Saliency-guided neural prosthesis for visual attention: design and simulation.

abstract：:Visual-spatial navigation in familiar and unfamiliar environments is an essential requirement of daily life. Animal studies indicated the importance of the hippocampus for navigation. Neuroimaging studies demonstrated gender difference or strategies dependent difference of neural substrates for navigation. Using funct...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ohnishi T,Matsuda H,Hirakata M,Ugawa Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic and fatal disease, in which neuronal damage at its late stage cannot be easily reversed. Because AD progression is caused by multiple factors including diverse cellular processes, studies on AD pathogenesis at the molecular and cellular level are challenging. Based on the lessons ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Chun H,Lee CJ

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat hippocampal CA1 neurons recorded intracellularly from tissue slices, a rapid depolarization occurred approximately 5 min after application of ischemia-simulating medium. In extracellular recordings obtained from CA1 region, a rapid negative-going DC potential (rapid DC potential) was recorded, corresponding to ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Uchikado H,Tanaka E,Yamamoto S,Isagai T,Shigemori M,Higashi H

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical properties of probes that improve amyloid detection by non-invasive (19)F magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are of interest. We synthesized benzoxazole compounds with trifluoromethoxy groups, and found that these compounds displayed sharp (19)F nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals in an assay buffer. H...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Amatsubo T,Morikawa S,Inubushi T,Urushitani M,Taguchi H,Shirai N,Hirao K,Kato M,Morino K,Kimura H,Nakano I,Yoshida C,Okada T,Sano M,Tooyama I

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant activity of [3H]glutamate binding was detected in homogenate particulate preparations obtained from the rat pituitary, in addition to central structures including the cerebral cortex. In contrast to the cerebral binding, the pituitary binding was significantly inhibited by Na+ ions. It was also found tha...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yoneda Y,Ogita K

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How the nervous system controls the sensation and memory of information from the environment is an essential question. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a useful model for elucidating neural information processing that mediates sensation and memory. The entire nervous system of C. elegans consists of only 302 neu...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ohta A,Kuhara A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether mossy fibers (MFs) in the cerebellar hemisphere show delay activity, we recorded MF activity during a wrist movement task with a random instructed delay period in two monkeys. Among 155 task-related MFs, 70 MFs (45%) demonstrated significant delay activity. Those MFs were widely distributed in the c...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ishikawa T,Tomatsu S,Tsunoda Y,Hoffman DS,Kakei S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of ryanodine receptor-like immunoreactivity in the mouse central nervous system was studied using two antibodies raised against synthetic peptides. These peptides represented a region conserved between the cardiac and skeletal muscle forms and a region specific to the cardiac form. Western blotting an...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nakanishi S,Kuwajima G,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The older neurocentric view of the central nervous system (CNS) has changed radically with the growing understanding of the many essential functions of astrocytes. Advances in our understanding of astrocytes include new observations about their structure, organization, function and supportive actions to other cells. A...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Barreto GE,Gonzalez J,Torres Y,Morales L

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an endocrinological concern that environmental endocrine disrupters (EEDs) may influence sexual differentiation. Bisphenol A (BPA), one of EEDs, is released from polycarbonate plastics, and has been detected in the human umbilical cord. In this study, we examined the effect of BPA on the sexual differentiatio...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kubo K,Arai O,Omura M,Watanabe R,Ogata R,Aou S

更新日期：2003-03-01 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 facilitatory masseteric muscle response (FMR) elicited by polyurethane foam strip application between the opposing molars during cortically-induced rhythmic jaw movements (CRJMs) was induced earlier than masticatory force onset. The occurrence of this early response of the FMR (e-FMR) could not be explained by a s...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Komuro A,Masuda Y,Iwata K,Kobayashi M,Kato T,Hidaka O,Morimoto T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expressions of Cry1 and Cry2 mRNA in the rat pineal gland were examined by Northern blot. The levels of Cry1 and Cry2 transcript had a marked circadian rhythm with peaks at circadian time (CT) 20 in constant darkness. But the amplitude of the Cry1 rhythm was higher than that of the Cry2 rhythm. Furthermore, a signific...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nakamura TJ,Shinohara K,Funabashi T,Mitsushima D,Kimura F

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that occurs following an unexpected exposure to a severe psychological event. A history of a brief trauma is reported to affect a risk for future PTSD development; however, little is known about the mechanisms by which a previous trauma exposure drives the s...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Iwasaki S,Sakaguchi T,Ikegaya Y

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:POZ/BTB proteins influence cellular development and in some examples act as oncoproteins. However, several POZ/BTB transcription factors have been found in terminally differentiated neurons, where their functions remain unknown. One example is NAC1, a constitutively-expressed protein that can regulate behaviors associ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Korutla L,Neustadter JH,Fournier KM,Mackler SA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra pars compacta play a major role in goal-directed behavior and reinforcement learning. The study of their local interactions has revealed that they are connected by electrical synapses. Connexins, the molecular substrate of electrical synapses, constitute a multigenic family...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Vandecasteele M,Glowinski J,Venance L

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:Damage to the central nervous system (CNS) leads to the disruption of the axonal network and causes neurological dysfunction. Recovery of neurological functions requires restoration of the axonal network; however, injured axons in the adult mammalian CNS rarely regenerate after injury. Failure of the injured axon to r...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Muramatsu R,Yamashita T

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Responses of Purkinje cells to parallel fibre stimulation and to ionophoretically applied glutamate agonists, L-glutamate, L-aspartate, quisqualate, kainate and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), were extracellularly recorded in a superficial folium of the dorsal paraflocculus of high-decerebrate rabbits. NMDA caused an inh...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kano M,Kato M,Chang HS

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a recently identified member of the secretin/vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) family. There are at least two types of receptor for PACAP: type I (PACAPR), which specifically binds PACAP; and type II (VIP/PACAPR), which binds both PACAP and VIP. The l...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Shioda S,Shuto Y,Somogyvari-Vigh A,Legradi G,Onda H,Coy DH,Nakajo S,Arimura A

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the efficacy of mifepristone on weight restoration in rats subjected to dietary restriction and methylphenidate administration. 25 female rats aged between 9 and 12 months were divided into 2 groups: 5 controls (exposed only to dietary restriction) and 20 rats that were administered 5 mg/kg/d of m...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Bou Khalil R,Smayra V,Saliba Y,Hajal J,Bakhos JJ,Souaiby L,Richa S,Tamraz J,Farès N

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the functional organization in the monkey inferotemporal cortex, which is the last exclusively visual area along the ventral visual cortical pathway, optical imaging based on intrinsic signals was carried out. We first conducted single-cell recordings with microelectrodes and determined the features cri...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Wang G,Tanifuji M,Tanaka K

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purposes of the present study were to determine which upper airway movements cause a difference in the expiratory airflow pathway between sneezing and coughing, and to develop a new animal model for studying the neural mechanism of sneezing in paralyzed animals, i.e. fictive sneezing. We compared the upper airway ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Satoh I,Shiba K,Kobayashi N,Nakajima Y,Konno A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of arachidonic acid by cyclooxygenase is one of the primary sources of reactive oxygen species in the ischemic brain. Neuronal overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 has recently been shown to contribute to neurodegeneration following ischemic injury. In the present study, we examined the possibility that the n...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Candelario-Jalil E,Alvarez D,Merino N,León OS

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the molecular mechanisms that regulate the maturation of action potential, we began by examining voltage-dependent K+ currents, known to contribute to the maturation of action potential, of developing granule cells in mouse cerebellar microexplant cultures. The migration of developing granule cells in thi...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Wakazono Y,Kurahashi T,Nakahira K,Nagata I,Takayama C,Inoue Y,Kaneko A,Ikenaka K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Education involves learning new information and acquiring cognitive skills. These require various cognitive processes including learning, memory, and language. Since cognitive processes activate associated brain areas, we proposed that the brains of elderly people with longer education periods would show traces of rep...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kim J,Chey J,Kim SE,Kim H

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Adult mammals could spontaneously achieve a partial sensory-motor recovery after spinal cord injury, by mechanisms including synaptic plasticity. We previously showed that this recovery is associated to the expression of synapsin-I, and that sonic hedgehog and Notch-1 could be also involved in plasticity. The role of ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Gulino R,Gulisano M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to elucidate the functional roles of the laryngeal afferents in controlling vocalization. We investigated the effects of laryngeal deafferentation (sectioning the internal branch of the superior laryngeal nerve (ISLN)) on respiration and voice quality during electrically-induced vocalization in twelve ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Shiba K,Yoshida K,Miura T

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00