Electrophysiological properties of developing phrenic motoneurons in the cat.

abstract：:To examine the activity of somatosensory cortex (S1) neurons to self-generated shear forces on the index and thumb, two monkeys were trained to grasp a stationary metal tab with a key grip and exert forces without the fingers slipping in one of four orthogonal directions for 1 s. A majority (∼85%) of slowly adapting a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fortier-Poisson P,Langlais JS,Smith AM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glass micropipettes were used to record the activity of 124 single units in the somatosensory vibrissa cortex (SI) of 16 rats in response to combined deflections of contralateral vibrissae. Compact multiangular electromechanical stimulators were used to stimulate individual vibrissal hairs alone or in combinations of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Simons DJ

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies examining the influence of afferent stimulation on corticospinal excitability have demonstrated that the intensity of afferent stimulation and the nature of the afferents targeted (cutaneous/proprioceptive) determine the effects. In this study, we assessed the effects of whole-hand water immersion (WI...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sato D,Yamashiro K,Onishi H,Yasuhiro B,Shimoyama Y,Maruyama A

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Populations of output neurons in the mammalian olfactory bulb (OB) exhibit distinct, widespread spatial and temporal activation patterns when stimulated with odorants. However, questions remain as to how ensembles of mitral/tufted (M/T) neurons in the mammalian OB represent odorant information. In this report, the sin...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lehmkuhle MJ,Normann RA,Maynard EM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The giant barnacle, Balanus nubilus, has three simple eyes, two lateral and one median. We have studied the convergence of the receptors of these ocelli by recording from the second-order cell (I-cell) and from the receptors' terminals. The I-cell's responses to illumination of the median and lateral eyes are similar ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Oland LA,Stuart AE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamines are strong modulators and/or activators of spinal locomotor networks. Thus monoaminergic fibers likely contact neurons involved in generating locomotion. The aim of the present study was to investigate the serotonergic innervation of locomotor-activated neurons within the thoraco-lumbar spinal cord followin...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Noga BR,Johnson DM,Riesgo MI,Pinzon A

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The graded, synaptic potentials of first-order visual interneurons (lamina monopolar cells) were examined with intracellular recordings. The spatiotemporal properties were characterized with drifting sine wave gratings and annuli. 2. Annulus-elicited inhibition is maximal for annulus-test pulse intervals of approxi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Glantz RM,Bartels A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex, the neostriatum (Str), and the external segment of the globus pallidus (GPe) form a cortico-Str-GPe disynaptic connection, which is one of the major connections in the basal ganglia circuitries and a target of dopamine modulation. The aim of this study was to examine the actions of D2-like dopamin...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Watanabe K,Kita T,Kita H

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the extent to which an attention-demanding visuomotor task affects the strength of the inhibitory control exerted by the wrist flexor group Ia afferents on the wrist extensor motoneurons. Effects of median nerve stimulation on the tonic activity of wrist extensor single motor uni...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nafati G,Schmied A,Rossi-Durand C

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a visuomotor mechanism contributing to reach correction: the manual following response (MFR), which is a quick response to background visual motion that frequently occurs as a reafference when the body moves. Although several visual specificities of the MFR have been elucidated, the functional and comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Abekawa N,Gomi H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Whole-cell recordings were performed on acutely isolated pyramidal neurons from rat sensorimotor cortex 2 to 21 days postnatal to study the expression of a tetrodotoxin (TTX) sensitive, voltage dependent, persistent Na+ current (INaP) during different stages of postnatal development. 2. INaP was activated positive ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Alzheimer C,Schwindt PC,Crill WE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor networks such as the pyloric network of the stomatogastric ganglion often require descending neuromodulatory inputs to initiate, regulate, and modulate their activity and their synaptic connectivity to manifest physiologically appropriate output. Prolonged removal of these descending inputs often results in a co...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nahar J,Lett KM,Schulz DJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient neurophysiological changes in CA3 neurons and dentate granule cells after severe forebrain ischemia in vivo. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 2860-2869, 1998. The spontaneous activities, evoked synaptic responses, and membrane properties of CA3 pyramidal neurons and dentate granule cells in rat hippocampus were compared...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gao TM,Howard EM,Xu ZC

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We studied the effect of electrical stimulation of the peribrachial region (PBR) in the brain stem on the visual response of single cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) to a light slit presented in a series of positions across the receptive field. The response was plotted against slit position, giv...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hartveit E,Ramberg SI,Heggelund P

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many regions of the vertebrate brain, microcircuits generate local recurrent activity that aids in the processing and encoding of incoming afferent inputs. Local recurrent activity can amplify, filter, and temporally and spatially parse out incoming input. Determining how these microcircuits function is of great in...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Liu Z,Ciarleglio CM,Hamodi AS,Aizenman CD,Pratt KG

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuron loss, axon sprouting, and the formation of new synaptic circuits have been hypothesized to contribute to seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Using the kainate-treated rat, we examined how alterations in the density of CA1 pyramidal cells and interneurons, and subsequent sprouting of CA1 pyramidal cell axo...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Smith BN,Dudek FE

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Response adaptation is the change of the firing rate of neurons induced by a preceding stimulus. It can be found in many sensory systems and throughout the auditory pathway. We investigated response adaptation in the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICX) of barn owls ( Tyto furcata), a nocturnal bird of pr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ferger R,Pawlowsky K,Singheiser M,Wagner H

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In alpha-chloralose-anesthetized cats the region surrounding the ventral posterolateral nucleus (VPL) of the thalamus was investigated to locate foci with input from the urinary bladder stimulated by application of intravesical pressure. The locations of the recording sites were verified in Nissl-stained histologic...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brüggemann J,Vahle-Hinz C,Kniffki KD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was recently shown that repeated heat stimulation, using brief contacts (<1 s) with a preheated thermode at sufficiently short interstimulus intervals (ISIs <5 s) and high temperatures (> or =51 degrees C), will elicit in humans a sensation of rapidly augmenting "second" (burning) pain with only a weak "first" (sha...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Craig AD,Andrew D

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinotopy is a fundamental organizing principle of the visual cortex. Over the years, a variety of techniques have been used to examine it. None of these techniques, however, provides a way to rapidly characterize retinotopy, at the submillimeter range, in alert, behaving subjects. Voltage-sensitive dye imaging (VSDI...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yang Z,Heeger DJ,Seidemann E

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological basis of flexion spasms in individuals after spinal cord injury (SCI) may involve alterations in the properties of spinal neurons in the flexion reflex pathways. We hypothesize that these changes would be manifested as progressive increases in reflex response with repetitive stimulus application (i.e...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hornby TG,Rymer WZ,Benz EN,Schmit BD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poststroke pain syndrome (PSPS) is an often intractable disorder characterized by hemiparesis associated with unrelenting chronic pain. Although traditional analgesics have largely failed, integrative approaches targeting affective-cognitive spheres have started to show promise. Recently, we demonstrated that deep bra...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gopalakrishnan R,Burgess RC,Malone DA,Lempka SF,Gale JT,Floden DP,Baker KB,Machado AG

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Previous studies indicate that after transection of the rostral spinal cord, larval lamprey begin to recover locomotor behavior 2 wk posttransection and recovery is complete at approximately 8 wk. To examine the mechanisms underlying behavioral recovery after spinal cord transection, in the present study the time c...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： McClellan AD

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional magnetic resonance imaging blood-oxygenation-level-dependent (BOLD) signal increases (activations) and BOLD signal decreases ("deactivations") were compared in six healthy volunteers during galvanic vestibular (mastoid) and galvanic cutaneous (neck) stimulation in order to differentiate vestibular from ocul...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bense S,Stephan T,Yousry TA,Brandt T,Dieterich M

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) receives a dense serotonergic innervation that modulates photic input to the SCN via serotonin 1B (5-HT1B) presynaptic receptors on retinal glutamatergic terminals. However, the majority of 5-HT1B binding sites in the SCN are located on nonretinal terminals and most axonal terminals i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bramley JR,Sollars PJ,Pickard GE,Dudek FE

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is faster or stronger sniffing important for the olfactory system? Odorant molecules are captured by sniffing. The features of sniffing constrain both the temporality and intensity of the input to the olfactory structures. In this context, it is clear that variations in both the sniff frequency and flow rate have a ma...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Courtiol E,Hegoburu C,Litaudon P,Garcia S,Fourcaud-Trocmé N,Buonviso N

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG) is an agonist at the type 3 metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR3), which is coupled to a Gi/o protein. When activated, the mGluR3 receptor inhibits adenylyl cyclase and reduces the cAMP-mediated second-messenger cascade. Long-term potentiation (LTP) in the medial perforant path (MPP...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lea PM 4th,Wroblewska B,Sarvey JM,Neale JH

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we provide the first characterization of abducens nucleus neuron (ABN) discharge dynamics during horizontal disjunctive saccades. These movements function to rapidly transfer the visual axes between targets located at different eccentricities and depths. Our primary objective was to determine whether t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sylvestre PA,Cullen KE

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experimental findings suggest that there may be rich physiological information embedded within the power spectrum of neurophysiological recordings, which, in addition to power in specific oscillatory frequencies, can be extracted with the appropriate model. This article reviews previous empirical and modeling r...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gao R

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared electroretinographic (ERG) responses to uniform-field and a variety of pattern stimuli using both transient and steady-state analyses. Evidence is provided that for all of these stimuli, the peak at high temporal frequencies in the steady-state response corresponds to the fast wave of the transient respons...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Baker CL Jr,Hess RF

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00