Mutational analysis of GIGYF2, ATP13A2 and GBA genes in Brazilian patients with early-onset Parkinson's disease.

abstract：:Cocaethylene is an active cocaine metabolite that targets mammalian neural reward pathways and thus contributes to the reinforcing and addictive properties of ethanol and cocaine. Using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, we find that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) possess a cellular mechanism through which c...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Torres G,Horowitz JM

更新日期：1999-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) consisting of either the embryonic form (2 alpha, 1 beta, 1 delta and 1 gamma) or the adult form (2 alpha, 1 beta, 1 delta and 1 epsilon) were expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes. As expected, the single channel conductance was approximately 52 pS and the exponential decay time co...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liu E,Hamill OP,Salpeter MM

更新日期：1994-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have investigated the effects of nicotine, capsaicin, potassium, glutamate and aspartate on release of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity (-LI) from guinea-pig dorsal root ganglion (DRG) cultures. In addition the possible influence of Ruthenium red (RR), neuropeptide Y...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Franco-Cereceda A,Rydh M,Dalsgaard CJ

更新日期：1992-03-16 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：:The distribution of premotor neurons projecting to motor nuclei of both the VIIth (VII) and XIIth (XII) nerves was examined in the pontomedullary reticular formation (RF) of the rat by using retrograde double labeling. After injection of two different tracers in the VII and the XII, most of the double labeled neurons ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Dauvergne C,Pinganaud G,Buisseret P,Buisseret-Delmas C,Zerari-Mailly F

更新日期：2001-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the current study was to evaluate structural changes of the corpus callosum (CC) in abstinence methamphetamine (MA) users. Shape and size of the CC in 27 MA users were compared to those of 18 healthy comparison subjects. To define the local curvature and width of the CC, medial model-based shape analy...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Oh JS,Lyoo IK,Sung YH,Hwang J,Kim J,Chung A,Park KS,Kim SJ,Renshaw PF,Song IC

更新日期：2005-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Infarct volume and immunoreactivities for trkB and trkC in rat brain were compared at 24 h after 90 min of transient middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) between animal groups with or without neurotrophin-3 (NT-3, 10 microg/250 g animal). Treatment of rat brain with topical application of NT-3 significantly reduced...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhang WR,Hayashi T,Wang JM,Sasaki C,Sakai K,Warita H,Shiro Y,Suenaga H,Ohmae H,Tsuji S,Itoh T,Nishimura O,Nagasaki H,Abe K

更新日期：1999-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating and fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting approximately 30,000 individuals in the United States. The average age of onset is 55 years and progression of the disease is rapid with most patients dying of respiratory failure within 3-5 years. Currently available th...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： St Martin JL,Wang L,Kaprielian Z

更新日期：2020-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Thioredoxin (TRX) is a small, multifunctional protein with a redox-active site and multiple biological functions that include reducing activity for reactive oxygen intermediates. We assayed TRX by immunohistochemical methods in the rat brain after intraperitoneal injection of 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NP), an irreversi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sugino T,Nozaki K,Takagi Y,Hattori I,Hashimoto N,Yodoi J

更新日期：1999-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) was studied in regenerating adult rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons in culture. VIP was not detected by radioimmunoassay in newly established cultures but increasing concentrations were observed between 2 and 4 days and VIP remained detectable for more than 2 ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mulderry PK,Lindsay RM

更新日期：1990-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects induced on the discharge of subthalamic spontaneously active neurons by inhibiting the enzyme nitric oxide synthase was studied in two groups of urethane-anesthetized rats. In the first group of animals (n = 10), the activity of subthalamic single units was recorded before and after the systemic administra...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sardo P,Ferraro G,Carletti F,D'Agostino S,La Grutta V

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Involvement of the ipsilateral hemisphere during planning of reaching movements is still matter of debate. While it has been demonstrated that the contralateral hemisphere is dominant in visuo-motor integration, involvement of the ipsilateral hemisphere has also been proposed. Furthermore, a dominant role for left pos...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Busan P,Jarmolowska J,Semenic M,Monti F,Pelamatti G,Pizzolato G,Battaglini PP

更新日期：2009-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulation of cutaneomuscular responses in response to mechanical vibration applied to the foot sole and to the ankle tendons was established in ten healthy subjects. The effects of mechanical vibration applied to the skin adjacent to the tibialis anterior (TA) and Achilles tendons were examined in two subjects. W...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Smith AC,Mummidisetty CK,Rymer WZ,Knikou M

更新日期：2013-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Ethylmaleimide sensitive factor (NSF) is a presynaptic protein that has been suggested to be differentially expressed in the cortex of schizophrenic subjects through both high-throughput proteomic and genomic screening studies. Thus, to expand upon these studies we measured NSF using Western blotting in four regions...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gray L,Scarr E,Dean B

更新日期：2006-01-02 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 facial nucleus (FN) has been known as a motor nucleus to control the activity of the facial skeletal muscles by its efferent somatic motoneurons. Much less, however, is known about the non-motor control functions of its interneurons. The present study was designed to investigate if the interneurons of the FN parti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhang C,Yan H,Li C,Zheng Y

更新日期：2004-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in von Frey hair perception, pricking pain, and vibration thresholds were examined in six healthy human adults, in the zone of secondary hyperalgesia, 45 min following the topical application of capsaicin at concentrations of 0.05 and 0.1 mg/ml. In two of these subjects, cutaneous blood flow was monitored at 1...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Andrews K,Baranowski A,Kinnman E

更新日期：1999-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) demonstrate that human auditory cortical responses are sensitive to changes in static pitch as indexed by the pitch onset response (POR), a negativity generated at the initiation of acoustic periodicity. Yet, it is still unclear if this brain signature is sensitive to dynamic, tim...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bidelman GM

更新日期：2015-08-31 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：:The amino acid content of Torpedo synaptosomes was investigated. It was found that glutamate and taurine were particularly enriched, their concentration exceeding that of acetylcholine by 50-60%. Other amino acids such as alanine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), glycine, leucine and phenylalanine were also present, bu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Vyas S,Bradford HF

更新日期：1987-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A free radical scavenger edaravone is clinically used in Japan for acute stroke, and several basic researches have carefully examined the mechanisms of edaravone's protective effects. However, its actions on pro-inflammatory responses under stroke are still understudied. In this study, we subjected adult male Sprague-...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fujiwara N,Som AT,Pham LD,Lee BJ,Mandeville ET,Lo EH,Arai K

更新日期：2016-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Mirror neurons, which have now been found in the human and songbird as well as the macaque, respond to both the observation and the performance of the same action. It has been suggested that their matching response properties have evolved as an adaptation for action understanding; alternatively, these properties may a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Catmur C

更新日期：2013-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Odor-induced oscillatory signals have been reported in odor discrimination in various insects. To understand dynamic olfactory coding in the first order olfactory center, the antennal lobe, localization of oscillatory signals was investigated using an optical recording technique with a voltage-sensitive dye. We presen...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Okada K,Kanzaki R

更新日期：2001-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:c-Fos is one of the transcription factors contributing to the regulation of the downstream gene expression. Administration of dopamine D1 receptor agonist or D2 receptor antagonist have been known to induce c-Fos expressions in striatal projection neurons. We examined the effects of unilateral ablation of the globus p...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Miwa H,Fuwa T,Nishi K,Mizuno Y

更新日期：1998-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Diabetic neuropathic pain (DNP) is one of the most common and severe complications in patients with diabetes. This study aimed to investigate serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels in patients with DNP and to evaluate the association between BDNF and disease severity. METHODS:A total of 143 T2...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wang Z,Li H

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The death of neurons after brain ischaemia may be associated with activation of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) and upregulation of cyclins, reflecting aberrant entry of neurons into the cell cycle. Little has been published on the expression of cell cycle proteins after brain ischaemia in man. Well-characterized anti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Love S

更新日期：2003-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) elevation evoked by GABA in an 8-day embryonic chick brainstem slice using a Ca imaging technique with Ca green-1 AM. When small quantities of GABA were pressure-ejected on the surface of the slice, the [Ca2+]i elevation was clearly detected. The GABA-induced [Ca2+]i elevat...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Momose-Sato Y,Kinoshita M,Sato K

更新日期：2007-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitotoxin lesion of nucleus basalis with kainate or ibotenate results in degeneration of cholinergic neurones and a subsequent cholinergic deficit in cerebral cortex ipsilateral to the lesion. This lesion is accompanied by a massive increase in ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity in ipsilateral cortex, which was ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wood H,de Belleroche J

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:An intronic polymorphism affecting alternative splicing of exon 8 of ubiquilin 1 (UBQLN1), that is located at a well established Alzheimer's disease (AD) locus on chromosome 9q22, was recently associated with increased risk for late-onset AD. We analyzed this polymorphism in two independent AD samples consisting of pa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Brouwers N,Sleegers K,Engelborghs S,Bogaerts V,van Duijn CM,De Deyn PP,Van Broeckhoven C,Dermaut B

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA methylation of a CpG island located in intron 1 of the α-synuclein gene (SNCA) has been reported to play an essential role in the regulation of α-synuclein transcription, and probably has a close association with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, there is no simple and cost effective method to quantify DNA methyl...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Song Y,Ding H,Yang J,Lin Q,Xue J,Zhang Y,Chan P,Cai Y

更新日期：2014-05-21 00:00:00