Androgen-induced vocal transformation in adult female African clawed frogs.

abstract：:A quantitative analysis of activity-related calcium dynamics was performed in motoneurons of the nucleus hypoglossus in the brain stem slice preparation from mouse by simultaneous patch-clamp and microfluorometric calcium measurements. Motoneurons were analyzed under in vitro conditions that kept them in a functionall...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lips MB,Keller BU

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the effects of acoustic and behavioral context on neuronal responses in the core of auditory cortex (fields A1 and R), two monkeys were trained on a go/no-go discrimination task in which they learned to respond selectively to a four-note target (S+) melody and withhold response to a variety of other nontarg...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Yin P,Mishkin M,Sutter M,Fritz JB

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the macaque supplementary eye field (SEF) fire at different rates in conjunction with planning saccades in different directions. They also exhibit object-centered spatial selectivity, firing at different rates when the target of the saccade is at the left or right end of a horizontal bar. To compare the rat...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Moorman DE,Olson CR

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the properties of voltage-activated outward currents in two types of spider cuticular mechanoreceptor neurons to learn if these currents contribute to the differences in their adaptation properties. Both types of neurons adapt rapidly to sustained stimuli, but type A neurons usually only fire one or two act...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sekizawa SI,French AS,Höger U,Torkkeli PH

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The voltage-gated K(+) channel Kv1.3 has been reported to regulate transmitter release in select central and peripheral neurons. In this study, we evaluated its role at the synapse between visceral sensory afferents and secondary neurons in the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS). We identified mRNA and protein for Kv...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ramirez-Navarro A,Glazebrook PA,Kane-Sutton M,Padro C,Kline DD,Kunze DL

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We attempted to analyze the nature of premovement activity of neurons in medial motor areas [supplementary motor area (SMA) and pre-SMA] from a perspective of coding multiple movements. Monkeys were trained to perform a series of two movements with an intervening delay: supination or pronation with either forearm. Mov...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Nakajima T,Hosaka R,Mushiake H,Tanji J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence implicates the superior colliculus (SC) in cognitive processes, such as target selection and control of spatial attention, in addition to the execution of saccadic eye movements. We report here the presence of a cognitive response in some cells in the SC in a task that requires the long-term associatio...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lee KM,Keller EL

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propriospinal interneurons in the thoracic spinal cord have vital roles not only in controlling respiratory and trunk muscles, but also in providing possible substrates for recovery from spinal cord injury. Intracellular recordings were made from such interneurons in anesthetized cats under neuromuscular blockade and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Saywell SA,Ford TW,Meehan CF,Todd AJ,Kirkwood PA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuromodulator acetylcholine (ACh) shapes neocortical function during sensory perception, motor control, arousal, attention, learning, and memory. Here we investigate the mechanisms by which ACh affects neocortical pyramidal neurons in adult mice. Stimulation of cholinergic axons activated muscarinic and nicotinic...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hedrick T,Waters J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In Aplysia buccal ganglia, in which dual presynaptic neurons innervate multiple postsynaptic cells, strengths of the same identified synapses differ from animal to animal, consistent with developmental or plastic modulation. Synaptic strengths are specified by the postsynaptic neuron, so that synaptic current ampli...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gardner D

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of ascending afferents to the control of speech movement was evaluated by applying unanticipated loads to the lower lip during the generation of combined upper lip-lower lip speech gestures. To eliminate potential contamination due to anticipation or adaptation, loads were applied randomly on only 10-...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Abbs JH,Gracco VL

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning theories of drug addiction propose that the disorder is, at least in part, attributable to drug effects on accumbal mechanisms that are normally involved in reward-related learning. The neurophysiological mechanisms that might transduce such a drug effect on accumbal mechanisms have yet to be identified. Prev...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Peoples LL,Cavanaugh D

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Microelectrode studies in monkeys performing short-term memory tasks show the sustained elevated discharge of cortical neurons during the retention of recalled sensory information. Cortical cells that are part of memory networks are assumed to receive numerous inputs of excitatory as well as inhibitory nature and loca...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bodner M,Zhou YD,Fuster JM

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we present further evidence supporting the reciprocal nature of output effects on forearm flexor and extensor muscles from single corticomotoneuronal (CM) cells. Spike-triggered averaging of rectified EMG activity was used to test the output effects of 105 motor cortex cells in two rhesus monkeys (Macaca...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kasser RJ,Cheney PD

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Red and green cones of two turtle species (Pseudemys scripta elegans and Chelydra serpentina) retina have been stained with Golgi procedures and examined by light microscopy of whole-mount tissue and by electron microscopy of serial thin sections. By light microscopy, red and green single cones appear indistinguishabl...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kolb H,Jones J

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unilateral intrahippocampal injection of tetanus toxin results in a chronic syndrome of intermittent epileptic seizures. During some of these seizures, rats develop a stereotypic, pathological motor behavior that indicates secondary generalization of epileptic activity. We report that secondary generalization was prec...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Finnerty GT,Jefferys JG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One feature of neuronal discharge proposed to play a role in coding temporal information is the relative refractory period that follows each action potential. In neurons innervating hair cells, there is an extended refractory period that can last

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dawkins R,Sewell WF

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phase-response curve (PRC), relating the phase shift of an oscillator to external perturbation, is an important tool to study neurons and their population behavior. It can be experimentally estimated by measuring the phase changes caused by probe stimuli. These stimuli, usually short pulses or continuous noise, ha...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hong S,Robberechts Q,De Schutter E

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional coupling of neural circuits between the upper and lower limbs involving rhythmic movements is of interest to both motor control research and rehabilitation science. This coupling can be detected by examining the effect of remote rhythmic limb movement on the modulation of reflex amplitude in stationary ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sasada S,Tazoe T,Nakajima T,Zehr EP,Komiyama T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the dependence of velocity characteristics on spatiotemporal interactions the velocity selectivity of 15 geniculate and 72 cortical cells (areas 17 and 18) was examined with light and dark bars before and after masking all but the most sensitive part of the receptive field. The use of a 0.3 degree windo...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Duysens J,Orban GA,Cremieux J

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the responses of neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) of cats to stimuli known to evoke the precedence effect (PE). This paper focuses on stimulus conditions that probe the neural mechanisms underlying the PE but that are not usually encountered in a natural situation. Experiments were conducted under bo...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Litovsky RY,Yin TC

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation of movement may be driven by the difference between planned and actual motor performance, or the difference between expected and actual sensory consequences of movement. To identify how the nervous system differentially uses these signals, we asked: does motor adaptation occur when movement errors are irrel...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Schaefer SY,Shelly IL,Thoroughman KA

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:When a movement results in error, the nervous system amends the motor commands that generate the subsequent movement. Here we show that this adaptation depends not just on error, but also on passage of time between the two movements. We observed that subjects learned a reaching task faster, i.e., with fewer trials, wh...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Huang VS,Shadmehr R

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We studied the frequency responses of neurons in the nucleus ovoidalis (OV), the principal thalamic auditory relay nucleus of the chicken, in the subthreshold range of membrane potentials. The frequency response is the impedance amplitude profile evident in the voltage response to a broadband stimulus. The stimulus...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ströhmann B,Schwarz DW,Puil E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Intracellular and extracellular recordings were obtained from ganglion cells in the rabbit retina. The effect of N-methyl-DL-aspartate (NMDLA) and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists were studied with the use of a perfusion method for drug application. 2. NMDLA excited all ganglion cell types and caused a chara...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Massey SC,Miller RF

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male zebra finches produce a song consisting of a canonical sequence of syllables, learned from a tutor and repeated throughout its adult life. Much of the neural circuitry responsible for this behavior is located in the cortical premotor region HVC (acronym is name). In a recent study from our laboratory, we found th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Galvis D,Wu W,Hyson RL,Johnson F,Bertram R

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Hindlimb paw-shake responses were assessed before and after unilateral deafferentation (L3-S1) in chronic-spinal cats (n = 5), spinalized at the T12 level 1 yr earlier. Selected ankle flexor [tibialis anterior (TA)] and extensor [lateral gastrocnemius (LG)] and knee extensor [vastus lateralis (VL)] muscles were sur...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Koshland GF,Smith JL

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrically excitable cells have voltage-dependent ion channels on the plasma membrane that regulate membrane permeability to specific ions. Voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels (VGCCs) are especially important as Ca(2+) serves as both a charge carrier and second messenger. Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are an important model ver...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Won YJ,Ono F,Ikeda SR

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00