Injection of capsaicin into the nucleus raphe dorsalis elicits heat loss in the rat.

abstract：:Protein kinase G (PKG) has been implicated in a variety of physiological functions including synaptic plasticity in the brain. This study investigated the involvement of dopamine D3 (D3) receptors in PKG-regulated dopamine release, long-term changes in gene expression and behavioral sensitization after repeated cocain...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lee DK,Oh JH,Yang JH,Youn B,Shim YB,Shim I,Wang JQ,Choe ES

更新日期：2013-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose is an important metabolic factor controlling feeding behavior. There is evidence that physiologically relevant glucose sensors reside in the caudal hindbrain. The area postrema (AP) in particular, which has been characterized as a receptive site for the anorectic hormone amylin, may monitor blood glucose level...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Riediger T,Schmid HA,Lutz TA,Simon E

更新日期：2002-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular recordings were used to study the contribution of nicotinic and P2X receptors to synaptic transmission to morphologically identified myenteric neurons of guinea-pig ileum. Hexamethonium (100 microM) abolished fast excitatory synaptic potentials (EPSPs) in all orally projecting neurons, but fast EPSPs in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Johnson PJ,Shum OR,Thornton PD,Bornstein JC

更新日期：1999-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown an association between Parkinson disease (PD) and mutations in the gene encoding the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase (GBA), which is deficient in patients with Gaucher disease. In Asian populations, 2 mutational analysis studies have been performed in all exons of GBA; one study in a Japa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Choi JM,Kim WC,Lyoo CH,Kang SY,Lee PH,Baik JS,Koh SB,Ma HI,Sohn YH,Lee MS,Kim YJ

更新日期：2012-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of the 'geste antagonistique', or sensory trick, used by patients with dystonic blepharospasm (BSP) to transiently diminish their symptoms is presently unknown. In this paper we examined the effects induced by a sensory trick consisting of finger contact with the face on the electrically induce...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gómez-Wong E,Martí MJ,Cossu G,Fabregat N,Tolosa ES,Valls-Solé J

更新日期：1998-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies established that glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) is present in the brain of higher vertebrates in two forms composed of the homodimeric association of two subunits 59 and 63 kDa, respectively, that were found to be structurally related. We have performed quantitative comparative immunoblotting of whole ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Henry S,Tappaz M

更新日期：1991-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A digoxigenin-labeled antisense 42-mer oligonucleotide was used for the localization of the dopamine D2 receptor mRNA in the rat brain. The digoxigenin label was identified with alkaline phosphatase conjugated sheep-anti-digoxigenin. In good analogy with the known terminal fields of the dopaminergic system, various nu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Brouwer N,Van Dijken H,Ruiters MH,Van Willigen JD,Ter Horst GJ

更新日期：1992-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that high peripheral beta-amyloid (Abeta)(1-40) levels and low ratios of Abeta(1-42)/Abeta(1-40) are associated with increased risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this cross-sectional design, serum and plasma samples from 67 AD patients and 146 controls (similar in age and gender) were evaluated us...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Abdullah L,Paris D,Luis C,Quadros A,Parrish J,Valdes L,Keegan AP,Mathura V,Crawford F,Mullan M

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual P300 responses were recorded by using checkerboard-type stimuli. (1) High amplitude P300-delta responses were visible even in single trial event-related potentials (ERPs). (2) The algorithm based on the 'delta response metric' provides an efficient selection criterion for evaluation of P300 single trials in ERP...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schürmann M,Başar-Eroglu C,Kolev V,Başar E

更新日期：1995-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Buyang Huanwu Decoction (BYHWD), a traditional Chinese medicine, has been developed as a drug to be used for treatment of stroke for hundreds of years. However, the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. In the present study, the effects of BYHWD on delayed neuronal death of hippocampus after transient forebrain ischem...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Li XM,Bai XC,Qin LN,Huang H,Xiao ZJ,Gao TM

更新日期：2003-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the spatial frequency (SF) effects on cortical face processing, we recorded magnetoencephalographic responses in seven healthy subjects to upright and inverted human faces. Four face types were used, including original (broad-band SF, BSF), low SF (LSF, <5 cycles/face), middle SF (MSF, 5-15 cycles/face), and ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hsiao FJ,Hsieh JC,Lin YY,Chang Y

更新日期：2005-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:It was established that stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus (LH) can induce antinociception. Previous studies showed a role for the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and nucleus accumbens (NAc) in antinociception induced by LH stimulation through the orexinergic system. In this study, we tried to assess the involvement...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Moradi M,Fatahi Z,Haghparast A

更新日期：2015-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To test the hypothesis that uridine 5'-triphosphate (UTP) had a protective effect on cerebral ischemia reperfusion (IR) injury in rats. METHODS:Ischemia was induced by intraluminal suture of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). UTP solution was delivered through an indwelling tail venous catheter via microinf...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tian ML,Zou Z,Yuan HB,Wang CC,Zhu QF,Xu HT,Gao X,Shi XY

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing body of evidence that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) is implicated in the new learning of visual items. Little is known, however, as to the involvement of that portion of the prefrontal cortex in the learning of temporal and spatial relationship of those items. The aim of the present stu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Szatkowska I,Szymańska O,Grabowska A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT)-mediated modulation of phrenic motoneuronal activity was evaluated by microapplication of 5-HT and methysergide into the phrenic nuclei of the rabbit. 5-HT facilitated phrenic nerve activity (PNA) considerably resulting in a long-lasting augmentation of the peak amplit...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schmid K,Böhmer G,Merkelbach S

更新日期：1990-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Since calcium homeostasis is altered in cultured skin fibroblasts from aged and Alzheimer donors, the present study examined the degradation of spectrin, a substrate of the calcium dependent protease calpain. Spectrin proteolysis was estimated as the percentage of spectrin breakdown products (e.g., 150 + 155 kDa bands...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Peterson C,Vanderklish P,Seubert P,Cotman C,Lynch G

更新日期：1991-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the time course of visual emotion processing in schizophrenia. ERPs were recorded in 19 chronic male schizophrenia patients and 16 healthy controls (HC) while they viewed IAPS pictures used to induce positive, negative, or neutral mood, presented in a blocked design a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pinheiro AP,Liu T,Nestor PG,McCarley RW,Gonçalves ÓF,Niznikiewicz MA

更新日期：2013-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the expression profiles of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunits in rats during seizure development and kindled process induced by pentylenetetrazole (PTZ). Using quantitative Western blotting, the levels of NR1, NR2A and NR2B subunits were measured in the cortex and hippoc...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhu LJ,Chen Z,Zhang LS,Xu SJ,Xu AJ,Luo JH

更新日期：2004-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion (MPP(+)) has been shown to selectively inhibit mitochondrial function and induce a parkinsonism-like syndrome. MPP(+) stimulates the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and induces cell death in vitro. In this study, we investigated the protective effects of okadaic acid on MPP(...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ahn KH,Kim YS,Kim SY,Huh Y,Park C,Jeong JW

更新日期：2009-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of partial isomerization of dietary alpha-linolenic acid on the monoaminergic neurotransmitters in piglets was studied. After feeding the animals for 14 days with diets containing or not trans alpha-linolenic acid, neurotransmitters related to the monoaminergic function were quantified in the frontal cortex...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Acar N,Chardigny JM,Berdeaux O,Almanza S,Sébédio JL

更新日期：2002-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken of the effects of iontophoretically applied amino acids, acetylcholine and monoamines on suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) neurons of rat pups, at the 11th postnatal day, using a hypothalamic slice preparation. GABA and taurine inhibited 97 and 42% of SCN neurons, respectively, while glycine had no ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shibata S,Liou SY,Ueki S

更新日期：1983-08-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The frog horizontal monocular optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) is asymmetrical, the temporal-nasal (T-N) stimulation being the sole stimulation efficient to evoke the reflex, the nasal-temporal (N-T) component being almost absent. Coil recordings showed that, in adult animals, prolonged monocular visual deprivation by unil...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jardon B,Bonaventure N

更新日期：1992-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the mismatch negativity event-related potential to examine how spatial location and feature variation affect the capacity of the auditory system to automatically respond to pairs of rapid (180 ms apart) acoustic changes within a single tone. When a tone first deviated from a standard tone in source location an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Deouell LY,Karns CM,Harrison TB,Knight RT

更新日期：2003-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine phosphorylation is an important means for regulating post-ischemic signal transduction. In this article, brain ischemia was induced by four-vessel occlusion, and the effect of ischemia/reperfusion on proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2 (Pyk2) was studied. Tyrosine phosphorylation of Pyk2 in Sprague-Dawley rat hipp...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liu Y,Zhang GY,Hou XY,Xu TL

更新日期：2003-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (SRIF) release from rat hypothalamus was investigated in vitro with a perifusion system. Glucagon (1 microM) and high potassium concentrations (56 mM) stimulated SRIF release in a calcium-dependent manner. Pretreatment of the rat with cysteamine (30 mg/100 g body weight, 7 h earlier) significantly reduced...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shimatsu A,Kato Y,Matsushita N,Ohta H,Kabayama Y,Imura H

更新日期：1983-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The sensory neurons in the trigeminal ganglion which project to the muscles of mastication of the cat were studied using the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase. Horseradish peroxidase either was injected directly into the masticatory muscles or applied to the nerves supplying them. Numerous retrogradely la...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Martin JW,Panneton WM

更新日期：1986-10-20 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：:A two-tone oddball procedure was employed to examine the effect of a phonemic category on the mismatch negativity (MMN). One of the stimuli was a phoneme prototype of Japanese /e/, and the other, [e/ö], which was perceived by Japanese participants as showing deviance from typicality but is nonetheless included in the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ikeda K,Hayashi A,Hashimoto S,Otomo K,Kanno A

更新日期：2002-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:As overweight and obesity are a growing problem in industrialized societies, they become a main focus of many studies. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is an association between the occurrence of polymorphisms in serotonin-related genes and the prevalence of depressive symptoms in obese patients. T...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bieliński M,Tomaszewska M,Jaracz M,Pulkowska-Ulfig J,Długosz D,Sikora M,Tretyn A,Kamińska A,Junik R,Borkowska A

更新日期：2015-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chronic Constriction Injury of the Infraorbital Nerve (CCI-ION) is a well-established model to study facial sensory changes related to trigeminal neuropathic pain. CCI-ION induces heat hypersensitivity that resolves within 2-3 weeks and a delayed mechanical hypersensitivity that emerges during the second week post...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nones CFM,Claudino RF,Ferreira LEN,Dos Reis RC,King T,Chichorro JG

更新日期：2017-03-22 00:00:00