Ultrastructural analysis of ectopic synaptic boutons arising from peripherally regenerated primary afferent fibers.

abstract：:The exercise pressor reflex, a crucial component of the cardiovascular response under physiological and pathophysiological states, is activated via metabolic and mechanical mediators that originate from contracting muscles and stimulate group III and IV afferents. We reported previously that stimulation of mu opioid r...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hassan B,Kim JS,Farrag M,Kaufman MP,Ruiz-Velasco V

更新日期：2014-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Many single-unit electrophysiological studies of visual cortex have investigated strong evoked responses to simple stimuli such as oriented gratings. Experiments involving other types of stimuli, such as natural scenes, higher-order features, and surface brightness, produce single-unit responses that are more difficul...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Hung CP,Ramsden BM,Roe AW

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Mechanoreceptor neurons in spider (Cupiennlus salei) slit sense organ were examined by intracellular current- and voltageclarry recordings. Steps and pseudorandomly modulated displacement stimuli were delivered to the mechanosensitive cuticular slits. The resulting responses were used to determine the response dyna...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Juusola M,French AS

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of horizontal smooth pursuit on the ocular responses to brief vertical perturbations of textured backgrounds in humans. When the subject was fixating on a stationary target, a brief vertical perturbation of the background elicited a small tracking response. When the subject was pursuing a target...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Miura K,Kobayashi Y,Kawano K

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

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：:This study considers the possibility of using coherence analysis for detection and measurement of synchrony (correlations) in large neural populations, applied to activities that are relatively easy to record in parallel. Mathematical analysis and computer simulations are used to examine the behavior of the coherence ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Christakos CN

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that the motor system may circumvent the difficulty of controlling many degrees of freedom in the musculoskeletal apparatus by generating motor outputs through a combination of discrete muscle synergies. How a discretely organized motor system compensates for diverse perturbations has remained el...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cheung VC,d'Avella A,Bizzi E

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons integrate subthreshold inputs in a frequency-dependent manner. For sinusoidal stimuli, response amplitudes thus vary with stimulus frequency. Neurons in entorhinal cortex show two types of such resonance behavior: stellate cells in layer II exhibit a prominent peak in the resonance profile at stimulus frequenc...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Schreiber S,Erchova I,Heinemann U,Herz AV

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of dendrodendritic synapses by the noradrenergic system in the accessory olfactory bulb (AOB) plays a key role in the formation of memory in olfactory-mediated behaviors. We have recently shown that noradrenaline (NA) inhibits mitral cells by increasing gamma-aminobutyric acid inhibitory input onto mitral c...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Smith RS,Weitz CJ,Araneda RC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus of the solitary tract (NST) and the parabrachial nuclei (PbN) are the first and second relays in the rodent central taste pathway. A series of electrophysiological experiments revealed that spontaneous and taste-evoked activities of brain stem gustatory neurons are altered by descending input from multiple...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Li CS,Lu DP,Cho YK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central auditory system has traditionally been divided into lemniscal and nonlemniscal pathways leading from the midbrain through the thalamus to the cortex. This view has served as an organizing principle for studying, modeling, and understanding the encoding of sound within the brain. However, there is evidence ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Straka MM,Schmitz S,Lim HH

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand the role of primary visual cortex (V1) in color vision, we measured directly the input from the 3 cone types in macaque V1 neurons. Cells were classified as luminance-preferring, color-luminance, or color-preferring from the ratio of the peak amplitudes of spatial frequency responses to red/green equilum...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Johnson EN,Hawken MJ,Shapley R

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have reported that human subjects show varying degrees of ability to use contextual cues to recall the motor skills required to compensate for different dynamic external force fields during arm movements. In particular, the subjects showed little or no ability to use color cues to adjust motor outputs i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Krouchev NI,Kalaska JF

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dye Procion brown was used to identify in the light and electron microscope, synaptic contacts made between monosynaptically coupled neurons in the lamprey spinal cord whose synaptic interaction had been recorded. Synaptic contacts were made on different dendrites of the postsynaptic cell at different distances fr...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Christensen BN

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reaching to grasp is of fundamental importance to primate motor behavior and requires coordinating hand preshaping with limb transport and grasping. We aimed to clarify the role of cerebellar output via the magnocellular red nucleus (RNm) to the control of reaching to grasp. Rubrospinal fibers originating from RNm con...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： van Kan PL,McCurdy ML

更新日期：2001-04-01 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 capabilities of any sensory system are ultimately constrained by the properties of the sensory neurons: the ability to detect and represent stimuli is limited by noise due to spontaneous activity, and optimal decoding in downstream circuitry must be matched to the nature of the encoding performed at the input. Her...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Arnson HA,Holy TE

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have analyzed activity-induced changes in EMG activity in individual human motor units. We studied the changes in human thenar motor unit EMG that accompany the potentiation of twitch force and fatigue of tetanic force. Single motor unit EMG and force were recorded in healthy subjects in response to select...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Thomas CK,Johansson RS,Bigland-Ritchie B

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A brain slice preparation from guinea pigs and intracellular recording techniques were used to examine the effects of carbachol application on the three classes (A, B, and C) of neurons (n = 68, 40 of class A, 12 of class B, 16 of class C) within the mediolateral part of the lateral septum (LSml). Bath application of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Carette B

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apical dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal cells in a slice preparation of rat sensorimotor cortex were depolarized focally by long-lasting glutamate iontophoresis while recording intracellularly from their soma. In most cells the firing pattern evoked by the smallest dendritic depolarization that evoked spikes consisted o...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Schwindt P,Crill W

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas Kvbeta2 subunits modulate potassium current properties carried by Kv1 channel complexes in heterologous systems, little is known about the contributions of Kvbeta2 subunits to native potassium channel function. Using antisense approaches and in situ recordings from Xenopus embryo spinal cord neurons, we tested...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Pineda RH,Knoeckel CS,Taylor AD,Estrada-Bernal A,Ribera AB

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:1. The dorsal horn (DH) of chickens exhibits a novel pattern of cytoarchitectonic lamination among vertebrates, whereby lamina III lies medial, rather than ventral, to lamina II. Indeed, cutaneous nerves labeled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) form two separate projections across the mediolateral axis of the superfi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Woodbury CJ

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of low-frequency, primary-like neurons of the ventral cochlear nucleus were measured as a function of signal-to-noise ratio for gated tonal signals and noise maskers that were varied in bandwidth and duration. For a given signal-to-noise ratio, each of the maskers is known to produce the same amount of m...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Langford TL

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of inhibitory amino acid transmitters on horizontal cells in the superfused amphibian retina were studied by the use of conventional intracellular recording techniques. 2. Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) caused a calcium-independent depolarization of horizontal cells in mud puppy and tiger salamander. Th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Stockton RA,Slaughter MM

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied adjustments in digit forces and moments during holding a vertically oriented handle under slow, externally imposed changes in the width of the grasp. Subjects (n = 8) grasped a customized motorized handle with five digits and held it statically in the air. The handle width either increased (expanded) or dec...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zatsiorsky VM,Gao F,Latash ML

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are behaviors that rely on common muscles and motoneurons generated by separate or overlapping groups of pattern-generating neurons? This question was investigated for the three forms of scratching in immobilized, spinal turtles. Individual neurons were recorded extracellularly from the gray matter through most of the...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Berkowitz A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the spatial integration properties of complex cells to determine whether some of their responses can be described by a maximum operation (MAX)-like computation, as suggested by Riesenhuber and Poggio's model of object recognition. Membrane potential was recorded from anesthetized cats while optimally ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Lampl I,Ferster D,Poggio T,Riesenhuber M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We asked if the information about stimulus motion used in a visual working-memory task is localized in space. Monkeys compared the directions of two moving random-dot stimuli, sample and test, separated by a temporal delay and reported whether the stimuli moved in the same or in different directions. By presenting the...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zaksas D,Bisley JW,Pasternak T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that neurons in the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (MD) are topographically organized and express spatial and nonspatial coding properties similar to those of the prefrontal areas with which they are connected. In the course of mapping the dorsal thalamus, we also studied neurons in a subset of th...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Tanibuchi I,Goldman-Rakic PS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00