The role of the periaqueductal grey in limbic and neocortical vocal fold control.

abstract：:We examined differences in brain activity in response to two types of mechanical stimulation, which have been reported previously as being perceptually indistinguishable but having different impacts on autonomic reflexes. As an indicator of brain activity, glucose metabolism was evaluated by PET with 2-[F]fluoro-2-deo...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Watanabe N,Ishii K,Hotta H,Oda K,Sakata M,Toyohara J,Ishiwata K

更新日期：2013-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this investigation was to study whether melatonin affects the release of oxytocin and vasopressin by the pituitary neurointermediate lobe of the Syrian hamster in vitro. The effect of melatonin was studied on the unstimulated (pre- and post-K+ -stimulated) release of oxytocin and vasopressin and on the resp...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Juszczak M,Debeljuk L,Bartke A,Stempniak B

更新日期：1995-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution (< 50 microm) magnetic resonance imaging microscopy (MRM) has been used to identify brain regions and localization of excitotoxin-induced lesions in fixed rat brains, subsequently confirmed using standard histology. The anatomical extent of lesions identified by MRM was identical to that seen in histol...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lester DS,Lyon RC,McGregor GN,Engelhardt RT,Schmued LC,Johnson GA,Johannessen JN

更新日期：1999-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently some authors have challenged the conventional association of directional motor neglect with damage of frontal structures, showing that pure sensory perceptual neglect (classically associated with parietal lesion) can follow damage of right frontal cortex. The aim of the present study was to assess the type of...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Brighina F,Bisiach E,Piazza A,Oliveri M,La Bua V,Daniele O,Fierro B

更新日期：2002-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-pulse unilateral electrical stimulation of either the amygdala or the inferior colliculus elicited startle-like responses in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats. EMG responses to intracranial stimulation were recorded from the anterior biceps femoris muscles. The EMG responses were generally enhanced following un...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lin C,Wan X,Zhao W,Ma C,Ma C,Gao Y,Zhou Y,Yeomans JS,Li L

更新日期：2002-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related depletion of androgens in men results in functional impairments in androgen-responsive tissues, such as the brain, resulting in increased risk for Alzheimer's disease. To investigate the relationship between normal age-related hormone loss and Alzheimer's disease risk, we evaluated the brain and serum leve...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Rosario ER,Chang L,Beckett TL,Carroll JC,Paul Murphy M,Stanczyk FZ,Pike CJ

更新日期：2009-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The 29 amino acid neuropeptide galanin is normally expressed in < 5% of sensory neurons in the adult dorsal root ganglia. After nerve transection (axotomy), the galanin content of the dorsal root ganglia rises 120-fold and the peptide is then expressed in > 50% of neurons. Published data suggest that galanin plays a r...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Bacon A,Holmes FE,Small CJ,Ghatei M,Mahoney S,Bloom S,Wynick D

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we explored the role of semantics in mediating orthographic-to-phonological processing in reading aloud, focusing on the interaction of imageability with spelling-to-sound consistency for low-frequency words. Behaviorally, high-imageable words attenuate the standard latency...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Frost SJ,Mencl WE,Sandak R,Moore DL,Rueckl JG,Katz L,Fulbright RK,Pugh KR

更新日期：2005-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated temporal relationships among EEG theta frequency, eye movement (EM) burst and phasic surge of arterial pressure (AP) during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep in six rats. Changes in EEG theta frequency, EM number, mean AP (MAP) and heart rate (HR) during 1 s bins were obtained with reference to the onset ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sei H,Morita Y

更新日期：1996-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the phonological influences on the lexicosemantic process with a strong orthographic constraint, we used kanji (morphogram) homophone words and measured, using magnetoencephalography, the neural activities during the silent reading of prime-target pairs. The primes were phonologically the same as or dif...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wei Q,Ihara A,Hayakawa T,Murata T,Matsumoto E,Fujimaki N

更新日期：2007-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the medial septum in suppressing paradoxical sleep and promoting slow wave sleep was suggested on the basis of neurotoxic lesion studies. However, these conclusions need to be substantiated with further experiments, including chemical stimulation studies. In this report, the medial septum was stimulated in...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Mukherjee D,Kaushik MK,Jaryal AK,Kumar VM,Mallick HN

更新日期：2012-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysfunctional glutamate neurotransmission has been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Abnormal expressions in schizophrenia of ionotropic glutamate receptors (iGluRs) and the proteins that regulate their trafficking have been found to be region and subunit specific in brain, suggesting that abnormal t...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tucholski J,Simmons MS,Pinner AL,McMillan LD,Haroutunian V,Meador-Woodruff JH

更新日期：2013-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal on-bipolar cells possess specialized glutamate receptors which are coupled via a G-protein to the control of a cyclic GMP (cGMP) cascade. Whole-cell voltage clamp recordings were obtained from light-responsive on-bipolar cells in retinal slices of the dogfish. Inclusion of nitroprusside in the patch-pipette so...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Shiells R,Falk G

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid-receptor-like I (ORLI) receptors, ORLI mRNA and nociceptin are particularly abundant in the limbic system and in central monoaminergic areas, brain regions involved in mood regulation and response to antidepressants. To analyse whether ORLI receptors adaptations occur during the first 3 weeks of an antidepressa...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vilpoux C,Naudon L,Costentin J,Leroux-Nicollet I

更新日期：2002-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Meditation is a conscious mental process that induces a set of integrated physiologic changes termed the relaxation response. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to identify and characterize the brain regions that are active during a simple form of meditation. Significant (p<10(-7)) signal increases ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lazar SW,Bush G,Gollub RL,Fricchione GL,Khalsa G,Benson H

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Latexin is a novel 29 kDa protein which is expressed in a subpopulation of neurones in the lateral cerebral cortex of adult rats. Here, we report the distribution of immunohistochemically detectable latexin in the rat brain during early phases of development. Latexin was first detected at embryonic day 11 (E11) along ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Takiguchi-Hayashi K,Arimatsu Y

更新日期：1995-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotransmitter acetylcholine is synthesized by choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) and transported into synaptic vesicles by the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT). Recently it has been reported that the entire coding region of VAChT mRNA is located in the first intron of the ChAT gene. In this study, ChAT...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Misawa H,Takahashi R,Deguchi T

更新日期：1995-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Limbic event-related potentials related to verbal but not to visual recognition memory have been found to be attenuated within the epileptic hippocampus of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). To identify hippocampal contributions to visual processing and memory we recorded intracranial ERPs directly from withi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vannucci M,Dietl T,Pezer N,Viggiano MP,Helmstaedter C,Schaller C,Elger CE,Grunwald T

更新日期：2003-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of high frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on sensory perception and the pain tolerance thresholds were investigated applying both motor cortex stimulation and medial frontal cortex stimulation in normal study participants. Both the sensory perception and pain tolerance thresholds were ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Yoo WK,Kim YH,Doh WS,Lee JH,Jung KI,Park DS,Park ES

更新日期：2006-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Episodic memory for simple commands is better following enacted than verbal encoding. This has been proposed to be due to the possibility to base retrieval on motor information. Here we used PET to test the hypothesis that motor brain areas show increased retrieval-related activity following enacted compared to verbal...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Nilsson LG,Nyberg L,Klingberg T,Aberg C,Persson J,Roland PE

更新日期：2000-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and experimental studies clearly demonstrate that prolonged seizures and status epilepticus induce neuronal cell death in the brain. Recent evidence suggests that induction of apoptosis contributes greatly to seizure-induced brain damage. We recently demonstrated that intrahippocampal delivery of botulinum ne...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Manno I,Antonucci F,Caleo M,Bozzi Y

更新日期：2007-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that spatial memory retention is affected by the metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) influencing agents (R,S)-alpha-methyl-4-carboxyphenylglycine (MCPG) and trans-azetidine-2,4-dicarboxylic acid (tADA). In the present investigation we examined whether the mGluR antagonist MCPG (20 mM an...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wetzel W,Wagner T,Reymann KG,Riedel G

更新日期：1995-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Disturbances in methyl-carbon metabolism, which result in hyperhomocysteinemia, have been associated with schizophrenia. Homozygosity for the T677 allele of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene, which encodes for a thermolabile enzyme associated with hyperhomocysteinemia, has been found to be increased...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Virgos C,Martorell L,Simó JM,Valero J,Figuera L,Joven J,Labad A,Vilella E

更新日期：1999-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In the anaesthetized rat, low frequency electrical stimulation of the Zusanli acupoint (S36) or noxious thermal stimulation caused by immersing the footpad in water at 52 degrees C caused marked expression of c-fos in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, as well as in the arcuate and some nearby hypothalamic nucl...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Pan B,Castro-Lopes JM,Coimbra A

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of epidemiological studies suggest that estrogen therapy is linked to a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of 17beta-estradiol on beta-amyloid (Abeta)-induced toxicity and was performed in rat pheochromocytoma PC 12 cells by measuring th...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Svensson AL,Nordberg A

更新日期：1999-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative memory mechanism known as long-term potentiation (LTP) has been described in both NMDA-dependent and non-NMDA-dependent forms. The aim of the present study was to determine which of these forms described the LTP generated between perirhinal cortex (PRC) and hippocampus, two structures which have previousl...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Liu P,Bilkey DK

更新日期：1996-05-17 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：:Diabetes is often associated with impairments in brain functioning. However, the injury of specific functioning areas of the brain is not clear. To address this problem, the present study was designed to investigate possible brain functioning change in specific brain areas, particularly in areas associated with vision...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Wang Z,Lu Z,Li J,Pan C,Jia Z,Chen H,Ge X

更新日期：2017-01-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Reading demands precise and efficient letter and word processing. This event-related potentials (ERP) study utilized massive repetition of visually presented single letters to trigger neuronal adaptation. Our aim was to explore whether the adaptation pattern of the N170 ERP component, serving as an indicator of neuron...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Korinth SP,Sommer W,Breznitz Z

更新日期：2013-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have established a role for N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) containing the GluN2B subunit in efficient learning behavior on a variety of tasks. Recent findings have suggested that NMDAR on GABAergic interneurons may underlie the modulation of striatal function necessary to balance efficient acti...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Brigman JL,Daut RA,Saksida L,Bussey TJ,Nakazawa K,Holmes A

更新日期：2015-06-17 00:00:00