Microcircuits of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in layer 2/3 of mouse barrel cortex.

abstract：:The external anal sphincter (EAS) is important for the maintenance of bowel continence and may be compromised by a variety of neuropathic conditions. However, large animal models for the study of EAS functions have been sparse. The EAS guarding reflex was examined by electromyography (EMG) in neurologically intact rhe...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Chang HH,Lee U,Vu T,Pikov V,Nieto JH,Christe KL,Havton LA

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebellum was historically considered a brain region dedicated to motor control, but it has become clear that it also contributes to sensory processing, particularly when sensory discrimination is required. Prior work, for example, has demonstrated a cerebellar contribution to sensory discrimination in the visual...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dahlem K,Valko Y,Schmahmann JD,Lewis RF

更新日期：2016-05-01 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：:1. A characteristic plateau pattern was observed in the rate of afferent discharges during ramp-and-hold stretch of spindles isolated from semitendinosus muscles of frogs. The plateau pattern was more frequent in summer frogs (84%) than winter frogs (11%). 2. The plateau pattern consisted of a discharge rate around 12...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sokabe M,Nunogaki K,Naruse K,Soga H,Fujitsuka N,Yoshimura A,Ito F

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of studies have demonstrated that structures within the medial temporal lobe, such as the hippocampus, are intimately involved in declarative memory for objects and people. Although these items are abstractions of the visual scene, specific visual details can change the speed and accuracy of their recal...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Steinmetz PN,Cabrales E,Wilson MS,Baker CP,Thorp CK,Smith KA,Treiman DM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to odorants results in a rapid (<10 s) reduction in odor-evoked activity in the rat piriform cortex despite relatively maintained afferent input from olfactory bulb mitral cells. To further understand this form of cortical plasticity, a detailed analysis of its odor specificity was performed. Habituation of o...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Wilson DA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequency facilitation is a process whereby neurosecretion increases as a function of stimulation frequency during repetitive synaptic activity. To examine the physiological basis underlying facilitation, we have estimated the frequency dependence of the synaptic parameters n (number of units capable of responding to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Worden MK,Bykhovskaia M,Hackett JT

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single midbrain neurons were examined for effects of ovarian hormone administration on responsiveness to an array of lordosis-controlling types of somatosensory stimuli in anesthetized, ovariectomized Syrian hamsters. Neuronal responses were recorded under four different hormonal treatment conditions: 1) estradiol ben...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Rose JD,Bieber SL

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical state encoded by slowly adapting type 1 mechanoreceptors (SAI) during indentation was examined using an isolated preparation in a rat model. Skin and its intact innervation were harvested from the medial thigh of the rat hindlimb and placed in a dish, with the corium side down, containing synthetic inte...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ge W,Khalsa PS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular recordings were made from cold-receptive afferent fibers in the trigeminal ganglion of rats anesthetized with halothane. By applying a standardized series of steady or changing temperatures to the receptive fields, we recorded the static and dynamic responses of the afferents. Comparable recordings were ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Davies SN,Goldsmith GE,Hellon RF,Mitchell D

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used laser scanning photostimulation through a focused UV laser of caged glutamate in an in vitro slice preparation through the rat's somatosensory thalamus to study topography and connectivity between the thalamic reticular nucleus and ventral posterior lateral nucleus. This enabled us to focally stimulate the som...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lam YW,Sherman SM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although previous research with human and nonhuman primates has examined the neural correlates of performance monitoring, discrepancies in methodology have limited our ability to make cross-species generalizations. One major obstacle arises from the use of different behavioral responses and tasks across different prim...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Reinhart RM,Carlisle NB,Kang MS,Woodman GF

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of sound patterns must be largely independent of level and of masking or jamming background sounds. Auditory patterns of relevance in numerous environmental sounds, species-specific vocalizations and speech are frequency modulations (FM). Level-dependent activation of the human auditory cortex (AC) in resp...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brechmann A,Baumgart F,Scheich H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Neuronal activity was recorded from the premotor cortex (PM) of Japanese monkeys while they performed hand movements with different amplitudes and directions. On each behavioral trial, two instructions were given sequentially: 1) an amplitude instruction (large or small) and 2) a direction instruction (flexion or e...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kurata K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamatergic inputs clustered over approximately 20-40 microm can elicit local N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) spike/plateau potentials in terminal dendrites of cortical pyramidal neurons, inspiring the notion that a single terminal dendrite can function as a decision-making computational subunit. A typical terminal basa...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Major G,Polsky A,Denk W,Schiller J,Tank DW

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus of the solitary tract (NST) and the parabrachial nuclei (PbN) are the first and second relays in the rodent central taste pathway. A series of electrophysiological experiments revealed that spontaneous and taste-evoked activities of brain stem gustatory neurons are altered by descending input from multiple...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Li CS,Lu DP,Cho YK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 51 dorsal horn units responsive to heat were isolated and their receptive fields characterized (i.e., response properties and adequate stimuli determined) in pentobarbital-anesthetized, paralyzed rats. In 39 of the 51 units, the descending inhibition of heat-evoked activity produced by focal electrical stim...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Jones SL,Gebhart GF

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation has been delivered to the basal ganglia (BG) to treat intractable symptoms of a variety of clinical disorders. However, it is still unknown how such treatments improve behavioral symptoms. A difficulty of this problem is that artificial signals created by electrical stimulation interact with int...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Watanabe M,Munoz DP

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many neurophysiological experiments involving monkeys require that the head be stabilized while the animal performs a task. Often a post is attached to the skull to accomplish this goal, using a headcap formed from dental acrylic. We describe a new headpost, developed by refinement of several prototypes, and supply an...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Adams DL,Economides JR,Jocson CM,Horton JC

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Robust auditory perception plays a pivotal function for processing behaviorally relevant sounds, particularly with distractions from the environment. The neuronal coding enabling this ability, however, is still not well understood. In this study, we recorded single-unit activity from the primary auditory cortex (A1) o...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ni R,Bender DA,Shanechi AM,Gamble JR,Barbour DL

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the activation kinetics of the delayed rectifier K+ current of bullfrog sympathetic neurons, primarily using whole cell recording. On depolarization, currents activated with a sigmoid delay but did not show a Cole-Moore shift. The time course of activation differed systematically from an exponential raised...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Klemic KG,Durand DM,Jones SW

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：:Facial flushing in rosacea is often induced by trigger events. However, trigger causation mechanisms are currently unclear. This study tested the central hypothesis that rosacea causes sympathetic and axon reflex-mediated alterations resulting in trigger-induced symptomatology. Twenty rosacea patients and age/sex-matc...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Metzler-Wilson K,Toma K,Sammons DL,Mann S,Jurovcik AJ,Demidova O,Wilson TE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is widely used as a measure of neuronal activity, despite an incomplete understanding of the hemodynamic and neural bases for BOLD signals. Recent work by Lee and colleagues investigated whether activating genetically specified neuro...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Palmer HS

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During rhythmic behaviors, sensori-motor transmission is often regulated so that there are phasic changes in afferent input to follower neurons. We study this type of regulation in the feeding circuit of Aplysia. We characterize effects of the B4/5 interneurons on transmission from the mechanoafferent B21 to the radul...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Evans CG,Jing J,Proekt A,Rosen SC,Cropper EC

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The initial objective of this study was to determine whether respiratory-related neural assemblies exist in the brain stem midline. A second goal was to seek evidence for concurrent relationships among the neurons that could generate the detected synchrony. 2. Experiments were conducted on anesthetized, paralyzed, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lindsey BG,Hernandez YM,Morris KF,Shannon R,Gerstein GL

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rewards in the natural environment are rarely predicted with complete certainty. Uncertainty relating to future rewards has typically been defined as the variance of the potential outcomes. However, the asymmetry of predicted reward distributions, known as skewness, constitutes a distinct but neuroscientifically under...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Burke CJ,Tobler PN

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Neurons (n = 142) were recorded with extracellular micropipettes in the parabrachial (PB) area, in the anesthetized rat, some of them being antidromically driven from the centralis nucleus of the amygdala (Ce). The spontaneous activity of these neurons was low, (10th percentile < median frequency < 90th percentile;...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bernard JF,Huang GF,Besson JM

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical transmission is a dynamically regulated form of communication and key to synchronizing neuronal activity. The bag cell neurons of Aplysia are a group of electrically coupled neuroendocrine cells that initiate ovulation by secreting egg-laying hormone during a prolonged period of synchronous firing called th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dargaei Z,Standage D,Groten CJ,Blohm G,Magoski NS

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The rostromesial agranular frontal cortex of macaque monkey (Macaca fuscata), traditionally defined as the supplementary motor area (SMA), was studied using various physiological techniques to delineate two different areas rostrocaudally. 2. Field and unitary responses to electrical stimulation of the primary motor...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Matsuzaka Y,Aizawa H,Tanji J

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00