Evidence that REM sleep is controlled by the activation of brain stem pedunculopontine tegmental kainate receptor.

abstract：:In the first visual synapse of the insect compound eye, both the presynaptic and postsynaptic signals are graded, nonspiking changes in membrane voltage. The synapse exhibits tonic transmitter release (even in dark) and strong adaptation to long-lasting light backgrounds, leading to changes also in the dynamics of sig...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Uusitalo RO,Weckström M

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forebrain plays an important role in many aspects of sound localization behavior. Yet, the forebrain pathway that processes auditory spatial information is not known for any species. Using standard anatomic labeling techniques, we used a "top-down" approach to trace the flow of auditory spatial information from an...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cohen YE,Miller GL,Knudsen EI

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Properties of nucleus incertus (NIC) neurons projecting to the cerebellar flocculus were studied in alert cats by using chronic unit and eye movement recording and antidromic activation. Projection of these neurons onto the flocculus was verified with retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase after injections ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cheron G,Saussez S,Gerrits N,Godaux E

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conclude our study of the properties and the functional role of the neuromuscular transform (NMT). The NMT is an input-output relation that formalizes the processes by which patterns of motor neuron firing are transformed to muscle contractions. Because the NMT acts as a dynamic, nonlinear, and modifiable filter, t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Brezina V,Orekhova IV,Weiss KR

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we sought to unravel how exploratory movements affect length perception of rods that are held in and wielded by hand. We manipulated the mechanical rod properties--mass (m), first moment of mass distribution (M), major principal moment of inertia (I(1))--individually, allowing us to assess the re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Debats NB,van de Langenberg RW,Kingma I,Smeets JB,Beek PJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two of the biggest health problems facing us today are addiction to nicotine and the increased prevalence of obesity. Interestingly, nicotine attenuates obesity, but the underlying mechanism is not clear. Here we address the hypothesis that if weight-reducing actions of nicotine are mediated by anorexigenic proopiomel...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Huang H,Xu Y,van den Pol AN

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of GAT-3 transporters in regulating GABA(A) receptor-mediated inhibition was examined in the rat neocortex using an in vitro slice preparation. Pharmacologically isolated GABA(A) receptor-mediated responses were recorded from layer V neocortical pyramidal cells, and the effects of SNAP-5114, a GAT-3 GABA tran...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kinney GA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of chronic intracortical multielectrode arrays has become increasingly prevalent in neurophysiological experiments. However, it is not obvious whether neuronal signals obtained over multiple recording sessions come from the same or different neurons. Here, we develop a criterion to assess single-unit stability...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Dickey AS,Suminski A,Amit Y,Hatsopoulos NG

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population spikes vary in size during prolonged epileptic ("ictal") discharges, indicating variations in neuronal synchronization. Here we investigate the role of changes in tissue electrical resistivity in this process. We used the rat hippocampal slice, low-Ca(2+) model of epilepsy and measured changes in pyramidal ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Fox JE,Bikson M,Jefferys JG

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recorded local field potentials (LFPs) and single-unit activity simultaneously in the macaque primary visual cortex (V1) and studied their responses to drifting sinusoidal gratings that were chosen to be "optimal" for the single units. Over all stimulus conditions, the LFP spectra have much greater power in the low...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Henrie JA,Shapley R

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To characterize spike coding in spinal neurons during rhythmic locomotor activity, we recorded from individual cells in the lumbar spinal cord of neonatal rats by using the on-cell patch-clamp technique. Locomotor activity was induced by N-methyl-D aspartate (NMDA) and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and monitored by ventr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Raastad M,Kiehn O

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further understand the excitatory effects of motoneurons on spinal network function, we investigated the entrainment of disinhibited rhythms by ventral root (VR) stimulation in the neonatal mouse spinal cord. A brief train of stimuli applied to a VR triggered bursting reliably in 31/32 experiments. The same roots t...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bonnot A,Chub N,Pujala A,O'Donovan MJ

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of the di- and trivalent trace metal cations, Pb2+, Zn2+, and Al3+, on voltage-activated calcium channel currents recorded from cultured rat dorsal root ganglion neurons were determined. 2. All three cations blocked transient and sustained components of the voltage-gated calcium channel currents elicite...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Büsselberg D,Platt B,Michael D,Carpenter DO,Haas HL

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Aplysia mechanoafferent B21, afferent transmission is in part regulated via the control of active spike propagation. When B21 is peripherally activated at its resting membrane potential, spikes fail to propagate to an output process, and afferent transmission does not occur. In this report, we show that the pro...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Evans CG,Ludwar BCh,Cropper EC

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest neural response to a mechanical perturbation, the short-latency stretch response (R1: 20-45 ms), is known to exhibit "automatic gain-scaling" whereby its magnitude is proportional to preperturbation muscle activity. Because gain-scaling likely reflects an intrinsic property of the motoneuron pool (via the...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pruszynski JA,Kurtzer I,Lillicrap TP,Scott SH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of neural codes to represent attributes of sensory signals has been evaluated in the vertebrate peripheral and central nervous system. Here, we determine how information signaled by populations of neurons is modified by plasticity. Suprathreshold neuronal responses from a large number of neurons were r...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pita-Almenar JD,Ranganathan GN,Koester HJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue injury in early life can produce distinctive effects on pain processing, but little is known about the underlying neural mechanisms. Neonatal inflammation modulates excitatory synapses in spinal nociceptive circuits, but it is unclear whether this results directly from altered afferent input. Here we investigat...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Li J,Walker SM,Fitzgerald M,Baccei ML

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar motor regions are activated during voluntarily executed or observed movements. We investigated whether observing movements of one's own hand through a mirror will generate activations in the cortical motor regions of both the moving and nonmoving hands. Using the lateralized readiness potential (LRP), an elect...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Touzalin-Chretien P,Dufour A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These experiments were designed to test the hypothesis that climbing fiber inputs evoked by a peripheral stimulus increase the responsiveness of Purkinje cells to mossy fiber inputs. This hypothesis was based on a previous series of observations demonstrating that spontaneous climbing fiber inputs are associated with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ebner TJ,Yu QX,Bloedel JR

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A novel approach for analyzing transients in passive structures called "the method of moments" is introduced. It provides, as a special case, an analytic method for calculating the time delay and speed of propagation of electrical signals in any passive dendritic tree without the need for numerical simulations. 2. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Agmon-Snir H,Segev I

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intense itch and urge to scratch are the major symptoms of many chronic skin ailments, which are increasingly common. Vicious itch-scratch cycles are readily established and may diminish quality of life for those afflicted. We investigated peripheral and central processing of two types of itch sensation elicited by sk...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Leknes SG,Bantick S,Willis CM,Wilkinson JD,Wise RG,Tracey I

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to study the role of plastic changes of the human motor system in the acquisition of new fine motor skills. We mapped the cortical motor areas targeting the contralateral long finger flexor and extensor muscles in subjects learning a one-handed, five-finger exercise o...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pascual-Leone A,Nguyet D,Cohen LG,Brasil-Neto JP,Cammarota A,Hallett M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate and the total amount of Ca2+ elevation in the presynaptic terminals of bullfrog sympathetic ganglia depend on the firing frequency of the terminals. Carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone (CCCP), a mitochondrial uncoupler, was used for testing whether mitochondrial Ca2+ uptake is one of the mechanisms that ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Peng YY

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Surgically resected tissue from the tip of the human temporal lobe of seven patients undergoing temporal lobectomy was employed to study functional properties of GABAergic inhibition mediated through activation of GABAA receptors, using patch-clamp recording techniques in acutely isolated neurons and in slices of h...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gibbs JW 3rd,Zhang YF,Kao CQ,Holloway KL,Oh KS,Coulter DA

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings of excitatory postsynaptic currents (EPSCs) were made from guinea pig hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells. The sensitivity of paired pulse facilitation (PPF) and EPSC variance to changes in synaptic transmission was investigated and the results were compared with the changes in these p...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Manabe T,Wyllie DJ,Perkel DJ,Nicoll RA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A description of healthy and pathological brain dynamics requires an understanding of spatiotemporal patterns of neural activity and characteristics of its propagation between interconnected circuits. However, the structure and modulation of the neural activation maps underlying these patterns and their propagation re...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hazra A,Rosenbaum R,Bodmann B,Cao S,Josić K,Žiburkus J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several identified neurons of the Aplysia buccal ganglia respond to choline. Iontophoretic applications of either choline or acetylcholine (ACh) to voltage-clamped inhibitory follower neurons produce similar currents. Peak amplitudes of choline responses were 10-100% of ACh responses on the same cell. Choline currents...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gardner D,Ruff RL,White RL

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Contrast thresholds for detection of stationary and flickering gratings were measured behaviorally for each eye of cats raised with induced convergent strabismus. The performance of the deviating eye was inferior to that of the nondeviating eye when test patterns were stationary. Flicker served to reduce the performan...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Holopigian K,Blake R

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Taste buds in catfish are found not only within the oropharyngeal cavity, as in mammals, but are also located along the external body surface of the animal from the barbels and lips to the caudal fin. Because these taste buds are innervated by the facial (cranial VII) nerve, the extraoral taste system of catfish is...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Michel W,Caprio J

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00