Elucidation of molecular pathogenesis and drug development for psychiatric disorders from rare disease-susceptibility variants.

abstract：:Effects of 1-naphthyl acetyl spermine (NASPM), a synthetic analogue of Joro spider toxin (JSTX), on alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)-type glutamate receptors were studied in cultured rat hippocampal neurons using the whole-cell patch clamp technique. A population of cultured neurons had ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Koike M,Iino M,Ozawa S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concurrent eye and hand movements toward a common visual target require different motor programs based on identical visual input. We used event-related brain potentials (ERP) to determine if and when the processing of the visual target differs for the two motor systems. The N2, an index for target evaluation, was more...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Wehrspaun CC,Pfabigan DM,Sailer U

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Striatonigral axons co-release GABA and substance P (SP) at their target sites, but little is known about the action of SP at nigral level. Therefore, we studied immunohistochemically the cellular and subcellular localization of SP and its high affinity receptors neurokinin-1 (NK-1R) and neurokinin-3 (NK-3R) at nigral...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Lévesque M,Wallman MJ,Parent R,Sík A,Parent A

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate recovery function of and effects of hyperventilation (HV) on high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) of median nerve somatosensory evoked potential (SEP), we recorded SEPs in 8 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with enlarged HFOs, 4 myoclonus epilepsy (ME) patients and 10 healthy volunteers (N). SEP was recorde...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Mochizuki H,Machii K,Terao Y,Furubayashi T,Hanajima R,Enomoto H,Uesugi H,Shiio Y,Kamakura K,Kanazawa I,Ugawa Y

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are a family of peptides originally identified as the factors regulating the migration of leukocytes in inflammatory and immune responses. Recently, they have been shown to be produced in the central and peripheral nervous systems under various pathological conditions and act on neuronal and glial cells. In...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tanaka T,Minami M,Nakagawa T,Satoh M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of the odors from mother's milk, other mother's milk and formula milk on pain responses in newborns undergoing routine heelsticks. Forty-eight healthy infants were assigned to four groups, an own mother's breast milk odor group (Own MM), another mother's breast milk odor group (Other MM), a for...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nishitani S,Miyamura T,Tagawa M,Sumi M,Takase R,Doi H,Moriuchi H,Shinohara K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAP-22, a neuronal tissue-enriched acidic membrane protein, is a Ca(2+)-dependent calmodulin binding protein and has similar biochemical characteristics to GAP-43 (neuromodulin). Recent biochemical studies have demonstrated that NAP-22 localizes in the membrane raft domain with a cholesterol-dependent manner. Since th...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kashihara M,Miyata S,Kumanogoh H,Funatsu N,Matsunaga W,Kiyohara T,Sokawa Y,Maekawa S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied developmental changes in respiratory-like C4 activity and respiratory-related neurons in the ventrolateral medulla (VLM) of brainstem-spinal cord preparations from rat fetuses after embryonic day 16 (E16). In addition to respiratory nerve activity, non-respiratory activity was recorded from the C4 ventral r...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Onimaru H,Homma I

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the basic neurobiological processes regulated by lithium--an effective drug for bipolar disorder--we used Affymetrix Genome Arrays to examine lithium-induced changes in genome-wide gene expression profiles of head mRNA from the genetic model organism Drosophila melanogaster. First, to identify the...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kasuya J,Kaas G,Kitamoto T

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid hormones substantially influence brain development, reproduction sexual differentiation and emotion. These effects are mediated by steroid hormone receptors and cofactors, which directly regulate gene expression. Deciphering how and where these transcriptional activators occur in a cell provides the groundwork...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kawata M,Matsuda K,Nishi M,Ogawa H,Ochiai I

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat models of Parkinson's disease, injections of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) into different areas of the basal ganglia result in dopaminergic neurodegeneration in the substantia nigra. The extent and time course of the dopaminergic lesions varies between the models. While the effects on neurons have been extensively...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Henning J,Strauss U,Wree A,Gimsa J,Rolfs A,Benecke R,Gimsa U

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How the nervous system controls the sensation and memory of information from the environment is an essential question. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a useful model for elucidating neural information processing that mediates sensation and memory. The entire nervous system of C. elegans consists of only 302 neu...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ohta A,Kuhara A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat striatum numerous secretagogin (SCGN) positive neurons were scattered. They were heterogeneous in their morphological and chemical properties. We examined the colocalization of SCGN with known four interneuron markers, parvalbumin (PV), calretinin (CR), nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and choline acetyl transfe...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kosaka T,Yasuda S,Kosaka K

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have been advocating cognitive developmental robotics to obtain new insight into the development of human cognitive functions by utilizing synthetic and constructive approaches. Among the different emotional functions, empathy is difficult to model, but essential for robots to be social agents in our society. In my...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Asada M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the contribution of retinal and cortical afferents to the patterns of glutamate- and homocysteate-like immunoreactivities in dorsal lateral geniculate, combined retinal and cortical ablations were performed in rats. In controls, glutamate immunoreactivity was in terminal-like dots and neurons. Homocysteate im...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Grandes P,Mateos JM,Azkue J,Sarría R,Cuénod M,Streit P

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cranial nerves and the brain fiber systems of the medaka (Oryzias latipes) fry are revealed by a whole-mount staining method. Newly hatched fry of an albino strain of the medaka were fixed, partially digested with trypsin, treated in 1% Triton X-100, and finally immunohistochemically stained using anti-neurofilame...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ishikawa Y,Hyodo-Taguchi Y

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal stress, viral infection, and obstetric complications, which trigger cytokine signaling, are hypothesized to be involved in schizophrenia and its related disorders. The etiologic contribution of individual cytokines to such psychiatric disorders, however, remains to be evaluated. To estimate the impact of peri...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tohmi M,Tsuda N,Watanabe Y,Kakita A,Nawa H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that cholinergic modulation of functioning of neuronal networks is common in the central nervous system at all scales from neuronal columns to large nuclei. It is involved in various attentional, cognitive and behavioral performances. We have recently demonstrated that a frog retinotectal transm...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Baginskas A,Kuraite V,Kuras A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

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：:The cerebellar Purkinje cell has highly branched dendrites extending in a transverse plane to the cerebellar folium. Branching patterns of the dendrites were subjected to fractal analysis to obtain a quantitative measure of their intricacy. Using a square-covering method, we found that dendrites have a statistical sel...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Takeda T,Ishikawa A,Ohtomo K,Kobayashi Y,Matsuoka T

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes for the first time the phenomenon of spatio-temporal mapping of interchannel temporal coincidences of rapid transition processes (RTPs) in multiple EEG frequencies. It is suggested that RTPs in multiple EEG frequencies found in different EEG channels could reflect the process of switching between ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Fingelkurts AA,Fingelkurts AA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of acupuncture-like stimulation of the various segmental areas on gastric motility were examined in anesthetized rats. An acupuncture needle (diameter 340 microns) was inserted into the skin and underlying muscles at a depth of 4-5 mm and was twisted right and left once every second for 60 s. Gastric motil...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sato A,Sato Y,Suzuki A,Uchida S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine healthy male volunteers (mean age of 24) participated in two experimental sessions of random crossover design: a bright light (5000 lux for 5 h from 00:00 to 05:00 h) session and a dim light (10 lux for 5 h from 00:00 to 05:00 h) session. Subsequently participants entered an ultra-short sleep-wake schedule for 26...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kubota T,Uchiyama M,Suzuki H,Shibui K,Kim K,Tan X,Tagaya H,Okawa M,Inoue S

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to the central nervous system (CNS) leads to the disruption of the axonal network and causes neurological dysfunction. Recovery of neurological functions requires restoration of the axonal network; however, injured axons in the adult mammalian CNS rarely regenerate after injury. Failure of the injured axon to r...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Muramatsu R,Yamashita T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenopus oocytes injected with messenger RNA extracted from rat brain are induced to acquire a variety of neurotransmitter receptors and voltage-operated membrane channels. Activation of the receptors to serotonin, acetylcholine (muscarinic) and glutamate elicits oscillatory membrane currents carried by chloride ions. ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Parker I,Gundersen CB,Miledi R

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficiency in n-3 fatty acids is known to disturb the release of dopaminergic neurotransmitters in rat brain. Since isomerization reduces the bioavailability of dietary fatty acids, the effect of the conversion of alpha-linolenic acid into trans alpha-linolenic acid on the dopaminergic neurotransmission was studied. R...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Acar N,Chardigny JM,Darbois M,Pasquis B,Sébédio JL

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural and molecular mechanisms underlying food preference have been poorly understood. We previously showed that Bifidobacterium infantis (B. infantis), a well-known probiotic bacterium, extends the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) compared with a standard food, Escherichia coli (E. coli) OP50. In ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sun S,Ohta A,Kuhara A,Nishikawa Y,Kage-Nakadai E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out voltage-sensitive dye imaging of the guinea pig auditory cortex to determine whether the ongoing and spontaneous activities of the cortex exhibit spatial coherence reflecting the tonotopic organization of the cortex. We used independent component analysis and a signal-plus-noise model to extract ongoing...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yoshida T,Sakagami M,Katura T,Yamazaki K,Tanaka S,Iwamoto M,Tanaka N

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of GABA in medial preoptico-anterior hypothalamic area in the regulation of spontaneous sleep-wakefulness and rapid eye movement sleep was investigated in this study. Local microinjection of picrotoxin, a GABA-A antagonist, into this area increased quiet wakefulness but significantly reduced deep sleep and ra...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ali M,Jha SK,Kaur S,Mallick BN

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we describe recent experimental observations and model simulations in the research subject of brain-machine interface (BMI). Studies of BMIs have applied decoding models to extract functional characteristics of the recorded neurons, and some of these have more focused on adaptation based on neural oper...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ito H,Fujiki S,Mori Y,Kansaku K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00