Cells over-expressing EAAT2 protect motoneurons from excitotoxic death in vitro.

abstract：:Ts65DN mice were developed as a model of Down syndrome (DS); they are trisomic for the distal segment of chromosome 16 (MMU16), which contains genes syntenic with some of the genes located on the critical region of human chromosome 21 (HSA21). Since behavioral and neurochemical disturbances have been observed in this ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Megías M,Verduga R,Dierssen M,Flórez J,Insausti R,Crespo D

更新日期：1997-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Reading is a learned skill that is likely influenced by both brain maturation and experience. Functional imaging studies have identified brain regions important for skilled reading, but the structural brain changes that co-occur with reading acquisition remain largely unknown. We investigated maturational volume chang...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Houston SM,Lebel C,Katzir T,Manis FR,Kan E,Rodriguez GG,Sowell ER

更新日期：2014-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous saccades of both eyes were recorded in head-restrained pigeons placed in 6 different visual conditions (darkness and biocular, uniocular, frontal or lateral viewing). Most saccades (95%) were biocular and directed forward (around the beak axis) and backward (around the horizontal line). In the dark, the pr...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lemeignan M,Sansonetti A,Gioanni H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with left visual neglect after right hemisphere lesions were examined with a line bisection and a reading task under five different conditions: head and trunk straight ahead, head or trunk oriented 20 degrees to the left and head or trunk oriented 20 degrees to the right. Fixation was always straight ahe...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Schindler I,Kerkhoff G

更新日期：1997-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials(ERPs) were measured while subjects were constructing mental images of a letter of the alphabet. Following presentation of an uppercase letter, subjects were asked to form a mental image of the same letter in lower case, and determine whether or not it had an ascending or descending stroke (asc...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yamamoto S,Mukai H

更新日期：1998-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) plays critical roles in neurotransmission, synaptic plasticity, learning and memory. The aim of this study was to examine, by in situ hybridization, prefrontal cortical expression of CaMKII alpha mRNA in postmortem brains of unipolar, bipolar, schizophrenic, and con...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Xing G,Russell S,Hough C,O'Grady J,Zhang L,Yang S,Zhang LX,Post R

更新日期：2002-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In the water-maze test, the linoleic acid derivative, 8-[2-(2-pentyl-cyclopropylmethyl)-cyclopropyl]-octanoic acid (DCP-LA) (1 mg/kg, intraperitoneally), significantly shortened the prolonged latency for accelerated-senescence-prone mice 8 (SAMP8), reaching a level similar to the latency for accelerated-senescence-res...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yaguchi T,Nagata T,Mukasa T,Fujikawa H,Yamamoto H,Yamamoto S,Iso H,Tanaka A,Nishizaki T

更新日期：2006-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain slice preparations obtained from the rat were used to study cholinergic GABAergic interaction in mechanisms responsible for production of theta-like activity in hippocampal slices maintained in vitro. Bicuculline, a GABA-A antagonist, applied at 25 microM facilitated the effect of low concentration carbachol (25...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Konopacki J,Gołebiewski H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) promotes the survival of several neuronal populations, but recently it has also been shown to induce neuronal cell death. Here we report the effects of NGF on lesioned motoneurons. We have analyzed facial and sciatic motoneurons in newborn and adult BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice, in addition to mic...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Terrado J,Monnier D,Perrelet D,Sagot Y,Mattenberger L,King B,Kato AC

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral nerve injury therapy in the clinic remains less than satisfactory. The gold standard of treatment for long peripheral nerve defects is autologous nerve grafts; however, numerous clinical complications are associated with this treatment. As tissue engineering has developed, tissue-engineered nerve grafts (TE...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yan L,Yao Z,Lin T,Zhu Q,Qi J,Gu L,Fang J,Zhou X,Liu X

更新日期：2017-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspase-2 has features of both initiator and effector caspases. Previously, we have shown that brain hypoxia-induced production of caspases 1, 3, 8, and 9 is Src kinase mediated, a nonreceptor intracellular family of kinases. The present study tests the hypothesis that hypoxia results in increased expression of caspas...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Angelis D,Delivoria-Papadopoulos M

更新日期：2017-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of diazepam and D-amphetamine on spontaneous, vestibular- and visually-induced eye movements were studied in the restrained goldfish. These animals showed a stereotyped pattern of spontaneous eye movements that scanned the visual field in the horizontal plane. Fourier analysis of these eye movements reveal...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Salas C,Navarro F,Torres B,Delgado-Garcia JM

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical analysis on diffusion tensor imaging has been used extensively in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) and most studies report decrease in fractional anisotropy (FA) in multiple white matter regions. However, these findings vary across studies and between regions. Therefore, in this study, we used tract-ba...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： An J,Fang P,Wang W,Liu Z,Hu D,Qiu S

更新日期：2014-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular recordings of activity in response to acoustic stimuli were obtained from units of the dentate nucleus of conscious cats. Twelve units with short latency responses to 70 dB clicks or hisses were injected intracellularly with biocytin and identified morphologically. The identified cells were small, relati...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Xi MC,Woody CD,Gruen E

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraplantar carrageenan induced a peripheral oedema and c-Fos like immunoreactivity (Fos-LI) in L4-L5 segments in the dorsal horn (DH) of the rat spinal cord. The total number of carrageenan evoked Fos-LI neurones was 153 +/- 10 per section, with a predominant localization in the superficial and deep laminae of the D...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Buritova J,Honoré P,Chapman V,Besson JM

更新日期：1995-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I is essential for cerebellar granule neuron survival and a decline in IGF-I is implicated in various age-dependent processes. Here we show that IGF-I mRNA levels are decreased in the cerebellum of old rats compared with young rats and this was associated with increased cell death and ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Pañeda C,Arroba AI,Frago LM,Holm AM,Rømer J,Argente J,Chowen JA

更新日期：2003-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex tones such as vowels expressed by the human voice vary both in fundamental pitch (harmonic periodicity) and spectrum shape (vowel type). Three different pitches and spectra were combined into nine auditory stimuli. Latencies of cerebral evoked potential components decreased significantly as pitch increased, wh...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ragot R,Lepaul-Ercole R

更新日期：1996-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible role of endogenous cholinergic innervation in hippocampal plasticity is controversial. We studied the role of acetylcholine (ACh) in short- and long-term potentiation (STP and LTP), using the cholinergic neurotoxin 192 IgG-saporin. It was still possible to induce STP the LTP in the CA1 field following com...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jouvenceau A,Billard JM,Lamour Y,Dutar P

更新日期：1996-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurone-specific enolase immunoreactivity (NSE-IR) was examined in the hippocampal dentate gyrus 5 h, 24 h and 6 days following local injection of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), and was compared with Nissl substance and acid fuchsin staining. Five and 24 hours post-injection extracellular NSE-IR was increased, and the n...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Comer AM,Lees GJ,Lipski J

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the brain mechanisms enabling one automatically discriminate phoneme category irrespective of the large inter-speaker variability in the acoustic features of the voices. For this purpose, subjects were presented with 450 different speech stimuli, each uttered by a different speaker, belonging to three ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Shestakova A,Brattico E,Huotilainen M,Galunov V,Soloviev A,Sams M,Ilmoniemi RJ,Näätänen R

更新日期：2002-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin, oxytocin and cholecystokinin (CCK) are peptides that influence feeding behaviour. Galanin has been found to stimulate food intake and oxytocin and CCK have been suggested to be satiety agents. The present study was performed in order to investigate if galanin influences the secretion of oxytocin and CCK as a ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Björkstrand E,Hulting AL,Meister B,Uvnäs-Moberg K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the potential of bone marrow stromal cells for treatment of inner ear diseases. Autologous marrow cells labeled with Dil were implanted into the inner ear of five gentamicin-treated chinchillas. Histological analysis 3 weeks later revealed robust survival of grafted marrow cells in multipl...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Naito Y,Nakamura T,Nakagawa T,Iguchi F,Endo T,Fujino K,Kim TS,Hiratsuka Y,Tamura T,Kanemaru S,Shimizu Y,Ito J

更新日期：2004-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Following ventral root avulsion in neonatal animals, the degeneration of spinal motoneurons occurs by an apoptotic-like morphological pathway. In adult animals, however, the mechanism of degeneration of injured motoneurons is still controversial. Because caspases are important mediators of apoptosis, we have investiga...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Chan YM,Wu W,Yip HK,So KF,Oppenheim RW

更新日期：2001-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Calsenilin, a multifunctional Ca2+-binding protein, has been identified as an Alzheimer's disease-associated presenilin interactor. Here, we investigated the histochemical localization of calsenilin and its expression levels in the brains of sporadic Alzheimer's disease. Both messenger RNA and protein expression of ca...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jin JK,Choi JK,Wasco W,Buxbaum JD,Kozlowski PB,Carp RI,Kim YS,Choi EK

更新日期：2005-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal atrophy may reflect earlier and more reversible events in neurodegeneration and ageing than somatic atrophy. Innervation density by sympathetic fibres from the rat superior cervical ganglion (SCG) to the middle cerebral artery (MCA) decreases dramatically in old age, while that to the iris is largely unchanged....

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kuchel GA,Poon T,Irshad K,Richard C,Julien JP,Cowen T

更新日期：1997-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The perifornical-lateral hypothalamic area is implicated in regulating waking and paradoxical sleep. The blockade of GABAA receptors by iontophoretic applications of bicuculline (or gabazine) into the perifornical-lateral hypothalamic area induced a continuous quiet waking state associated to a robust muscle tone in h...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Goutagny R,Luppi PH,Salvert D,Gervasoni D,Fort P

更新日期：2005-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at obtaining evidence that cinchophen, an ulcerogenic drug, stimulates the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)-secreting cells in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) to induce c-Fos expression. Without colchicine pretreatment, cinchophen was injected i.p. 60 min before the time of ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jingu H,Miura M

更新日期：1996-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To observe sequential stages in tactile pattern discrimination and their modification with and without attention, we used whole-head anatomically constrained magnetoencephalography to spatiotemporally map brain responses. Eight, normal, right-handed participants discriminated between two patterns presented on the palm...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Reed CL,Hagler DJ Jr,Marinkovic K,Dale A,Halgren E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bilateral spino-bulbo-spinal circuit conveys information from/to the male urogenital tract and perineal muscles. This is the first electrophysiological report of another descending pathway, one which conveys output from the medullary reticular formation (MRF) to activate postganglionic sympathetic fibers contained w...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Johnson RD,Hubscher CH

更新日期：2000-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The regional distribution of c-Fos expression in the brain after the administration of two tremorgenic agents was studied. In both the harmaline- and oxotremorin-treated rats, c-Fos-positive neurons were extensively distributed in the basal ganglia nuclei and the cerebellum. Additionally, in the harmaline-treated rats...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Miwa H,Nishi K,Fuwa T,Mizuno Y

更新日期：2000-08-03 00:00:00