：2011-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternative cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) results in generation and secretion of both soluble APP (sAPP) and beta-amyloid (Abeta). Abeta is the main component of the amyloid depositions in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. Using Western blotting, we compared the levels of alpha-secreta...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sennvik K,Fastbom J,Blomberg M,Wahlund LO,Winblad B,Benedikz E

更新日期：2000-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Norepinephrine (NE) has been reported to modulate neuronal excitability and act as endogenous anticonvulsant. In the present study we used NE transporter knock-out mice (NET-KO), which are characterized by high levels of extracellular NE, to investigate the role of endogenous NE in seizure susceptibility. Seizure thre...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kaminski RM,Shippenberg TS,Witkin JM,Rocha BA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in the brain were immunohistochemically examined in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and aging using anti-AGE antibody recognizing mainly carboxymethyllysine. AGE positive staining diffusely located in the neuronal perikarya of hippocampus and parahippocampus in AD and aged brains withou...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takedo A,Yasuda T,Miyata T,Mizuno K,Li M,Yoneyama S,Horie K,Maeda K,Sobue G

更新日期：1996-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The time-variant quadratic phase coupling (QPC) in trace alternant (TA) EEG patterns in healthy full-term neonates (quiet sleep) was investigated by means of time-variant bispectral analysis. The frequency plain 1-1.5 Hz <=> 3.5-4.5 Hz was used as the region-of-interest. QPC rhythms with a frequency of approximately 0...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schwab K,Putsche P,Eiselt M,Helbig M,Witte H

更新日期：2004-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve human subjects performed a reciprocal precision aiming task of varying difficulty (index of difficulty=4, 5, or 6) while vision of the ongoing movement was available either continuously or intermittently. In the intermittent conditions, vision of the moving end-effector was available at regular intervals (equal...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bootsma RJ,Boulard M,Fernandez L,Mottet D

更新日期：2002-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Prophylaxis of posttraumatic epilepsy will require a detailed knowledge of the epileptogenic pathophysiological processes that follow brain injury. Results from studies of experimental models and human epilepsy highlight alterations in GABAergic interneurons and formation of excessive new excitatory synaptic connectiv...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Li H,McDonald W,Parada I,Faria L,Graber K,Takahashi DK,Ma Y,Prince D

更新日期：2011-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the activity of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGTP) and the effects of a subacute dose (150 mg/kg b.wt.) of methionine sulfoximine (MSO) on its activity were studied in cerebral cortex, cerebellum and brainstem of rats of 4 different age groups. GGTP activity increased with increasing age between days 10 a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rao VL,Murthy CR

更新日期：1991-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) was measured for the first time in the brain (substantia nigra, caudate nucleus, putamen, cerebellum, and frontal cortex) from control and parkinsonian patients by highly sensitive sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. In both groups, the levels of GDNF in the v...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mogi M,Togari A,Kondo T,Mizuno Y,Kogure O,Kuno S,Ichinose H,Nagatsu T

更新日期：2001-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Two opposing hypotheses on the homology of the avian brain suggest that the dorsal ventricular ridge of birds is comparable in certain respects either to the neocortex or to the claustroamygdalar complex of mammals. To help resolve this issue, we examined in adult chicken brains the gene expression of RORβ mRNA, a sel...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Atoji Y,Karim MR

更新日期：2012-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Several evidences have pointed to biochemical alterations in some brain structures after experimental Status Epilepticus (SE). Thus, the effects of pilocarpine-induced SE on the glutamate binding in the hippocampus and cortex of Wistar rats were evaluated. Groups of animals were submitted to a 3h SE induced by intrahi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cunha AO,Mortari MR,Carolino RO,Coutinho-Netto J,Dos Santos WF

更新日期：2007-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Representation of peripheral branches of the facial nerve within the facial nucleus of the cat was examined by utilizing retrograde axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP), which was injected into groups of muscles supplied by each of the main peripheral branches of the facial nerve. The cervical branch was r...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kume M,Uemura M,Matsuda K,Matsushima R,Mizuno N

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bidirectional transport of cargos along the thin axon is fundamental for the structure, function and survival of neurons. Defective axonal transport has been linked to the mechanism of neurodegenerative diseases. In this paper, we study the effect of the local axonal environment to cargo transport behavior in neur...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Che DL,Chowdary PD,Cui B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Olfactory bulb-protein tyrosine phosphatase (OB-PTP) is a receptor type PTPase dominantly expressed in olfactory bulb. Previously, we isolated and molecularly cloned a rat OB-PTP cDNA from an embryonal brain cDNA library. In the present study, we investigated its temporal and spatial gene expression by Northern blot a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yahagi Y,Tagawa M,Tomoda T,Shirasawa T

更新日期：1996-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) is a powerful antioxidant with suggested neuroprotective action. This study investigated the protective effects of EGCG against retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) degeneration in an animal model of glaucoma. C57BL/6J mice (n=54) were divided randomly into four groups: normal control group ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shen C,Chen L,Jiang L,Lai TY

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that among the factors that lead to neurodegenerative changes in Parkinson's disease are stimulation of lipid peroxidation and deficiency of glutathione and glutathione peroxidase in substantia nigra. We have investigated the effect of neurodegenerative changes on plasma and erythrocytes of pa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kilinç A,Yalçin AS,Yalçin D,Taga Y,Emerk K

更新日期：1988-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of astrocytes has been studied in whole-mounted horse and monkey retinae by the immunocytochemical localization of glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). In the horse, astrocytes were found to be restricted to a narrow zone close to the optic nerve head. This is also the only region of the horse reti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schnitzer J

更新日期：1987-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the brains of male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), the nuclei that direct song learning and production are larger than the corresponding regions in females, who do not sing. The dimorphism in Area X of the medial striatum (MSt), an area important for song learning, is even more dramatic in that it is identifia...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bailey DJ,Wade J

更新日期：2006-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparable to the anti-craving compound acamprosate, caroverine reduces alcohol withdrawal symptoms by an antagonism at ionotropic glutamate receptors and a blockade of calcium channels. The present study examines the effect of caroverine in a craving model, in which acamprosate has proved effective before. A place av...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kratzer U,Schmidt WJ

更新日期：2003-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the neuroprotective properties of some voltage-sensitive sodium channel blockers in a model of focal ischaemia. After curative treatment (0.5 and 24.5 h after insult), well known voltage-sensitive sodium channel blockers, phenytoin (2 x 100 mg/kg i.p.), carbamazepine (2 x 50 mg/kg i.p.), lamotrigi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rataud J,Debarnot F,Mary V,Pratt J,Stutzmann JM

更新日期：1994-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) are an attractive donor graft source because of the potential of self-renewal and multi-direction differentiation. However, it is a great challenge to induce BMSCs to specifically differentiate to dopamine (DA) neurons for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Because the striatum i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yang S,Gao Q,Bao L,Zhang J,Hu Y,Bing L,Sun J,Hao J,Chen C,Li S,Poon WS,Sun J,Gao Y

更新日期：2012-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the effect of apolipoprotein E (ApoE) 4 on the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD), the clinical course of 33 AD patients (17 cases with ApoE epsilon4 and 16 cases without ApoE epsilon4) was evaluated with the mini-mental state examination (MMSE) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biological markers. The dec...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kanai M,Shizuka M,Urakami K,Matsubara E,Harigaya Y,Okamoto K,Shoji M

更新日期：1999-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests a correlation between cytokine-induced nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and demyelination in Multiple sclerosis (MS). Inhibition of iNOS may therefore be a novel therapeutic approach in MS. To test an antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) knockdown strategy for inhibiting iNOS, we used lipopoly...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ding M,Zhang M,Wong JL,Voskuhl RR,Ellison GW

更新日期：1996-12-13 00:00:00