Influence of vagotomy on monosynaptic transmission at second-order nucleus tractus solitarius synapses.

abstract：:The effects of neuronal density on morphological and functional attributes of the evolving networks were studied in cultured dissociated hippocampal neurons. Plating at different densities affected connectivity among the neurons, such that sparse networks exhibited stronger synaptic connections between pairs of record...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ivenshitz M,Segal M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The sensory responsiveness of cells in the inferior olive is known to be suppressed during certain phases of active movement. These experiments were designed to test the possibility that activity in the rubrospinal pathway contributes to this suppression. We recorded from cells sensitive to light touch located in o...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Weiss C,Houk JC,Gibson AR

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Horizontal cells were enzymatically and mechanically dissociated from the white perch (Roccus americana) retina and voltage clamped using patch electrodes. Steady-state current-voltage (I-V) relationships of solitary horizontal cells were determined by changing the membrane potential in a rampwise fashion. 2. The I...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Perlman I,Knapp AG,Dowling JE

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ablation of afferent input results in the reorganization of sensory and motor cortices. In the primary visual cortex (V1), binocular retinal lesions deprive a corresponding cortical region [lesion projection zone (LPZ)] of visual input. Nevertheless, neurons in the LPZ regain responsiveness by shifting their recep...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： McManus JN,Ullman S,Gilbert CD

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prefrontal cortex (PFC) dopamine D1/5 receptors modulate long- and short-term neuronal plasticity that may contribute to cognitive functions. Synergistic to synaptic strength modulation, direct postsynaptic D1/5 receptor activation also modulates voltage-dependent ionic currents that regulate spike firing, thus alteri...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Chen L,Bohanick JD,Nishihara M,Seamans JK,Yang CR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an inspiration the output of hypoglossal (XII) motoneurons (HMs) in vitro is characterized by synchronous oscillatory firing in the 20- to 40-Hz range. To maintain synchronicity it is important that the cells fire with high reliability and precision. It is not known whether the intrinsic properties of HMs are t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： van Brederode JF,Berger AJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperreflexia and spasticity are chronic complications in spinal cord injury (SCI), with limited options for safe and effective treatment. A central mechanism in spasticity is hyperexcitability of the spinal stretch reflex, which presents symptomatically as a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes and e...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bandaru SP,Liu S,Waxman SG,Tan AM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A variety of pharmacological tests indicate that the neuromuscular junction between the salivary burster neuron (SB) and the salivary duct muscle (SD) in the terrestrial mollusk Limax maximus is cholinergic. These include the effects of curare, atropine, and hexamethonium. 2. Exogenously applied choline can act bot...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Barry SR,Gelperin A

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin [5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)] is a conspicuous neuromodulator of sensory-motor networks that affects a variety of neurons at different levels of the network hierarchy. Because of its many possible targets, it has been difficult to obtain a comprehensive picture of how 5-HT achieves its final modulatory output...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Calviño MA,Iscla IR,Szczupak L

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Training rats to perform rapidly and efficiently in an olfactory discrimination task results in robust enhancement of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic connectivity in the rat piriform cortex, which is maintained for days after training. To explore the mechanisms by which such synaptic enhancement occurs, we recorded...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Saar D,Reuveni I,Barkai E

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:We have used the rat hippocampal slice preparation as a model system for studying the epileptogenic consequences of a reduction in neuronal Na+-K+ pump activity. The cardiac glycosides (CGs) strophanthidin and dihydroouabain were used to inhibit the pump. These drugs had readily reversible effects, provided they were ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： McCarren M,Alger BE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channel modulation by the peptide myomodulin (MM) has been demonstrated in a wide variety of organisms including Aplysia, Lymnaea, and Pleurobranchaea. This neural and muscular modulation has been shown to be important for shaping and modifying behavior. In this paper, we report that MM modulates several distinct ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Wang Y,Strong JA,Sahley CL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slowness of voluntary movements in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) may be due to various factors, including attentional and cognitive deficits, delays in motor conduction time, and impairment of specific central nervous system circuits. In 13 healthy volunteers and 20 mildly disabled, relapsing-remitting MS pati...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cabib C,Llufriu S,Casanova-Molla J,Saiz A,Valls-Solé J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After a cortical lesion, cortical areas distant from the site of injury are known to undergo physiological and anatomical changes. However, the mechanisms through which reorganization of distant cortical areas is initiated are poorly understood. In a previous publication, we showed that the ventral premotor cortex (PM...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dancause N,Barbay S,Frost SB,Zoubina EV,Plautz EJ,Mahnken JD,Nudo RJ

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The corticospinal tract excitability is modulated when preparing movements. Earlier to movement execution, the excitability of the spinal cord increases waiting for supraspinal commands to release the movement. Movement execution and movement observation share processes within the motor system, although movement obser...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Arias P,Robles-García V,Espinosa N,Corral-Bergantiños Y,Mordillo-Mateos L,Grieve K,Oliviero A,Cudeiro J

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The actions of hydrogen sulfide (HS-) on membrane and synaptic properties of dorsal raphe (DR) serotonergic cells were studied in the in vitro brain stem slice preparation, using intracellular sharp microelectrode and whole-cell recording techniques. 2. Sulfide produced two reversible, concentration-dependent effec...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kombian SB,Reiffenstein RJ,Colmers WF

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. To better characterize temporal and spatial mechanisms involved in the coding of prolonged nociceptive stimuli in the spinal cord, the responses of dorsal horn wide dynamic range (WDR) and nociceptive-specific (NS) neurons to prolonged, repetitive noxious heat stimuli (45-49 degrees C) were examined in unanesthetiz...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Coghill RC,Mayer DJ,Price DD

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast inhibitory synaptic transmission in the brain relies on ionotropic GABA(A) receptors (GABA(A)R). Eighteen genes code for GABA(A)R subunits, but little is known about the epsilon subunit. Our aim was to identify the synaptic transmission properties displayed by native receptors incorporating epsilon. Immunogold lo...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Belujon P,Baufreton J,Grandoso L,Boué-Grabot E,Batten TF,Ugedo L,Garret M,Taupignon AI

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most of the bulbospinal respiratory neurons, threshold depolarization increased during the early period of their spontaneous burst discharge but decreased again at the end of a burst. In some vagal respiratory neurons, however, threshold depolarization increased steadily until the very end of their discharge period...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Richter DW,Heyde F

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance P (SP) hyperpolarizes approximately 80% of ferret vagal sensory neurons (nodose ganglion neurons) via NK-1 receptor-mediated activation of a potassium current (IK). A depolarizing current activated by membrane hyperpolarization could minimize the SP-induced hyperpolarization. Such a current exists in 65% of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Jafri MS,Weinreich D

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Neurons in the ventral intraparietal area (VIP) are known to respond to translating random dot patterns. Such responses can be explained on the basis of the input of the middle temporal area (MT) to this area. Anatomic evidence has shown that VIP receives input from the dorsal part of the medial superior temporal a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Schaafsma SJ,Duysens J

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macaque SEF neurons encode object-centered directions of eye movements regardless of the visual attributes of instructional cues. Neurons in the supplementary eye field (SEF) of the macaque monkey exhibit object-centered direction selectivity in the context of a task in which a spot flashed on the right or left end of...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Olson CR,Gettner SN

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Movement of the crayfish thoracocoxal leg joint is monitored by a muscle receptor organ (TCMRO) and a chordotonal organ (TCCO). Both receptors span the joint in parallel but signal opposite directions of leg movement. The TCMRO is innervated by afferents responsive to lengthening, which corresponds to leg remotion,...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Skorupski P,Rawat BM,Bush BM

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel recording of neuronal activity in the behaving animal is a prerequisite for our understanding of neuronal representation and storage of information. Here we describe the development of micro-machined silicon microelectrode arrays for unit and local field recordings. The two-dimensional probes with 96 or 64 re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Csicsvari J,Henze DA,Jamieson B,Harris KD,Sirota A,Barthó P,Wise KD,Buzsáki G

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The same set of stimuli and analytic methods that was used to study the dynamics of horizontal cells () was applied to a study of the response dynamics and signal processing in amacrine cells in the retina of the kissing gourami, Helostoma rudolfi. The retina contains two major classes of amacrine cells that could be ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sakai HM,Machuca H,Naka KI

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:Every time we blink our eyes, the image on the retina goes almost completely dark. And yet we hardly notice these interruptions, even though an external darkening is startling. Intuitively it would seem that if our perception is continuous, then the neuronal activity on which our perceptions are based should also be c...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gawne TJ,Martin JM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Octopus arms, as well as other muscular hydrostats, are characterized by a very large number of degrees of freedom and a rich motion repertoire. Over the years, several attempts have been made to elucidate the interplay between the biomechanics of these organs and their control systems. Recent developments in electrop...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yekutieli Y,Mitelman R,Hochner B,Flash T

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The locus coeruleus (LC) noradrenergic (NE) neuromodulatory system is critically involved in regulation of neural excitability via its diffuse ascending projections. Tonic NE release in the forebrain is essential for maintenance of vigilant states and increases the signal-to-noise ratio of cortical sensory responses. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Neves RM,van Keulen S,Yang M,Logothetis NK,Eschenko O

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00