Potentiating effects of methamphetamine on the hyperactivity of microencephalic rats treated prenatally with methylazoxymethanol: possible implication of hyperdopaminergia.

abstract：:In humans, tendon vibration evokes illusory sensations of movement that are usually associated with an excitatory tonic response in muscles antagonistic to those vibrated (antagonist vibratory response, AVR), i.e., in the muscle groups normally contracted if the illusory movement had been performed. The aim of the pre...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Calvin-Figuière S,Romaiguère P,Roll JP

更新日期：2000-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently it was reported that there is an increase in monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) activity in post-mortem brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. It was postulated that this increase in MAO-B activity was due to gliosis associated with neuronal degeneration. The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate th...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Jossan SS,Hiraga Y,Oreland L

更新日期：1989-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that the superior colliculus (SC), in addition to its functions in sensory detection, also participates in controlling the generalized activation state of the forebrain, as measured by the electroencephalogram (EEG) or electrocorticogram (ECoG). The mechanisms by which the SC modulates forebr...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Dringenberg HC,Vanderwolf CH,Noseworthy PA

更新日期：2003-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The extraction and utilization of sound level changes in acoustic-autonomic reflex systems were studied on a vasoconstriction response in the tail of nonanesthetized rats. The vasoconstriction was found to depend on sound level and changes of level in the following ways. (a) It increased as a linear function of sound ...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Borg E

更新日期：1980-04-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical and pharmacological properties of an endogenous anticonvulsant substance(s) found in rat cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) following seizures are described. CSF taken from donor rats following a single maximal electroshock (MES) seizure caused significant elevations in seizure thresholds in naive recipient rat...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Tortella FC,Long JB

更新日期：1988-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent study has shown that many afferent fibers in the ventral root are third branches of dorsal root ganglion cells in addition to their processes in the peripheral nerve and the dorsal root. From results of this study, we hypothesized that most of the afferent fibers in the normal ventral root are extra process...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Oh UT,Kim KJ,Baik-Han EJ,Chung JM

更新日期：1989-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mapping studies with central drug injections in the hungry rat have identified the perifornical lateral hypothalamus as being uniquely sensitive to the feeding suppressive effects of exogenous dopamine, as well as anorexic drugs which release endogenous catecholamines. In the present study, the hypothalamic dopamine-r...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Leibowitz SF,Rossakis C

更新日期：1979-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that functional metabolic deficits observed following surgical brain injury are associated with changes in cognitive performance in rodents, we performed serial imaging studies in parallel with behavioral measures in control animals and in animals with surgical implants. Memory function was asse...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Frumberg DB,Fernando MS,Lee DE,Biegon A,Schiffer WK

更新日期：2007-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection of neonatal mice with ts1, the neuropathogenic mutant of the Moloney murine leukemia virus, results in motor neuronal death in the brainstem and the spinal cord, with gliosis and demyelination, but no inflammatory cell infiltration into the CNS. To evaluate the possible mechanism(s) of ts1-induced neuropatho...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Choe W,Stoica G,Lynn W,Wong PK

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY, 1 and 10 pmol), NPY Y1 receptor agonist [Leu31, Pro34]NPY (10 pmol) and Y2 agonist NPY13-36 (100 pmol) were administered unilaterally into the region of the nucleus locus coeruleus (LC) in rats. NPY (10 pmol) and NPY13-36 increased the percentage of open arm entries, the percentage of time spent o...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Kask A,Rägo L,Harro J

更新日期：1998-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracisternal injections of hypocretin-1 (hcrt-1) have been shown to elicit sympathoexciatory responses. However, the location of central sites that may mediate these cardiovascular effects have not been clearly elucidated. This study was done in male Wistar rats to investigate the effects of microinjections of hcrt-...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Ciriello J,Li Z,de Oliveira CV

更新日期：2003-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The right wingbuds of stage 23-25 chick embryos were amputated at the future elbow region and a segment of 2-day neural tube was implanted longitudinally into the limb stump of experimental embryos to induce limb regeneration. Control embryos had no implant in the amputated limb stump. To analyze effects of the neural...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Sisken BF,Fowler I,Matson G,Thudium P,Barr E

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine uptake inhibitors block the neurotoxic effects of methamphetamine (MA) upon dopaminergic and serotonergic neurons in the rat. The neurotoxic effects of MA upon dopaminergic neurons have previously been suggested to be mediated via formation of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) from endogenous stores of dopamine (DA...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Marek GJ,Vosmer G,Seiden LS

更新日期：1990-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study provides evidence for the presence of an endogenous ligand for the phencyclidine (PCP) receptor of mammalian brain. Partially purified bovine hippocampal extracts potently and dose dependently inhibit binding to PCP receptors of [3H]N-(1-[2-thienyl]-cyclohexyl)piperidine (TCP), a highly potent and sp...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Zukin SR,Zukin RS,Vale W,Rivier J,Nichtenhauser R,Snell LD,Johnson KM

更新日期：1987-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)-like immunoreactivity was investigated in the brain, olfactory system and retina of the zebrafish, Danio rerio, during development and in juvenile specimens, by using the indirect immunofluorescence and the peroxidase-antiperoxidase methods. In 24 h post fertiliz...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Mathieu M,Tagliafierro G,Angelini C,Vallarino M

更新日期：2001-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol-preferring Alko, Alcohol (AA) rats with free access to food and water were taught to voluntarily consume 10% alcohol solution during 20-min sessions. After the drinking session, rats had elevated dopamine release (as reflected by 3-methoxytyramine concentrations) in the nucleus accumbens, olfactory tubercle, a...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Honkanen A,Ahtee L,Korpi ER

更新日期：1997-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-three cell pairs in the somatosensory cerebral cortex were examined in pentobarbital-anesthetized cats for evidence of short latency interactions. Many neuronal pairs separated by distances of 150 to 500 micron were observed to have temporal dependencies. In a subset of 19 pairs where the surrounding multiunit a...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Metherate R,Dykes RW

更新日期：1985-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons containing immunoreactivity to the endogenous lactose-binding lectin, RL-29, were examined in the L4 segment of the spinal cord of rats with an experimental neuropathy. The cells appeared by 5 days and were also present at 14 and 28 days postoperatively. All neurons were found in the dorsal horn ipsilateral to...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Cameron AA,Dougherty PM,Garrison CJ,Willis WD,Carlton SM

更新日期：1993-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pars interpolaris of the spinal trigeminal nucleus of kittens has been studied with the electron microscope at birth and at several subsequent ages during the first month of life. Attention has been given to ultrastructural maturational changes that occur in this neuropil, especially events in synaptogenesis. The resu...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Dunn RC,Westrum LE

更新日期：1978-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Six experimental and 3 unoperated cats were trained with a go, no-go shock avoidance procedure to discriminate increases from decreases in the rate of presentation of all auditory cortex between the suprasylvian sulcus and rhinal fissure while 3 cats had bilateral auditory cortex lesions plus ablation of the cortex of...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Cranford JL,Igarashi M,Stramler JH

更新日期：1976-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:At two weeks post-transplantation, sciatic nerves inserted into the lesioned septo-hippocampal pathway contain NGF levels more than twice that of normal nerves. These transplanted nerves also contain regenerating cholinergic axons. Moreover, transplanted animals exhibit septal NGF levels that are significantly greater...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Messersmith DJ,Fabrazzo M,Mocchetti I,Kromer LF

更新日期：1991-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The window method of radiolabeled protein analysis was used to study the transport kinetics of axonally transported cytomatrix proteins as they move through segments of mouse optic axons. Three slow component b (SCb) proteins--actin, a 30 kDa protein, and clathrin--were radiolabeled in the eye and were followed for up...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Paggi P,Lasek RJ,Katz MJ

更新日期：1990-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that locus coeruleus (LC) of the rat shows intense mu-opioid receptor-like immunoreactivity (MOR-LI). In the course of our study on the distribution of MOR-LI in the brain of the Japanese monkey (Macaca fuscata), however, no MOR-LI was found in the LC although the distribution pattern of MOR-LI in oth...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Chen J,Koyama N,Kaneko T,Mizuno N

更新日期：1997-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Ontogenic development of the dopaminergic system in rat brain was investigated. This was accomplished by monitoring changes in postsynaptic dopamine receptor formation and presynaptic dopamine content in the midbrain tegmentum, frontal cortex and corpus striatum from the 18th day of gestation through adulthood. The do...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Noisin EL,Thomas WE

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infusions of angiotensin II (AII) or carbachol (CBC) into the lateral ventricles of rats which had been depleted of sodium 4 h previously with either furosemide or polyethylene glycol produced significant changes in salt appetite and sodium and water balances relative to rats infused with saline vehicle. Infusions of ...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Fitts DA,Thunhorst RL,Simpson JB

更新日期：1985-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The neocortex in chronically prepared rats is very resistant to the induction of long-term potentiation (LTP). In the first of two experiments described in this paper, we tried unsuccessfully to induce neocortical LTP within one session by coactivating basal forebrain cholinergic and cortical inputs to our neocortical...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Racine RJ,Chapman CA,Trepel C,Teskey GC,Milgram NW

更新日期：1995-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphological and physiological effects of kainic acid (KA) lesions in rat ventral lateral geniculate nucleus (LGV) were studied 1.5 and 6 h after KA injection. Morphological changes were examined mainly by electron micrographs. At 1.5 h after KA injection dendrites were dilated and some vacuolations occurred in both ...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Nagata T,Tsukamoto Y,Matsuno K,Hayashi Y

更新日期：1989-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:10-fold higher doses in SW mice. Furthermore, cotreatment of 129/SvEv mice with morphine plus a low dose of naltrexone (ca. 0.1 microgram/kg) that markedly enhances and prolongs morphine's antinociceptive effects in SW mice did not enhance, and often attenuated6 h. The marked GM1-induced attenuation of morphine's anti...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Crain SM,Shen K

更新日期：2000-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Variables influencing decision-making in real settings, as in the case of voting decisions, are uncontrollable and in many times even unknown to the experimenter. In this case, the experimenter has to study the intention to decide (vote) as close as possible in time to the moment of the real decision (election day). H...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： da Rocha AF,Rocha FT,Burattini MN,Massad E

更新日期：2010-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological problems can develop when blood glucose levels rapidly rise or fall yet there has been little experimentation at a cellular level to assess how neurophysiological change may be induced. Using intracellular recording in the rat neocortical slice preparation, we examined pyramidal neurons of layers II-III a...

journal_title：Brain research

authors： Rosen AS,Andrew RD

更新日期：1991-07-26 00:00:00