The suppressive influence of moving textured backgrounds on responses of cat striate neurons to moving bars.

abstract：:Hyolaryngeal elevation is essential for airway protection during swallowing and is mainly a reflexive response to oropharyngeal sensory stimulation. Targeted intramuscular electrical stimulation can elevate the resting larynx and, if applied during swallowing, may improve airway protection in dysphagic patients with i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Burnett TA,Mann EA,Stoklosa JB,Ludlow CL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inferior temporal cortex (IT) of the monkey, a final stage in the ventral visual pathway, has been known to process information on two-dimensional (2-D) shape, color, and texture. On the other hand, the dorsal visual pathway leading to the posterior parietal cortex has been known to process information on location...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Uka T,Tanaka H,Yoshiyama K,Kato M,Fujita I

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned 10 full-length variants of PIIH, the gene for I(h) from the spiny lobster, Panulirus interruptus, using reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) and rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE). This gene shows a significant amount of alternative splicing in the S3-S4 and S4-S5 linkers, in the P-loop and the entire S6 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ouyang Q,Goeritz M,Harris-Warrick RM

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) on non-GABAA receptors were investigated with intracellular recordings in CA1 pyramidal cells of rat hippocampal slices in the presence of antagonists of GABAA receptors (50 microM bicuculline and 50 microM picrotoxin), N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptors...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pham TM,Lacaille JC

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated how the ability to extend the fingers and thumb recovers early after stroke and how the ability to extend all of the digits affects grasping performance. We studied 24 hemiparetic patients at 3 and 13 wk post stroke. At each visit, we tested the subjects' ability to actively extend all five dig...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lang CE,DeJong SL,Beebe JA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The sensorimotor synapse of Aplysia expresses various shortlasting changes in synaptic efficacy including homosynaptic depression (HSD) and heterosynaptic facilitation by serotonin (5-HT) either at nondepressed sensory neuron (SN) synaptic connections or at SN synaptic connections first depressed by HSD. We examine...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sun ZY,Schacher S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory were investigated in the octopus using a brain slice preparation of the vertical lobe, an area of the octopus brain involved in learning and memory. Field potential recordings revealed long-term potentiation (LTP) of glutamatergic synaptic field potentials similar to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hochner B,Brown ER,Langella M,Shomrat T,Fiorito G

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to determine whether individuals with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy (SDCP) have deficits in anticipatory inhibition of postural muscle activity. Nine individuals with SDCP (SDCP group, 3 female and 6 male, 13-24 yr of age) and nine age- and sex-matched individuals without disability (control group) ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Tomita H,Fukaya Y,Totsuka K,Tsukahara Y

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dependence of the form of the EMG-force relation on key motoneuron and muscle properties was explored using a simulation approach. Surface EMG signals and isometric forces were simulated using existing motoneuron pool, muscle force, and surface EMG models, based primarily on reported properties of the first dorsal...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhou P,Rymer WZ

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)] is a conspicuous neuromodulator of sensory-motor networks that affects a variety of neurons at different levels of the network hierarchy. Because of its many possible targets, it has been difficult to obtain a comprehensive picture of how 5-HT achieves its final modulatory output...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Calviño MA,Iscla IR,Szczupak L

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperreflexia and spasticity are chronic complications in spinal cord injury (SCI), with limited options for safe and effective treatment. A central mechanism in spasticity is hyperexcitability of the spinal stretch reflex, which presents symptomatically as a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes and e...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bandaru SP,Liu S,Waxman SG,Tan AM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Using floating electrodes, we recorded from neck-muscle spindle afferents in the C2 dorsal root ganglion of the decerebrate cat. Nerves to dorsal neck muscles were cut so that the afferents presumably originated mainly from ventral and ventrolateral perivertebral muscles and sternocleidomastoid. One goal of our exp...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kasper J,Wilson VJ,Yamagata Y,Yates BJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinase-activated receptors (PARs) have a unique activation mechanism in that a proteolytically exposed N-terminal region acts as a tethered ligand. A potential impact of PAR on sensory processing has not been fully examined yet. Here we report that synthetic peptides with sequences corresponding to PAR ligands enh...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fujita T,Liu T,Nakatsuka T,Kumamoto E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moth pheromones cause rises in intracellular Ca(2+) concentrations that activate Ca(2+)-dependent cation channels in antennal olfactory receptor neurons. In addition, mechanisms of adaptation and sensitization depend on changes in cyclic nucleotide concentrations. Here, cyclic nucleotide-activated currents in cultured...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Krannich S,Stengl M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During early brain development, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the adult brain, has been thought to be an important source of excitatory neurotransmission. This view, however, was recently challenged by a series of studies that claim that the excitatory effect of GABA is due to non...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Khakhalin AS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Visual interneurons tuned to the motion of small objects are found in many animal species and are assumed to be the neuronal basis of figure-ground discrimination by relative motion. A well-examined example is the FD1-cell in the third visual neuropil of blowflies. This cell type responds best to motion of small ob...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Warzecha AK,Egelhaaf M,Borst A

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The horizontal angular vestibuloocular reflex (VOR) evoked by high-frequency, high-acceleration rotations was studied in four squirrel monkeys after unilateral labyrinthectomy. Spontaneous nystagmus was measured at the beginning and end of each testing session. During the period that animals were kept in darkness (4 d...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lasker DM,Hullar TE,Minor LB

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The aims of this study were 1) to determine whether the impulse activity in rabbit aortic baroreceptors (BRs) was influenced by changes in nonpulsatile flow through the aortic lumen and 2) to examine the BR and aortic arch responses to changes in temperature. 2. An in vitro aortic arch-aortic nerve preparation was ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Munch PA

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence first described in reduced animal models over 100 years ago led to deductions about the control of locomotion through spinal locomotor central pattern-generating (CPG) networks. These discoveries in nature were contemporaneous with another form of deductive reasoning found in popular culture, that of Arthur C...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Klarner T,Zehr EP

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rodents shift their nose from side to side when they actively explore and lateralize odors in the space. This motor action is driven by a pair of muscles, the deflector nasi. We studied the premotor control of this motion. We used replication-competent rabies virus to transsynaptically label inputs to the deflector na...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kurnikova A,Deschênes M,Kleinfeld D

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered activity of the entopeduncular nucleus, the rodent homologue of the globus pallidus internal segment in primates, is thought to mediate behavioral consequences of midbrain dopamine depletion in rodents. Few studies, however, have examined dopaminergic modulation of spiking activity in this nucleus. This study ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ruskin DN,Bergstrom DA,Walters JR

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) modulates nociception through changes in the activity of two classes of neuron, ON- and OFF-cells. The activity of these neurons is regulated, in part, by input from the periaqueductal gray (PAG). The objective of this study was to determine whether PAG-mediated antinociception i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Tortorici V,Morgan MM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lability of the responses of mammalian central neurons to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was studied using neurons acutely dissociated from the CA1 region of the adult guinea pig hippocampus as a model system. GABA was applied to the neuronal somata by pressure ejection and the resulting current (IGABA) recorded u...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Huguenard JR,Alger BE

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although studies of the principal tongue protrudor muscle genioglossus (GG) suggest that whole muscle GG electromyographic (EMG) activities are preserved in nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, it is unclear what influence sleep exerts on individual GG motor unit (MU) activities. We characterized the firing patterns of...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bailey EF,Fridel KW,Rice AD

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a thin plastic test strip of various hardness is placed between the upper and lower teeth during rhythmical jaw movements induced by electrical stimulation of the cortical masticatory area (CMA) in anesthetized rabbits, electromyographic (EMG) activity of the masseter muscle is facilitated in a hardness-dependent...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

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

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Particular types of amacrine cells of the vertebrate retina show oscillatory membrane potentials (OMPs) in response to light stimulation. Historically it has been thought the oscillations arose as a result of circuit properties. In a previous study we found that in some amacrine cells, the ability to oscillate was an ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Vigh J,Solessio E,Morgans CW,Lasater EM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some neurons in early visual cortex are highly selective for the position of oriented edges in their receptive fields (simple cells), whereas others are largely position insensitive (complex cells). These characteristics are reflected in their sensitivity to the spatial phase of moving sine-wave gratings: simple cell ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cloherty SL,Ibbotson MR

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The caudal primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) is involved in target selection and visually guided saccades through both covert attention and overt orienting eye movements. Unilateral damage to the caudal PFC often leads to decreased awareness of a contralesional target alone, referred to as "neglect," or when it is prese...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Adam R,Johnston K,Everling S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that application of the mustard oil (MO), a small-fiber excitant and inflammatory irritant, to the rat maxillary molar tooth pulp induces significant increases in jaw muscle electromyographic (EMG) activity and neuroplastic changes in trigeminal (V) subnucleus caudalis. Since subnucleus o...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Park SJ,Chiang CY,Hu JW,Sessle BJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrast thresholds for detection of stationary and flickering gratings were measured behaviorally for each eye of cats raised with induced convergent strabismus. The performance of the deviating eye was inferior to that of the nondeviating eye when test patterns were stationary. Flicker served to reduce the performan...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Holopigian K,Blake R

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00