Neural processes underlying perceptual enhancement by visual speech gestures.

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of nicotinamide, a co-factor in the electron transport chain, on the relationship between methamphetamine (MA)-induced striatal dopamine (DA) depletion and energy metabolism change. Four injections of MA (10 mg/kg, i.p.) at 2 h intervals resulted in decreases of ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Huang NK,Wan FJ,Tseng CJ,Tung CS

更新日期：1997-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Kisspeptin is distributed not only in brain areas for regulating reproduction but also in nuclei involved in feeding control. Whether kisspeptin alters food intake is unknown in mice. We examined how kisspeptin-10 influences feeding after intracerebroventricular injection in mice using automated monitoring. Kisspeptin...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Stengel A,Wang L,Goebel-Stengel M,Taché Y

更新日期：2011-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of glucocorticoid receptors and nuclear factor kappaB was evaluated in the spiral ganglion neurons after 4 h of restraint stress in the mouse cochlea. Immediately after restraint stress, glucocorticoid receptor protein expression was not altered in spiral ganglion neurons even though both the plasma cor...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tahera Y,Meltser I,Johansson P,Canlon B

更新日期：2006-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The 29 amino acid neuropeptide galanin is normally expressed in < 5% of sensory neurons in the adult dorsal root ganglia. After nerve transection (axotomy), the galanin content of the dorsal root ganglia rises 120-fold and the peptide is then expressed in > 50% of neurons. Published data suggest that galanin plays a r...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bacon A,Holmes FE,Small CJ,Ghatei M,Mahoney S,Bloom S,Wynick D

更新日期：2002-11-15 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：:We examined the biology of AMPA/kainate-induced motor neuron degeneration using dissociated spinal cord cultures and motor neuron-specific antibodies which enable characterization of individual motor neurons in culture. Cobalt, which is thought to pass through Ca2+-permeable AMPA/kainate receptors following kainate ex...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bar-Peled O,O'Brien RJ,Morrison JH,Rothstein JD

更新日期：1999-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to determine the expression level of immunoproteasome and its clinical significance in glioma preliminarily. Furthermore, we studied the function and molecular mechanism of proteasome inhibitor ONX 0912 on glioma cell. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The expression of immunoproteasome in gli...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Min L,Zeng X,Li B,Tao B,Shi J,Zhang W,Sun Q,Jing C,Wang X

更新日期：2019-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and experimental studies clearly demonstrate that prolonged seizures and status epilepticus induce neuronal cell death in the brain. Recent evidence suggests that induction of apoptosis contributes greatly to seizure-induced brain damage. We recently demonstrated that intrahippocampal delivery of botulinum ne...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Manno I,Antonucci F,Caleo M,Bozzi Y

更新日期：2007-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Benevolence is widespread in our societies. It is defined as considering a subordinate group nicely but condescendingly, that is, with charity. Deleterious consequences for the target have been reported in the literature. In this experiment, we used functional MRI (fMRI) to identify whether being the target of (sexist...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Dardenne B,Dumont M,Sarlet M,Phillips C,Balteau E,Degueldre C,Luxen A,Salmon E,Maquet P,Collette F

更新日期：2013-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Nogo-66 receptor was first identified in neurons. Recently, it was demonstrated in glial cells as well. Our previous study on the expression of Nogo-66 receptor in the cerebellum of the rat surprisingly found its location at the glial gap junctions. Here, we present our study on Nogo-66 receptor in the rat posterior p...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wang YZ,Liu YY,Liu JP,You SW,Ju G

更新日期：2006-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium treatment lengthens the period of circadian rhythms in most organisms. In the present study, we tested whether lithium acts directly on the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) to lengthen rhythms of individual neurons. Lithium increased the circadian period of firing rate rhythms of cultured SCN neurons in...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Abe M,Herzog ED,Block GD

更新日期：2000-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging techniques, such as fMRI, PET and near-infrared spectroscopy, monitor task-related neuronal activations in the brain indirectly through the associated neurovascular/metabolic responses. To assess the primary neuronal activations directly, magnetoencephalography was combined here with a mechanical modulati...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mackert BM,Wübbeler G,Leistner S,Trahms L,Curio G

更新日期：2001-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Older adults are known to gain more than younger adults from the simultaneous presentation of semantically congruent sensory stimuli. Although these findings are quite exciting, they may not solely be due to age-related differences in multisensory processing. Rather, enhanced integration may be explained by alteration...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Peiffer AM,Mozolic JL,Hugenschmidt CE,Laurienti PJ

更新日期：2007-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A tritiated specific and highly potent 5-HT4 antagonist: [3H]-GR113808 was used to label specific binding sites in human brain and for comparison in guinea-pig brain. [3H]-GR113808 association and dissociation were rapid, the binding was saturable and displaced by various serotoninergic agents with an affinity corresp...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Waeber C,Sebben M,Grossman C,Javoy-Agid F,Bockaert J,Dumuis A

更新日期：1993-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The whole-cell patch clamp technique was used to investigate the actions of the opioid agonist U50488H on Ca2+ and K+ currents in differentiated NG108-15 cells. U50488H (5-50 microM) caused a concentration-dependent, reversible inhibition of high voltage-activated Ca2+ currents which persisted in the presence of nifed...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Carpenter E,Gent JP,Peers C

更新日期：1996-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic ethanol exposure is known to alter the polyphosphoinositide (poly-PI) signaling pathway, although the exact sight of regulation is not well understood. In this study, C57B1/6J mice were given a control or an ethanol (6 g kg-1 body wt) liquid diet by gastric intubation daily for 4 weeks. Examination of levels o...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Simonyi A,Zhang JP,Sun AY,Sun GY

更新日期：1996-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Postulating that central IL-1 is involved in the pathogenesis of cancer anorexia we measured IL-1 alpha in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from anorectic tumor bearing (TB) rats and non-tumor bearing controls, and correlated their CSF IL-1 alpha with food intake and tumor weight. Food intake in controls was significantly hi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Opara EI,Laviano A,Meguid MM,Yang ZJ

更新日期：1995-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:NCAM-180 knockout mice, which have documented deficits in neural migration, were used to determine whether developmental abnormalities could lead to morphological changes and alterations in sensory motor gating mechanisms. Measurement of the lateral ventricle showed that NCAM-180-/- mice had marked increases in both t...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wood GK,Tomasiewicz H,Rutishauser U,Magnuson T,Quirion R,Rochford J,Srivastava LK

更新日期：1998-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The L1/NgCAM cell adhesion molecule is involved in neurite outgrowth, axonal fasciculation and cell migration in the nervous system. We studied the effects of antibodies against L1 injected intracranially at various times before and after training 2-day-old chicks in a visual categorization task. Memory retention was ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tiunova A,Anokhin KV,Schachner M,Rose SP

更新日期：1998-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 30% of patients with fatal head injuries have deposits of amyloid beta-protein (A beta); these are predominantly individuals carrying the epsilon 4 allele of apolipoprotein E (apoE). A beta deposition occurs in Alzheimer's disease (AD), for which approximately 50% of the genetic risk is attributed to apo...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Zunarelli E,Nicoll JA,Graham DI

更新日期：1996-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Where and how the cortical areas are activated when a person receives the result of hypothesis testing is still unclear. By using a category induction task, this study provided participants with various batteries and asked them to learn which kind of batteries were charged. After learning, they were required to give a...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Li F,Cao B,Lei Y,Li H

更新日期：2009-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examines whether or not prolactin-releasing peptide (PrRP) infused intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) affects sleep and the release of prolactin (PRL) and growth hormone (GH) in rats. At a dose of 0.1 nmol, PrRP promoted rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep, whereas 1.0 nmol increased both non-REM and REM ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Zhang SQ,Inoué S,Kimura M

更新日期：2001-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-dependent outward currents were examined in CA1 neurones by whole-cell recording in slices. Nine cells were recorded with the 'standard' internal solution (KMeSO4, HEPES, EGTA, CaCl2, and MgCl2) and held a potential (-54 +/- 3 mV) at which there was no significant outward current. Cromakalim (CROM, 100 microM)...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Erdemli G,Krnjević K

更新日期：1994-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Low doses of estrogen (E) were given to ovariectomized (OVX) rats and the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMN) was examined at the ultrastructural level. Administration of 10 micrograms of E for two consecutive days resulted in an increase in the number of axodendritic synapses in the VMN in comparison to OVX rats ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Frankfurt M,McEwen BS

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this experiment, event-related potentials were used to examine whether the neural correlates of encoding processes predicting subsequent successful recall differed from those predicting successful source memory retrieval. During encoding, participants studied lists of words and were instructed to memorize each word...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Angel L,Isingrini M,Bouazzaoui B,Fay S

更新日期：2013-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies in zebra finches failed to demonstrate the involvement of the NIf, a higher-order song nucleus afferent to the HVc, in the production of learned song. The song of the Bengalese finch, a related species, has a higher level of temporal organization; multiple song phrases are organized into a song. We hypothesize...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hosino T,Okanoya K

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous event-related fMRI study, we showed that the left occipitotemporal cortex was specifically involved in the abstract categorization of visually presented alphabetic symbols. Here, we duplicate the fMRI study by measuring visual event-related potentials to verify whether the left posterior cortex supports ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Gros H,Doyon B,Rioual K,Celsis P

更新日期：2002-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian neocortex is composed of six major layers of neurons. Each group of neurons in the cortical layers has distinct characteristics based on the expression of specific genes and connectivity patterns of neural circuits. Neuronal subtype transition and regional identity acquisition are established by temporal...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lee SE,Hwang S,Ahn SG,D'Arcangelo G,Lee GH

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is recognized as being involved in the pathophysiology of cerebrovascular diseases. Using organ culture as a model for possible pathological changes we studied changes in ET(A) and ETB receptor function using a sensitive in vitro method. We observed an up-regulation of the ET(B) receptor and an ama...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hansen-Schwartz J,Edvinsson L

更新日期：2000-02-28 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