Upregulation of synaptotagmin IV inhibits transmitter release in PC12 cells with targeted synaptotagmin I knockdown.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent work has suggested that the ovarian steroid 17beta-estradiol, at physiological concentrations, may exert protective effects in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and acute ischemic stroke. While physiological concentrations of estrogen have consistently been s...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Dhandapani KM,Brann DW

更新日期：2002-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evoked potentials have been proposed to result from phase-locking of electroencephalographic (EEG) activities within specific frequency bands. However, the respective contribution of phasic activity and phase resetting of ongoing EEG oscillation remains largely debated. We here applied the EEGlab procedure i...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Cheron G,Cebolla AM,De Saedeleer C,Bengoetxea A,Leurs F,Leroy A,Dan B

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for the functional replacement of damaged neurons and in vitro disease modeling is of great clinical relevance. Unfortunately, the capacity of iPSC lines to differentiate into neurons is highly variable, prompting the need for a reliable means of assessing th...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Koehler KR,Tropel P,Theile JW,Kondo T,Cummins TR,Viville S,Hashino E

更新日期：2011-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent alleged attacks with nerve agent sarin on civilians in Syria indicate their potential threat to both civilian and military population. Acute nerve agent exposure can cause rapid death or leads to multiple and long term neurological effects. The biochemical changes that occur following nerve agent expo...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： RamaRao G,Afley P,Acharya J,Bhattacharya BK

更新日期：2014-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) pneumoniae is an intracellular bacterium that has been identified within cells in areas of neuropathology found in Alzheimer disease (AD), including endothelia, glia, and neurons. Depending on the cell type of the host, infection by C. pneumoniae has been shown to influence apoptoti...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Appelt DM,Roupas MR,Way DS,Bell MG,Albert EV,Hammond CJ,Balin BJ

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anticipatory planning, the ability to anticipate future perceptual-motor demands of a goal-oriented action sequence, is essential for flexible, purposeful behavior. Once an action goal has been defined, movement details necessary to achieve that goal can be selected. Here, we investigate if anticipatory plan...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Marangon M,Bucchioni G,Massacesi S,Castiello U

更新日期：2013-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The zitter (zi/zi) rat, a loss-of-function mutant of the glycosylated transmembrane protein attractin (atrn), exhibits widespread age-dependent spongiform degeneration, hypomyelination, and abnormal metabolism of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the brain. To date, the mechanisms underlying these phenotypes ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Sakakibara S,Nakadate K,Ookawara S,Ueda S

更新日期：2008-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The megencephaly mouse, mceph/mceph, is epileptic and displays a dramatically increased brain volume and neuronal count. The responsible mutation was recently revealed to be an eleven base pair deletion, leading to a frame shift, in the gene encoding the potassium channel Kv1.1. The predicted MCEPH protein i...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Persson AS,Klement G,Almgren M,Sahlholm K,Nilsson J,Petersson S,Arhem P,Schalling M,Lavebratt C

更新日期：2005-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The properties of Ca2+ signaling mediated by purinergic receptors are intrinsically linked with functional activity of astrocytes. At present little is known concerning Ca2+-dependent purinergic responses in adult human astrocytes. This work has examined effects of purinergic stimulation to alter levels of i...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Hashioka S,Wang YF,Little JP,Choi HB,Klegeris A,McGeer PL,McLarnon JG

更新日期：2014-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recovery following stroke depends on cellular plasticity in the perilesional zone (PZ). Doublecortin (DCX), a protein mainly labeling immature neurons in neurogenic niches is also highly expressed in the vicinity of focal cortical infarcts. Notably, the number of DCX+ cells positively correlates with the rec...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kunze A,Achilles A,Keiner S,Witte OW,Redecker C

更新日期：2015-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat expansion mutation in the coding region of a novel gene. The mechanism of HD is unknown. Most data suggest that polyglutamine-mediated aggregation associated with expression of mutant huntingtin protein (mhtt) contri...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Trushina E,Rana S,McMurray CT,Hua DH

更新日期：2009-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though more than 600 stroke treatments have been shown effective in preclinical studies, clinically proven treatment alternatives for cerebral infarction remain scarce. Amongst the reasons for the discrepancy may be methodological shortcomings, such as high mortality and outcome variability, in the prec...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Ström JO,Ingberg E,Theodorsson A,Theodorsson E

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emotional stimuli are preferentially processed compared to neutral ones. Measuring the magnetic resonance blood-oxygen level dependent (BOLD) response or EEG event-related potentials, this has also been demonstrated for emotional versus neutral words. However, it is currently unclear whether emotion effects ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Koban L,Ninck M,Li J,Gisler T,Kissler J

更新日期：2010-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutamate, a major excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter, causes apoptotic neuronal cell death at high concentrations. Our previous studies have shown that depending on the neuronal cell type, glutamate-induced apoptotic cell death was associated with regulation of genes such as Bcl-2, Bax, and/or caspase-3...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Zhang Y,Bhavnani BR

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a known adjuvant for treating ischemia-related inner ear diseases. Controversies still exist in the role of HBOT in cochlear diseases. Few studies to date have investigated the cellular changes that occur in inner ears after HBOT. Nitric oxide, which is synthesized by nitr...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Lin CD,Wei IH,Lai CH,Hsia TC,Kao MC,Tsai MH,Wu CH,Tsai MH

更新日期：2011-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in white matter has long been considered controversial. Recently, this viewpoint has been challenged by an emerging body of evidence demonstrating white matter activation in the corpus callosum. The current study aimed to determine whether white matter activation ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Gawryluk JR,Mazerolle EL,Brewer KD,Beyea SD,D'Arcy RC

更新日期：2011-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mental imagery is a powerful method of altering brain activity and behavioral outcomes, such as performance of cognition and motor skills. Further, attention and distraction can modulate pain-related neuronal networks and the perception of pain. This exploratory study examined the effects of mental imagery-i...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Volz MS,Suarez-Contreras V,Portilla AL,Fregni F

更新日期：2015-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fetal asphyctic (FA) preconditioning is effective in attenuating brain damage incurred by a subsequent perinatal asphyctic insult. Unraveling mechanisms of this endogenous neuroprotection, activated by FA preconditioning, is an important step towards new clinical strategies for asphyctic neonates. Genomic re...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Cox-Limpens KE,Vles JS,Schlechter J,Zimmermann LJ,Strackx E,Gavilanes AW

更新日期：2013-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gap junction proteins, connexins, are expressed in most endocrine and exocrine glands in the body and are at least in some glands crucial for the hormonal secretion. To what extent connexins are expressed in neurons releasing hormones or neuropeptides from or within the central nervous system is, however, un...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Westberg L,Sawa E,Wang AY,Gunaydin LA,Ribeiro AC,Pfaff DW

更新日期：2009-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV Associated Dementia (HAD) is a common complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that erodes the quality of life for patients and burdens health care providers. Intravenous drug use is a major route of HIV transmission, and drug use is associated with increased HAD. Specific proteins re...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kendall SL,Anderson CF,Nath A,Turchan-Cholewo J,Land CL,Mactutus CF,Booze RM

更新日期：2005-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The anesthetic drug ketamine (KT) has been reported to be an abused drug and fatal cases have been observed in polydrug users. In the present study, considering the possibility of KT-enhanced toxic effects of other drugs, and KT-induced promotion of an overdose without making the subject aware of the danger ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Hayase T,Yamamoto Y,Yamamoto K

更新日期：2006-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the absence of overt stimuli, the brain shows correlated fluctuations in functionally related brain regions. Approximately ten largely independent resting state networks (RSNs) showing this behaviour have been documented to date. Recent studies have reported the existence of an RSN in the basal ganglia - ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Robinson S,Basso G,Soldati N,Sailer U,Jovicich J,Bruzzone L,Kryspin-Exner I,Bauer H,Moser E

更新日期：2009-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutamate gated postsynaptic receptors in the central nervous system (CNS) are essential for environmentally stimulated behaviours including learning and memory in both invertebrates and vertebrates. Though their genetics, biochemistry, physiology, and role in behaviour have been intensely studied in vitro a...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Ryan TJ,Emes RD,Grant SG,Komiyama NH

更新日期：2008-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lateralized processing of speech is a well studied phenomenon in humans. Both anatomical and neurophysiological studies support the view that nonhuman primates and other animal species also reveal hemispheric differences in areas involved in sound processing. In recent years, an increasing number of studies ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Fischer J,Teufel C,Drolet M,Patzelt A,Rübsamen R,von Cramon DY,Schubotz RI

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to assess the distribution of key SNARE proteins in glutamatergic and GABAergic synapses of the adult rat cerebellar cortex using light microscopy immunohistochemical techniques. Analysis was made of co-localizations of vGluT-1 and vGluT-2, vesicular transporters of glutamate and ma...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Benagiano V,Lorusso L,Flace P,Girolamo F,Rizzi A,Bosco L,Cagiano R,Nico B,Ribatti D,Ambrosi G

更新日期：2011-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Earlier functional imaging studies on visually induced self-motion perception (vection) disclosed a bilateral network of activations within primary and secondary visual cortex areas which was combined with signal decreases, i.e., deactivations, in multisensory vestibular cortex areas. This finding led to the...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Becker-Bense S,Buchholz HG,zu Eulenburg P,Best C,Bartenstein P,Schreckenberger M,Dieterich M

更新日期：2012-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myzus persicae is a globally important aphid pest with a history of developing resistance to insecticides. Unusually, neonicotinoids have remained highly effective as control agents despite nearly two decades of steadily increasing use. In this study, a clone of M. persicae collected from southern France was...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Bass C,Puinean AM,Andrews M,Cutler P,Daniels M,Elias J,Paul VL,Crossthwaite AJ,Denholm I,Field LM,Foster SP,Lind R,Williamson MS,Slater R

更新日期：2011-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excitotoxicity (the toxic overstimulation of neurons by the excitatory transmitter Glutamate) is a central process in widespread neurodegenerative conditions such as brain ischemia and chronic neurological diseases. Many mechanisms have been suggested to mediate excitotoxicity, but their significance across ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Del Rosario JS,Feldmann KG,Ahmed T,Amjad U,Ko B,An J,Mahmud T,Salama M,Mei S,Asemota D,Mano I

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immunization with neural derived peptides (INDP) as well as scar removal-separately-have shown to induce morphological and functional improvement after spinal cord injury (SCI). In the present study, we compared the effect of INDP alone versus INDP with scar removal on motor recovery, regeneration-associated...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Rodríguez-Barrera R,Flores-Romero A,Fernández-Presas AM,García-Vences E,Silva-García R,Konigsberg M,Blancas-Espinoza L,Buzoianu-Anguiano V,Soria-Zavala K,Suárez-Meade P,Ibarra A

更新日期：2017-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:How living neural networks retain information is still incompletely understood. Two prominent ideas on this topic have developed in parallel, but have remained somewhat unconnected. The first of these, the "synaptic hypothesis," holds that information can be retained in synaptic connection strengths, or weig...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Chen W,Hobbs JP,Tang A,Beggs JM

更新日期：2010-01-06 00:00:00