Internal representation of gaze direction with and without retinal inputs in man.

abstract：:The present experiment investigated cortical responses of native Italian subjects during reading of short sentences including semantic or morphosyntactic violations. Given the specificity of the Italian language in which the sequencing of words is relatively more free than in English or other languages, we investigate...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Angrilli A,Penolazzi B,Vespignani F,De Vincenzi M,Job R,Ciccarelli L,Palomba D,Stegagno L

更新日期：2002-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of monokines and CNS-derived colony-stimulating factors (CSF) on the growth of microglia has been studied in mixed glial primary cultures stemming from mouse embryos. We observed that spontaneous growth of microglial cells in the presence of astrocytes is blocked by adding anti-colony-stimulating factor ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Théry C,Mallat M

更新日期：1993-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyramidal neurons in the mammalian cerebral cortex can be described by a fractal dimension (Mandelbrot, 1982), which is an objective, quantitative measure of the complexity of their soma/dendritic borders. In the cat, the fractal dimensions of lamina V cells, which include pyramidal tract neurons (PTN), indicate that ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Porter R,Ghosh S,Lange GD,Smith TG Jr

更新日期：1991-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The learned helplessness (LH) developed after repeat inescapable stress is a well validated animal model of human major depression and is not species specific. c-Fos, the protein product of the protooncogene c-fos, is expressed in neurons under a variety of stressors and could reflect the regional neuronal activation....

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Huang YH,Cheng CY,Hong CJ,Tsai SJ

更新日期：2004-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have used slice cultures of hippocampus and in situ hybridization techniques in order to study the ability of hippocampal neurons to synthesize CCK mRNA in the absence of extrinsic afferents. Our results show that very similar types of hippocampal neurons express CCK mRNA in culture as in situ....

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Straube A,Bender R,Otten U,Frotscher M

更新日期：1994-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelsolin (GSN) levels and matrix metalloproteinase 3 (MMP3) activity have been found to be altered in the plasma in patients with Alzheimer disease (AD). The aim of this study was to determine whether a combination of these proteins with clinical data is specific and sensitive enough for AD diagnosis. In 113 non-demen...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Peng M,Jia J,Qin W

更新日期：2015-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the spectral tone structure on pre-attentive and attentive pitch discrimination was investigated. The mismatch negativity (MMN) component was recorded from reading subjects to pitch changes of identical magnitude in pure tones with only one sinusoidal frequency component and in spectrally rich tones with...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tervaniemi M,Ilvonen T,Sinkkonen J,Kujala A,Alho K,Huotilainen M,Näätänen R

更新日期：2000-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) transcript(s) in human foetal brain we used the reverse polymerase chain reaction including different couples of oligonucleotide primers. The analysis indicated the presence of a new choline acetyltransferase transcript containing at its 5' end an untranslated exon (E1A) of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schmitt M,Garnier JM,Simoni P,Quirin-Stricker C

更新日期：1994-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:MK801, a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist, leads to a dramatic induction of c-fos-like protein in neurons in deep layers of the neocortex, in dorsal and ventral midline thalamic nuclei and in neurons in the central grey of rat brain. This induction of c-fos by MK801 is dose- and time-dependent occurring within...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Dragunow M,Faull RL

更新日期：1990-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADDs) are chemogenetic tools commonly-used to manipulate brain activity. The most widely-used synthetic DREADD ligand, clozapine-N-oxide (CNO), is back-metabolized to clozapine which can itself activate endogenous receptors. Studies in non-DREADD-expressin...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tran FH,Spears SL,Ahn KJ,Eisch AJ,Yun S

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to test several predictions of the hypothesis that activity pattern-dependent changes in intracellular free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i) might play a role in the translation of altered patterns of neuronal activity into changes in neurotransmitter gene expression. It was shown that (1) th...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hodaie M,Jeevaratnam P,Salter MW,Roach A

更新日期：1995-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to determine whether a state of neuropathic pain induced by sciatic nerve ligation could alter phosphorylated-mu-opioid receptor-like immunoreactivity in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord. Mice with sciatic nerve ligation exhibited a significant suppression of the morp...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Narita M,Kuzumaki N,Suzuki M,Narita M,Oe K,Yamazaki M,Yajima Y,Suzuki T

更新日期：2004-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of different photoperiods and temperatures on pineal 5-methoxytryptophol (ML) content was investigated in male box turtles, Terrapene carolina triunguis. A rhythm in pineal ML was evident in the long photoperiod (18 h light (L)-6 h dark (D] with high daytime levels of 178 +/- 48 pg/gland (means +/- S.E.M.) ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Skene DJ,Vivien-Roels B,Pevet P

更新日期：1989-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of subcutaneous injection of nicotine on in vitro tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) activity in adrenal gland and brain of the transgenic mice carrying an 11-kb fragment containing the entire human TH gene. Injection of 5 mg nicotine/kg (as free base) for 3 days caused a statistically significant in...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ota A,Ichinose H,Kobayashi K,Morita S,Sawada H,Mizuguchi T,Nagatsu T

更新日期：1994-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) dose-dependently inhibited [3H]norepinephrine (NE) secretion and the corresponding [Ca2+]i rise induced by the nicotinic receptor agonist 1,1-dimethyl-4-phenylpoperazimium (DMPP) in bovine chromaffin cells. DHEAS at 10 microM, the physiological concentration in human serum, signi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liu PS,Lin MK,Hsieh HL

更新日期：1996-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice exposed to intermittent cold stress (ICS), but not constant cold stress (CCS) showed sustained thermal hyperalgesia for up to 12 days. Systemic or intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of morphine caused no significant analgesia in ICS mice, but induced dose-dependent analgesia in control mice. However, sign...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nishiyori M,Nagai J,Nakazawa T,Ueda H

更新日期：2010-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsically bursting (IB) neurons, responding with a burst of action potentials to just threshold intracellular depolarizing current pulses, are encountered in layer V of mature rodent sensorimotor cortex. We report the results of intracellular recordings performed on neocortical slices obtained from immature rats b...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Franceschetti S,Buzio S,Sancini G,Panzica F,Avanzini G

更新日期：1993-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of a representative anti-epileptic or anti-psychotic drug, carbamazepine (CBZ), on the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the perforant path-dentate gyrus pathway in 15 chronically prepared rabbits. Pharmacokinetically injected low-dose CBZ, which produced steady serum levels of 2...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kubota T,Jibiki I,Fukushima T,Kurokawa K,Yamaguchi N

更新日期：1994-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Ethylmaleimide sensitive factor (NSF) is a presynaptic protein that has been suggested to be differentially expressed in the cortex of schizophrenic subjects through both high-throughput proteomic and genomic screening studies. Thus, to expand upon these studies we measured NSF using Western blotting in four regions...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gray L,Scarr E,Dean B

更新日期：2006-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The area surrounding the injured spinal cord is a non-permissive milieu for axonal growth due to the inhibitory factors, especially chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG) and Nogo. Recent studies have reported that chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) or Nogo-66(1-40) antagonist peptide (NEP1-40) promote axonal growth after sp...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nakamae T,Tanaka N,Nakanishi K,Kamei N,Sasaki H,Hamasaki T,Yamada K,Yamamoto R,Izumi B,Ochi M

更新日期：2010-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Functioning of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis was assessed in rats treated with DSP-4 (N-(2-chloroethyl)-N-ethyl-2-bromobenzylamine), a selective noradrenergic neurotoxin. Although adrenal weights were slightly increased 10 days after DSP-4 injection, basal plasma corticosterone levels were unaltered co...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Dooley DJ,Hunziker G,Häusler A

更新日期：1984-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease is accompanied by a marked decrease of cerebrocortical nicotinic receptors. To study the putative site of impaired receptor synthesis, frontal cortices of Parkinson patients with cognitive dysfunction have been screened for the expression of the nicotinic receptor alpha 4 su...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schröder H,de Vos RA,Jansen EN,Birtsch C,Wevers A,Lobron C,Nowacki S,Schröder R,Maelicke A

更新日期：1995-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mounting evidence supports the association between a polymorphism in the serotonin transporter gene promoter region (5-HTTLPR) and suicidal behaviour. Recently, a novel variant of the 5-HTTLPR L allele was identified. The previously unknown L(G) allele produced similar levels of gene expression to the S allele and mig...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hung CF,Lung FW,Chen CH,O'Nions E,Hung TH,Chong MY,Wu CK,Wen JK,Lin PY

更新日期：2011-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of neurotensin (NT) and a potent, long lasting analogue, [D-Trp11]-NT, to rat brain peptidases was compared by incubating the peptides with subcellular fractions (synaptosomes, synaptic membranes) and a purified endopeptidase from rat brain. Degradation of the peptides with time was followed by high perf...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： McDermott JR,Gibson AM,Biggins JA

更新日期：1986-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion (MPP+) on adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis was studied using isolated mitochondrial preparations from mouse brains. Oxidation of glutamate + malate in the mitochondria estimated by polarography was significantly inhibited by MPP+, and synthesis of ATP was inhibited to ap...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mizuno Y,Suzuki K,Sone N,Saitoh T

更新日期：1987-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The autonomic nervous system is importantly involved in the maintenance of arterial pressure during orthostatic challenges. However, little is known about the specific central areas involved in these cardiovascular compensations. It has been proposed that the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) is involv...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： de Andrade O,Borghi SM,de Souza HC,Fontes MA,Martins-Pinge MC

更新日期：2014-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin is a member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily and affects the viability of hippocampal neurons during postnatal neurogenesis. We used primary hippocampal neuron to study the actions of activin on developing neurons. Continuous treatment of hippocampal cultures with activin suppressed the emerg...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sekiguchi M,Hayashi F,Tsuchida K,Inokuchi K

更新日期：2009-03-20 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：:Intracellular recordings were made from neurons in rabbit vesical pelvic ganglia (VPG), in vitro. Increasing the frequency of preganglionic-nerve stimulations from 0.1-1 Hz to 10-20 Hz facilitated fast excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs), resulting in a generation of action potentials. Acetylcholine-induced res...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nishimura T,Yoshida M,Nagatsu I,Akasu T

更新日期：1989-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenetic mechanisms leading to progressive neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have not been fully elucidated. One possible factor responsible for the selective motor neuron loss in the motor cortex, brain stem and spinal cord is glutamate-induced excitotoxicity particularly mediated via a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Petri S,Krampfl K,Hashemi F,Schmalbach S,Grothe C,Hori A,Dengler R,Bufler J

更新日期：2004-04-29 00:00:00