Noradrenergic inputs enhance the response of neurosecretory cells to osmotic stimulation.

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：:Neural imaging studies have shown that the brains of skilled musicians respond differently to musical stimuli than do the brains of non-musicians, particularly for musicians who commenced practice at an early age. Whether brain attributes related to musical skill are attributable to musical practice or are hereditary ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Pantev C,Roberts LE,Schulz M,Engelien A,Ross B

更新日期：2001-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of mRNAs encoding for the two isoforms of glutamate decarboxylase, GAD67 and GAD65, were quantified in the rat striatum and cerebral cortex following single injections of the non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801. Acute MK-801 induced a dose-dependent decrease in GAD65 mRNA levels in ventral sectors o...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Laprade N,Soghomonian JJ

更新日期：1995-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:5-[125I]iodo-3-(2(S)-azetidinylmethoxy)pyridine ([125I]5-I-A-85380) was evaluated in the mouse as a potential in vivo imaging ligand for central nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). After i.v. administration of [125I]5-I-A-85380, peak brain levels of radioactivity were measured within 1 h and declined slowly ov...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vaupel DB,Mukhin AG,Kimes AS,Horti AG,Koren AO,London ED

更新日期：1998-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined effects of trial averaging upon spatial extent, spatial topography, and temporal properties of fMRI activation. Two subjects participated in an event-related visual stimulation design. There was an exponential relation between number of trials and spatial extent, such that additional trials identified, on ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Huettel SA,McCarthy G

更新日期：2001-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the mode of action of argiotoxin636 on isolated N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor channels in cultured cerebellar granule cells. We found that the toxin blocks NMDA channels by decreasing their opening probability and by inducing a flickering activity, in a voltage-dependent manner. Our results indi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Fagni L,Bockaert J

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether 53 adult non-aphasic patients with either left (22) or right temporal lobe lesions (31) demonstrate dissociable patterns of hemispheric asymmetries in category-specific word fluency tasks. The patients were asked to articulate as many appropriate words as possible within 60 or 90 s in response to s...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jokeit H,Heger R,Ebner A,Markowitsch HJ

更新日期：1998-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was used in 17 normal individuals to modulate vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and self-motion perception rotational thresholds. The electrodes were applied over the temporoparietal junction bilaterally. Both vestibular nystagmic and perceptual thresholds were increased duri...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kyriakareli A,Cousins S,Pettorossi VE,Bronstein AM

更新日期：2013-10-02 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：:Functional imaging has struggled for two decades to establish a quantitative link between the neuronal activity and the change in signal obtained. This review proposes a division of neuronal activity into a component relating to the electrical discharge activity and a component relating to the size of the activated ne...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Marcar VL,Loenneker T

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Autopsy material from three patients with Rett syndrome and six control cases (frontal, temporal and motor cortical areas) were studied. Pyramidal and non-pyramidal neurones, 100-200 in each specimen, were visualized by Lucifer Yellow microinjection. 3-D reconstructions and rotations were computed using the VoxelView/...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Belichenko PV,Oldfors A,Hagberg B,Dahlström A

更新日期：1994-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration of galanin on plasma growth hormone (GH) concentrations and its possible mechanism of action have been examined in sheep. Galanin administration icv resulted in a dose-dependent increase in plasma GH concentrations (p < 0.01). Concurrent administration of ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Spencer GS,Berry CJ,Bass JJ

更新日期：1994-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle reflex is a measure of sensorimotor gating which occurs in both rodents and humans. PPI is deficient in severe neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. We investigated PPI in 10 adult monkeys (Cebus apella). Stimuli were 115 dB white noise startle pulses, eith...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Linn GS,Javitt DC

更新日期：2001-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin sst2(a) receptor was observed, by immunofluorescence, in ependymal cells and in tanycytes of the wall of the ventricle and the hypothalamic recess of the male rat median eminence. Strong immunoreactivity for the receptor protein was observed in lateral tanycytes (alpha-type) while a moderate signal was se...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hashemi SH,Li JY,Schindler M,Dahlström A

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood oxygen level dependent MRI was used to test whether cocaine-stimulated mesolimbic activity varied with sexual receptivity. Rats were randomly screened for lordotic responses and were then imaged for their responses to centrally administered cocaine. We observed that female rats expressing no lordosis showed a gr...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Febo M,Segarra AC,Stolberg TL,Ferris CF

更新日期：2011-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunction of the cholinergic system of the basal forebrain complex is one of the major contributors toward cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In AD, degeneration of cholinergic fibers that project to the cerebral cortex and hippocampus may be attributed to the development of neurofibrillary tangles (N...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kim JM,Kim SS,Lee YD

更新日期：2015-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The NMDA receptor is one of the ionotropic glutamate receptors essential for excitatory neurotransmission. The NMDAR1 subunit is inactivated by direct interaction with calmodulin. The protein levels of calmodulin, NMDAR1 and their complex were quantified in tissue resected from epileptogenic and non-epileptogenic cort...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mikuni N,Nishiyama K,Babb TL,Ying Z,Najm I,Okamoto T,Lüders HO,Wylie C

更新日期：1999-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoglycoside ototoxicity is a well-documented process via several pathophysiological pathways. The protective role of cochlear dopamine, released from the lateral olivocochlear efferents, was implicated previously in case of ischemia or acoustic trauma, as it postsynaptically inhibits the effect of excessively relea...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Gáborján A,Halmos G,Répássy G,Vizi ES

更新日期：2001-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an investigation into the processing of symmetrical lexical stimuli by a patient with moderate visual neglect. This subject's neglect dyslexia was significantly less pronounced when presented with symmetrical lexical stimuli (palindromes) than with matched non-symmetrical words. We discuss the hypothesis tha...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Shillcock RC,Kelly ML,Monaghan P

更新日期：1998-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Central sensitization is a fundamental mechanism contributing to acute and chronic pain conditions. Our previous studies have documented a glutamatergic, purinergic and glial-dependent central sensitization that can be induced in rat medullary dorsal horn nociceptive neurons by mustard oil application to the tooth pul...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Chiang CY,Li Z,Dostrovsky JO,Sessle BJ

更新日期：2010-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Segmental ligation of spinal nerves in the rat induces a long-lasting hyperalgesia and allodynia that mimicks neuropathic conditions in humans. In the present study we attempted to determine whether supraspinal NMDA receptors contribute to the induction of the long-lasting hypersensitivity to noxious and innocuous mec...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wei H,Pertovaara A

更新日期：1999-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the mRNA levels of neuronal, inducible, endothelial nitric oxide synthases (nNOS, iNOS, eNOS) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in a rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) after tourniquet application to a hind limb to identify molecules that trigger secondary events after peripheral nerve injury. Si...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Abe S,Mizusawa I,Kanno K,Yabashi A,Suto M,Kuraya M,Honda T,Hiraiwa K

更新日期：2003-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:By using high-resolution, conventional, and neuromelanin-sensitive magnetic resonance imaging techniques, we reviewed the normal anatomy of the nuclei consisting of monoamine neurons such as dopaminergic, noradrenergic, and serotoninergic neurons and noted the changes in these nuclei that occur in some degenerative an...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sasaki M,Shibata E,Tohyama K,Kudo K,Endoh J,Otsuka K,Sakai A

更新日期：2008-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential neuroprotective effects of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and neublastin (NBN) against NMDA-induced excitotoxicity were examined in hippocampal brain slice cultures. Recombinant human GDNF (25-100 ng/ ml) or NBN, in medium conditioned by growth of transfected, NBN-producing HiB5 cells...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bonde C,Kristensen BW,Blaabjerg M,Johansen TE,Zimmer J,Meyer M

更新日期：2000-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) invariably result in fatal neurodegeneration and accumulation of PrP, an abnormal form of the host prion protein PrP, encoded by the PRNP gene. A naturally occurring polymorphism (methionine/valine) at PRNP codon 129 is associated with variation in relative disease ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： O'Rourke KI,Spraker TR,Zhuang D,Greenlee JJ,Gidlewski TE,Hamir AN

更新日期：2007-12-03 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：:Selective degeneration of hypothalamic orexin neurons, a hallmark of pathology in narcolepsy patients, is in part reproduced in hypothalamic slice cultures by application of an endogenous excitotoxin quinolinic acid. Depolarized membrane potential may be responsible for the vulnerability of orexin neurons to excitotox...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Katsuki H,Akaike A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental animals and patients are immobilized to allow continuous monitoring of physiological parameters. Restraint stress affects brain neurotransmitter levels and induces expression of immediate early genes. Whether immobilization stress affects outcomes in newborn animals which have suffered a hypoxic-ischaemic...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Thoresen M,Bågenholm R,Løberg EM,Apriccna F

更新日期：1996-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammals react to acute hypoxia with an initial augmentation and a secondary depression of the respiratory rhythm generated by brain stem neuronal networks. To investigate the cytosolic level of energy rich phosphorus metabolites during these responses, we developed 31P nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the br...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Piérard C,Champagnat J,Denavit-Saubie M,Gillet B,Beloeil JC,Guezennec CY,Barrère B,Pérès M

更新日期：1995-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus is well known to contribute to episodic memory encoding. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the hippocampal response to exponentially varying encoding demands while forming associations between faces and names. We found that only the left hippocampus exhibited a stepped m...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ulrich M,Jonas C,Grön G

更新日期：2010-01-06 00:00:00