Magnesium deficiency induces an hyperalgesia reversed by the NMDA receptor antagonist MK801.

abstract：:High homocysteine serum level has been regarded as one of the important factors that influence the development of schizophrenia. Genetic variations of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, which is a main enzyme reducing homocysteine level, are reported in schizophrenic patients. We measured the serum level of homocyst...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lee YS,Han DH,Jeon CM,Lyoo IK,Na C,Chae SL,Cho SC

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic basal forebrain neurons (CBFN) expressing the low-affinity neurotrophin receptor p75 (p75(NTR)) were previously selectively labeled in vivo with carbocyanine 3 (Cy3)-tagged anti-p75(NTR), but the applied 192IgG-conjugates recognized p75(NTR) only in rat. The antibody ME 20.4 raised against human p75(NTR) h...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Härtig W,Varga C,Kacza J,Grosche J,Seeger J,Luiten PG,Brauer K,Harkany T

更新日期：2002-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current study we explored the relationship between neurometabolites measured by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) and cognitive ability assessed with a battery of neuropsychological tests. Forty-five participants were recruited from the local college community, and examined utilizing neuropsycholo...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Jung RE,Yeo RA,Chiulli SJ,Sibbitt WL Jr,Weers DC,Hart BL,Brooks WM

更新日期：1999-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been hypothesized that the vomeronasal system (VNS), a complex neural network implicated in the control of reproductive behaviors, is sexually dimorphic. The posteromedial cortical amygdaloid nucleus (PMCo) belongs to the group of amygdaloid structures that receive direct olfactory input from the accessory olfa...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Vinader-Caerols C,Collado P,Segovia S,Guillamón A

更新日期：1998-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Menthol is known as an agonist for cold-sensitive transient receptor potential channels (TRPM8) and also as a direct modulator of GABA channels. We examined the effects of menthol on respiratory rhythm generation in the brainstem-spinal cord preparations isolated from newborn rats. Menthol decreased respiratory rhythm...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tani M,Onimaru H,Ikeda K,Kawakami K,Homma I

更新日期：2010-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronotrophic factors (e.g. basic fibroblast growth factor, bFGF and nerve growth factor, NGF) have been demonstrated to respectively promote survival and neuritogenesis in cultures of dissociated adult rat spiral ganglia. Transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta 1) has been shown to modulate the response of culture...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lefebvre PP,Martin D,Staecker H,Weber T,Moonen G,Van de Water TR

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate excitotoxicity has been suggested to play a role in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), yet it remains unclear why some groups of motoneurons (MNs) are more vulnerable to degeneration than others. Our aim was to compare, in normal adult rats, the expression of Group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Laslo P,Lipski J,Funk GD

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain trauma induces a multitude of reactions at molecular, cellular, and tissue levels, some of which are beneficial to recovery, whereas others are detrimental. Osteopontin (OPN), a glycosylated phosphoprotein, can be found in both the soluble form and as an extracellular matrix constituent in several tissues in the...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Plantman S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction between the Ca(2+)-activated K+ currents (IK(Ca)) induced by acetylcholine (ACh), 1-aminocyclopentane-1S,3R-dicarboxylic acid (1S,3R)-ACPD) and caffeine in rat hippocampal CA1 neurones was investigated to examine the functional independence between IP3- and Ca(2+)-sensitive Ca2+ stores. Pretreatment wi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Imanishi T,Yamanaka H,Rhee JS,Akaike N

更新日期：1996-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In line with a possible role of vergence in orienting visual attention, we sought to study this eye movement in young children to provide insights on face perception. For this purpose, we measured the modulation in the angle of eye vergence in a sample of 39 children aged 6-36 months and compared it when presenting st...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Esposito FL,Supèr H

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, it has been shown that visual perception can be radically altered by signals of other modalities. For example, when a single flash is accompanied by multiple auditory beeps, it is often perceived as multiple flashes. This effect is known as the sound-induced flash illusion. In order to investigate the princi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Shams L,Ma WJ,Beierholm U

更新日期：2005-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Microinjection of neuropeptide Y (NPY) into the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus stimulates eating and increases respiratory quotient. In contrast, administration of opioid receptor antagonists reduces food intake and suppresses NPY-induced feeding. The present study examined whether naloxone methiodi...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Currie PJ,Coscina DV,Moretti J,Avellino MD

更新日期：2000-03-20 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：:Animal models suggest that the asymmetry of monocular optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) in young infants can be explained by a direct pathway from retina to the midbrain nucleus of the optic tract. However, earlier studies with hemispherectomized infants showed no evidence for OKN responses towards the damaged cortex that c...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Morrone MC,Atkinson J,Cioni G,Braddick OJ,Fiorentini A

更新日期：1999-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-dependent outward currents were examined in CA1 neurones by whole-cell recording in slices. Nine cells were recorded with the 'standard' internal solution (KMeSO4, HEPES, EGTA, CaCl2, and MgCl2) and held a potential (-54 +/- 3 mV) at which there was no significant outward current. Cromakalim (CROM, 100 microM)...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Erdemli G,Krnjević K

更新日期：1994-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between cerebral ischemia and Alzheimer's disease has been evaluated extensively. However, the association between cerebral ischemia and the deposition of beta-amyloid (Abeta) remains to be clarified. Here, we used mice bilateral common carotid artery ligation model to investigate the alterations in m...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Ye JT,Pi RB,Mao XX,Chen XH,Qin J,Xu SW,Liu PQ

更新日期：2009-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP) is a powerful tool to study basic perceptual functions in the human electroencephalogram (EEG) (e.g. selective attention). The present study aimed at finding support for the SSVEP's sensitivity to higher cognitive functions (e.g. memory). We tagged pictures of meaningle...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Martens U,Gert AL,Gruber T

更新日期：2012-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted semiautomated, atlas-based analyses of regional brain volume changes on MRIs of children and adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) (N=15), DS with comorbid autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (N=15), and age-matched or sex-matched typically developing controls (N=22). Selective volumetric changes were correlated...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Carter JC,Capone GT,Kaufmann WE

更新日期：2008-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course of responses to repeated presentations of affective stimuli is well characterized in healthy individuals but remains to be characterized in patients with bipolar disorder. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we compared early-stage and late-stage brain activation during a two-block fearful fac...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Killgore WD,Gruber SA,Yurgelun-Todd DA

更新日期：2008-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experiments have suggested that the process of visuomotor adaptation depends on how a visual distortion is introduced. The cerebellum is thought to be involved in adapting to rapidly introduced visual distortions; however its role in adapting to a gradually introduced distortion is unknown. We tested adaptation...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Robertson EM,Miall RC

更新日期：1999-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of temporal interference of physiological signals on time-lag effective connectivity, derived from a functional network connectivity tool box (FNC), was examined by a blood-oxygen-level-dependent functional MRI study of action. The known effect of physiological signals on time-lag FNC was verified by (a) co...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Huang JM,Cheng CM,Chou CC,Chen YC,Hsu PY,Yeh TC

更新日期：2013-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Although citral, which is abundantly present in lemongrass, has various actions including antinociception, how citral affects synaptic transmission has not been examined as yet. Citral activates in heterologous cells transient receptor potential vanilloid-1, ankyrin-1, and melastatin-8 (TRPV1, TRPA1, and TRPM8, respec...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Zhu L,Fujita T,Jiang CY,Kumamoto E

更新日期：2016-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin, oxytocin and cholecystokinin (CCK) are peptides that influence feeding behaviour. Galanin has been found to stimulate food intake and oxytocin and CCK have been suggested to be satiety agents. The present study was performed in order to investigate if galanin influences the secretion of oxytocin and CCK as a ...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Björkstrand E,Hulting AL,Meister B,Uvnäs-Moberg K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that perceiving another person's body movements activates corresponding motor representations in an observer's brain, a process which appears to be imitative in nature. However, it is also true that simply imitating another person's action/s in many situations is not an effective or appropriate respon...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Sartori L,Betti S,Castiello U

更新日期：2013-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Parturition plays a critical role in the full expression of maternal behavior in postpartum females, yet the precise mechanism remains unclear. Here we examined the role of parturition in the activation of Fos and FosB in the central oxytocin receptor (OTR) system in rats. Although expression of FosB, not Fos, was see...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Lin SH,Kiyohara T,Sun B

更新日期：2003-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Although decision-making is typically seen as a rational process, emotions play a role in tasks that include unfairness. Recently, activation in the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during offers experienced as unfair in the Ultimatum Game was suggested to subserve goal maintenance in this task. This is restricted...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： van 't Wout M,Kahn RS,Sanfey AG,Aleman A

更新日期：2005-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied over the frontal eye field (FEF) and the supplementary eye field (SEF) regions before execution of the first saccade in a double step task. When applied over the FEF, stimulation increased the percentage error in amplitude of the contralateral second saccade as compa...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Tobler PN,Müri RM

更新日期：2002-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to investigate the time-course of electromagnetic field (EMF)-induced effects on human cognitive and behavioral performance and on tympanic temperature. Subjects were randomly assigned to two groups, exposed to a 902.40 MHz EMF before the testing session, or to the same signal during the data collectin...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Curcio G,Ferrara M,De Gennaro L,Cristiani R,D'Inzeo G,Bertini M

更新日期：2004-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In rapid serial visual presentation of pictures, an early event-related brain potential component shows enlarged negativity over occipital regions for emotional pictures compared with neutral pictures. The present study examined whether the processing of emotional target pictures varies as a function of stimulus repet...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Schupp HT,Stockburger J,Codispoti M,Junghöfer M,Weike AI,Hamm AO

更新日期：2006-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered glutamate signaling is associated with Parkinson's disease. To study the involvement of the cystine/glutamate antiporter in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease, we developed new polyclonal antibodies recognizing xCT, the specific subunit of this antiporter. The striatal xCT protein expression level was inv...

journal_title：Neuroreport

authors： Massie A,Schallier A,Mertens B,Vermoesen K,Bannai S,Sato H,Smolders I,Michotte Y

更新日期：2008-10-29 00:00:00