Effects of oxytocin and vasopressin on thoracic sympathetic preganglionic neurones in the cat.

abstract：:The present study examined the changes of extracellular concentration of dopamine and its metabolite homovanillic acid in the striatum, the periaqueductal gray and the dorsal horn of lumbar spinal cord following intraplantar injection of carrageenan. In vivo microdialysis and high-performance liquid chromatography wit...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Gao X,Zhang YQ,Zhang LM,Wu GC

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of detailed physiological and morphological data shows that the hypothalamic aggression region in the rat largely coincides with the intermediate hypothalamic area. This region has a neuronal density of about 35.10(3) neurons per mm3, a synaptic density of about 300.10(6) per mm3, and a synapse to neuron ra...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Aalders TT,Meek J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) responses to single-dose nicotine (NIC) are sexually diergic: Female rats have higher adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and corticosterone (CORT) responses than do males. In the present study we determined HPA responses in male and female rats following single doses of NIC, a sing...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Gentile NE,Andrekanic JD,Karwoski TE,Czambel RK,Rubin RT,Rhodes ME

更新日期：2011-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we showed for the first time the localization of ZNT7 immunoreactivity in the mouse dorsal root ganglion (DRG) by means of immunohistochemistry and confocal laser scanning microscopy. Our results revealed that ZNT7 immunoreactivity was abundantly expressed in the nerve cells of the mouse DRG. Str...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Zhang L,Chi ZH,Ren H,Rong M,Dahlstrom A,Huang L,Wang ZY

更新日期：2007-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Locomotor activity was increased as a function of current intensity in a series of rats with chronic stimulating electrodes in the tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus. Single pulse stimulation of these same mesencephalic locomotor region (MLR) sites antidromically activated more than one-quarter of the neurons sampled ...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Mogenson GJ,Wu M

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various hypotheses are reviewed concerning the mechanisms of feeding induced by insulin or 2DG. New data are presented to show that elevated plasma ketone levels are not sufficient to suppress 2DG feeding, suggesting that nourishment of the brain either does not occur or is not sufficient to stop 2DG feeding. We find ...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Rowland NE,Bellush LL,Carlton J

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every year, a large number of infants and young children worldwide are administered general anesthesia. Whether general anesthesia adversely affects the intellectual development and cognitive function of children at a later date remains controversial. Many animal experiments have shown that general anesthetics can cau...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Yang F,Zhao H,Zhang K,Wu X,Liu H

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that MK-801 potentiates the effects of the non-selective muscarinic antagonist scopolamine on memory in rats. In this study, we investigated the role of the M1-muscarinic receptor in this interaction, by administering different doses of dicyclomine (DIC) and MK-801 in combination to male Wista...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Monteiro Moreira K,Lima Ferreira T,Vecchio Fornari R,Perez Figueredo LZ,Menezes Oliveira MG

更新日期：2005-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In people with Huntington's disease, an expanded CAG repeat sequence on the HTT gene confers a toxic gain function resulting in a progressive and fatal neurodegeneration. The Hdh((CAG)Q150) Huntington's disease mouse line is a knock-in model of the disease that carries ∼150 CAG repeats on the normal mouse Htt locus. T...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Brooks S,Higgs G,Jones L,Dunnett SB

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channels affect many neuronal functions, including membrane electrical excitability, synaptic transmission, cellular homeostasis, gene transcription, growth, and development. We used recently developed methods for serum-free culture of adult and embryonic rat neurons to study the development of voltage-sensiti...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Collings MA,Brewer GJ,Evans MS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally assumed that the primary response of the rat flash evoked potential (FEP) is activated by a retino-geniculate path, and that the secondary response reflects input to the cortex by way of the superior colliculus (SC) or other brainstem structures. In the present study, male Long-Evans rats were implante...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Barnes MI,Dyer RS

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation of the periaqueductal gray of the rat's midbrain analgesia leads to an increase in the number of artificial pulmonary metastases from the Walker 256 tumor. In an effort to investigate the influence of the pain suppression system and its associated peptides on this phenomenon, we activated the pa...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Simon RH,Arbo TE,Lundy J

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO) is a gaseous molecule that modulates several physiological processes, including signal transmission in the central nervous system. There is evidence supporting NO as a major neurotransmitter involved in motor and emotion/behavior control. We investigated the distribution and morphology of n...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Santos-Lobato BL,Del-Bel E,Pittella JE,Tumas V

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Permanent cannulae for intracerebroventricular (ICV) infusion were implanted bilaterally in cats following stereotaxic procedures. After colonic temperature was recorded for a one-hour baseline, a 300 microliter ICV infusion was given of CSF control vehicle, 1:100 dilution of W3110 E. coli endotoxin (10(8) organisms/m...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Rezvani AH,Denbow DM,Myers RD

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transnuclear transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and wheat germ agglutinin-HRP conjugate (WGA-HRP) and the retrograde transport of fluorescent tracers were used to study axon collaterals of neurons in the mamillary nuclei. Tracers were injected into the thalamus or brain stem and after 18 hour-5 day survival per...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Takeuchi Y,Allen GV,Hopkins DA

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enhanced production of hypothalamic neuropeptide Y (NPY) now appears to underlie a number of hyperphagia syndromes. However, the role of NPY in the hyperphagia induced by hypothalamic lesions has not yet been explored. Here, hypothalamic lesions were induced in mice by administration of goldthioglucose (GTG) and br...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Young JK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Responder" Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats that were sensitive to electroacupuncture (EA) in an acute thermal pain test (i.e. tail flick latency [TFL] test) maintained sensitivity to EA in the warm allodynia test after peripheral nerve injury. Similarly, the "non-responder" SD rats that were insensitive to EA in the TFL tes...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Kim SK,Moon HJ,Park JH,Lee G,Shin MK,Hong MC,Bae H,Jin YH,Min BI

更新日期：2007-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Direct intracellular measurements of excitability changes to injected current were made in 116 cortical neurons of awake cats following antidromic or orthodromic activation by repetitive, 1-6 Hz stimulation of the pes pedunculi. The predominant effect seen in antidromically activated cells was a transient decrease in ...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Tzebelikos E,Woody CD

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single unit recordings were used to map the spatial distribution of motor (MI) cortical influences on thalamic somatosensory relay nuclei in the rat. A total of 215 microelectrode penetrations were made to record single neurons in tracks through the medial and lateral ventroposterior (VPM and VPL), ventrolateral (VL),...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Shin HC,Chapin JK

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) on the extracellular concentrations of GABA and acetylcholine in the prefrontal cortex of freely moving rats of different groups of age. Perfusion, through the microdialysis probe, of the agonist of mG...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Segovia G,Mora F

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether reticulospinal sympathoexcitatory neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) have muscarinic receptors and ACh inputs, and whether these cholinergic mechanisms on RVLM neurons are involved in the pressor response induced by peripheral administration of physostigmine. Microiontophoretic app...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Kubo T,Taguchi K,Sawai N,Ozaki S,Hagiwara Y

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha, 2.0 x 10(4) units) was bilaterally microinjected into the medial preoptic area and anterior hypothalamus in conscious rats treated 10 min prior with an opioid receptor antagonist, naloxone (NLX, 2 mg/kg, IM) or a prostaglandin synthetase inhibitor, acetaminophen (ACAP, 25 mg/kg, IM). The I...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Nakashima T,Murakami T,Murai Y,Hori T,Miyata S,Kiyohara T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic pain and depressive disorders have been estimated to co-occur in up to 80% of patients and traditional antidepressants and analgesics have shown limited clinical efficacy. α- (phenylselanyl) acetophenone (PSAP) is an organic selenium compound which has already demonstrated antioxidant, antidepressant and antin...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Sousa FSS,Birmann PT,Baldinotti R,Fronza MG,Balaguez R,Alves D,Brüning CA,Savegnago L

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus retroambiguus (NRA) is a group of neurons, located laterally in the caudal medulla oblongata. The NRA is thought to modulate abdominal pressure in the framework of respiration, vomiting, vocalization, probably parturition, and, in all likelihood mating behavior. The NRA exerts this control through its proj...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Boers J,Kirkwood PA,de Weerd H,Holstege G

更新日期：2006-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A reduction in nerve conduction velocity and an increase in resistance to ischemic conduction failure are early signs of neural dysfunction in both diabetic patients and animal models of diabetes. The effect of Bimoclomol (BRLP-42), a drug under clinical development for the treatment of diabetic complications, on expe...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Bíró K,Jednákovits A,Kukorelli T,Hegedüs E,Korányi L

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of streptozotocin-induced (STZ) diabetes on the release of gonadotropins was studied in female rats. In the first experiment, rats were ovariectomized and 2 days later were injected with STZ. Three weeks later rats were treated with estrogen and progesterone and blood samples were taken via intraatrial can...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Kienast SG,Fadden C,Steger RW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, it was shown that the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) in the left hemisphere contains higher concentration of glutamate than in the right hemisphere. The purpose of the present study was to examine potential relationship between this neurochemical asymmetry and behavior. Rats with either left, rig...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Myhrer T,Iversen EG

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After sustaining a traumatic brain injury (TBI), a person's ability to make daily decisions can be affected. Simple tasks such as, deciding what to wear are no longer effortless choices, but are instead difficult decisions. This study explored the use of a discrimination task with a magnesium treatment in order to exa...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Young JM,Hoane MR

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pretreatment of geranylgeranylacetone (GGA), an inducer of heat shock protein (HSP) 70, on responses in sleep and core body temperature (Tcore) against sleep deprivation (SD) was examined in rats. After 3 days of GGA or vehicle injection, a 6-h period of SD was performed. During the recovery period, both...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Wada T,Sei H,Kusumoto K,Kitaoka K,Chikahisa S,Rokutan K,Morita Y

更新日期：2006-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylphenidate (MPD) is currently one of the most prescribed drug therapies for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and moreover is abused for cognitive enhancement and used for recreation by the young and adults. Methylphenidate is used for prolonged periods of time and its mechanism of action on the bra...

journal_title：Brain research bulletin

authors： Claussen C,Dafny N

更新日期：2012-03-10 00:00:00