Strategies for restoring vision to the blind: current and emerging technologies.

abstract：:Influences of a submaximal endurance test in the right first dorsal interosseus on force and fatigue-related parameters of activating the contralateral muscle were studied. The test consisted of a 30% maximum voluntary contraction (MVC), regularly interrupted by maximal contractions and brief rest periods. Despite the...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zijdewind I,Zwarts MJ,Kernell D

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by a loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Adenosine is a neuromodulator that inhibit the release of dopamine via a disinhibitory mechanism. In this study, we investigated the neuroprotective effect of 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dipropylxanthine and...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fathalla AM,Soliman AM,Moustafa AA

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-known that cocaine dependence is a public health issue, and several studies stress the need to look for new and more effective treatments. Although the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system, which originates in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and projects to several forebrain structures, is known to be criticall...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zacarias MS,Ramos AC,Alves DR,Galduróz JC

更新日期：2012-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal brain lesions such as cortical dysplasia and glioneural tumors generate epileptic activity and thus may be synaptically connected with normal cortex. To test this hypothesis, we compared event-related potentials recorded directly from the medial temporal lobe (MTL) and a dysplastic lesion in eight patients with ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kirschstein T,Fernández G,Grunwald T,Pezer N,Urbach H,Blümcke I,Van Roost D,Lehnertz K,Elger CE

更新日期：2003-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Single electrode voltage-clamp recording from CA3 neurons in guinea pig hippocampal slices was applied to study effects of a new GABAB antagonist, CGP 55845A, on (-)baclofen (IBac)- or gamma-aminobutyric acid (IGABA)-induced potassium (K)-currents and on inhibitory postsynaptic K-currents (K-IPSCs) recorded in the pre...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jarolimek W,Demmelhuber J,Bijak M,Misgeld U

更新日期：1993-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials were used to examine the role of grammatical gender in auditory sentence comprehension. Native Spanish speakers listened to sentence pairs in which a drawing depicting a noun was either congruent or incongruent with sentence meaning, and agreed or disagreed in gender with the immediately prece...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wicha NY,Bates EA,Moreno EM,Kutas M

更新日期：2003-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescence is characterized by a relative immaturity of the prefrontal cortex and associated cognitive control functions, which is hypothesized to be a major contributing factor to high-risk behaviors. However, little is known about the role of genetic and environmental factors in frontal brain development during ado...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Anokhin AP,Golosheykin S,Grant JD,Heath AC

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the ipsilateral anteropolar division of the zona incerta were retrogradely labeled following injections of horseradish peroxidase in the main olfactory bulb. In addition, labeled cell bodies were found in the dorsal hypothalamus. Fewer and less densely labeled neuron cell bodies were seen in the contralater...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Uemura-Sumi M,Osterstock J,Millhouse OE

更新日期：1985-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:N-[1-(2-Benzo(b)thiophenyl)cyclohexyl]piperidine (BTCP) and cocaine inhibit dopamine (DA) uptake but bind to different sites on the transporter. Their dose-dependent effects (i.p. administration) on extracellular DA levels in the rat striatum were measured by in vivo microdialysis. Both drugs dose-dependently increase...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Martin-Fardon R,Arnaud M,Rousseau E,Kamenka JM,Privat A,Vignon J

更新日期：1996-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic projections originating in the basal forebrain (BF) play important roles in the heterosynaptic facilitation of synaptic strength in various sensory cortices, including the primary visual cortex (V1). Here, using urethane-anesthetized rats, we find that pairing burst stimulation of the BF with single pulse ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gagolewicz PJ,Dringenberg HC

更新日期：2009-10-02 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：:Our previous genetic and proteomic studies demonstrated that dynamin 1 is significantly associated with nicotine dependence (ND) in human smokers and its expression is highly modulated by nicotine in the brains of animals. To provide further molecular evidence for the involvement of dynamin 1 in the etiology of ND, we...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Xu Q,Li MD

更新日期：2011-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Three forms of stress-induced analgesia (electric shock, forced water-swim and novelty) were used to examine the nature of the endogenous antiopiate system. It was hypothesized that a role of the antiopiate system may be to regulate the extent of antinociception within varying environments. The antiopiate properties o...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Galina ZH,Kastin AJ

更新日期：1988-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal serotonin (5-HT) release, measured in the presence of imipramine, was significantly reduced in slices of hippocampus, n. accumbens and frontal cortex from rats subjected to forced swim test and chronic isolation. Only in the hippocampus, in the two animal models of depression, K-stimulated release was increased....

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jaffe EH,De Frias V,Ibarra C

更新日期：1993-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Both muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine (ACh) receptors are known to be present on the surface of lymphocytes. We have shown that variable amounts of ACh are detectable in the blood of various mammals including humans, and a major portion of blood ACh is localized in circulating mononuclear leukocytes in humans. I...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fujii T,Tajima S,Yamada S,Watanabe Y,Sato KZ,Matsui M,Misawa H,Kasahara T,Kawashima K

更新日期：1999-01-08 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：:EEG-feedback, also called neurofeedback, is a training procedure aimed at altering brain activity, and is used as a treatment for disorders like Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Studies have reported positive effects of neurofeedback on attention and other dependent variables. However, double-blind stu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Logemann HN,Lansbergen MM,Van Os TW,Böcker KB,Kenemans JL

更新日期：2010-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The underlying mechanism of isoflurane-induced cognitive dysfunction in older individuals is unknown. In this study, the effects of isoflurane exposure on the hippocampal blood-brain barrier (BBB) in aged rats were investigated because it was previously shown that BBB disruption involves in cognitive dysfunction. Twen...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cao Y,Ni C,Li Z,Li L,Liu Y,Wang C,Zhong Y,Cui D,Guo X

更新日期：2015-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the mechanisms of visual short term memory (VSTM) are extensively investigated in the recent decade, how we compare the representation stored in VSTM to the perceptual input to detect and process the mismatch information remains largely unclear. The current study explored whether there is an ERP component tra...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yin J,Gao Z,Jin X,Ye L,Shen M,Shui R

更新日期：2011-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult filum terminale (FT) is an atypical region from where multipotent neural progenitor cells (NPCs) have been isolated. However, poor neuronal differentiation rate of FT-NPCs currently limits their clinical applications. Using custom-designed electric fields (EFs), this study sets up a method to significantly impro...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Dong ZY,Pei Z,Li Z,Wang YL,Khan A,Meng XT

更新日期：2017-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The light microscopic localization of gamma-aminobutyric acidB (GABAB) receptors in the rat brain has been accomplished using in vitro autoradiography with [3H]baclofen as a ligand. Initial biochemical studies indicated this compound specifically bound to slide-mounted tissue sections with high affinity in a saturable...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gehlert DR,Yamamura HI,Wamsley JK

更新日期：1985-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of steady-state and dynamic visual gestures of vowels in stuttering inhibition. Eight adults who stuttered recited sentences from memory while watching video presentations of the following visual speech gestures: (a) a steady-state /u/, (b) dynamic production of /a-i-u/, (...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Guntupalli VK,Nanjundeswaran C,Kalinowski J,Dayalu VN

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to address the role of macrophages in Mn-induced neurotoxicity and to test the hypothesis that minocycline, a tetracycline derivative, attenuates the biochemical and morphological sequelae of Mn. Mn was unilaterally microinjected into rat nigra followed by systemic minocycline or saline ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ponzoni S

更新日期：2012-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The organotypic hippocampal slice culture technique was used to study how the effects of repeated ethanol withdrawal might differ between males and females at the cellular level, including potential modulation of subsequent insults. A chronic intermittent ethanol (CIE) exposure paradigm was employed, with 3 days of ex...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Walls SA,Rosenwasser AM,Devaud LL

更新日期：2013-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Supra-threshold responses of neurons in the primary auditory cortex of the macaque monkey are so complex that the characteristic frequency cannot be determined. By statistical analyses based on analysis of variance and principal component analysis, we demonstrated that the similarity of neurons from penetration perpen...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takahashi T

更新日期：1995-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Although synaptically released, vesicular Zn(2+) has been proposed to play a neuromodulatory or neuronal signaling role at the mossy fiber-CA3 synapse, Zn(2+) release remains controversial, especially when detected using fluorescent imaging. In the present study, we investigated synaptically released Zn(2+) at the mos...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bastian C,Li YV

更新日期：2007-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sciatic axotomy in 2-day-old rats (P2) causes lumbar motoneuron loss, which could be associated with nitric oxide (NO) production. NO may be produced by three isoforms of synthase (NOS): neuronal (nNOS), endothelial (eNOS) and inducible (iNOS). We investigated NOS expression and NO synthesis in the lumbar enlargement ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rogério F,Teixeira SA,Júnior HJ,Maria CC,Vieira AS,de Rezende AC,Pereira GA,Muscará MN,Langone F

更新日期：2006-10-23 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：:The present study was carried out to examine whether γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor mechanisms are involved in the release of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) in the subfornical organ (SFO) using intracerebral microdialysis techniques. Perfusion with the GABA receptor antagonists as well as agonists was perf...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takahashi M,Nomura M,Tanaka J

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The density of hippocampal adenosine A1 receptors was measured in autopsy samples of six patients with dementia with either Alzheimer (three) or sclerosis type pathology (three) in hippocampus and six control patients. Kinetic parameters (Bmax and KD) were determined by means of quantitative autoradiography using [3H]...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Deckert J,Abel F,Künig G,Hartmann J,Senitz D,Maier H,Ransmayr G,Riederer P

更新日期：1998-03-06 00:00:00