Prostaglandin-induced neuropeptide release from spinal cord.

abstract：:Epileptic seizures cause dynamic, reversible changes in brain function and are often associated with loss of consciousness. Of all seizure types, absence seizures lead to the most selective deficits in consciousness, with relatively little motor or other manifestations. Impaired consciousness in absence seizures is no...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Blumenfeld H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injuries to the adult mammalian spinal cord often lead to severe damage to both ascending (sensory) pathways and descending (motor) nerve pathways without the perspective of complete functional recovery. Future spinal cord repair strategies should comprise a multi-factorial approach addressing several issues, includin...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hendriks WT,Ruitenberg MJ,Blits B,Boer GJ,Verhaagen J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are widely distributed in the central nervous system and have been implicated in multiple behavioral paradigms and pathological conditions. Nicotinic therapeutic interventions require an extensive characterization of native nAChRs including mapping of their distribution and f...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Alkondon M,Albuquerque EX

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During walking, an increase in speed is accompanied by a decrease in the stance phase duration while the swing phase remains relatively invariant. By definition, the rhythm generator in the lumbar spinal cord controls cycle period, phase durations, and phase transitions. Our first aim was to determine if this asymmetr...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Gossard JP,Sirois J,Noué P,Côté MP,Ménard A,Leblond H,Frigon A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) is required for the survival of developing sympathetic and sensory neurons. In the absence of NGF, these neurons undergo protein synthesis-dependent apoptosis. Ten years have gone by since the first reports of specific genes being upregulated during NGF deprivation-induced cell death. Over th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Freeman RS,Burch RL,Crowder RJ,Lomb DJ,Schoell MC,Straub JA,Xie L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disrupted in Schizophrenia-1 (DISC1) is one of the most likely susceptibility genes for schizophrenia (SZ). DISC1 is being established as a hub protein with various functions in the pre- and postnatal development of the nervous system. Since generation of a knockout (KO) mouse has proved challenging, various alternati...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Jaaro-Peled H

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat subcommissural organ (SCO), which forms the roof of the third ventricle is an adequate model to study certain mechanisms of neuron-glia interactions in vivo. The ependymocytes, the main component of the SCO, have a glial origin. They possess particular phenotypic characteristics: they accumulate [3H]GABA by a ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Didier-Bazes M,Chouaf L,Hardin H,Aguera M,Voutsinos B,Belin MF

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objects have specific cognitive attributes, elicit particular visuo-motor responses, and require visual processes beyond primary visual cortex to combine information over extended regions as a basis for the segmentation and integration of visual objects. As well as segmentation, the assignment of region boundaries to ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Braddick O,Atkinson J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent eye-tracking research has revealed that spoken language can guide eye gaze very rapidly (and closely time-locked to the unfolding speech) toward referents in the visual world. We discuss whether, and to what extent, such language-mediated eye movements are automatic rather than subject to conscious and controll...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Mishra RK,Olivers CN,Huettig F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of several mutations causing familial forms of Parkinson's disease (PD) has led to the creation of multiple lines of mice expressing similar genetic alterations. These models present a unique opportunity for understanding pathophysiological mechanisms leading to PD in a mammalian brain and provide m...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Magen I,Chesselet MF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of chimeric retinas has yielded insight on the early development of retina. The close match in chimerism ratios between right and left retinas is significant and supports the idea that both retinas originate from a common population of progenitors. We are able to estimate numbers of progenitor cells that con...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Goldowitz D,Rice DS,Williams RW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impulsive testing, which accurately measures the gain of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) is mostly recorded from only one eye. We measured the horizontal VOR of both eyes in response to graded velocity head impulses in 14 normal subjects. VOR acceleration gains were similar for each eye in both directions at low acc...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Weber KP,Aw ST,Todd MJ,McGarvie LA,Pratap S,Curthoys IS,Halmagyi GM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain processing of pain in humans is based on multiple ascending pathways and brain regions that are involved in several pain components, such as sensory, immediate affective, and secondary affective dimensions. These dimensions are processed both serially and in parallel. They include spinal ascending pathways that ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Price DD,Verne GN,Schwartz JM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intron-specific probes measure heteronuclear RNA (hnRNA) levels and thus approximate the transcription rates of genes, in part because of the rapid turnover of this intermediate form of RNA in the cell nucleus. Previously, we used oxytocin (Oxt)- and vasopressin (Avp)- intron-specific riboprobes to measure changes in ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Scordalakes EM,Yue C,Gainer H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the kidney, the actions of the antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP) renders the collecting duct highly permeable to water. This large increase in water permeability is largely due to the translocation of the water channel aquaporin-2 (AQP-2) from intracellular storage vesicles to the apical plasma membra...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Fenton RA,Moeller HB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial scar encapsulation is thought to be one of the major reasons for the failure of chronic brain-machine interfaces. Many strategies, including modification of the probe surface chemistry, delivery of anti-inflammatory drugs, and changes of probe geometry, have been employed to reduce glial scar formation. We have ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ouyang L,Green R,Feldman KE,Martin DC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective neuronal loss following status epilepticus was first described just under 100 years ago. The acute pathology following status epilepticus was shown to be 'ischemic cell change' and was assumed to arise through hypoxia/ischemia. Less than 30 years ago it was proposed, from experiments in primates, that the se...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Meldrum BS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nervous system can generate rhythms of various frequencies; on the low-frequency side, we have the circuits regulating circadian rhythms with a 24-h period, while on the high-frequency side we have the motor circuits that underlie flight in a hummingbird. Given the ubiquitous nature of rhythms, it is surprising th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Saint-Amant L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this experiment was to investigate whether there were differences in decision-making skills between different age groups (Under 16, 18 and 23) of elite academy footballers on a video-based task of real-life football scenarios. It also explored the relationship between individual performance on the task and ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Farahani J,Soltani P,Rezlescu C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A remarkable preparation for studying development and repair is the CNS of the newborn opossum which, removed in its entirety, survives in culture for more than 1 week. In suitable medium, cells continue to divide, mature and reflex activity is maintained. Moreover, nerve fibers grow rapidly, reliably and extensively ...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Nicholls JG,Vischer H,Varga Z,Erulkar S,Saunders NR

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the superior colliculus in attending and orienting to sensory stimuli is facilitated by the presence within this midbrain nucleus of superimposed maps of different sensory modalities. We have studied the steps involved in the development of topographically-aligned maps of visual and auditory space in the f...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： King AJ,Schnupp JW,Carlile S,Smith AL,Thompson ID

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was generally accepted by the early 1960s that proton beam radiosurgery was too complex and impractical. The need was seen for a new machine. The beam design had to be as good as a proton beam. It was also decided that a static design was preferable even if the evolution of that notion is no longer clear. Complex c...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Ganz JC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniature eye movements occur involuntarily during visual fixation. The most prominent contribution to these fixational eye movements is generated by microsaccades, which are rapid small-amplitude saccades with a rate of about one per second. Recent work demonstrates that microsaccades are optimized to counteract perc...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Engbert R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regaining any locomotor function after spinal cord injury is not only of immediate importance for affected patients but also for clinical research as it allows to investigate mechanisms underlying motor impairment and locomotor recovery. Clinical scores inform on functional outcomes that are clinically meaningful to v...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Awai L,Curt A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past three decades, developmental neurobiologists have made tremendous progress in defining basic principles of brain development. This work has changed the way we think about how brains develop. Thirty years ago, the dominant model was strongly deterministic. The relationship between brain and behavioral dev...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Stiles J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal ganglion cell axons within the globe are functionally specialized being richly provided with many mitochondria. The mitochondria produce the high energy requirement for nerve conduction in the unmyelinated part of the ganglion cell axons. We have proposed that in the initiation of glaucoma, an alteration in th...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Osborne NN

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanism is at the heart of understanding, and this chapter addresses underlying brain mechanisms and pathways of cognition and the impact of sleep on these processes, especially those serving learning and memory. This chapter reviews the current understanding of the relationship between sleep/waking states and cogni...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Poe GR,Walsh CM,Bjorness TE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antidepressants are commonly prescribed for tinnitus. Research thus far provides some support for that treatment, but the literature also raises concerns because tinnitus is a side effect of antidepressant medication. In this chapter, four published double blind placebo-controlled trials of antidepressants for tinnitu...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Robinson S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The receptor tyrosine kinase B, TrkB, is the high-affinity receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). Much evidence supports a role for TrkB signaling in excitatory synapse formation. There have been a number of recent advances in understanding the cell biology of TrkB-mediated excitatory synaptogenesis. T...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Luikart BW,Parada LF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is widespread in the nervous system and is thought to play a role in a variety of different neuronal functions, including learning and memory (see other chapters, this volume). A number of behavioral studies have indicated that NO is involved in several types of learning such as motor learning (Yanag...

journal_title：Progress in brain research

authors： Hawkins RD,Son H,Arancio O

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00