Influence from stretch-sensitive receptors in the collateral ligaments of the knee joint on the gamma-muscle-spindle systems of flexor and extensor muscles.

abstract：:Nine healthy male volunteers (mean age of 24) participated in two experimental sessions of random crossover design: a bright light (5000 lux for 5 h from 00:00 to 05:00 h) session and a dim light (10 lux for 5 h from 00:00 to 05:00 h) session. Subsequently participants entered an ultra-short sleep-wake schedule for 26...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kubota T,Uchiyama M,Suzuki H,Shibui K,Kim K,Tan X,Tagaya H,Okawa M,Inoue S

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateral olfactory tract (LOT) is a central olfactory pathway, and efferent projections from the olfactory bulb are conveyed to the olfactory-related cortical structures via the LOT. The purpose of the present study is to determine the exact site of the LOT causing functional impairment in animals. After ablation o...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sekiguchi Y,Fukushima N,Yokouchi K,Kawagishi K,Hirayama S,Moriizumi T

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avian cochlear neurons of the nucleus magnocellularis (NMC) are known to encode temporal information of sound. The neuron generated only a single action potential at a stable timing even though suprathreshold currents of long duration (> 100 ms) was injected. The threshold for the action potential was -42 mV. In volta...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Koyano K,Funabiki K,Ohmori H

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate whether increased concentrations of lactic acid and potassium chloride (KCl) in contralateral muscles can influence the sensitivity of primary and secondary muscle spindle afferents (MSAs) from ipsilateral extensor and flexor muscles. The experiments were performed on 7 ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Djupsjöbacka M,Johansson H,Bergenheim M,Sjölander P

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entopeduncular nucleus (EPN) is one of the major output nuclei of the basal ganglia in rodents. Previous studies have divided it into rostral and caudal halves, with the former containing somatostatin (SOM)-immunoreactive neurons and the latter dominated by parvalbumin (PV)-containing neurons, respectively. Howeve...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Miyamoto Y,Fukuda T

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After horseradish peroxidase was applied to the main trunk of the mouse vagal nerve, anterogradely labeled cells in the vagal ganglia and fibers in the solitary complex, and retrogradely labeled cells in the dorsal motor nucleus and the ambiguous nucleus were observed. Most of the cells in the nodose ganglion were lab...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Funakoshi K,Kusakabe T,Kadota T,Goris RC,Kishida R

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrastriatal hemorrhage in rats causes neurodegenaration of the substantia nigra (SN) followed by the appearance of ED1(+) cells (macrophage/microglia). ED1(+) cells were observed for at least 8 weeks after hemorrhage. Phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) was shown in ED1(+) cells with the e...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Imamura N,Hida H,Aihara N,Ishida K,Kanda Y,Nishino H,Yamada K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the amygdala's role in survival mechanisms, and its pivotal contributions to psychological processes, it is no surprise that it is one of the most well-studied brain regions. One of the common methods for understanding the functional role of the amygdala is the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Murphy JE,Yanes JA,Kirby LAJ,Reid MA,Robinson JL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic properties of horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and optokinetic response (OKR) were studied in mice. The VOR was examined in the dark (VORD), in the light (VORL) and in the condition in which most of the visual field moves synchronously with the head motion (VORF). A mouse and/or a surrounding screen wi...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Iwashita M,Kanai R,Funabiki K,Matsuda K,Hirano T

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of serotonin on nitric oxide (NO) production in the ventral nerve cord (VNC) of the earthworm Eisenia fetida was investigated by a bio-imaging and an electrochemical technique. In the bio-imaging, the spatial pattern of NO production in VNC was visualized using an NO-specific fluorescent dye, diaminofluorescein...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kitamura Y,Naganoma Y,Horita H,Ogawa H,Oka K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal degeneration appears to be associated with changes in anti-ubiquitin immunoreactivity (UIR). To elucidate the relationship between the two events, we examined the time course of changes in UIR in pyramidal neurons of hippocampal organotypic cultures following exposure to an excitotoxin, N-methyl-D-aspartate (...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Okada M,Sakaguchi T,Kawasaki K

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We newly developed an infrared video-oculographic system for on-line tracking of the eye position in awake and head-fixed mice, with high temporal resolution (240 Hz). The system consists of a commercially available high-speed CCD camera and an image processing software written in LabVIEW run on IBM-PC with a plug-in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sakatani T,Isa T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate temporal characteristics of oscillatory neural activity and the effect of chronic dopamine depletion on it, local field potentials were measured in anesthetized rats without or with a 6-OHDA lesion at either the ventral tegmental area or the substantia nigra compacta, using a pair of electrodes...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Lee KM,Ahn TB,Jeon BS,Kim DG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, little was known about the rostral part of the dorsal premotor cortex (PMdr). In the present study, somatotopical representations of the PMdr were electrophysiologically identified in the macaque monkey, and the distribution of corticostriatal input from the forelimb region of the PMdr was analyzed in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tachibana Y,Nambu A,Hatanaka N,Miyachi S,Takada M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines related neuroinflammation and N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) mediated nociceptive transmission are pivotal determinants in the pathogenesis of opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH), but little is known about specific mechanism and treatment. Chemokine CXCL12 with its receptor CXCR4 is implicated in diffe...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Li T,Wang H,Wang J,Chen Y,Yang C,Zhao M,Wang G,Yang Z

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify a role of neuronal nitric oxide in neurovascular coupling, we performed cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (CMR(glc)) measurements with positron emission tomography in somatosensory-stimulated cats using a specific neuronal nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, 7-nitroindazole (7-NI...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Hayashi T,Katsumi Y,Mukai T,Inoue M,Nagahama Y,Oyanagi C,Yamauchi H,Shibasaki H,Fukuyama H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypnosis often leads people to obey a suggestion of movement and to lose perceived voluntariness. This inexplicable phenomenon suggests that the state of the motor system may be altered by hypnosis; however, objective evidence for this is still lacking. Thus, we used transcranial magnetic stimulation of the primary mo...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Takarada Y,Nozaki D

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the dynamin family GTPase OPA1 are reportedly the cause of autosomal dominant optic atrophy, the most frequently occurring form of hereditary optic neuropathy. But although the involvement of structural abnormalities of the enzyme in this neurodegenerative disease is clear, little is known about the cell ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Misaka T,Murate M,Fujimoto K,Kubo Y

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A disynaptic projection from the spinal cord to the striatum was observed in the rat light and electron microscopically. An anterograde tracer, wheat germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase was injected into the ventral gray matter of the upper cervical spinal cord, and a retrograde tracer, biotinylated d...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nakamura Y,Otake K,Tokuno H

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prenatal exposure to nicotine (PNE) has been associated with a myriad of physiological, cognitive, and behavioral effects in the developing offspring. In this study, CD-1 dams were given injections of nicotine or control vehicle throughout gestation and their offspring were raised to 6 months of age. Adult mice were a...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Santiago SE,Huffman KJ

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal development is composed of the complex steps which involve many signaling proteins. On the other hand, there are many proteins highly expressed in the differentiated neurons at developmental stages, but of which physiological functions are not precisely known so far. Glycoprotein 6a (GPM6a) currently belongs ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ito Y,Honda A,Igarashi M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the patterns of membrane potential changes in vocal cord tensor motoneurons, i.e. cricothyroid muscle motoneurons (CTMs), during fictive breathing, vocalization, coughing, and swallowing in decerebrate paralyzed cats to determine the nature of central drives to CTMs during these behaviors. CTMs were identif...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Numasawa T,Shiba K,Nakazawa K,Umezaki T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature rat spinal cord cDNA libraries constructed in lambda gt10 and lambda ZAPII were screened with an oligonucleotide probe (39 mer), and 4 clones that possess DNA-inserts encoding a glycine receptor subunit were obtained. The cloned cDNAs were used to reconstruct the nucleotide sequence of the full-length open read...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Akagi H,Hirai K,Hishinuma F

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the representation of facial skin areas in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI), we recorded magnetic fields evoked by air pressure-induced tactile stimulation applied to six points on the face, lower lip and thumb. The thumb area in the SI was located more medial and superior to the lip area, which wa...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nguyen BT,Tran TD,Hoshiyama M,Inui K,Kakigi R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of a live attenuated herpes simplex virus (betaH1)-mediated gene delivery into the central nervous system (CNS) was regulated by growth inhibition with ganciclovir (GCV) and the effect of this transgene expression system on the physiologic response was characterized by the acoustic startle response an...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Fukuda Y,Yamamura J,Uwano T,Nishijo H,Kurokawa M,Fukuda M,Ono T,Shiraki K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to study the projection of the group y of the vestibular nuclei and the dentate and fastigial nuclei of the cerebellum to the interstitial nucleus of Cajal (INC) in cats by using retrograde axonal transport of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and electrophysiological methods; and to study the ve...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Fukushima K,Terashima T,Kudo J,Inoue Y,Kato M

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study evidenced hypothesis that mitochondrial dysfunction-oxidative stress-dependent apoptotic pathways play a critical role in degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease. Model of rotenone-induced parkinsonism in rats produced decrease in striatal complex I activity and reduced glutathion...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Abdin AA,Sarhan NI

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is a very complex chronic pain state, the detailed molecular mechanisms of which remain unclear. In the present study, Shank3 was found to play an important role in neuropathic pain in rats following spared nerve injury (SNI). Shank3 was upregulated in the spinal dorsal horn of rats subjected to SNI, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Zhang X,Li X,Wang H,Xie X,Li Y,Xu X,Su S,Zhao H,Li J,Ke C,Liu J

更新日期：2020-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in synaptic efficacy at the parallel fiber (PF)-Purkinje cell (PC) synapse are postulated to be a cellular basis for motor learning. Although long-term efficacy changes lasting more than an hour at this synapse, i.e., long-term potentiation and depression, have been extensively studied, relatively short lastin...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Goto J,Inoue T,Kuruma A,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the differences between peripheral nerve (PN) and embryonic homologous CNS structures as a conduit for CNS axons, spinal cord segments in neonatal rats were removed at the mid-thoracic level and PN or embryonic spinal cord (ESC) segments were grafted into the vacancy. Neural connections across the graft were ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Asada Y,Kawaguchi S,Hayashi H,Nakamura T

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00