Critical period for degradation of adult rat retinal ganglion cells and their regeneration capability after axotomy.

abstract：:The effect of methionine-enkephalin (Met-Enk) on responses of rat brain neostriatum neurones to microiontophoretic application of glutamate was studied in experiments with extracellular recording of spike activity. Met-Enk administered by microiontophoresis was shown to depress the glutamate-induced responses. In para...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kuznetsov VI,Godukhin OV

更新日期：1985-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Generation of free radicals and subsequent lipid peroxidation have been proposed to contribute to delayed tissue damage following traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). Ubiquinols (reduced coenzyme Q), ascorbate (vitamin C), and alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) are endogenous antioxidants; decreases in tissue levels of these...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lemke M,Frei B,Ames BN,Faden AI

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies showed that corticospinal excitability during imagery of squeezing a foam ball was enhanced by somatosensory input generated by passively holding the ball. In the present study, using the same experimental model, we investigated whether corticospinal excitability was influenced by holding the obje...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mizuguchi N,Sakamoto M,Muraoka T,Moriyama N,Nakagawa K,Nakata H,Kanosue K

更新日期：2012-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were treated with once-daily subcutaneous injections of atropine or normal saline for 10 days. Cryostat sections of fresh-frozen brain were subjected to quantitative muscarinic receptor ([3H]quinuclidinylbenzilate (QNB)) binding autoradiography, and quantitative in-situ hybridization autoradiography for beta-amyl...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Beach TG,Walker DG,Cynader MS,Hughes LH

更新日期：1996-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSCs) have been the focus of an intensive effort to direct their differentiation in vitro towards desired neuronal phenotypes for cell replacement therapies. It is thought that NSCs derived from older embryos have limited neurogenic capacity and are restricted towards an astroglial fate. This idea i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hegarty SV,Spitere K,Sullivan AM,O'Keeffe GW

更新日期：2014-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of severe hypoglycemia on perforant path-evoked field potentials were examined in the rat hippocampus. Although a complete loss of this response was noted when blood glucose concentration fell below 1 mM, this occurred before cessation of electroencephalogram (EEG) activity. Both spontaneous and evoked res...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Butcher SP,Jacobson I,Sandberg M,Hagberg H,Hamberger A

更新日期：1987-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Edaravone, an electron spin trapper with radical scavenging activity, has been shown to be effective in reducing infarct volume in humans following ischemic stroke. However, concerns of edaravone-induced renal toxicity have limited its clinical adoption. Previous work has demonstrated that edaravone produced significa...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Connell BJ,Saleh MC,Kucukkaya I,Abd-El-Aziz AS,Khan BV,Saleh TM

更新日期：2014-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle and cutaneous nerves were individually labeled with DiI in chick embryos to examine the development of sensory afferent arborizations in the spinal cord. Initially, cutaneous and muscle arbors were similar; both types first entered the spinal gray matter at stage 28-29 (embryonic day (E) 6). Differences in proj...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mendelson B,Koerber HR,Frank E

更新日期：1992-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The convulsive agent pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) antagonized gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-induced membrane currents on RNA-injected Xenopus oocytes with both extra- and intracellular applications. With extracellular administration PTZ enters the cell within a few minutes and reaches concentrations in the millimolar rang...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bloms-Funke P,Madeja M,Musshoff U,Speckmann EJ

更新日期：1996-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between (GT)n dinucleotide repeats in monoamine oxidase gene loci, monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) and B (MAOB), and Parkinson's disease (PD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), and Lewy body variant (LBV) of AD were determined. MAOA-GT polymorphisms were significantly associated with pure AD and LBV. MAOA-GT allele...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takehashi M,Tanaka S,Masliah E,Ueda K

更新日期：2002-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have provided evidence that physical activity promotes cortical plasticity in the adult brain and in turn facilitates learning. However, until now, the effect of simultaneous physical activity (e.g. bicycling) on learning performance has not been investigated systematically. The current study aims at ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schmidt-Kassow M,Kulka A,Gunter TC,Rothermich K,Kotz SA

更新日期：2010-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:8-OH-DPAT is a 5-HT(1A/7) receptor agonist that enhances behavioral recovery after traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study is a first attempt to decipher whether the benefits induced by 8-OH-DPAT after TBI are mediated by 5-HT(1A) or 5-HT(7) receptors. A single i.p. injection of 8-OH-DPAT (0.5 mg/kg) alone or co-admi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yelleswarapu NK,Tay JK,Fryer WM,Shah MA,Garcia AN,Cheng JP,Kline AE

更新日期：2012-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha1-adrenergic receptors may contribute to cognitive functions relevant to schizophrenia. Following the discovery of an association between polymorphisms in the regulatory region of the alpha1A-adrenergic receptor and schizophrenia we investigated the expression of mRNA for this receptor between schizophrenics ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Clark DA,Mancama D,Kerwin RW,Arranz MJ

更新日期：2006-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate receptor interacting protein (GRIP) is a member of the PDZ domain-containing protein family that is localized in the postsynaptic density area. This protein has been reported to interact specifically with the C-termini of AMPA-selective glutamate receptor channel subunits, GluRalpha2 and GluRalpha3 through i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yamazaki M,Fukaya M,Abe M,Ikeno K,Kakizaki T,Watanabe M,Sakimura K

更新日期：2001-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, animal behavioral models, particularly those used in pain research, have been increasingly scrutinized and criticized for their role in the poor translation of novel pharmacotherapies for chronic pain. This article addresses the use of animal models of pain from the perspective of industrial drug disc...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Whiteside GT,Pomonis JD,Kennedy JD

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of long-term exposure of primary cultured rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) cells to bradykinin (BK), compared to short-term exposure, were investigated to establish whether BK could induce prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) release from DRG cells. Short-term exposure (30 min) resulted in a small but significant amount ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Inoue A,Iwasa M,Nishikura Y,Ogawa S,Nakasuka A,Nakata Y

更新日期：2006-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:In a light microscopic study the ferric ion-ferrocyanide staining of the squid giant axon was investigated. In other neurons this stain is known to indicate excitable membranes with high sodium channel density, such as the node of Ranvier or the initial segment. In the squid the stain reacted in small patches of the a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Greeff NG,Akert K,Sandri C

更新日期：1985-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) immunocytochemistry at the electron microscopic level was used to describe the fine structural characteristics of vascular connections between vasopressin (VP)-immunoreactive neuronal elements and cerebral microvessels in the rat. In the majority of connections, somata or neural process...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jójárt I,Joó F,Siklós L,László FA

更新日期：1984-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:By means of a new photographic method to quantitate catecholamine fluorescence in tissue sections it has been possible to demonstrate a high dopamine (DA) turnover within the DA cell bodies of the midbrain. The medially located small-sized DA cell bodies of the A10 DA cell group has a very high DA turnover which was s...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Agnati LF,Fuxe K,Andersson K,Benfenati F,Cortelli P,D'Alessandro R

更新日期：1980-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbed motor control of the fingers, as revealed by the response to unexpected loading of an object held in a precision grip, or to finger perturbation during isometric holding, has been studied in patients with Huntington's disease (HD) and in normal subjects. In normal subjects unexpected loading elicited a refle...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fellows S,Schwarz M,Schaffrath C,Dömges F,Noth J

更新日期：1997-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:NTAK (neural- and thymus-derived activator for ErbB kinases), also known as neuregulin-2 (NRG2), is a member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family, which binds directly to ErbB3 and ErbB4, and transactivates ErbB2. NTAK/NRG2 is structurally homologous to NRG1. The biological function of NTAK/NRG2 still remains u...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nakano N,Kanekiyo K,Nakagawa T,Asahi M,Ide C

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the gerbil model of post-ischemic neuron death in the hippocampal CA1 region, it was recently shown that there is a strong down-regulation of voltage-gated Ca2+ influx in neurons examined at 2 days after the ischemic insult (Connor, J.A., Razani-Boroujerdi, S., Greenwood, A.C., Cormier, R.J., Petrozzino, J.J. an...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shuttleworth CW,Greenwood AC,Connor JA

更新日期：2000-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human monocytes and a variety of tissue macrophages, including microglia, were studied immunohistochemically to determine the expression of a novel microglial marker, human glucose transporter 5 (hGLUT5), in these cells. The hGLUT5 was not expressed in most peripheral macrophages in the normal state, but weakly expres...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sasaki A,Horikoshi Y,Yokoo H,Nakazato Y,Yamaguchi H

更新日期：2003-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The longest central nervous system (CNS) specific isoform of the major myelin-associated inhibitor of neurite growth, Nogo-A, has previously been shown to be expressed largely in oligodendrocytes. Using an antibody raised against a recombinant fusion protein comprising amino acids 223-399 of Nogo-A, we show in this re...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liu H,Ng CE,Tang BL

更新日期：2002-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The unensheathed axons in the spinal roots of adult dystrophic mice were examined by freeze-fracture electron microscopy. In most areas of these abnormal fibers the distribution of intramembraneous particles was similar to that of the internodal segments of normal axons with many more particles on the PF (internal) le...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bray GM,Cullen MJ,Aguayo AJ,Rasminsky M

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present experiment we compared differences in extracellular norepinephrine levels in vivo within the olfactory bulb of intact and castrated male rats following infusion of the norepinephrine transport inhibitors, nisoxetine and tomoxetine. With this approach it was possible to assess whether dynamic changes in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shang Y,Dluzen DE

更新日期：2002-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In the experiments described in the present report, we evaluated the effects of ethanol on the activity of GABAA receptors of cerebellar granule cells in culture. Only very high ethanol concentrations (100-300 mM) showed a clear and significant stimulatory effect on the activity of such receptors. This result was unex...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Casagrande S,Cupello A,Pellistri F,Robello M

更新日期：2007-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the capacity of the central nervous system to integrate and differentiate two different muscular fatigue states, the present study examines the changes on multi-joint movement organization following muscular fatigue of elbow extensor muscles (triceps brachii) induced by voluntary versus electrically ind...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Huffenus AF,Forestier N

更新日期：2006-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Using renal arteries from young (6 months), mature (18 months) and old (70 months) rabbits, the effect of dopamine on 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) generation was studied. No significant differences in basal adenylate cyclase values were found in homogenates of renal artery from young, mature or old rabb...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Amenta F,Cavallotti C,Collier WL,Iacopino L

更新日期：1984-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoelectron microscopy combined with a retrograde tracing technique was carried out to examine the synaptic interaction between neuropeptide Y (NPY)-like immunoreactive (LI) axon terminals and spinal motoneurons innervating bulbocavernosus muscles. Cell bodies and proximal dendrites of these motoneurons were freque...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kawano M,Sugita O,Inagaki S,Furuyama T,Takagi H

更新日期：1993-04-02 00:00:00