The metabotropic glutamate agonist 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (APB) does not activate currents in postnatal retinal ganglion cells.

abstract：:We investigated the effect of an NO synthase inhibitor, NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA), on the levels of endogenous GABA in the rat striatum using in vivo microdialysis. Rats were perfused with the artificial CSF containing L-NMMA (0.1, 0.3 and 1.0 mM) or its inactive isomer D-NMMA (1.0 mM) for 1 h. Infusion of L-N...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Semba J,Sakai M,Miyoshi R,Kito S

更新日期：1995-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective degeneration of hypothalamic orexin neurons, a hallmark of pathology in narcolepsy patients, is in part reproduced in hypothalamic slice cultures by application of an endogenous excitotoxin quinolinic acid. Depolarized membrane potential may be responsible for the vulnerability of orexin neurons to excitotox...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Katsuki H,Akaike A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha oscillations during cognitive performance have mostly been studied in memory and/or basic attention tasks. This study investigates task-related alpha power desynchronization during an attentional switching task requiring higher executive attentional control. Low 8-10 Hz and high 10-12 Hz alpha power responses ar...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Verstraeten E,Cluydts R

更新日期：2002-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited retinal degenerations such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) are characterized by progressive loss of photoreceptors, apparently by apoptosis, and our recent report of increased secreted Frizzled-related protein-2 (SFRP2) in RP retinas suggests altered Wnt signalling may be a component of the degenerative process...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jones SE,Jomary C,Grist J,Stewart HJ,Neal MJ

更新日期：2000-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that sleep participates in the consolidation of recent memory traces has been investigated using four main paradigms: (1) effects of post-training sleep deprivation on memory consolidation, (2) effects of learning on post-training sleep, (3) effects of within sleep stimulation on the sleep pattern and o...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Peigneux P,Laureys S,Delbeuck X,Maquet P

更新日期：2001-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurone-specific enolase immunoreactivity (NSE-IR) was examined in the hippocampal dentate gyrus 5 h, 24 h and 6 days following local injection of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), and was compared with Nissl substance and acid fuchsin staining. Five and 24 hours post-injection extracellular NSE-IR was increased, and the n...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Comer AM,Lees GJ,Lipski J

更新日期：1994-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was used in 17 normal individuals to modulate vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and self-motion perception rotational thresholds. The electrodes were applied over the temporoparietal junction bilaterally. Both vestibular nystagmic and perceptual thresholds were increased duri...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kyriakareli A,Cousins S,Pettorossi VE,Bronstein AM

更新日期：2013-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that antidepressants such as desipramine (DMI) induce axonal regeneration of brain noradrenergic neurons. In the present experiments, the role of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in the regeneration of brain noradrenergic axons was studied. Symmetrical sites of the rat frontal cortex were pretreated...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Nakamura S

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) plays a central role in processing first impressions; however, little is known about how dmPFC processes different valences of first impressions. Moreover, it is still unclear as to whether the dmPFC shows lateralization or only induces dif...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yu CL,Wang MY,Hu JF

更新日期：2016-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological activation of group III metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR) or inhibition of group I mGluR by subtype-selective ligands is neuroprotective in experimental models of Parkinson's disease. The aim of this study was to investigate whether targeting both receptor subtypes simultaneously produces enhanc...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vernon AC,Croucher MJ,Dexter DT

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The whole-cell patch-clamp technique was employed to investigate the development of voltage-gated currents in cultured newt retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. Freshly dissociated RPE cells were inexcitable and mainly exhibited a voltage-gated outward K+ current. Within a few days in culture RPE cells began to fla...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sakai H,Saito T

更新日期：1994-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans use vestibular head-in-space information when redirecting gaze towards remembered target location in space. This study shows that neck input is also involved. Normal subjects performed saccades towards remembered locations in space of a previously seen target following passive horizontal rotations of the head o...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mergner T,Nasios G,Anastasopoulos D

更新日期：1998-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that lower motor neurons containing calcium-binding proteins (CBP) may be resistant to degeneration in motor neuron disease. The testing of this hypothesis is hampered by lack of comprehensive information regarding the presence of CBPs in motor neurons. To address this shortcoming, we investigate...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Fahandejsaadi A,Leung E,Rahaii R,Bu J,Geula C

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in transcription of Gs alpha, Gi2 alpha and Go alpha proteins after repeated methamphetamine administration were investigated using in situ hybridization. Rats received daily injections of methamphetamine (4 mg kg-1) for 14 days. Four hours after the last injection, Go alpha mRNA showed an increase of 16.6-31....

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ujike H,Akiyama K,Kuroda S

更新日期：1996-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Five patients with left visual neglect after right hemisphere lesions were examined with a line bisection and a reading task under five different conditions: head and trunk straight ahead, head or trunk oriented 20 degrees to the left and head or trunk oriented 20 degrees to the right. Fixation was always straight ahe...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Schindler I,Kerkhoff G

更新日期：1997-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial cognition requires the integration of visual inputs with proprioceptive and vestibular information about the position of the eye, the head and the body. All these sources are used by the brain to produce multiple higher-order (e.g. egocentric) representations of space, subserving accurate spatial behaviour. Su...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Pizzamiglio L,Vallar G,Doricchi F

更新日期：1995-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We used positron emission tomography to investigate whether tactile motion discrimination activates the dorsal visual stream in congenitally blind (CB) participants compared with sighted controls. The tactile stimuli consisted of either static dots, dots moving coherently in one of two possible directions, or in rando...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ptito M,Matteau I,Gjedde A,Kupers R

更新日期：2009-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-N-methylamino-L-alanine (L-BMAA) is an excitotoxin whose neurodegenerative effects are associated with its agonist properties at the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor. We measured the effects of L-BMAA on inositol phosphate (InsP) formation in primary cultured striatal neurons. This culture is almost devoid of...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Manzoni OJ,Prezeau L,Bockaert J

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subcortical lesions have been simultaneously implicated in both real and simulated movement deficits. However, the analysis of the simulated opposition axis in precision grasping reveals that, in individuals with idiopathic bilateral Parkinson' disease motor imagery is impaired and that execution of overt movements is...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Frak V,Cohen H,Pourcher E

更新日期：2004-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The perifornical-lateral hypothalamic area is implicated in regulating waking and paradoxical sleep. The blockade of GABAA receptors by iontophoretic applications of bicuculline (or gabazine) into the perifornical-lateral hypothalamic area induced a continuous quiet waking state associated to a robust muscle tone in h...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Goutagny R,Luppi PH,Salvert D,Gervasoni D,Fort P

更新日期：2005-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrophysiological studies have shown that somatostatin (SOM; 10(-8) and 10(-7) M) causes a hyperpolarization of the majority of astrocytes in explant cultures of rat spinal cord and cortex. When SOM and the cholinergic agonists muscarine and nicotine (10(-6) M) were tested on the same cell, all three compounds prod...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hösli L,Hösli E,Winter T,Stauffer S

更新日期：1994-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute effects of ethanol and acetaldehyde on neuropeptide mRNA expression in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) was assessed. Acetaldehyde was increased in blood following ethanol with cyanamide (a potent inhibitor of aldehyde dehydrogenase) administration. Acetaldehyde is a toxin which can cause a variety of adverse effec...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Kinoshita H,Jessop DS,Finn DP,Coventry TL,Roberts DJ,Ameno K,Ijiri I,Harbuz MS

更新日期：2000-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelinated nerve fibers exhibit a complex anatomy in the nodal region which includes a marked nodal-paranodal constriction and an intricate paranodal structure where the myelin sheath is separated from the axon by a narrow periaxonal space. In this study, a recently developed computational model of the mammalian myeli...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Halter JA,Clark JW Jr

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has recently been proposed that brain responses in the gamma-range (> 20 Hz) include information about specific cognitive processes in the human brain. Empirical data substantiating this assumption come from EEG and MEG recordings during visual and language processing. For example, 30 Hz activity has been found to ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Pulvermüller F,Lutzenberger W,Preissl H,Birbaumer N

更新日期：1995-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin sst2(a) receptor was observed, by immunofluorescence, in ependymal cells and in tanycytes of the wall of the ventricle and the hypothalamic recess of the male rat median eminence. Strong immunoreactivity for the receptor protein was observed in lateral tanycytes (alpha-type) while a moderate signal was se...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Hashemi SH,Li JY,Schindler M,Dahlström A

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We used multiple-labelling immunofluorescence, intracellular dye injection, electrophysiological recording and confocal microscopy to examine the expression of immunoreactivity to protein kinase C (PKC) and protein kinase A (PKA) in sympathetic ganglia of guinea-pigs. PKCalpha and PKCgamma were widespread in vasoconst...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Gibbins IL,Matthew SE,Jobling P

更新日期：1999-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Palmitoylethanolamine (PEA) is a ligand at peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors-α (PPARα), a nuclear receptor that has anti-inflammatory effects. Herein, complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA)-induced inflammatory pain model in rats and in-vitro calcium imaging studies were used to evaluate the mechanisms that underl...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Aldossary SA,Alsalem M,Kalbouneh H,Haddad M,Azab B,Al-Shboul O,Mustafa AG,Obiedat S,El-Salem K

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is present in a large proportion of patients suffering from chronic pain, and yet the underlying mechanisms remain to be elucidated. Neuroligins (NLs), as a family of cell-adhesion proteins, are involved in synaptic formation and have been linked to various neuropsychiatric disorders. Here, we studied the a...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Pan W,Zhang GF,Li HH,Ji MH,Zhou ZQ,Li KY,Yang JJ

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal lobe regions involved in memory retrieval were examined using fMRI. During an associative recognition test, participants made memory judgments about the study color of previously presented drawings of objects, and during item recognition tests they made old/new judgments about previously studied objects o...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yonelinas AP,Hopfinger JB,Buonocore MH,Kroll NE,Baynes K

更新日期：2001-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to mechanisms mediating synaptic plasticity, the pharmacological basis of perceptual learning remains to be clarified. Here we report that a specific form of perceptual learning is influenced by GABAergic mechanisms. We induced perceptual learning by Hebbian co-activation of the skin of the tip of the righ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Dinse HR,Ragert P,Pleger B,Schwenkreis P,Tegenthoff M

更新日期：2003-09-15 00:00:00