Presynaptic activity and Ca2+ entry are required for the maintenance of NMDA receptor-independent LTP at visual cortical excitatory synapses.

abstract：:The vestibular organs in the base of the skull provide important information about head orientation and motion in space. Previous studies have suggested that both angular velocity information from the semicircular canals and information about head orientation and translation from the otolith organs are centrally proce...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Laurens J,Straumann D,Hess BJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurons appear to adapt their gain to match the variance of signals along the dimension they encode, a property we shall call "contrast normalization." Contrast normalization has been the subject of extensive physiological and theoretical study. We previously found that neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleu...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gaudry KS,Reinagel P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a great need to develop new approaches for rehabilitation of the upper limb after stroke. Robotic therapy is a promising form of neurorehabilitation that can be delivered in higher doses than conventional therapy. Here we sought to determine whether the reported effects of robotic therapy, which have been bas...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kitago T,Goldsmith J,Harran M,Kane L,Berard J,Huang S,Ryan SL,Mazzoni P,Krakauer JW,Huang VS

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two identified locust neurons, the lobula giant movement detector (LGMD) and its postsynaptic partner, the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD), constitute one motion-sensitive pathway in the visual system that responds preferentially to objects that approach on a direct collision course and are implicate...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： McMillan GA,Gray JR

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast inhibitory synaptic transmission in the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) is mediated by GABA(A) receptors (GABA(A)Rs) and glycine receptors (GlyRs). To assess their relative contribution to inhibition in the MVN, we recorded miniature inhibitory postsynaptic currents (mIPSCs) in physiologically characterized type ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Camp AJ,Callister RJ,Brichta AM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some neurons in early visual cortex are highly selective for the position of oriented edges in their receptive fields (simple cells), whereas others are largely position insensitive (complex cells). These characteristics are reflected in their sensitivity to the spatial phase of moving sine-wave gratings: simple cell ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cloherty SL,Ibbotson MR

更新日期：2015-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of epilepsy in adults and is often refractory to antiepileptic medications. The medial entorhinal area (MEA) is affected in TLE but mechanisms underlying hyperexcitability of MEA neurons require further elucidation. Previous studies suggest that inputs from the pres...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Abbasi S,Kumar SS

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Processing of temporal information is key in auditory processing. In this study, we recorded single-unit activity from rat auditory cortex while they performed an interval-discrimination task. The animals had to decide whether two auditory stimuli were separated by either 150 or 300 ms and nose-poke to the left or to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Abolafia JM,Martinez-Garcia M,Deco G,Sanchez-Vives MV

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in area MT, a motion-sensitive area of extrastriate cortex, respond to a step of target velocity with a transient-sustained firing pattern. The transition from a high initial firing rate to a lower sustained rate occurs over a time course of 20-80 ms and is considered a form of short-term adaptation. The prese...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Priebe NJ,Churchland MM,Lisberger SG

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. This paper examines the electrophysiological properties of cultured rat adrenal chromaffin cells at different stages of neuron-like morphological differentiation in response to nerve growth factor (NGF). 2. Chromaffin cells display a large variability in the morphological changes after exposure to NGF. However, a m...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Islas-Suárez L,Gómez-Chavarín M,Drucker-Colín R,Hernández-Cruz A

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal survival in the forest, and human success on the sports field, often depend on the ability to seize a target on the fly. All bodies fall at the same rate in the gravitational field, but the corresponding retinal motion varies with apparent viewing distance. How then does the brain predict time-to-collision unde...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Miller WL,Maffei V,Bosco G,Iosa M,Zago M,Macaluso E,Lacquaniti F

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stretch reflexes contribute to arm impedance and longer-latency stretch reflexes exhibit increased sensitivity during interactions with compliant or unstable environments. This increased sensitivity is consistent with a regulation of arm impedance to compensate for decreased stability of the environment, but the speci...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Krutky MA,Ravichandran VJ,Trumbower RD,Perreault EJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exercise pressor reflex (EPR) is generated by group III and IV muscle afferents during exercise to increase cardiovascular function. Muscle contraction is triggered by ACh, which is metabolized into choline that could serve as a signal of exercise-induced activity. We demonstrate that ACh can induce current in mus...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Baxter JC,Ramachandra R,Mayne DR,Elmslie KS

更新日期：2014-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid detection of sensory inputs is crucial for survival. Sensory detection explicitly requires the integration of incoming sensory information and the ability to distinguish between relevant information and ongoing neural activity. In this study, head-fixed rats were trained to detect the presence of a brief def...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ollerenshaw DR,Bari BA,Millard DC,Orr LE,Wang Q,Stanley GB

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated a visuomotor mechanism contributing to reach correction: the manual following response (MFR), which is a quick response to background visual motion that frequently occurs as a reafference when the body moves. Although several visual specificities of the MFR have been elucidated, the functional and comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Abekawa N,Gomi H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An orthodromically evoked late hyperpolarizing potential (LHP) was studied using intracellular recording techniques in rat hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells in vitro. Several tests indicated that the LHP is not blocked by GABA antagonists, but rather comprises the initial portion of the stimulation-induced burst afterhy...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Alger BE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors play crucial roles in glutamate-mediated synaptic transmission and plasticity and are involved in a variety of brain functions. Specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the genes encoding NMDA receptor subunits have been associated with some neuropsychiatric disorders in...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mori F,Ribolsi M,Kusayanagi H,Siracusano A,Mantovani V,Marasco E,Bernardi G,Centonze D

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the contribution of feedback from large-diameter sensory fibers to the adaptation of soleus muscle activity after small ankle trajectory modifications during human walking. Small-amplitude and slow-velocity ankle dorsiflexion enhancements and reductions were applied during the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mazzaro N,Grey MJ,Sinkjaer T,Andersen JB,Pareyson D,Schieppati M

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief movements of a large-field visual stimulus elicit short-latency tracking eye movements termed "ocular following responses" (OFRs). To address the question of whether OFRs can be elicited by purely binocular motion signals in the absence of monocular motion cues, we measured OFRs from monkeys using dichoptic moti...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hayashi R,Miura K,Tabata H,Kawano K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Brain ischemia causes excess release and accumulation of glutamate that binds to postsynaptic receptors. This opens ionotropic channels that mediate neuronal depolarization and ionic fluxes that can lead to neuronal death. 2. The CA1 pyramidal cell region of the hippocampus is particularly susceptible to this neuro...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Andrew RD,Adams JR,Polischuk TM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In alpha-chloralose-anesthetized cats the region surrounding the ventral posterolateral nucleus (VPL) of the thalamus was investigated to locate foci with input from the urinary bladder stimulated by application of intravesical pressure. The locations of the recording sites were verified in Nissl-stained histologic...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brüggemann J,Vahle-Hinz C,Kniffki KD

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that intracortical inhibition (ICI) plays an important role in shaping the output from primary motor cortex (M1). This study explored the muscle specificity and temporal modulation of ICI during the performance of a phasic index finger flexion task. Fifteen subjects were asked to rest their...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Stinear CM,Byblow WD

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liolaemus lizards were explored to ascertain whether they would make an amenable model to study single-cell electrophysiology of neurons in the vomeronasal organ (VNO). Despite a rich array of chemosensory-related behaviors chronicled for this genus, no anatomical or functional data exist for the VNO, the organ mediat...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Labra A,Brann JH,Fadool DA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discrete anatomic structures in the monkey somatic sensory thalamus may segregate input arising from different peripheral receptors and from different parts of the body. It has been proposed that these structures serve as components of modality- and place-specific pathways from the periphery to the cortex. We now test...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Patel S,Ohara S,Dougherty PM,Gracely RH,Lenz FA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate is the primary excitatory transmitter in axons innervating the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and is responsible for light-induced phase shifts of circadian rhythms generated by the SCN. By using self-innervating single neuron cultures and patch-clamp electrophysiology, we studied metabotropic gl...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Chen G,van den Pol AN

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of nitric oxide (NO) synthesizing enzymes identified in the vertebrate retina highlight the importance of NO as a signaling molecule in this tissue. Here we describe opposing actions of NO on the rod and cone photoreceptor synapse. Depolarization-induced increases of calcium concentration in rods and con...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kourennyi DE,Liu XD,Hart J,Mahmud F,Baldridge WH,Barnes S

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We analyzed the activity of single neurons in gustatory cortex of alert cynomolgus monkeys in response to the four basic taste stimuli and to a range of chemicals, all of which are predominantly sweet to humans. 2. We recorded taste-evoked responses from a cortical area that measured 4.0 mm in its anteroposterior e...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Plata-Salamán CR,Scott TR,Smith-Swintosky VL

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocular deprivation (MD) during the critical period for the development of visual cortex causes a loss of binocular response of neurons and a shift to the open eye, a normal ocular dominance (OD) shift. However, when MD is combined with chronic inactivation of the visual cortex by muscimol, the OD distribution of th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Shimegi S,Fischer QS,Yang Y,Sato H,Daw NW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human visual system is remarkably sensitive to environmental regularities, which can facilitate behavioral performance when sensory events conform to past experience. The point at which prior knowledge is integrated during visual perception is unclear, particularly for incidentally learned associations. One possib...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hall MG,Mattingley JB,Dux PE

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent study, Wang et al. (J Neurophysiol 113: 1989-2001, 2015) used a precision grip force control task to unveil the contribution of feedforward and feedback mechanisms to sensorimotor dysfunction in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Impairment of both motor control mechanisms was observed, along with significant...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Parma V,de Marchena AB

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00