Increased expression of the alpha subunit of the ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) receptor by rat racial motoneurons after neonatal axotomy and CNTF treatment.

abstract：:During and after degeneration of the optic nerve afferents in the rat suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) postsynaptic density (PD) material is added to existing symmetrical and asymmetrical appositions of non-optic synapses on optic target neurons. If the correlation between thickness of the postsynaptic density and excita...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Güldner FH,Ingham CA

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the adenosine (ADO) analogue 2-chloroadenosine (CADO) on frequency-induced long-term potentiation (LTP) of the responses evoked by stimulation of the Schaffer fibres and recorded in CA1 area was studied in hippocampal slices of the rat. CADP significantly decreased LTP of the population spikes (PS) (EC50...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： de Mendonça A,Ribeiro JA

更新日期：1990-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein (ADNP) is a highly conserved vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) responsive gene that is expressed abundantly in the brain and in the body and is essential for brain formation and embryonic development. Since, VIP exhibits sexual dimorphism in the hypothalamus, the potential ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Furman S,Hill JM,Vulih I,Zaltzman R,Hauser JM,Brenneman DE,Gozes I

更新日期：2005-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of retinal and extraretinal signals to the coding of eye position in the head was studied in human subjects (Ss). Horizontal saccades were produced in darkness. For some trials, before returning gaze direction to the starting position, a visual signal briefly stimulated the foveal retina. Results show...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Blouin J,Gauthier GM,Vercher JL

更新日期：1995-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study investigated the time course of the affective processing bias in major depressive disorder (MDD) in a visual three-stimulus semantic oddball task using event-related potentials (ERPs). MDD patients showed decreased P1 latency over right posterior regions to negative relative to positive target stimul...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yang W,Zhu X,Wang X,Wu D,Yao S

更新日期：2011-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding and pharmacological characteristics of [125I]iodomelatonin binding sites in human fetal brain membrane preparations were determined. Membrane preparations of the whole brain revealed a equilibrium binding constant (Kd) of 17.5 pmol/l with a total number of binding sites (Bmax) at 0.8 fmol/mg protein. Among...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yuan H,Lu Y,Pang SF

更新日期：1991-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Interferon (IFN-gamma) is known to induce expression of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II antigens on murine astrocytes and MHC class I antigens on murine oligodendrocytes. We studied whether the human IFN-gamma could induce the expression of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-A, B, C and -DR antigens o...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hirayama M,Yokochi T,Shimokata K,Iida M,Fujiki N

更新日期：1986-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens (E2) derived from ovaries and/or local de novo synthesis in the hippocampus profoundly regulate hippocampal structure and function, but the importance of local E2 versus ovarian E2 on hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial memory has not been well elucidated. The present study used ovariectomy (OVX) and...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Liu M,Xing F,Bian C,Zhao Y,Zhao J,Liu Y,Zhang J

更新日期：2019-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We looked for an interaction between etifoxine and the neurosteroid allopregnanolone at central gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA(A)) receptors. Etifoxine (2 microM) did not affect the affinity of allopregnanolone (IC(50)=108 nM) for its site in preparations of Sprague-Dawley rat cerebral cortex membranes, as determined b...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Verleye M,Schlichter R,Neliat G,Pansart Y,Gillardin JM

更新日期：2001-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:It remains unknown if tissue acidosis contributes to neuronal loss during cerebral ischemia. We report that brief intracellular acidification (pH 6.62) results in delayed neuronal loss in cultured hippocampal slices. Cell loss was located primarily in stratum pyramidale and the hilus suggesting that neurons were prefe...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shen H,Chan J,Kass IS,Bergold PJ

更新日期：1995-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Various exogenous and endogenous steroids have been demonstrated to have both enhancing and inhibiting effects on ligand binding to the gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) receptor (GABAA receptor) in previous studies. In the present study we have explored the possibility that an additional class of synthetic steroidal compoun...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Masonis AE,McCarthy MP

更新日期：1995-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesion of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurones in rats resulted, 12 to 90 days later, in a marked increase in the number of neuropeptide Y (NPY)-immunoreactive perikarya in the ipsilateral deafferented striatum compared to the contralateral intact side in the same animal and t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kerkerian L,Bosler O,Pelletier G,Nieoullon A

更新日期：1986-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:By recording the locomotor activity rhythm of hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri, in which surgical lesions of the pretectal areas were made, we searched for the route of light information from the eyes to the circadian pacemaker, which is considered to be located in the preoptic nucleus. The entrainment of circadian activit...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ooka-Souda S,Kadota T,Kabasawa H,Takeuchi H

更新日期：1995-06-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of murine primary microglia with Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists enhances their ability to phagocytose and kill bacteria. Here we show that the viral TLR3 agonist poly(I:C) stimulates the release of cyto-/chemokines and nitric oxide by microglia. Poly(I:C) increases microglial phagocytosis and intracellu...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ribes S,Adam N,Ebert S,Regen T,Bunkowski S,Hanisch UK,Nau R

更新日期：2010-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimensions and innervation of muscle fibers in locust jumping muscle from 1st instar larva and adult are compared. Fibers innervated by only one motoneuron were investigated. During postembryonic development, the size, but not the number, of muscle fibers increases. The number of synaptic contacts per fiber increases ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Walther C

更新日期：1981-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the solubilization of the rat synaptic vesicle protein SV2A, the brain binding site for the antiepileptic drug levetiracetam (LEV), and its characterization. N-dodecyl-beta-D-maltoside (DDM) was the best detergent at achieving a high percentage of SV2A solubilization and at maintaining the binding c...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Lambeng N,Grossmann M,Chatelain P,Fuks B

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiration can be automatic or controlled behaviorally. Behavioral control in the cat occurs, at least in part, through control of the brainstem respiratory neurons that constitute the automatic system. Thus, when inspiration is inhibited behaviorally, inspiratory neurons in the medulla are inactivated. Reported here...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Orem J

更新日期：1987-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of a weak cutaneous stimulus applied to the digital nerves (prepulse) on the masseter inhibitory reflex (MIR) to electrical stimulation of the mental nerve in nine healthy volunteers. The prepulse stimulus, which had no direct effect on the masseter muscle EMG activity, induced a significan...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gómez-Wong E,Valls-Solé J

更新日期：1996-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated glutamate-induced neuron response in the ventral nerve cord of the earthworm (Eisenia foetida) using a voltage-sensitive dye-imaging technique. Isolated earthworm ganglia were stained by fluorescence voltage-sensitive dye, RH414, and voltage image was acquired by a conventional charge-coupled device (C...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Oka K,Ogawa H,Fujita S

更新日期：1994-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of synthetic rat alpha-atrial natriuretic polypeptide (1-28) (ANF-(99-126)) and related atrial natriuretic polypeptides on the accumulation of cyclic GMP (cGMP) in isolated rat choroid plexus in vitro, the objective being to determine whether ANF-(99-126) binding sites are physiologically active ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tsutsumi K,Niwa M,Kawano T,Ibaragi M,Ozaki M,Mori K

更新日期：1987-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effect of histamine (HA) on spontaneous firing of dopaminergic (DA) and GABAergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) and the ventral tegmental area (VTA) of the rat in vitro. Single-unit extracellular recordings were obtained and drugs were bath applied. In both regions application of HA (10...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Korotkova TM,Haas HL,Brown RE

更新日期：2002-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracolonic (i.col.) administration of the PAR2-activating peptide (PAR2AP) SLIGRL-NH2 slowly develops visceral hypersensitivity to i.col. capsaicin in ddY mice. Thus, we further analyzed roles of PAR2 in colonic hypersensitivity, using the novel potent PAR2AP, 2-furoyl-LIGRL-NH2 and PAR2-knockout (KO) mice. In ddY m...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kawabata A,Kawao N,Kitano T,Matsunami M,Satoh R,Ishiki T,Masuko T,Kanke T,Saito N

更新日期：2006-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been shown that noise can improve the detection of stimuli in several sensory modalities. We herein investigated whether visual contrast detection sensitivity can be improved by adding a certain amount of noise. The contrast detection thresholds of a light changing brightness periodically were measured...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sasaki H,Todorokihara M,Ishida T,Miyachi J,Kitamura T,Aoki R

更新日期：2006-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Gangliosides isolated from the brain of patients with Creutzfelt-Jakob (C-J) disease were analyzed. The ganglioside current was abnormally low, and the percentage distributions of individual gangliosides and the long-chain base compositions were abnormal. The C20-sphingosine contents of all the ganglioside fractions w...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Tamai Y,Ohtani Y,Miura S,Narita Y,Iwata T,Kaiya H,Namba M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been demonstrated that thyroxine deiodinating activity is present in rat pineal gland, and its activity increases significantly during the night time. We have studied whether mRNA for type II iodothyronine deiodinase is expressed in rat pineal gland and whether the nocturnal rise of pineal T4 deiodinating activ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Murakami M,Hosoi Y,Negishi T,Kamiya Y,Ogiwara T,Mizuma H,Yamada M,Iriuchijima T,Mori M

更新日期：1997-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Freshly isolated or culture-expanded human umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells (CBMNCs) have been known to express neural phenotypes in vitro and to differentiate into neural cells and improve neurological function recovery after being administrated into rodent models of neurological diseases. However, the mechanis...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fan CG,Zhang QJ,Tang FW,Han ZB,Wang GS,Han ZC

更新日期：2005-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid precursor protein 17-mer peptide (APP 17-mer peptide) is an active fragment of amyloid precursor protein (APP) in the nervous system that mediates various neuronal activities and functions. Estrogen deprivation during menopause disproportionately increases the risk of many neurodegenerative diseases, including...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Meng Y,Wang R,Yang F,Ji ZJ,Fang L,Sheng SL

更新日期：2010-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid removal of synaptically released glutamate from the extracellular space ensures a high signal-to-noise ratio in excitatory neurotransmission. In the cerebellum, glial glutamate transporters, GLAST and GLT-1, are co-localized in the processes of Bergmann glia wrapping excitatory synapses on Purkinje cells (PCs). ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Takatsuru Y,Iino M,Tanaka K,Ozawa S

更新日期：2007-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Fetal intrauterine growth restriction generates chronic hypoxia due to placental insufficiency. Despite the hemodynamic process of blood flow, redistributions are taking place in key organs such as the fetal brain during intrauterine growth restriction, in order to maintain oxygen and nutrients supply. The risk of sho...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hernández-Andrade E,Cortés-Camberos AJ,Díaz NF,Flores-Herrera H,García-López G,González-Jiménez M,Santamaría A,Molina-Hernández A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (SRIF) release from rat hypothalamus was investigated in vitro with a perifusion system. Glucagon (1 microM) and high potassium concentrations (56 mM) stimulated SRIF release in a calcium-dependent manner. Pretreatment of the rat with cysteamine (30 mg/100 g body weight, 7 h earlier) significantly reduced...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Shimatsu A,Kato Y,Matsushita N,Ohta H,Kabayama Y,Imura H

更新日期：1983-06-30 00:00:00