Absence of association of the Ala58Val (rs17571) CTSD gene variant with Parkinson's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a Han Chinese population.

abstract：:Extracellular field potentials were recorded from guinea pig accessory olfactory bulb (AOB) slices following electrical stimulation of the vomeronasal nerve layer (VNL). A single shock of the VNL provoked a characteristic damped oscillatory field potential, which consisted of a compound action potential followed by 6-...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sugai T,Sugitani M,Onoda N

更新日期：1995-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with dopamine and other dopamine D2 receptor agonists has been shown to induce cell death through activation of caspase-3 pathway. However, initial step that leads to the activation of caspase-3 in D2 receptor-mediated apoptotic pathway remains unclear. Recently, it was shown that a spliced variant of Galpha...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： López-Aranda MF,Navarro-Lobato I,López-Téllez JF,Blanco E,Masmudi-Martín M,Khan ZU

更新日期：2008-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate the relationship between DNA methylation and expression of human dopamine transporter (hDAT). We examined methylation status of hDAT in cells with various hDAT expression levels, including two dopaminergic neural cell lines (SK-N-AS and SH-SY-5Y) and one non-dopaminergic cell line (HEK29...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhai D,Li S,Dong G,Zhou D,Yang Y,Wang X,Zhao Y,Yang Y,Lin Z

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1) mediates numerous responses on the mouse anterior pituitary cell line AtT-20. We have studied the ligand binding properties of the IL-1 receptors (IL-1R) of the AtT-20 cells and found that they possess 1.5 x 10(3) receptors/cell with a Kd of 0.15 nM for [125I]IL-1 alpha. Using oligonucleotide prim...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bristulf J,Simoncsits A,Bartfai T

更新日期：1991-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The AMPA receptor subunit GluR2 is downregulated in neurons following a wide range of neurological insults. Here we report that suppression of GluR2 gene promoter activity is associated with kainate (KA)-induced downregulation of GluR2 subunit levels in primary cultured cortical neurons. RT-PCR and Northern blotting s...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jia YH,Zhu X,Li SY,Ni JH,Jia HT

更新日期：2006-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunohistochemistry with specific antisera against dopamine-beta-hydroxylase and phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase, we present the first description of the adrenergic structures of the sheep medulla oblongata. Dopamine-beta-hydroxylase-immunoreactive perikarya in the sheep brain are localized as described ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tillet Y

更新日期：1988-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptiform activity is a state often induced in vitro in order to study seizures and antiepileptic/anticonvulsant drugs. Traditional methods of evaluating drug effects have commonly relied upon measuring changes in the frequency and duration of such events. We have used a recently developed mathematical technique ba...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Harrison PK,Tattersall JE,Clement RA

更新日期：2004-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep disturbance is common in chronic post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, prior work has demonstrated that there are inconsistencies between subjective and objective assessments of sleep disturbance in PTSD. Therefore, we investigated whether subjective or objective sleep assessment has greater clinical u...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tahmasian M,Jamalabadi H,Abedini M,Ghadami MR,Sepehry AA,Knight DC,Khazaie H

更新日期：2017-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular forms of butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) were studied in microvessels isolated from rat brain, using sedimentation analysis in sucrose gradients. Three forms, G1, G2 and G4, were found with sedimentation coefficients close to 3S, 6S and 9S, respectively. The relative proportion of the 3 forms was 19% for the m...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Catalán RE,Martínez AM,Aragonés MD,Hernández F

更新日期：1990-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate a possible role of the lateral premotor cortex in human cognitive processes, we compared brain activity during mental-operation numeral (MO-numeral) and verbal rehearsal (VR) tasks, using block-design functional MRI. Sixteen healthy subjects serially added a series of single-digit numbers during the MO-...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hanakawa T,Honda M,Okada T,Fukuyama H,Shibasaki H

更新日期：2003-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-18 (IL-18) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine and an important mediator of peripheral inflammation and host immune response. IL-18 functions through its binding with the IL-18 receptor (IL-18R), which consists of two chains, an IL-18-binding α chain (IL-18Rα) and a signaling β chain. IL-18 and IL-18R are expre...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kuwahara-Otani S,Maeda S,Kobayashi K,Minato Y,Tanaka K,Yamanishi K,Hata M,Li W,Hayakawa T,Noguchi K,Okamura H,Yagi H

更新日期：2017-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:A partially purified toxin obtained from the coral reef crab, Lophozozymus pictor was found to be a potent inhibitor of Na+-dependent [14C]-GABA uptake by rat brain synaptosomes. Inhibition was potentiated in the presence of external K+. The I50 value for the toxin was found to be in the region of 10 microgram/ml at a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tan CH,Abkowitz SJ

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) induced by ischemia in vitro (oxygen-glucose deprivation) were continuously recorded using fura-2-loaded hippocampal slices under normal (pH 7.4), acidotic (pH 6.8) and alkalotic (pH 7.8) conditions. Oxygen-glucose deprivation induced an initial slow and a subs...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ebine Y,Fujiwara N,Shimoji K

更新日期：1994-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations of 'peripheral-type' benzodiazepine receptors (PTBRs) in brain are a feature of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Although ammonia toxicity has been implicated in the disorder, recent findings suggest an accumulation of manganese in the brains of cirrhotic patients dying in hepatic coma. In this study, we exami...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hazell AS,Desjardins P,Butterworth RF

更新日期：1999-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate the brain protective effects of fingolimod on inflammatory response of SAH mice. METHODS:We utilized an endovascular mouse perforation model of SAH. Mice were divided into three groups: sham group, SAH group and SAH + Fingolimod group. Mice received either saline or fingolimod (1 mg/kg) intraper...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wang Y,Zhou S,Han Z,Yin D,Luo Y,Tian Y,Wang Z,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Expiratory only resistive loaded breathing (RL) reduces high energy electromyogram (EMG) power (EH) during an isometric contraction of a leg extensor muscle, but not an arm flexor. An interaction between afferent activity during expiratory RL and inspiratory non-loaded phases of breathing, which the contraction spanne...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Turner D,Sumners P,Jackson S

更新日期：2000-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Distributions of one sensory and 13 motor axons to intrafusal fibers in a human spindle from the biceps brachii muscle were reconstructed from serial, 1 micron thick transverse sections. The primary afferent was distributed predominantly to nuclear bag fibers. Motor innervation in the human spindle was characterized b...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kucera J

更新日期：1986-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Patch-clamp pipettes filled with 50-5000 microM glutamate were placed on crayfish muscle fibers treated with collagenase, formed G omega seals and elicited single-channel currents with a main amplitude of about -8 pA at -70 mV membrane potential, representing a conductance of about 100 pS (19 degrees C). Evaluation of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Franke C,Dudel J

更新日期：1985-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether or not chronic L-dopa treatment (100 mg/kg, intraperitoneally (i.p.), twice daily for 4 weeks) alters lipid peroxidation in the brain as an indicator of neuronal damage was examined in normal mice and mice in which catecholamine (CA) neurons had been injured previously by the administration of 6-hydroxydopamin...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ogawa N,Asanuma M,Kondo Y,Kawada Y,Yamamoto M,Mori A

更新日期：1994-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the serotonergic system in regulating the expression of estrogen receptor (ER) α in the hypothalamus was investigated in ovariectomized rats by injecting a serotonin synthesis inhibitor, parachlorophenylalanine (PCPA), or by destroying the dorsal raphe nucleus (DR). The number of ERα-immunoreactive (ir) ce...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ito H,Shimogawa Y,Kohagura D,Moriizumi T,Yamanouchi K

更新日期：2014-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) genotype (V/V homozygosity for I405V, NCBI dbSNP rs5882) has been associated with preservation of cognitive function in old age, in addition to its associations with exceptional longevity and cardiovascular disease. We tested the hypotheses that this polymorphism was associa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Johnson W,Harris SE,Collins P,Starr JM,Whalley LJ,Deary IJ

更新日期：2007-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of two pig brains was realized. The animals were placed in the stereotaxic conditions currently used in experiments. To allow the positioning of the animal in the MRI instrument, landmarks were previously traced on the snout of the pig. To avoid movements, animals were deeply anestheti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Marcilloux JC,Félix MB,Rampin O,Stoffels C,Ibazizen MT,Cabanis EA,Laplace JP,Albe-Fessard D

更新日期：1993-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An ionotropic glutamate receptor of the kainate subtype (GluR6) and a G-protein coupled metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR1 alpha) were expressed and studied in two insect cell lines: sf9 cells from Spodoptera frugiperda and MG1 cells from Trichoplusia ni. Application of kainate to GluR6-infected MG1 cells produce...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ross SM,Taverna FA,Pickering DS,Wang LY,MacDonald JF,Pennefather PS,Hampson DR

更新日期：1994-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocyte cell cultures were established from human fetal brains and exposed to human recombinant tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) and human recombinant interferon gamma (IFN gamma), and the proliferative response was assessed by bromodeoxyuridine-immunostaining technique. TNF alpha showed an inhibitory activit...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Moretto G,Yoo A,Kim SU

更新日期：1993-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons within the hypothalamic paraventricular nuclei (PVN) have been antidromically invaded following electrical stimulation within the pons and medulla of rats. These neurones are dispersed throughout the PVN and are often found near neurones antidromically invaded only from the pituitary salk. In addition, a small...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zerihun L,Harris M

更新日期：1981-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho kinase (ROCK) regulates the functions of several target proteins via its kinase activity. Therefore, ROCK activity inhibition may provide new possibilities of controlling the in vitro neuronal differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells. When we investigated the effects of the ROCK inhibitor Y-27632 on ES cell di...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kamishibahara Y,Kawaguchi H,Shimizu N

更新日期：2016-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PRL) has been shown to be altered by psychotropic drugs, including antidepressant drugs (ADs). Many studies have focused on the response to antidepressant treatment (especially related to the serotonergic system) using the fenfluramine test (PRF), however some data suggest lack of correlation between PRF an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Faron-Górecka A,Kuśmider M,Szafran-Pilch K,Kolasa M,Żurawek D,Gruca P,Papp M,Solich J,Pabian P,Dziedzicka-Wasylewska M

更新日期：2017-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies using 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) autoradiography have demonstrated that the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the hypothalamus, a putative neural circadian pacemaker, displays circadian rhythmicity in its metabolic activity. In the present study, we show that distinct circadian variations in 2-DG uptake occ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Rosenwasser AM,Trubowitsch G,Adler NT

更新日期：1985-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of five muscarinic receptor mRNAs (m1, m2, m3, m4, m5) was examined in neostriatum, hippocampus and frontal cortex of 3, 18, and 33 month old rats. Transcripts for ml (3.0 kb), m2 (6.2 kb), m3 (4.5 kb) and m4 (3.3 kb) were detected in all brain regions studied. A 6.0 kb transcript for the m5 muscarinic ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lee HJ,Clagett-Dame M,Heideman W,Weiler MS

更新日期：1994-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies from our team have shown that a 12 month ethanol administration induced deficits in a sequential alternation task, whereas a 6 month treatment had no effects. We have already shown that the 12 month treatment induced deficits both in diencephalic and hippocampal structures, whereas the 6 month treatme...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Beracochea D,Jaffard R

更新日期：1991-12-16 00:00:00