Acetylcholine activates a nicotinic receptor and an inward current in dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus neurons in vitro.

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests a relation between vascular disorders and late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). We performed an association analysis of low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein (LRP), lipoprotein lipase (LPL), and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) genes, known to be involved in vascular disorders...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Myllykangas L,Polvikoski T,Sulkava R,Verkkoniemi A,Tienari P,Niinistö L,Kontula K,Hardy J,Haltia M,Pérez-Tur J

更新日期：2000-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we tried to examine whether the 2-deoxy-D-[14C]glucose (2-DG) technique is useful to investigate the metabolic activity of fetal rat brain in the maternal uterus. The result shows that metabolic mapping of the fetal brain was clearly obtained by means of the 2-DG technique. ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Morimoto A,Imai-Matsumura K,Murakami N

更新日期：1990-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The nerve growth factor (NGF) precursor protein proNGF is the predominant NGF moiety found in the human neocortex and exhibits pro-apoptotic properties when bound to the p75(NTR) neurotrophin receptor in the presence of sortilin, a Vps10p domain trafficking protein. Recently studies have shown that proNGF levels incre...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mufson EJ,Wuu J,Counts SE,Nykjaer A

更新日期：2010-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular monoamine transporter 2 (VMAT2) is responsible for packing dopamine into vesicles, and reduces the effects of neurotoxins by sequestering them into vesicles. In this report, we tested the hypothesis that VMAT2 is associated with Lewy body (LB) formation by immunohistochemical staining of midbrain and cortica...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yamamoto S,Fukae J,Mori H,Mizuno Y,Hattori N

更新日期：2006-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:P2Y(1) is probably an important subtype of purinergic receptors (P2Rs) in modulation of the astrocyte activation in spinal cord. The aim of this study was to observe the effect of P2Y(1) receptor on the abnormal energy metabolism of the cultured rat spinal astrocyte induced by extracellular adenosine diphosphate (ADP)...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cui J,Ou S,He WJ,Du L,Zhao YD,Ruan HZ

更新日期：2011-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Noradrenaline in the central nervous system plays an important role in regulating physiological functions, and is a key mechanistic component of general anesthesia. The purpose of this present study was to determine if nitrous oxide and xenon modulate noradrenaline release in the cerebral cortex. We performed a series...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yoshida H,Kushikata T,Tose R,Kudo M,Kudo T,Hirota K

更新日期：2010-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying the over-recovery of an M-type potassium current following the washout of muscarine (20 microM) has been examined. Whole-cell recordings were made from single neurons dissociated from bullfrog sympathetic ganglia. During over-recovery, the maximum M-conductance decreased by about 2.8 nS while ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tokimasa T,Simmons MA,Schneider CR,Akasu T

更新日期：1996-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic polymorphisms in chemokine receptor and their natural ligand genes have been shown to modify the disease progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Human macrophage inflammatory protein-1 alpha (MIP-1alpha) is a chemotactic cytokine which plays a considerable role in AD pathogenesis, but its genetic contribution...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Li K,Dai D,Yao L,Gu X,Luan K,Tian W,Zhao Y,Wang B

更新日期：2008-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The dichotic listening test is non-invasive behavioural technique to study brain lateralization and it has been shown, that its results can be systematically modulated by varying stimulation properties (bottom-up effects) or attentional instructions (top-down effects) of the testing procedure. The goal of the present ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hugdahl K,Westerhausen R,Alho K,Medvedev S,Hämäläinen H

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase complex (PAP) immunohistological method, a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH)-containing nerve fiber tract was detected in the mesencephalon of intact rats, and in rats bearing a symmetrical cut in the coronal plane at the level of the superior collicle reaching down to t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liposits Z,Sétáló G

更新日期：1980-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of alpha-synuclein, ubiquitin and other proteins in Lewy bodies in degenerating dopaminergic neurones in substantia nigra in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) suggest that inhibition of normal/abnormal protein degradation may contribute to neuronal death. We now show for the first time that the chym...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： McNaught KS,Jenner P

更新日期：2001-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the recent cloning of the beta-secretase, the beta-site amyloid precursor protein (APP)-cleaving enzyme (BACE), (Science, 286 (1999) 735), digoxigenin-labelled riboprobes were generated to localize the cellular expression pattern of BACE mRNA in brain sections of transgenic Tg2576 mice, overexpressing ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bigl M,Apelt J,Luschekina EA,Lange-Dohna C,Rossner S,Schliebs R

更新日期：2000-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of angiotensin II (Ang II) to the pathophysiology of hypertension is established based on facts that high levels of circulating Ang II increase vasoconstriction of peripheral arteries causing a rise in blood pressure (BP). In addition, circulating Ang II has various effects on the central nervous syst...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Issa AT,Miyata K,Heng V,Mitchell KD,Derbenev AV

更新日期：2012-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The insular cortex (IC) processes multimodal sensory information including gustatory, visceral, nociceptive, and thermal sensation, and is considered to play a role in the regulation of homeostasis. The IC receives dense histaminergic projection from the tuberomamillary nucleus in the hypothalamus, and recent studies ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takei H,Song L,Ebihara K,Shirakawa T,Koshikawa N,Kobayashi M

更新日期：2012-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that motor cortex may be involved in complex control of respiration in man. In this study, we estimated the influence of a simple visuomotor reaction time task (VMT) on the inspiratory airflow curve (IFC) by comparing measurements of standard deviation (SD), C(0) complexity and approxim...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhang T,Turner D

更新日期：2001-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OT) modulation of synaptic transmission between olfactory bulb neurones has been implicated in the induction of maternal behaviour, but the mechanism of action is unknown. We examined the action of OT on gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) (GABA(A)) receptor-mediated spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents (sIPS...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Osako Y,Otsuka T,Taniguchi M,Oka T,Kaba H

更新日期：2000-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) plays an important role in the regulation of energy balance. While the regulation of TRH in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) in response to changes of energy balance has been well studied, how TRH is regulated in the dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH) in maintaining energy homeostasis ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhang N,Zhang HY,Bi SA,Moran TH,Bi S

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine-enkephalin-like immunoreactive (ENK-LI) afferent fibers to the feline homologue of the Onuf's nucleus (pudendal motoneurons) originate mainly from lamina X of the sacral cord. They make synaptic contacts chiefly upon dendrites of pudendal motoneurons; the synaptic terminals most often contain pleomorphic synap...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Konishi A,Itoh K,Sugimoto T,Yasui Y,Kaneko T,Takada M,Mizuno N

更新日期：1985-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor-2 kinase (eEF-2K) is a Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase that is highly specific for eukaryotic elongation factor-2. In the present study, we examined the developmental expression of eEF-2K messenger RNA (mRNA) in the mouse brain. At E13, the expression of eEF-2K mRNA is already evident in b...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sakagami H,Nishimura H,Saito R,Kondo H

更新日期：2002-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose metabolism and tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) kinetics have been shown to decline in brain with age in various animal species. This study examined TCA cycle kinetics and age in Brown-Norway Fischer 344 rats. Using [1-(13)C]glucose infused over 10, 30, 60 or 100 min, and following the label through the TCA cycl...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Perron JT,Tyson RL,Sutherland GR

更新日期：2000-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Confocal immunohistochemistry shows that neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) and its receptor tropomyosin-related tyrosin kinase C (trkC) are present in both neonatal (P6) and adult (P45) mouse motor nerve terminals in neuromuscular junctions (NMJ) colocalized with several synaptic proteins. NT-3 incubation (1-3h, in the range 10-2...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Garcia N,Santafé MM,Tomàs M,Lanuza MA,Besalduch N,Tomàs J

更新日期：2010-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular concentration of nitrite (NO2-), an oxidized product of nitric oxide (NO), was measured consecutively in the dorsal region of the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) by means of in vivo microdialysis. The NO2- concentrations in the dialysates showed robust circadian rhythm under a 12:12 h light/dark cycle ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mitome M,Shirakawa T,Oshima S,Nakamura W,Oguchi H

更新日期：2001-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Female sex hormone, progesterone, in addition to seizure modifying activity is also known as a potential protective agent against various brain injury conditions. Considering the predisposal role of traumatic brain injury (TBI) on developing post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), the effect of progesterone on post-traumatic e...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ghadiri T,Vakilzadeh G,Hajali V,Khodagholi F

更新日期：2019-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with agmatine, decarboxylated arginine, proved to be non-toxic and to exert neuroprotective effects in several models of neurotoxic and ischemic brain and spinal cord injuries. Here we sought to find out whether agmatine treatment would also prove beneficial in a rat spinal cord ischemia model (balloon occlu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gilad GM,Gilad VH

更新日期：2000-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractalkine is a CX3C chemonkine that appears to be a neuron-to-microglia signal molecule in the central nervous system. We studied the expression of fractalkine in normal human astrocytes in culture, by using semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. We f...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yoshida H,Imaizumi T,Fujimoto K,Matsuo N,Kimura K,Cui X,Matsumiya T,Tanji K,Shibata T,Tamo W,Kumagai M,Satoh K

更新日期：2001-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Using immunohistochemical techniques, we demonstrate aspartate aminotransferase (AAT)-like immunoreactivity in cone pedicles and ganglion cells of the cat retina. An identical pattern was seen when we stained for cytochrome oxidase activity, a marker for neurons which have a high metabolic activity. Tetrodotoxin selec...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bolz J,Thier P,Brecha N

更新日期：1985-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) demonstrate that human auditory cortical responses are sensitive to changes in static pitch as indexed by the pitch onset response (POR), a negativity generated at the initiation of acoustic periodicity. Yet, it is still unclear if this brain signature is sensitive to dynamic, tim...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bidelman GM

更新日期：2015-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) is a common autosomal dominant disorder in which affected individuals develop benign and malignant tumors as well as non-tumor-related abnormalities, such as seizures and learning disabilities. Here, we report an NF1 isoform arising from the alternative splicing of exon 9a with predominant ce...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Geist RT,Gutmann DH

更新日期：1996-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)] is a highly polymorphic glycoprotein which has been suggested to play a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Plasma lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels and the differential expression of apo(a) isoforms were analyzed in 73 sporadic AD patients compared with 73 age- and gender-matched healthy controls...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Emanuele E,Peros E,Tomaino C,Feudatari E,Bernardi L,Binetti G,Maletta R,D'Angelo A,Montagna L,Bruni AC,Geroldi D

更新日期：2004-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Current theories of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) function suggest that this region should participate in the generation of error-related signals associated with the outcomes of actions. We investigated the impact of lesions to OFC on the error-related negativity (ERN), an electrophysiological marker of performance monit...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Turken AU,Swick D

更新日期：2008-08-15 00:00:00