Glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptor antagonists administered into the brain stem depress the renal sympathetic reflex discharges evoked by single shock of somatic afferents in anesthetized rats.

abstract：:Microglia are resident phagocytic cells in the central nervous system (CNS), and can be activated in response to various stimuli including neurotransmitters. Using fura-2 imaging, we investigated the effects of carbachol (CCh), a cholinergic agonist, on [Ca2+]i in cultured human microglia. Treatment of microglia with ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zhang L,McLarnon JG,Goghari V,Lee YB,Kim SU,Krieger C

更新日期：1998-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is a major cause of epilepsy, but the molecular mechanisms underlying post-stroke epileptogenesis are unknown. The expression of cystatin C, a cysteine protease inhibitor, is increased in the hippocampus during status epilepticus (SE)-induced epileptogenesis, and regulates both cell death and birth. To test the...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Pirttilä TJ,Pitkänen A

更新日期：2006-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Caffeine is a widely consumed substance that elicits psychomotor stimulant effects and also displays addictive properties. In order to assess the effect of caffeine on striatal neuropeptide mRNA expression, male rats were injected (i.p.) with caffeine at 20, 40 or 80 mg/kg of body weight twice daily for 9 consecutive ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Datta U,Noailles PA,Kraft M,Zhang Y,Angulo JA

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in coding exons or exon 10 5'-splice-site of the gene for microtubule-associated protein tau can cause chromosome 17-linked frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism (FTDP-17). We sequenced the 11 coding exons plus exon-intron boundaries of the tau gene in 15 cases of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bonifati V,Joosse M,Nicholl DJ,Vanacore N,Bennett P,Rizzu P,Fabbrini G,Marconi R,Colosimo C,Locuratolo N,Stocchi F,Bonuccelli U,De Mari M,Wenning G,Vieregge P,Oostra B,Meco G,Heutink P

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin (GAL) is distributed in sympathetic nerves in the cat, and exogenous GAL inhibits cardiac vagal action and lowers blood pressure in this species. This study on anaesthetised cats compares the effects on cardiac vagal action and blood pressure of human, rat and porcine GAL. Human GAL has only recently been sequ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ulman LG,Evans HF,Iismaa TP,Potter EK,McCloskey DI,Shine J

更新日期：1992-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the presence of mutations in the parkin gene in patients with early-onset parkinsonism. Direct sequencing of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products showed a homozygous G deletion in the exon 7 (c.871delG) in one patient. This was a 38-year-old Moroccan woman with a history of parkinsonism of...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Muñoz E,Pastor P,Martí MJ,Oliva R,Tolosa E

更新日期：2000-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid kappa-agonists had much more potent inhibitory effects on the high K+-evoked Met-enkephalin release from rat brain slices than did the mu- or delta-agonists. The opioid kappa- antagonist, MR2266 enhanced the evoked release of Met-enkephalin to a greater extent than did mu- or delta-antagonists in vitro and had ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ueda H,Fukushima N,Ge M,Takagi H,Satoh M

更新日期：1987-10-29 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：:Long-term adrenalectomy results in loss of neurones in the hippocampal formation of the adult rat. The effects of long-term adrenalectomy on spatial learning and exploratory behaviour in adrenalectomized (ADX), adrenalectomized normal weight gain (ADXNW), sham operated and naive control male Sprague-Dawley rats were i...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Islam A,Henriksson B,Mohammed A,Winblad B,Adem A

更新日期：1995-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:During hyperalgesia there is an enhancement of wind-up and the appearance of a novel wind-up of the A-fibre-mediated responses. We have examined if these phenomena are influenced by supraspinal mechanisms by analysing single motor unit activity in control and arthritic rats, either intact or acutely spinalised. Enhanc...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Herrero JF,Cervero F

更新日期：1996-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Segments of the mouse sciatic nerve were preloaded with either d-2,3-(3)H-Aspartic acid [nonmetabolizable analog of glutamate] or l-(14)C-proline and the release of these exogenous molecules was evaluated in the fractions of the perfusate following electrical or magnetic stimulation. The electrical stimulation (10Hz, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Wieraszko A,Ahmed Z

更新日期：2009-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Malnutrition affects a large number of children worldwide. Inadequate nutrition during pre- and postnatal period may alter brain development resulting in biochemical, physiological and anatomical changes which in turn could cause behavioral abnormalities. The impairment of the central nervous system following protein ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bonatto F,Polydoro M,Andrades ME,Conte da Frota ML Jr,Dal-Pizzol F,Rotta LN,Souza DO,Perry ML,Fonseca Moreira JC

更新日期：2006-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:That individual timing variability is correlated across some tasks but not others has instigated the notion of distinct timing processes, referred to as 'event' timing and 'emergent' timing for tasks with and without salient events, respectively. The delineation of the event-emergent framework owes much to the circle ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Huys R,Studenka BE,Zelaznik HN,Jirsa VK

更新日期：2010-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin- and bethanechol-activated whole cell currents were studied in dissociated mudpuppy parasympathetic neurons kept in 12.5 mM KCl. The bethanechol-induced current was reduced when generated during a galanin-induced current. The galanin and bethanechol currents reversed at -45 mV and exhibited inward rectificatio...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Parsons RL,Merriam LA

更新日期：1992-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most frequent neurodegenerative disorder. It is characterized by selective degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Early-onset familial forms of PD are associated with mutations in several genes, including parkin, pink1 and dj-1. DJ-1 en...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Jaramillo-Gómez J,Niño A,Arboleda H,Arboleda G

更新日期：2015-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Prominent accounts of decision making state that decisions are made on the basis of an accumulation of sensory evidence, orchestrated by networks of prefrontal and parietal neural populations. Here we assess whether these findings generalize to decisions on self-motion. Participants were presented with whole body yaw ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： de Winkel KN,Nesti A,Ayaz H,Bülthoff HH

更新日期：2017-07-27 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：:The co-localization of calretinin (CR) and parvalbumin (PV) immunoreactivity with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-diaphorase (ND) activity was analyzed in the Mauthner cells of the tench. Mauthner cells were ND active, and ND staining was observed in the soma, axon cap region, and axon of these neurons. CR...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Crespo C,Arévalo R,Briñón JG,Porteros A,Aijón J,Alonso JR

更新日期：1998-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologically healthy individuals use sensory feedback to alter future movements by updating internal models of the effector system and environment. For example, when visual feedback about limb movements or auditory feedback about speech movements is experimentally perturbed, the planning of subsequent movements is a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Max L,Maffett DG

更新日期：2015-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is the most characteristic feature of sickle cell disease (SCD). Patients with SCD live with unpredictable, recurrent episodes of acute painful crisis, as well as chronic unremitting pain throughout their lifetime. While most of the research and medical efforts have focused on treating vaso-occlusion crisis and a...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： He Y,Wang ZJ

更新日期：2019-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of orphanin FQ (OFQ) microinjected into the nucleus raphe magnus (NRM) and the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis (NGC) on pain modulation. The tail-flick latency (TFL) was used as a behavioral index of nociceptive responsiveness. The result showed microinj...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yang Z,Zhang Y,Wu G

更新日期：2001-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The electron microscopic findings in cats after complete interruption of all afferents to caudate nucleus as well as of its efferent fibers, suggest that the type IX synapses, the presynaptic component of which contains large empty round vesicles, are formed by the axon terminals of intrinsic neurons. They make synapt...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hassler R,Chung JW,Wagner A,Rinne U

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A valinomycin-based membrane phase for microelectrodes with relatively low electrical membrane resistances is described. Microelectrodes with tip diameters of about 1 micron exhibit resistances of about 10(10) omega. Extremely high K+ selectivities are obtained, e.g. a rejection of Na+ by a factor of 5000 and of acety...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ammann D,Chao PS,Simon W

更新日期：1987-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of glutamate, glutamate receptor agonists and substances that affect glutamate responses were studied, using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique, on neurons isolated from adult rat dorsal root ganglia. In current-clamp, glutamate (100 microM) or the excitatory amino acid receptor agonist N-methyl-D-aspart...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lovinger DM,Weight FF

更新日期：1988-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study has shown that inflammation of the gastrocnemius-soleus muscle in rats leads to an increase in excitability of dorsal horn neurones particularly in the spinal segment L3. Here, we have blocked the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in L3 by spinal cord superfusion with NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) to fi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hoheisel U,Sander B,Mense S

更新日期：1995-03-24 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：:We investigated the role of 5-HT(2A) and 5-HT(2C) receptors in atypical absence seizures (AAS) induced by trans-1,4-bis[2-chloro-benzylaminomethyl] cyclohexane, dihydrocholoride (AY-9944). The total duration and number and mean duration of the spontaneous bursts of slow spike-and-wave discharges (SSWD) that characteri...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bercovici E,Cortez MA,Snead OC 3rd

更新日期：2007-05-11 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：:Transgenic mice (Tg2576) that express the Swedish double mutation of human amyloid precursor protein and develop Alzheimer-like beta-amyloid deposits in the aged brain, were used to study the effect of beta-amyloid deposition on expression of both neuronal (nNOS) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in cells sur...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hartlage-Rübsamen M,Apelt J,Schliebs R

更新日期：2001-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Removal of glutamate from the synaptic cleft by astroglial glutamine synthase (GS) is a crucial step in the regulation of glutamate turnover and metabolism, thus participating in endogenous neuroprotective processes occurring within brain tissues. Here we investigated on the effect of inflammatory cytokines on GS acti...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Muscoli C,Visalli V,Colica C,Nisticò R,Palma E,Costa N,Rotiroti D,Nisticò G,Mollace V

更新日期：2005-01-20 00:00:00