Substantial telomere shortening in the substantia nigra of telomerase-deficient mice does not increase susceptibility to MPTP-induced dopamine depletion.

abstract：:The serotonin transporter (SERT) terminates serotonergic neurotransmission by rapid reuptake of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) into the nerve terminal or axonal varicosities. SERT represents the target of various antidepressants which inhibit 5-HT transport and are widely used for the pharmacotherapy of depression. Here, ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Horschitz S,Hummerich R,Schloss P

更新日期：2001-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to ascertain whether disturbances of neurogenesis occur in chronic neurodegenerative disorders, we assessed hippocampal cell proliferation in the R6/1 transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease (HD). Using BrdU labelling for dividing cells at two different time points (5 and 20 weeks) in transgenic and wi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lazic SE,Grote H,Armstrong RJ,Blakemore C,Hannan AJ,van Dellen A,Barker RA

更新日期：2004-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We localized the gene expression of angiotensin II receptor subtypes (AT1A, AT1B, and AT2) in 2-week-old rat brain by in situ hybridization using subtype specific riboprobes. AT1A receptor mRNA but not AT1B or AT2 receptor mRNA was expressed in the subfornical organ and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. AT1...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Johren O,Inagami T,Saavedra JM

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies in adult rats have demonstrated that the neurotrophin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), is present in virtually all cells of the pituitary intermediate lobe. In the present study, we demonstrate that cells cultured from adult intermediate lobe pituitary (ILP) rapidly lose their BDNF immunorea...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Höpker VH,Kjaer B,Varon S

更新日期：1997-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Formalin fixation reduces beta-amyloid precursor protein (beta APP) immunoreactivity which restricts its study in archival tissue. Formic acid pretreatment has previously been used in an attempt to overcome this problem, but makes the sections very friable. In the present study, a microwave antigen retrieval method ha...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sherriff FE,Bridges LR,Jackson P

更新日期：1994-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological activation of group III metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) or inhibition of group I mGluR by subtype-selective ligands is neuroprotective in experimental models of Parkinson's disease. The aim of this study was to investigate whether targeting both receptor subtypes simultaneously produces enhanc...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vernon AC,Croucher MJ,Dexter DT

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:I have investigated the role of Ca2+ on M-current (IK(M)) inhibition by the muscarinic agonist oxo-M using the perforated patch voltage clamp technique. Oxo-M inhibited IK(M) in cultured SCG cells with an IC50 of 1.2 microM in 2 mM [Ca2+]o, and 13.1 microM in nominally Ca(2+)-free external solution. BAPTA-AM, ryanodin...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lamas JA

更新日期：1999-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hindlimb unloading (HU) can cause motion and cognition dysfunction, although its cellular and molecular mechanisms are not well understood. The aim of the present study was to determine the stereological parameters of the brain areas involved in motion (motor cortex) and spatial learning - memory (hippocampus) under a...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Salehi MS,Mirzaii-Dizgah I,Vasaghi-Gharamaleki B,Zamiri MJ

更新日期：2016-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have identified novel splice variants of the Na+ channel alpha subunit mRNA from cultured rat astrocytes and neuroblastoma cells. These splice variants are characterized by premature truncation or deletion of a segment in the third domain of the Na+ channel alpha subunit. The expression of three spli...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Oh Y,Waxman SG

更新日期：1998-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental and clinical studies have revealed that angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker has protective effects against ischemic brain injury, but the mechanism is still obscure. Angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker may also have effects on neurogenesis through the activation of unblocked angiotensin II type 2 re...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wakai T,Yoshioka H,Yagi T,Kato T,Kinouchi H

更新日期：2011-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to compare mismatch responses between hemispheres to changes in sound-source direction. Sixteen adults listened passively to two types of complex non-language sounds presented in separate blocks with midline standards and right- and left-lateralized deviants. Mismatch dipole ampli...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kaiser J,Lutzenberger W,Birbaumer N

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-Synuclein is a major component of neuronal and glial cytoplasmic inclusions in multiple system atrophy (MSA), one of the alpha-synucleinopathies. Recent studies have shown that beta-synuclein, a homolog of alpha-synuclein, inhibits alpha-synuclein aggregation in vitro. We immunohistochemically examined the MSA b...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mori F,Nishie M,Yoshimoto M,Takahashi H,Wakabayashi K

更新日期：2003-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To observe sequential stages in tactile pattern discrimination and their modification with and without attention, we used whole-head anatomically constrained magnetoencephalography to spatiotemporally map brain responses. Eight, normal, right-handed participants discriminated between two patterns presented on the palm...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Reed CL,Hagler DJ Jr,Marinkovic K,Dale A,Halgren E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible role of endogenous cholinergic innervation in hippocampal plasticity is controversial. We studied the role of acetylcholine (ACh) in short- and long-term potentiation (STP and LTP), using the cholinergic neurotoxin 192 IgG-saporin. It was still possible to induce STP the LTP in the CA1 field following com...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jouvenceau A,Billard JM,Lamour Y,Dutar P

更新日期：1996-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative memory mechanism known as long-term potentiation (LTP) has been described in both NMDA-dependent and non-NMDA-dependent forms. The aim of the present study was to determine which of these forms described the LTP generated between perirhinal cortex (PRC) and hippocampus, two structures which have previousl...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Liu P,Bilkey DK

更新日期：1996-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Sound localization can be affected by vision; in the ventriloquism effect, sounds that are hard to localize within hearing become mislocalized toward the location of concurrent visual events. Here we tested whether spatial attention is drawn to the illusory location of a ventriloquized sound. The study exploited our p...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Spence C,Driver J

更新日期：2000-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Ts65DN mice were developed as a model of Down syndrome (DS); they are trisomic for the distal segment of chromosome 16 (MMU16), which contains genes syntenic with some of the genes located on the critical region of human chromosome 21 (HSA21). Since behavioral and neurochemical disturbances have been observed in this ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Megías M,Verduga R,Dierssen M,Flórez J,Insausti R,Crespo D

更新日期：1997-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning and memory are cognitive functions commonly impaired after surgery, especially in elderly patients. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of sevoflurane anaesthesia on episodic-like memory in young and aged wild-type mice and mice with altered nicotinic cholinergic neurotransmission (beta2KO). Mice learned objec...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wiklund A,Granon S,Faure P,Sundman E,Changeux JP,Eriksson LI

更新日期：2009-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:High homocysteine serum level has been regarded as one of the important factors that influence the development of schizophrenia. Genetic variations of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, which is a main enzyme reducing homocysteine level, are reported in schizophrenic patients. We measured the serum level of homocyst...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lee YS,Han DH,Jeon CM,Lyoo IK,Na C,Chae SL,Cho SC

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of the main olfactory bulb of an insectivore, the laboratory shrew (Suncus murinus), was studied morphologically. We found particular small spherical regions, nidi, at the border between the glomerular and external plexiform layer (EPL), which were intensely GAD positive, 30-60 microm in diameter, and...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kosaka K,Kosaka T

更新日期：1999-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinally administered adenosine reduces hypersensitivity in animals and humans with nerve injury, but also causes transient pain in humans and reduces tonic inhibition in spinal neurons. Nerve injury results in increased tonic spinal cord adenosine A1 receptor activation, consistent with a role for adenosine to genera...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Martin TJ,Eisenach JC,Misler J,Childers SR

更新日期：2006-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) is a member of the opiocortin family of peptides. Within the central nervous system, ACTH-synthesizing neurons are generally considered to be located within the hypothalamus and are known to be involved in the neural circuitry underlying the integration of stress responses. We now re...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Güntürkün O,Deviche P

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One approach to understanding the function of presenilin 1 (PS1), is to discover those proteins with which it interacts. Evidence for a function in developmental patterning came from C. elegans, in which a PS homologue was identified by screening for suppressors of a mutation in Notch/lin-12, a gene which specifies ce...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Zhou J,Liyanage U,Medina M,Ho C,Simmons AD,Lovett M,Kosik KS

更新日期：1997-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic factors are involved in variation in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), which is also observed among various inbred mouse strains. The CD1 mouse strain is often used in toxicological and genetic experiments. However, there is little literature using this strain to study long-term neurologic abnormalities...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wei S,Xu Z,Gao J,Ding J,Xiao M

更新日期：2013-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:While effects of attention on late and middle latency components of the evoked potential have been demonstrated, similar effects on brain stem evoked potentials--in particular on the human frequency-following potential (FFP)--are controversial. The FFP is a response to tone bursts in the frequency range of human langu...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hoormann J,Falkenstein M,Hohnsbein J

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:As early-onset hypothyroidism produces audiogenic seizure susceptibility (AGS) in rodents, the role of TR alpha 1 and TR beta thyroid hormone receptors in AGS was investigated. AGS occurs in mice lacking specifically TR beta (Thrb(tm1/tm1)) and is marked by early onset and persistence, thereby differing from mouse str...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ng L,Pedraza PE,Faris JS,Vennström B,Curran T,Morreale de Escobar G,Forrest D

更新日期：2001-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we ask whether or not the involuntary capture of attention by a specific information type can produce domain-specific activation. Participants indicated the presence of a flicker in rapidly alternating letter-string masks presented in the periphery. Despite letters not being relevant to the task, we fou...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Finkbeiner M,Slotnick SD,Moo LR,Caramazza A

更新日期：2007-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that in a cluttered visual scene, the magnocellular (M) pathway is crucial for focusing attention serially on the objects in the field. Since developmental dyslexia is commonly associated with an M pathway deficit, we compared reading impaired children and age-matched normal readers in a searc...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vidyasagar TR,Pammer K

更新日期：1999-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceptual regularities have been investigated intensely in music research but to a lesser extent in speech research possibly because of its irregular nature. People tend to rhythmize almost every given acoustic input though, even if one stimulus is physically identical to the next. Hence, perception of regularities s...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Schmidt-Kassow M,Kotz SA

更新日期：2009-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The L1/NgCAM cell adhesion molecule is involved in neurite outgrowth, axonal fasciculation and cell migration in the nervous system. We studied the effects of antibodies against L1 injected intracranially at various times before and after training 2-day-old chicks in a visual categorization task. Memory retention was ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tiunova A,Anokhin KV,Schachner M,Rose SP

更新日期：1998-05-11 00:00:00