Reduced wheel running and blunted effects of voluntary exercise in LPA1-null mice: the importance of assessing the amount of running in transgenic mice studies.

abstract：:The cranial nerves and the brain fiber systems of the medaka (Oryzias latipes) fry are revealed by a whole-mount staining method. Newly hatched fry of an albino strain of the medaka were fixed, partially digested with trypsin, treated in 1% Triton X-100, and finally immunohistochemically stained using anti-neurofilame...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ishikawa Y,Hyodo-Taguchi Y

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal stress, viral infection, and obstetric complications, which trigger cytokine signaling, are hypothesized to be involved in schizophrenia and its related disorders. The etiologic contribution of individual cytokines to such psychiatric disorders, however, remains to be evaluated. To estimate the impact of peri...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tohmi M,Tsuda N,Watanabe Y,Kakita A,Nawa H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) is a serine protease that converts the inactive precursor plasminogen to the active protease plasmin. In the central nervous system, tPA has been suggested to participate in plasticity, memory and the neuronal degeneration caused by excitotoxins, but its precise functions during...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nagai N,Urano T,Endo A,Takahashi H,Takada Y,Takada A

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent advent of neuroimaging techniques provides an opportunity to examine brain regions related to a specific memory process such as episodic memory encoding. There is, however, a possibility that areas active during an assumed episodic memory encoding task, compared with a control task, involve not only areas d...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Fujii T,Okuda J,Tsukiura T,Ohtake H,Suzuki M,Kawashima R,Itoh M,Fukuda H,Yamadori A

更新日期：2002-12-01 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：:This study was designed to evaluate the anticonvulsant effects of imperatorin (a furanocoumarin isolated from fruits of Angelica archangelica) in the mouse maximal electroshock seizure threshold model. The threshold for electroconvulsions in mice was determined at several times: 15, 30, 60 and 120 min after i.p. admin...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Luszczki JJ,Glowniak K,Czuczwar SJ

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the ability of 5-hydroxytryptamine(2C) (5-HT(2C)) receptors in the hippocampus to enhance locomotor activity in rats was investigated by local infusion. Intraperitoneal injection of the selective 5-HT(2C) antagonist SB 242084 (1 mg/kg) significantly increased rats motor activity, while the effect...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Takahashi H,Takada Y,Urano T,Takada A

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:The A5 is an unique membrane protein that is expressed in the neurons of the visual system and general somatic sensory system of Xenopus laevis. We cultured retinal explants or trigeminal ganglion neurons on the monolayers of A5-expressing line cells obtained by transfection with the cDNA, and found that the A5-expres...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Hirata T,Takagi S,Fujisawa H

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:Recent studies have shown that certain aromatic aldehydes are ligands for olfactory receptors expressed in mammalian sperm cells and induce sperm chemotaxis. Using a conditioning paradigm, the olfactory sensitivity of five CD-1 mice for seven aromatic aldehydes was investigated. With all seven stimuli, the mice discri...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Larsson L,Laska M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cats were trained to reach to an illuminated tube placed horizontally at shoulder level and retrieve food with the forepaw. The trajectory of an infrared light emitting diode, taped to the wrist dorsum, was recorded with a SELSPOT-like recording system. Movement paths and velocity profiles were compared before and aft...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Pettersson LG,Lundberg A,Alstermark B,Isa T,Tantisira B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-pulse TMS to the human motor cortex (M1) influences reaction time (RT). We may summarize from previous studies where different groups of subjects participated in various types of RT tasks that TMS above motor threshold (MT) delays RT, whereas TMS below MT shortens RT and that these RT changes depends on TMS t...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Hashimoto T,Inaba D,Matsumura M,Naito E

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eugenol modulates neuronal activity through actions on voltage-gated ionic channels and/or transient receptor potential channels. We previously suggested that eugenol inhibited cellular (and/or network) mechanisms essential for the maintenance of the respiratory burst activity in a brainstem-spinal cord preparation fr...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kotani S,Yazawa I,Onimaru H,Izumizaki M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methamphetamine (METH) is a psychostimulant that causes damage to dopamine (DA) axons and to non-monoaminergic neurons in the brain. The aim of the present study was to investigate short- and long-term effects of neurotoxic METH treatment on novelty-induced locomotor activity in mice. Male BALB/c mice, 12-14 weeks old...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Krasnova IN,Hodges AB,Ladenheim B,Rhoades R,Phillip CG,Cesena A,Ivanova E,Hohmann CF,Cadet JL

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal neurogenesis is influenced by many factors. In this study, we examined the effect of tactile stimulation (tickling), which induced positive emotion, on neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus. Four week-old rats were tickled for 5 min/day on 5 consecutive days and received 5-bromo-2'-deox...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yamamuro T,Senzaki K,Iwamoto S,Nakagawa Y,Hayashi T,Hori M,Sakamoto S,Murakami K,Shiga T,Urayama O

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the ascending and descending axonal trajectories of excitatory vestibular neurons related to the anterior semicircular canal, by means of local stimulation and spike-triggered signal averaging techniques in anesthetized cats. More than 200 vestibular neurons related to the ampullary nerve of the anterior se...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Uchino Y,Hirai N

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:The role of GABA in medial preoptico-anterior hypothalamic area in the regulation of spontaneous sleep-wakefulness and rapid eye movement sleep was investigated in this study. Local microinjection of picrotoxin, a GABA-A antagonist, into this area increased quiet wakefulness but significantly reduced deep sleep and ra...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ali M,Jha SK,Kaur S,Mallick BN

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Mannosidosis is a lysosomal storage disease resulting from a deficiency of the enzyme alpha-D-mannosidase. A major feature of alpha-mannosidosis is progressive neurological decline, for which there is no safe and effective treatment available. We have a guinea pig model of alpha-mannosidosis that models the huma...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Robinson AJ,Meedeniya AC,Hemsley KM,Auclair D,Crawley AC,Hopwood JJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is a susceptibility gene for major mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Although the roles of DISC1 in nervous system development and functions are increasingly recognized, pathophysiological mechanisms underlying a range of neuropsychiatric symptoms caus...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Flores R 3rd,Hirota Y,Armstrong B,Sawa A,Tomoda T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a method of monitoring brain oxygenation. This technique investigates hemodynamic changes in the cerebral cortex. fNIRS is widely used in clinical and scientific research. In this review, we focus on the applications of fNIRS on neonates. Here, applications form two dis...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Peng C,Hou X

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The DYT1 gene containing a trinucleotide deletion (DeltaGAG) is linked to early-onset dystonia, a neurological movement disorder of involuntary muscle contractions. To understand DYT1's contribution to dystonia, we produced and analyzed Dyt1 knockdown (KD) mice that expressed a reduced level of torsinA protein encoded...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Dang MT,Yokoi F,Pence MA,Li Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated a transgenic rat strain with a missense mutation in V286L (V286L-TG), in the gene encoding the neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor β2 subunit (CHRNB2) found in patients with autosomal dominant nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (ADNFLE). To confirm that V286L-TG rats exhibit seizures similar to those o...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Shiba Y,Mori F,Yamada J,Migita K,Nikaido Y,Wakabayashi K,Kaneko S,Okada M,Hirose S,Ueno S

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholism is a psychiatric condition that develops through neuroadaptations in response to neuronal stresses caused by chronic ethanol intake. Neurons can adapt to ethanol-induced metabolic changes by activating cellular protective mechanisms, including autophagy. Here we show that expression of Ulk1, a gene critical...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sumitomo A,Ueta K,Mauchi S,Hirai K,Horike K,Hikida T,Sakurai T,Sawa A,Tomoda T

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular pH (pH(i)) plays an important role in the regulation of central nervous system function. In the present study, we examined whether hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S), a recently recognized neuromodulator, regulates pH(i) in rat primary cultured glia cells. pH(i) was measured with a fluorescent sensitive dye, BCECF...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Lu M,Choo CH,Hu LF,Tan BH,Hu G,Bian JS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role mesostriatal dopamine system plays in pain processing, we examined the withdrawal response of rat hindpaws to mechanical stimulus at 1, 4, and 12 weeks after unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesions of the mesostriatal pathway. In all of the 6-OHDA rats examined, almost no tyrosine hydroxy...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Takeda R,Ikeda T,Tsuda F,Abe H,Hashiguchi H,Ishida Y,Nishimori T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable evidence suggests that an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor plays a crucial role in memory and cognitive function. To identify the role of this receptor in higher functions of the brain, we delivered antisense oligonucleotides against an NMDA-NR1 subunit (NR1) to the hippocampus in rats using the HVJ-l...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Inada K,Ishigooka J,Anzai T,Suzuki E,Miyaoka H,Saji M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the number and size of motoneurons and myelinated nerve fibers innervating the medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscle in the hindlimb of rats that were subjected to swimming for 10 months (30 min, 3 days/week) from 17 to 27 months of age. The number of MG motoneurons in exercised aged rats was slightly, but not ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kanda K,Hashizume K

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trauma to the spinal cord initiates a series of cellular and biochemical processes that damage both neurons and glia. TGF-beta and its receptors are expressed around the injury site following a spinal cord injury. Here, we report that the intrathecal administration of a neutralizing antibody to TGF-beta1 in rats with ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kohta M,Kohmura E,Yamashita T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00