Thalamic reticular nucleus in the thalamocortical loop.

abstract：:Rhotekin, an effector of Rho, is highly expressed in the brain but its function(s) in neurons is almost unknown. In an attempt to define the properties of Rhotekin in neuronal cells, we focused on its interaction with polarity-related molecules. In the present study, we identified a PDZ protein, Lin-7B, as a binding p...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sudo K,Ito H,Iwamoto I,Morishita R,Asano T,Nagata K

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular pH (pH(i)) plays an important role in the regulation of central nervous system function. In the present study, we examined whether hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S), a recently recognized neuromodulator, regulates pH(i) in rat primary cultured glia cells. pH(i) was measured with a fluorescent sensitive dye, BCECF...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Lu M,Choo CH,Hu LF,Tan BH,Hu G,Bian JS

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disrupted-in-Schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) is a susceptibility gene for major mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Although the roles of DISC1 in nervous system development and functions are increasingly recognized, pathophysiological mechanisms underlying a range of neuropsychiatric symptoms caus...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Flores R 3rd,Hirota Y,Armstrong B,Sawa A,Tomoda T

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental refinement of neuronal connectivity is crucial for proper brain function. In the early phase of development, input fibers arrive at their target areas guided by specific molecular cues and form abundant immature synapses. Then, functionally important synapses are preserved and strengthened by neural acti...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Narushima M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Action potentials, when arriving at presynaptic terminals, elicit Ca(2+) influx through voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels. Intracellular [Ca(2+)] elevation around the channels subsequently triggers synaptic vesicle exocytosis and also induces various protein reactions that regulate vesicle endocytosis and recycling to pro...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yamashita T

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the rat has been the predominant rodent used to investigate the pathophysiology and treatment of experimental spinal cord injury (SCI), the increasing availability of transgenic animals has led to greater use of mouse models. However, behavioral assessment after SCI in mice has been less extensively investiga...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Pajoohesh-Ganji A,Byrnes KR,Fatemi G,Faden AI

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholism is a psychiatric condition that develops through neuroadaptations in response to neuronal stresses caused by chronic ethanol intake. Neurons can adapt to ethanol-induced metabolic changes by activating cellular protective mechanisms, including autophagy. Here we show that expression of Ulk1, a gene critical...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sumitomo A,Ueta K,Mauchi S,Hirai K,Horike K,Hikida T,Sakurai T,Sawa A,Tomoda T

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eugenol modulates neuronal activity through actions on voltage-gated ionic channels and/or transient receptor potential channels. We previously suggested that eugenol inhibited cellular (and/or network) mechanisms essential for the maintenance of the respiratory burst activity in a brainstem-spinal cord preparation fr...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kotani S,Yazawa I,Onimaru H,Izumizaki M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity is increased within and around amyloid plaques, which are present in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient's brain. In this study, using cultured retinal cells as a neuronal model, we analyzed the effect of the synthetic peptide Abeta(25-35) on the activity of AChE, the degradation enzy...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Melo JB,Agostinho P,Oliveira CR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We excised the dorsal part of the optic vesicle of chick embryos at stages 13-14 (embryonic day 2). The remainder of the optic vesicle reoganized and developed a small eye. This study was undertaken to determine how locus specificity is kept within the reorganized retina. The projection pattern from the reorganized ey...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Matsuno T,Itasaki N,Ichijo H,Nakamura H

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic muscular limb pain requires the adoption of motor patterns distinct from the classic ipsilateral flexion, crossed extension and corresponding reciprocal inhibitions to acute exteroceptive stimulation. Using selective chemical activation of group III/IV afferents in gastrocnemius-soleus (GS) muscles we investig...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Schomburg ED,Steffens H,Pilyavskii AI,Maisky VA,Brück W,Dibaj P,Sears TA

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) is a pleiotropic hormone that exerts important functions in the control of brain development as well as in the regulation neuronal differentiation and function, together with several behavioral and psychological effects that have been linked to its modulatory actions on brain neurotransmitters. In ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Arce VM,Devesa P,Devesa J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials (ERPs) during an auditory discrimination task were recorded both on the surface and at a depth of the auditory cortex in rats. Ten-kilohertz rare and 5-kHz frequent tones were used with the probabilities of 0.2 and 0.8. Lever pressing within 2 s, following the onset of the rare tone, was rewar...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Iwanami A,Shinba T,Sumi M,Ozawa N,Yamamoto K

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Men and women exhibit differences in sexual behavior. This indicates that neural circuits within the central nervous system (CNS) that control sexual behavior differ between the sexes, although differences in behavior are also influenced by sociocultural and hormonal factors. Sexual differentiation of the body and bra...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sakamoto H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous research suggested that the P2X4 receptor (P2X4R) expression in microglia was involved in the activation of toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4) in the dorsal horn in the rat model of cancer induced bone pain (CIBP). In this study, we focused on whether TLR4- mitogen-activated protein kinases, p38 (p38 MAPK) contr...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Meng XW,Gao JL,Zuo JL,Wang LN,Liu SL,Jin XH,Yao M,Namaka M

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Withdrawal may be a natural model to study craving and compulsive drug seeking, since craving can be viewed as a conditioned dysphoric state. It has been suggested that functional connectivity between brain areas may be of major value in explaining excessive craving and compulsive drug seeking by providing essential l...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Fingelkurts AA,Fingelkurts AA,Kivisaari R,Autti T,Borisov S,Puuskari V,Jokela O,Kähkönen S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDA receptors play an important functional role in the neuron excitability and plasticity. The conditions and consequences of their activation are of interest for many neuroscientists. This investigation was designed to explore an activation of the NMDA receptors of frog tectal neurons in vivo by a burst of spikes of...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kuras A,Baginskas A,Batuleviciene V

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a transgenic mouse model in which astrocytes express an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under the control of the mouse glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) promoter. EGFP, which is characteristically found throughout the cell, was expressed in these animals even in astrocytic fine process...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Suzuki R,Watanabe J,Arata S,Funahashi H,Kikuyama S,Shioda S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been indicated that Pyk2/Src signaling pathway is involved in modulation of N-methyl-D-aspartate-type (NMDA) glutamate receptor activity. Lithium protects against glutamate-induced excitotoxicity in cultured neurons and in animal models of diseases. The neuroprotection against excitotoxicity afforded by lithium...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ma J,Zhang GY,Liu Y,Yan JZ,Hao ZB

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical properties of probes that improve amyloid detection by non-invasive (19)F magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are of interest. We synthesized benzoxazole compounds with trifluoromethoxy groups, and found that these compounds displayed sharp (19)F nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals in an assay buffer. H...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Amatsubo T,Morikawa S,Inubushi T,Urushitani M,Taguchi H,Shirai N,Hirao K,Kato M,Morino K,Kimura H,Nakano I,Yoshida C,Okada T,Sano M,Tooyama I

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of brain acid-soluble proteins (BASPs) is preliminarily characterized. In some respects BASPs are similar to high mobility group (HMG) proteins, but in contrast to HMG, all BASPs are very acidic (pI 4.4-4.6) and show abnormal mobility during SDS-PAGE electrophoresis. BASP2-1 and BASP2-2 are identified as the t...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Mosevitsky MI,Novitskaya VA,Plekhanov AYu,Skladchikova GYu

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the visual system, the afferent axons from the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) to the primary visual cortex (V1) show significant activity-dependent plasticity in early postnatal life. To determine whether activity-dependent plasticity operates also in feedback projections from V1 to dLGN, we inactivated c...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yoshida M,Satoh T,Nakamura KC,Kaneko T,Hata Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in synaptic efficacy at the parallel fiber (PF)-Purkinje cell (PC) synapse are postulated to be a cellular basis for motor learning. Although long-term efficacy changes lasting more than an hour at this synapse, i.e., long-term potentiation and depression, have been extensively studied, relatively short lastin...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Goto J,Inoue T,Kuruma A,Mikoshiba K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable evidence suggests that an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor plays a crucial role in memory and cognitive function. To identify the role of this receptor in higher functions of the brain, we delivered antisense oligonucleotides against an NMDA-NR1 subunit (NR1) to the hippocampus in rats using the HVJ-l...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Inada K,Ishigooka J,Anzai T,Suzuki E,Miyaoka H,Saji M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate biophysical mechanisms underlying the Zn2+ block on the low-threshold T-type Ca2+ current (I(T)), we examined the Zn(2+)-induced alterations of gating properties of I(T) of a rat thalamic relay neuron and of alpha1G channels expressed in HEK-293 cells, using a whole-cell voltage clamp technique. The effec...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Noh J,Kim MK,Chung JM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trauma to the spinal cord initiates a series of cellular and biochemical processes that damage both neurons and glia. TGF-beta and its receptors are expressed around the injury site following a spinal cord injury. Here, we report that the intrathecal administration of a neutralizing antibody to TGF-beta1 in rats with ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kohta M,Kohmura E,Yamashita T

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify the roles of VGCC subtypes in damages/impairs of inhibitory transmission during epileptogenesis, we investigated temporal- and spatial-specific alterations in voltage-gated Ca(2+) channel (VGCC) immunoreactivities within parvalbumin (PV, a Ca(2+) binding protein) positive neurons in the rat hippocampus fol...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kim JE,Kwak SE,Kim DS,Won MH,Choi HC,Song HK,Kim YI,Kang TC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the molecular mechanisms that regulate the maturation of action potential, we began by examining voltage-dependent K+ currents, known to contribute to the maturation of action potential, of developing granule cells in mouse cerebellar microexplant cultures. The migration of developing granule cells in thi...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Wakazono Y,Kurahashi T,Nakahira K,Nagata I,Takayama C,Inoue Y,Kaneko A,Ikenaka K

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multifactorial neurological disorder caused by selective dopaminergic neuronal loss. Quercetin (QC) in combination with piperine (bioenhancer) acts as potential antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective against 6-OHDA rat model of PD. Rats were injected 6-OHDA (8μg/2μl, saline) u...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Singh S,Kumar P

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroprotective effect of nicotine via nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) has been reported in differentiated PC12 cells. We examined the effects of nerve growth factor (NGF) and nicotine on the expressions of the nAChR subunits alpha3, alpha5, alpha7, beta2, beta3 and beta4, in PC12 cells using Northern blo...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Takahashi T,Yamashita H,Nakamura S,Ishiguro H,Nagatsu T,Kawakami H

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00