Contrasting distribution of physiological cell types in different regions of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

abstract：:An imbalance between the strengths of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs has been proposed as the cellular basis of autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Previous studies examining spontaneous levels of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in the forebrain regions of methyl-CpG-binding protein...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nelson ED,Bal M,Kavalali ET,Monteggia LM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unitary discharge patterns (peristimulus time histograms or PSTH) and synaptic events were studies with intracellular recording techniques in 164 cat cochlear nucleus cells to steady-frequency tone bursts 250 ms in duration. There were four response types defined on the basis of the shape of the discharge patterns to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Britt R,Starr A

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. This paper examines the electrophysiological properties of cultured rat adrenal chromaffin cells at different stages of neuron-like morphological differentiation in response to nerve growth factor (NGF). 2. Chromaffin cells display a large variability in the morphological changes after exposure to NGF. However, a m...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Islas-Suárez L,Gómez-Chavarín M,Drucker-Colín R,Hernández-Cruz A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For primary auditory cortex (AI) laminae, there is little evidence of functional specificity despite clearly expressed cellular and connectional differences. Natural sounds are dominated by dynamic temporal and spectral modulations and we used these properties to evaluate local functional differences or constancies ac...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Atencio CA,Schreiner CE

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rod signals traverse several synapses en route to cone bipolar cells. In one pathway, rods communicate directly with cones via gap junctions. In a second pathway, signals flow rods-rod bipolars-AII amacrines-cone bipolars. The relative contribution of each pathway to retinal function is not well understood. Here we ha...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Trexler EB,Li W,Massey SC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine whether subjects who have learned a skilled locomotor task can transfer the acquired performance to conditions involving either a change in the external coordinates or in the sensory input from one leg. Subjects were trained to step over an obstacle with minimal foot clearance with...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lam T,Dietz V

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to assess the mechanical changes associated with spasticity in elbow muscles of chronic hemiparetic stroke survivors and to compare these changes with those recorded in the ankle muscles of a similar cohort. We first characterized elbow dynamic stiffness by applying pseudorandom binary positional per...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mirbagheri MM,Settle K,Harvey R,Rymer WZ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain's ability to integrate information from different senses is acquired only after extensive sensory experience. However, whether early life experience instantiates a general integrative capacity in multisensory neurons or one limited to the particular cross-modal stimulus combinations to which one has been exp...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Xu J,Yu L,Stanford TR,Rowland BA,Stein BE

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pacemaker current of a bursting neuron of Helix pomatia was investigated using voltage-clamp and pressure-injection techniques. In the steady state the net membrane current was zero near threshold of the action potential at -45 mV. Negative to this potential the membrane current was inward and steady. During burst...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Swandulla D,Lux HD

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocular organization of the goldfish horizontal neural integrator was studied during spontaneous scanning saccadic and fixation behaviors. Analysis of neuronal firing rates revealed a population of ipsilateral (37%), conjugate (59%), and contralateral (4%) eye position neurons. When monocular optokinetic stimuli wer...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Debowy O,Baker R

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulus-specific adaptation is the phenomenon whereby neural response magnitude decreases with repeated stimulation. Inconsistencies between recent nonhuman animal recordings and computational modeling suggest dynamic influences on stimulus-specific adaptation. The present human electroencephalography (EEG) study inv...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Herrmann B,Henry MJ,Fromboluti EK,McAuley JD,Obleser J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord neuronal circuits generate motor neuron activity patterns responsible for rhythmic hindlimb behaviors such as scratching and swimming. Kinematic analyses of limb movements generated by this motor neuron output reveal important characteristics of these behaviors. Intralimb kinematics of the turtle hindlimb ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Field EC,Stein PS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Spontaneous saccades, vestibuloocular responses (VOR), and optokinetic nystagmus were recorded in three squirrel monkeys before and after chemical or electrolytic lesion of the posterior commissure (PC). 2. PC lesions produced abnormal vertical eye movements, in particular, 1) Postsaccadic drifts, and 2) VOR gain r...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Partsalis AM,Highstein SM,Moschovakis AK

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine neurons in freely moving rats often fire behaviorally relevant high-frequency bursts, but depolarization block limits the maximum steady firing rate of dopamine neurons in vitro to ∼10 Hz. Using a reduced model that faithfully reproduces the sodium current measured in these neurons, we show that adding an add...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Qian K,Yu N,Tucker KR,Levitan ES,Canavier CC

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The synaptic inputs to sustained OFF-center ganglion cells of the mudpuppy retina were studied using a superfused retina-eye-cup preparation. Intra- and extracellular electrophysiological recording techniques were carried out during bath application of 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyrate (APB), a glutamate analog that sele...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Arkin MS,Miller RF

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that regional slow-wave activity (SWA) during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep is modulated by prior experience and learning. Although this effect has been convincingly demonstrated for the sensorimotor domain, attempts to extend these findings to the visual system have provided mixed re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bernardi G,Betta M,Cataldi J,Leo A,Haba-Rubio J,Heinzer R,Cirelli C,Tononi G,Pietrini P,Ricciardi E,Siclari F

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-intensity alternating electric fields applied to the scalp are capable of modulating cortical activity and brain functions, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. Here, we report two distinct components of voltage-sensitive dye signals induced by low-intensity, alternating electric fields in rodent ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Xu W,Wolff BS,Wu JY

更新日期：2014-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Single- and multiunit recordings were obtained from neurons in the auditory cortex of the echolocating bat Myotis lucifugus, while trains of stimuli designed to simulate the bat's frequency-modulated (FM) orientation pulse and its returning echo were delivered. It was found that many neurons in the cortex responded...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sullivan WE 3rd

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimate the rates at which neurons in the primary visual cortex (V1) of anesthetized macaque monkeys transmit stimulus-related information in response to three types of visual stimulus. The stimuli-randomly modulated checkerboard patterns, stationary sinusoidal gratings, and drifting sinusoidal gratings-have very ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Reich DS,Mechler F,Victor JD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subfornical organ (SFO) neurons exhibit heterogeneity in current expression and spiking behavior, where the two major spiking phenotypes appear as tonic and burst firing. Insight into the mechanisms behind this heterogeneity is critical for understanding how the SFO, a sensory circumventricular organ, integrates and s...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Medlock L,Shute L,Fry M,Standage D,Ferguson AV

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We investigated gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors using thin slice patch-clamp techniques in the swellings along axons of posterior pituitary nerve terminals. 2. Activation of the nerve terminal GABAA receptor induced a mean conductance change of 1.5 nS. Normalizing to area gave a mean conductance density of...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhang SJ,Jackson MB

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The behavior of the combined eye-head gaze saccade mechanism was investigated in the rhesus monkey under both normal circumstances and in the presence of perturbations delivered to the head by a torque motor. Animals were trained to follow a target light that stepped at regular intervals through an angle of 68 degr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Tomlinson RD

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The active stiffness of ventral superficial abdominal muscle (VSM) of the hermit crab, Pagurus pollicarus, was measured with ramp stretches of different amplitudes and velocities. Active stiffness was calculated by subtracting the peak force produced by passive stretch and the isometric force just before stretch fr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Chapple WD

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous actin (F-actin) was measured in cultured rat cerebellum granule neurons with the use of fluorescently labeled phallotoxin as a site-specific probe for F-actin, and fluorescence microscopy. The averaged apparent intensity of soma-associated F-actin-derived fluorescence (F(app)) was measured from fixed cells...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Shorte SL

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The granular layer of the cerebellum has a disproportionately large number of excitatory (granule cells) versus inhibitory neurons (Golgi cells). Its synaptic organization is also unique with a dense reciprocal innervation between granule and Golgi cells but without synaptic contacts among the neurons of either popula...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Maex R,De Schutter E

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the importance of the thumb to hand function, little is known about the origins of thumb impairment poststroke. Accordingly, the primary purpose of this study was to assess whether thumb flexors have heightened stretch reflexes (SRs) following stroke-induced hand impairment. The secondary purpose was to compar...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Towles JD,Kamper DG,Rymer WZ

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This research was guided by the working hypothesis that the aging auditory system progressively loses its ability to process rapid acoustic transients efficiently, and in elderly listeners, this results in difficulties in speech perception. Neural correlates of age-related deficits in temporal processing were investig...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Walton JP,Simon H,Frisina RD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study of chronic incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI) subjects investigated patterns of central motor drive (i.e., central activation) of the plantar flexors using interpolated twitches, and modulation of soleus H-reflexes during lengthening, isometric, and shortening muscle actions. In a recent study of the knee ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kim HE,Corcos DM,Hornby TG

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Single-unit activity was recorded from 215 neurons in the medial bulbar reticular formation during the masticatory sequence, from intake to deglutition, of 3 kinds of food (cat food pellets, canned fish, and milk) in 8 chronically prepared, unanesthetized, spontaneously respiring cats with their head fixed to a ste...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hiraba K,Taira M,Sahara Y,Nakamura Y

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Whole cell patch-clamp techniques, combined with direct visualization of neurons, were used to study voltage-dependent potassium currents in layer 1 neurons and layer II/III pyramidal cells. 2. In the presence of tetrodotoxin, step depolarizations evoked an outward current. This current had a complex waveform and a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhou FM,Hablitz JJ

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00