Synchronous activity in cat visual cortex encodes collinear and cocircular contours.

abstract：:Skin on the foot sole plays an important role in postural control. Cooling the skin of the foot is often used to induce anesthesia to determine the role of skin in motor and balance control. The effect of cooling on the four classes of mechanoreceptor in the skin is largely unknown, and thus the aim of the present stu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lowrey CR,Strzalkowski ND,Bent LR

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinase-activated receptors (PARs) have a unique activation mechanism in that a proteolytically exposed N-terminal region acts as a tethered ligand. A potential impact of PAR on sensory processing has not been fully examined yet. Here we report that synthetic peptides with sequences corresponding to PAR ligands enh...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fujita T,Liu T,Nakatsuka T,Kumamoto E

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Older adults are at a high risk of falls, and most falls occur during locomotor activities like walking. This study aimed to improve our understanding of changes in neuromuscular control associated with increased risk of falls in older adults in the presence of dynamic balance challenges during walking. Motor module (...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Allen JL,Franz JR

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transection of a peripheral nerve results in withdrawal of synapses from motoneurons. Some of the withdrawn synapses are restored spontaneously, but those containing the vesicular glutamate transporter 1 (VGLUT1), and arising mainly from primary afferent neurons, are withdrawn permanently. If animals are exercised imm...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brandt J,Evans JT,Mildenhall T,Mulligan A,Konieczny A,Rose SJ,English AW

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：:The performance of adaptive behavior relies on continuous sensory feedback to produce relevant modifications to central motor patterns. The femoral chordotonal organ (FeCO) of the legs of the desert locust monitors the movements of the tibia about the femoro-tibial joint. A ventral midline population of spiking local ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Vidal-Gadea AG,Jing XJ,Simpson D,Dewhirst OP,Kondoh Y,Allen R,Newland PL

更新日期：2010-02-01 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

abstract：:High-frequency activity produces transient depression at many synapses but also, as recently demonstrated, may accelerate the recovery from use-dependent depression. We have examined the possible consequences of this synaptic mechanism in neocortical excitatory synapses by recording simultaneously from presynaptic pyr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Galarreta M,Hestrin S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetanus toxin reduces monosynaptic inhibitory and excitatory synaptic transmission in mouse spinal cord neurons in culture. Inhibitory transmission is preferentially reduced by the toxin; however, excitatory transmission is also ultimately reduced and blocked by the concentrations of toxin used in these studies. Recor...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bergey GK,Bigalke H,Nelson PG

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary motor cortex has been studied for more than a century, yet a consensus on its functional contribution to movement control is still out of reach. In particular, there remains controversy as to the level of control produced by motor cortex ("low-level" movement dynamics vs. "high-level" movement kinematics) and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Omrani M,Kaufman MT,Hatsopoulos NG,Cheney PD

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：:Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), the most common inherited form of intellectual disability, is caused by loss of the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). FMRP is a negative regulator of local mRNA translation downstream of group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptor (Gp1 mGluR) activation. In the absence of FMRP there is...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Auerbach BD,Bear MF

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to adjust the amplitude of gaze shifts in response to persistent visual errors ("gaze adaptation") has been investigated primarily by introducing visual errors at the end of saccades produced by head-restrained primates. Very little is known about the behavior and neural mechanisms underlying gaze adaptati...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cecala AL,Freedman EG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

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 vestibular system operates in a push-pull fashion using signals from both labyrinths and an intricate bilateral organization. Unilateral vestibular lesions cause well-characterized motor deficits that are partially compensated over time and whose neural correlates have been traced in the mean response modulation o...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yu XJ,Thomassen JS,Dickman JD,Newlands SD,Angelaki DE

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The group I metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) subtype, mGluR1, is highly expressed on the apical dendrites of olfactory bulb mitral cells and thus may be activated by glutamate released from olfactory nerve (ON) terminals. Previous studies have shown that mGluR1 agonists directly excite mitral cells. In the pres...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ennis M,Zhu M,Heinbockel T,Hayar A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain's ability to integrate information from different senses is acquired only after extensive sensory experience. However, whether early life experience instantiates a general integrative capacity in multisensory neurons or one limited to the particular cross-modal stimulus combinations to which one has been exp...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Xu J,Yu L,Stanford TR,Rowland BA,Stein BE

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The small-signal linear characteristics of afferent responses from the isolated semicircular canal were described by the use of white-noise rotational acceleration inputs. The results, based on cross-correlation analysis, showed a striking and systematic variation in linear system impulse response characteristics from...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： O'Leary DP,Dunn RF

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many neurons more than one peptide is colocalized with a classical neurotransmitter. The functional consequence of such an arrangement has been rarely investigated. Here, within the feeding circuit of Aplysia, we investigate at a single synapse the actions of two modulatory neuropeptides that are present in a choli...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Koh HY,Vilim FS,Jing J,Weiss KR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The horizontal angular vestibuloocular reflex (VOR) evoked by high-frequency, high-acceleration rotations was studied in four squirrel monkeys after unilateral labyrinthectomy. Spontaneous nystagmus was measured at the beginning and end of each testing session. During the period that animals were kept in darkness (4 d...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lasker DM,Hullar TE,Minor LB

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:1. We studied adenosine's action on synaptic transmission from primary afferent fibers to neurons of the substantia gelatinosa (SG) using tight-seal whole cell recordings in transverse slices of hamster spinal cord. Adenosine had two actions, hyperpolarization of the postsynaptic membrane and depression of the excitat...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Li J,Perl ER

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The dentate gyrus fails to develop epileptiform activity in many experimental models of epilepsy, including the in vitro low-Ca2+ model. Although manipulating the K+ concentration or osmolality of normal low-Ca2+ perfusion mediums can enhance the propensity of the dentate gyrus to develop seizure activity, the spec...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Richardson TL,O'Reilly CN

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Neuronal mechanisms for decoding sound azimuth and angular movement were studied by recordings of several single units in parallel in the core areas of the auditory cortex of the macaque monkey. The activity of 180 units was recorded during the presentation of moving and static sound stimuli. Both the activity of s...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ahissar M,Ahissar E,Bergman H,Vaadia E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spike-triggered averaging technique (26) was used to determine whether the synaptic input from medial gastrocnemius (MG) Ia-afferent fibers to homonymous motoneurons is "topographically weighted" (22) by means of differences in projection frequency, excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP) amplitude, or a combinat...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lucas SM,Cope TC,Binder MD

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three nonspiking interneurons are described in this paper that influence the activity of the motor neurons of three muscles of the proximal leg joints of the stick insect. Interneurons were recorded and stained intracellularly by glass microelectrodes; motor neurons were recorded extracellularly with oil-hook electrod...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brunn DE

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite its widespread use, high-resolution imaging with multiphoton microscopy to record neuronal signals in vivo is limited to the surface of brain tissue because of limited light penetration. Moreover, most imaging studies do not simultaneously record electrical neural activity, which is, however, crucial to unders...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hirai Y,Nishino E,Ohmori H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cell patch-clamp recordings were used to investigate the contribution of transient, low-threshold calcium currents (I(T)) to firing properties of hamster spinal dorsal horn neurons. I(T) was widely, though not uniformly, expressed by cells in Rexed's laminae I-IV and correlated with the pattern of action potenti...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ku WH,Schneider SP

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. GABAergic mechanisms in the midbrain periaqueductal gray (PAG) have been proposed to control the activity of descending antinociceptive systems and defensive behavior. Here, the effect of neuronal disinhibition by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAA) receptor blockade at midbrain sites on spinal neuronal responses to no...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sandkühler J,Willmann E,Fu QG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated if visual direction-selective neurons in the pretectal area (APT) of goldfish (Carassius auratus auratus) preferred visual stimuli resulting from rotations around axes corresponding to the best responsive axes of the semicircular canals [optic flow that is consistent to a maximal activation of the hori...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Masseck OA,Hoffmann KP

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00