Neurotransmitter antagonists block some odor responses in olfactory receptor neurons.

abstract：:We investigated the role of melatonin in the induction of gastric lesions induced by water immersion restraint stress or centrally administered thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH). Melatonin (0.1-1 ng) injected intracisternally (i.c) 30 min prior to stress dose-dependently inhibited the induction of gastric lesions by...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kato K,Murai I,Asai S,Komuro S,Matsuno Y,Matsukawa Y,Kurosaka H,Iwasaki A,Ishikawa K,Arakawa Y

更新日期：1997-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is a major psychoactive component of cannabis. We have recently localized a receptor for THC in the forebrain and found in the caudate-putamen that its gene expression is modulated by glucocorticoids, dopamine and glutamate. Here, we report for the first time, using quantitative in s...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mailleux P,Verslype M,Preud'homme X,Vanderhaeghen JJ

更新日期：1994-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied over the frontal eye field (FEF) and the supplementary eye field (SEF) regions before execution of the first saccade in a double step task. When applied over the FEF, stimulation increased the percentage error in amplitude of the contralateral second saccade as compa...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tobler PN,Müri RM

更新日期：2002-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropeptide nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) is implicated in many biological functions, including nociception, locomotor activity, stress and anxiety, drinking and food-intake. N/OFQ has also been reported to play a facilitatory role in acute kainate-induced seizures. The aim of the present study was to investigat...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Binaschi A,Zucchini S,Bregola G,Rodi D,Mazzuferi M,Reinscheid RK,Simonato M

更新日期：2003-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Parturition plays a critical role in the full expression of maternal behavior in postpartum females, yet the precise mechanism remains unclear. Here we examined the role of parturition in the activation of Fos and FosB in the central oxytocin receptor (OTR) system in rats. Although expression of FosB, not Fos, was see...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lin SH,Kiyohara T,Sun B

更新日期：2003-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelinated nerve fibers exhibit a complex anatomy in the nodal region which includes a marked nodal-paranodal constriction and an intricate paranodal structure where the myelin sheath is separated from the axon by a narrow periaxonal space. In this study, a recently developed computational model of the mammalian myeli...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Halter JA,Clark JW Jr

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated sodium channels consist of a pore-containing alpha-subunit and one or more auxiliary beta-subunits, which may modulate channel function. We previously demonstrated that sodium channel SNS/PN3 alpha-subunits were decreased in human sensory cell bodies after spinal root avulsion injury, and accumulated at ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Coward K,Jowett A,Plumpton C,Powell A,Birch R,Tate S,Bountra C,Anand P

更新日期：2001-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Following brain injury astrocytes swell acutely and proliferate thereafter. To investigate the direct relationship between swelling and proliferation, cultured astroglial cells were exposed to 60 mM K+ ion or hypo-osmolar (205 mOsm) electrolyte solution for 1 h to cause transient swelling. Proliferation was assessed b...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Del Bigio MR,Omara F,Fedoroff S

更新日期：1994-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the combined effect of high glucose and decreased Na+/K+-pump activity, a condition which closely mimics the diabetic state, on nerve ionic currents, changes in action potential and membrane current induced by high glucose in the presence of ouabain were investigated using voltage clamp analysis in rat single ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Takigawa T,Yasuda H,Terada M,Maeda K,Haneda M,Kashiwagi A,Kitasato H,Kikkawa R

更新日期：2000-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-2 and its receptors are present in hippocampal structures, particularly the pyramidal cell layer. In the present study, we examined the interaction between recombinant human interleukin-2 (rhIL-2) and the voltage-dependent calcium (Ca2+) current using the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. RhIL-2 depressed ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Plata-Salamán CR,ffrench-Mullen JM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory deficits are one of the predominant causes of cognitive aging. This study examined age-related changes in response inhibition. In this study, young and older participants performed a bimanual/bipedal response inhibition task while we measured their brain activity via functional near-infrared spectroscopy. P...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kawai N,Nakata R,Kubo-Kawai N

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Light physiologically regulates the levels of c-Fos in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), but the identity of most of the cells that express this DNA-binding protein is unknown. To determine whether SCN c-Fos expression is restricted to neurons, we performed light microscopic double-label immunohistochemistry on secti...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bennett MR,Schwartz WJ

更新日期：1994-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We inserted microelectrodes in eye movement-evoking cortices (EMECs) of cats and examined whether neurones in the EMECs received sensory input from guide signals and fired prior to saccades. The five EMECs were the medial wall of the hemisphere under the cruciate sulcus, the medical and lateral bank of the presylvian ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tamai Y,Kimura A

更新日期：1996-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) levels in the serum, CSF and brain (hippocampus) and correlated these with spatial learning in APP+PS1 transgenic mice. Compared with non-transgenic littermates, male 14-month-old APP + PS1 mice were impaired in spatial learning in the water maze. Among the APP + PS1 mice, only...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Liu L,Tapiola T,Herukka SK,Heikkilä M,Tanila H

更新日期：2003-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study the effects of intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of baclofen (0.1-5.0 nmol) was investigated on food intake in non-fasted rats. Baclofen (1.0, 2.5 and 5.0 nmol) increased food consumption in a dose-related manner during the first 15-30 min after administration. The effects of baclofen (...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ebenezer IS

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widespread invasiveness, represented by the invasion and migration, is the most important characteristic of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and is the main reason for therapeutic failure and recurrence of the tumor. Hypoxia is one of the main microenvironment in determining tumor invasiveness. Therefore, intense efforts...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Huang W,Ding X,Ye H,Wang J,Shao J,Huang T

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we have generated transgenic mice (designated as SJLB) carrying human N279K mutant tau, one of the tau mutations causing parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17). SJLB mice mimic some features of behavioral alterations and neuronal pathology of patients with Alzheimer's disease. To investigate how tau ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Takano M,Otani M,Sakai A,Kadoyama K,Matsuyama S,Matsumoto A,Takenokuchi M,Sumida M,Taniguchi T

更新日期：2009-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirtuin 2 (SIRT2) is a member of the sirtuin family. Previous studies have suggested that SIRT2 mediates the cell death in models of Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease. However, the role of SIRT2 in oxidative stress-induced cell death has remained unclear. In this study, we investigated the roles of SIRT2 in...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Nie H,Hong Y,Lu X,Zhang J,Chen H,Li Y,Ma Y,Ying W

更新日期：2014-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to mammals, the brains of teleost fish exhibit an enormous regenerative capacity following injury. Here, we have examined the potential role of vimentin in this wound healing. Fifteen days after application of a mechanical lesion to the corpus cerebelli in the teleost fish Apteronotus leptoryhnchus, the ar...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Clint SC,Zupanc GK

更新日期：2002-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of long-term potentiation in perforant path-granule cell synapses is accompanied by increased glutamate release. Here we investigate the role of synaptophysin in release and in expression of long-term potentiation in dentate gyrus. We report that long-term potentiation was accompanied by increased endogeno...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mullany PM,Lynch MA

更新日期：1998-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone receptor beta2 (TRbeta2) controls the patterning of cone opsin photopigments that mediate colour vision. We raised an antiserum against TRbeta2 to study cone photoreceptor development by western blot and immunostaining analyses. TRbeta2-positive cells first appeared between embryonic day 10 (E10) and E...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ng L,Ma M,Curran T,Forrest D

更新日期：2009-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of a nonphotic stimulus (running in a novel wheel) on the induction of Fos-related proteins in the two well-established neural components of the circadian clock: the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and the intergeniculate leaflet (IGL) of the lateral geniculate complex. There was no induction of F...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Janik D,Mrosovsky N

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) is a powerful tool to study basic perceptual functions in the human electroencephalogram (EEG) (e.g. selective attention). The present study aimed at finding support for the SSVEP's sensitivity to higher cognitive functions (e.g. memory). We tagged pictures of meaningle...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Martens U,Gert AL,Gruber T

更新日期：2012-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of huperzine A (HupA) on oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD)-induced injury was investigated in the rat pheochromocytoma cell line PC12. OGD for 3 h and reoxygenation for 24 h triggered apoptosis characterized by chromatin condensation, nucleus fragmentation and DNA laddering. The temporal profile of c-jun, p5...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Zhou J,Fu Y,Tang XC

更新日期：2001-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the basis for introducing an ignoring task during cortical evoked response audiometry (CERA) using the N1-P2 response. Healthy hearing participants were assigned to two groups with and without an ignoring task (ignoring and listening groups) during CERA whose outcomes were compared with the pure-to...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ikeda K,Hayashi A,Matsuda O,Sekiguchi T

更新日期：2010-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor fluctuations that ultimately complicate the response of most parkinsonian patients to levodopa therapy might represent a form of behavioral or neuronal plasticity. Since various forms of neuronal plasticity appear to be mediated by glutamate transmission through the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, the effe...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Engber TM,Papa SM,Boldry RC,Chase TN

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute arthritis is associated with pain-related behavior, joint swelling and increased joint temperature. Arthritic animals exhibit a significant decrease in paw withdrawal latency 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 h after induction of inflammation, when compared with baseline values, indicative of secondary hyperalgesia. Intra-articu...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lawand NB,Willis WD,Westlund KN

更新日期：1997-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Surface texture can be perceived not only from tactile, but also from auditory and visual sensory cues. In our previous psychophysical study, we demonstrated that humans can recognize surface stickiness using only one kind of sensory modality without any difficulty. However, the brain regions that would be activated b...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： So Y,Kim SP,Kim J

更新日期：2020-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Regional variation in the distribution of SP and NFT within the brain is well documented. Consideration of such variation is potentially of help in formulating models of disease progression. Several models propose that pathological changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) progress in a step-wise fashion along neuronally co...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Shukla C,Bridges LR

更新日期：1999-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell death by apoptosis occurs in mature neurones of adult rat dentate gyrus following adrenalectomy. In these studies, apoptosis in the dentate gyrus was induced 3 days after adrenalectomy in male Fischer 344 rats ranging in age from 2-3 to 24-26 months. Glial fibrillary acidic protein and transforming growth factor-...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bye N,Nichols NR

更新日期：1998-04-20 00:00:00