Projections from eye movement-evoking cerebral cortices to the striatum and claustrum in the cat.

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to test the possibility that the catecholaminergic projectional pathway from the vagus nerve to the medullary visceral zone (MVZ) thence to the paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus (PVN) was involved in the cytokine-to-brain communication. A triple labeling method in which WGA-HRP r...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yang ZJ,Rao ZR,Ju G

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opiates have been used extensively in the treatment of pain but with the severe side effect of addiction, which is believed to be related to opiates' direct (primary) or indirect (secondary) neurotoxicity. In this study, the effects of opioids on cell growth and apoptosis have been examined in human neuroblastoma cell...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yin DL,Ren XH,Zheng ZL,Pu L,Jiang LZ,Ma L,Pei G

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural activity on cellular, regional, and behavioral levels shows context-dependence. Here we suggest the processing of input-output relationships in terms divisive normalization (DN), including (i) summing/averaging inputs and (ii) normalizing output against input stages, as a computational mechanism to underlie con...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Northoff G,Mushiake H

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is a member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily and acts as a neurotrophic factor for the nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) system. Although previous studies have shown that pretreatment with GDNF could prevent degenerative changes of nigrostriatal DA system ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Aoi M,Date I,Tomita S,Ohmoto T

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic muscular limb pain requires the adoption of motor patterns distinct from the classic ipsilateral flexion, crossed extension and corresponding reciprocal inhibitions to acute exteroceptive stimulation. Using selective chemical activation of group III/IV afferents in gastrocnemius-soleus (GS) muscles we investig...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Schomburg ED,Steffens H,Pilyavskii AI,Maisky VA,Brück W,Dibaj P,Sears TA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out voltage-sensitive dye imaging of the guinea pig auditory cortex to determine whether the ongoing and spontaneous activities of the cortex exhibit spatial coherence reflecting the tonotopic organization of the cortex. We used independent component analysis and a signal-plus-noise model to extract ongoing...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yoshida T,Sakagami M,Katura T,Yamazaki K,Tanaka S,Iwamoto M,Tanaka N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is a common cause of death and severe disability among adults in developed countries. Cigarette smoking adversely affects human health in many ways and is considered to be a risk factor for a stroke. However, the mechanism that determines the relative importance of neurotrophins in this process remains unclear....

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yang JT,Chang CN,Wu JH,Chung CY,Weng HH,Cheng WC,Lee TH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatty acid-binding protein 3 (Fabp3) is an intracellular lipid trafficking protein that mediates energy metabolism and long-chain fatty acid-related signaling. Fabp3 is expressed in the spiral ganglion neurons and supporting cells of the organ of Corti. However, it is unclear what role Fabp3 plays in the cochlea. Here...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Suzuki J,Oshima T,Yoshida N,Kimura R,Takata Y,Owada Y,Kobayashi T,Katori Y,Osumi N

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied hippocampal cellular proliferation and neurogenesis processes in a model of transient global cerebral ischemia in gerbils by labelling dividing cells with 5'-Bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU). Surrounding the region of selective neuronal death (CA1 pyramidal layer of the hippocampus), an important increase in re...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Salazar-Colocho P,Lanciego JL,Del Rio J,Frechilla D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which could improve learning and memory, is widely used in psychiatry and neurology as a therapeutic approach. There are few studies reporting effective countermeasures to cognition decline in astronauts during space flight. Accordingly, we examined whether rTMS was...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Zhai B,Fu J,Xiang S,Shang Y,Yan Y,Yin T,Zhang T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-6 (IL-6, human recombinant) promoted the survival of catecholaminergic neurons from fetal and postnatal rat midbrains as assessed by an immunohistochemical staining for tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) in culture using a chemically defined medium. The maximal dose of IL-6 for the cell survival of postnatal P15 ra...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kushima Y,Hama T,Hatanaka H

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy is a chronic sleep disorder marked by excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations. Since the discovery of sleep onset REM periods (SOREMPs) in narcoleptic patients, narcolepsy has often been regarded as a disorder of REM sleep generation: REM sleep intrudes in act...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nishino S,Riehl J,Hong J,Kwan M,Reid M,Mignot E

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAP-22, a neuronal tissue-enriched acidic membrane protein, is a Ca(2+)-dependent calmodulin binding protein and has similar biochemical characteristics to GAP-43 (neuromodulin). Recent biochemical studies have demonstrated that NAP-22 localizes in the membrane raft domain with a cholesterol-dependent manner. Since th...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kashihara M,Miyata S,Kumanogoh H,Funatsu N,Matsunaga W,Kiyohara T,Sokawa Y,Maekawa S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that endothelin-B receptor stimulation increases neural progenitor proliferation, partly in G(i) and extracellular matrix molecule-dependent manner. In the present study, we investigated whether G(q/11) is also involved in this response and how G(i) and G(q/11) might regulate the extracellular...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Morishita R,Ueda H,Ito H,Takasaki J,Nagata K,Asano T

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been postulated that horizontal cells (HCs) send feedback signals onto cones via a proton feedback mechanism, which generates the center-surround receptive field of bipolar cells, and color-opponent signals in many non-mammalian vertebrates. Here we used a strong pH buffer, HEPES, to reduce extracellular proton...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kamiji NL,Yamamoto K,Hirasawa H,Yamada M,Usui S,Kurokawa M

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Epidemiological studies have shown that maternal infection during early pregnancy increases the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e., schizophrenia or autism) in offspring. Recently, diagnostic/stratification biomarkers for the maternal immune activation background in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders h...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Oh-Nishi A,Koga K,Maeda T,Suhara T

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Swelling of brain cells is one of the physiological responses associated with neuronal activation. To investigate underlying mechanisms, we analyzed interactions between changes in cell volume and synaptic responses in the hippocampal slices from rodents. Swelling within the CA1 area was detected as increases in trans...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Takagi S,Obata K,Tsubokawa H

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudorabies virus (PrV) as a neuronal tracer was microinjected into the concave surface of the puppy's left pinna to establish the morphological basis of somato-visceral linkage. The virus infected neurons were detected by FITC conjugated with polyclonal swine anti-PrV serum. Labelled neurons were localized in: (1) t...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Chien CH,Shieh JY,Liao MH,Ling EA,Wen CY

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the first analysis of the Drosophila courtship song more than 50 years ago, the molecular and neural mechanisms underlying the acoustic communication between fruit flies has been studied extensively. The results of recent studies utilizing a wide array of genetic tools provide novel insights into the anatomic an...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kamikouchi A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the effect of nicotine exposure on gustatory plasticity in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. The chemotactic response of wild-type N2 nematodes pre-exposed to 100mM NaCl with 3.0mM nicotine was almost the same as that of mock-conditioned nematodes unexposed to NaCl; however, the respo...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Matsuura T,Miura H,Nishino A

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Mayahara's method, the distribution of K(+)-dependent p-nitrophenylphosphatase activity was examined electron microscopically in the synaptic regions of the cerebral cortex of 10, 15 and 60-day-old Wistar rats. The enzyme achieved gradually its characteristic localization and uniform distribution. The main devel...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Dolapchieva S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a transgenic mouse model in which astrocytes express an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under the control of the mouse glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) promoter. EGFP, which is characteristically found throughout the cell, was expressed in these animals even in astrocytic fine process...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Suzuki R,Watanabe J,Arata S,Funahashi H,Kikuyama S,Shioda S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal changes in kainate-induced seizure activity and hippocampal NO generation were evaluated simultaneously in conscious rats by using in vivo microdialysis and by determining the concentrations of nitrite and nitrate in perfusates. Intraperitoneal injection of kainic acid produced 'wet dog shake', focal seizure ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kashihara K,Sakai K,Marui K,Shohmori T

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of multiple proteoglycan species is a characteristic of the brain. The structural features of individually characterized proteoglycans in the brain are first introduced in brief, then some examples are shown that suggest a relationship between multiple proteoglycans and the many distinct cell types and ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Oohira A,Katoh-Semba R,Watanabe E,Matsui F

更新日期：1994-09-01 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：:Basigin (Bsg) is a transmembrane glycoprotein belonging to the immunoglobulin superfamily. Chicken Bsg (HT7/neurothelin/ 5A11) is expressed in neuroblasts, but disappears from neurons after a specific stage of cytodifferentiation, and becomes restrictedly expressed in the capillary endothelium in the adult brain. We s...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Fan QW,Yuasa S,Kuno N,Senda T,Kobayashi M,Muramatsu T,Kadomatsu K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of the gravitational vertical on the perception of reversible figures. Each reversible figure had two interpretations depending on whether it was viewed vertically in one orientation or upside down. When it was presented horizontally, the two interpretations alternated. Subjects were required t...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yamamoto S,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses from 2-4 muscle spindle afferents from triceps surae and/or posterior biceps and semitendinosus muscles were simultaneously recorded in cats anaesthetized with alpha-chloralose. It was demonstrated that stretch of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the ipsilateral knee causes changes in dynamic and/or s...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Johansson H,Sjölander P,Sojka P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diazepam binding inhibitor (DBI), a putative endogenous polypeptide ligand for benzodiazepine (BZD) receptors, has been shown to act as an inverse BZD receptor agonist in the brain. We previously suggested that the social isolation stress-induced decrease in pentobarbital sleeping time in mice was partly due to an inc...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Dong E,Matsumoto K,Tohda M,Kaneko Y,Watanabe H

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00