N-type voltage-dependent calcium channels mediate the nicotinic enhancement of GABA release in chick brain.

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：:The marine mollusk Clione limacina, when swimming, can stabilize different body orientations in the gravitational field. The stabilization is based on the reflexes initiated by activation of the statocyst receptor cells and mediated by the cerebro-pedal interneurons that produce excitation of the motoneurons of the ef...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Deliagina TG,Orlovsky GN,Selverston AI,Arshavsky YI

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Red rod photoreceptors in the toad retina, which are known to be physiologically coupled, were examined for interreceptor contacts. 2. A dense network of large gap junctions was found between the inner segments of red rods, this being the only specialized site of contact that was observed between rods. Each red rod...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Gold GH,Dowling JE

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to probe the contribution of spinal neuron persistent sodium conductances to reflex hyperexcitability in human chronic spinal cord injury. The intrinsic excitability of spinal neurons provides a novel target for medical intervention. Studies in animal models have shown that persistent...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Theiss RD,Hornby TG,Rymer WZ,Schmit BD

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal mechanism which gives rise to the synchronization of motor-unit discharges has been inferred from an analysis of the interspike intervals of individual motor-unit discharges recorded from the soleus muscle. The motor units were divided into two groups on the basis of characteristic changes in their spike ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Mori S

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interjoint coordination is essential for proper walking behavior in multi-jointed insect legs. We have shown previously that movement signals from the femur-tibia (FT) joint can shape motor activity of the adjacent coxa-trochanter (CT) joint in the stick insect, Carausius morosus. Here, we present data on the role of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bucher D,Akay T,DiCaprio RA,Buschges A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divergence of the Shaker superfamily of voltage-gated (Kv) ion channels early in metazoan evolution created numerous electrical phenotypes that were presumably selected to produce a wide range of excitability characteristics in neurons, myocytes, and other cells. A comparative approach that emphasizes this early radia...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Klassen TL,Buckingham SD,Atherton DM,Dacks JB,Gallin WJ,Spencer AN

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyolaryngeal elevation is essential for airway protection during swallowing and is mainly a reflexive response to oropharyngeal sensory stimulation. Targeted intramuscular electrical stimulation can elevate the resting larynx and, if applied during swallowing, may improve airway protection in dysphagic patients with i...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Burnett TA,Mann EA,Stoklosa JB,Ludlow CL

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In adult songbirds, auditory neurons in the primary auditory forebrain region of field L and a secondary auditory forebrain region of caudal mesopallium (CM) are highly responsive to natural sounds, such as conspecific song. Because these nuclei are involved in sensory representations of songs, we investigated how the...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Amin N,Doupe A,Theunissen FE

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA-type glutamate receptors are normally Ca(2+) impermeable due to the expression of the GluR2 receptor subunit. By using GluR2 null mice we were able to detect miniature synaptic Ca(2+) transients (MSCTs) associated with AMPA-type receptor-mediated miniature synaptic currents at single synapses in primary cortical ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Wang S,Jia Z,Roder J,Murphy TH

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor-unit synchronization, which is a measure of the near simultaneous discharge of action potentials by motor units, has the potential to influence spike-triggered average force and the steadiness of a low-force isometric contraction. The purpose of the study was to estimate the contribution of motor-unit synchroniz...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Semmler JG,Steege JW,Kornatz KW,Enoka RM

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate, the neurotransmitter, enhances rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep when microinjected into the brain stem pedunculopontine tegmentum (PPT) of the cat and rat. Glutamate and its various receptors are normally present in the PPT cholinergic cell compartment. The aim of this study was to identify which specific rec...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Datta S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleus accumbens core (AcbC) is a striatal brain region essential for integrating motivated behavior and reward processing with premotor function. In humans and rodents, research has identified sex differences and sex steroid hormone sensitivity in AcbC-mediated behaviors, in disorders, and in rats in the electro...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cao J,Dorris DM,Meitzen J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence first described in reduced animal models over 100 years ago led to deductions about the control of locomotion through spinal locomotor central pattern-generating (CPG) networks. These discoveries in nature were contemporaneous with another form of deductive reasoning found in popular culture, that of Arthur C...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Klarner T,Zehr EP

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-train electrical stimulation of the motor and premotor cortices of nonhuman primates can produce either hand-to-mouth or grasp-to-inspect movements, depending on the precise location of stimulation. Furthermore, single-neuron recording studies identify discrete neuronal populations in the inferior parietal and ve...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Flindall JW,Gonzalez CL

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We have studied the responses of neurons in the lateral and descending vestibular nuclei of decerebrate cats to stimulation of neck receptors, produced by rotating the body in vertical planes with the head stationary. The responses to such neck stimulation were compared with the responses to vestibular stimulation ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Kasper J,Schor RH,Wilson VJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional coupling of neural circuits between the upper and lower limbs involving rhythmic movements is of interest to both motor control research and rehabilitation science. This coupling can be detected by examining the effect of remote rhythmic limb movement on the modulation of reflex amplitude in stationary ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Sasada S,Tazoe T,Nakajima T,Zehr EP,Komiyama T

更新日期：2010-07-01 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. Many examples of long-term potentiation (LPT) are induced by repetitive electrical stimulation of presynaptic axons. LTP also is induced by direct glutamate iontophoresis (1 M, 1-2 microA, 10 s) onto postsynaptic neurons in hippocampal slices without evoked presynaptic stimulation; this form of LTP is called "ionto...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Cormier RJ,Kelly PT

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important new study by Kvarta, Bradbrook, Dantrassy, Bailey, and Thompson (J Neurophysiol 114: 1713-1724, 2015) examined the effects of persistent stress and excessive glucocorticoid levels on hippocampal function and emotional behavior in rodents. The authors specifically implicate the temporoammonic pathway as be...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： McGinn MA,Pahng AR

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Odors activate lobster olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) through phosphoinositide signaling that appears to target a Na(+)-gated nonselective cation channel. The Na(+)-gated channel is a potential member of the growing family of transient receptor potential (TRP) channels. Here, we test the effect of potential antagon...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Bobkov YV,Ache BW

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gramicidin-perforated patch-clamp recordings were made from slices of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of adult rats to characterize the role of gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) in the circadian timing system. During the day, activation of GABA(A) receptors hyperpolarized the membrane of SCN neurons. During the night,...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： De Jeu M,Pennartz C

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural oscillations are observed ubiquitously in the mammalian brain, but their stability is known to be rather variable. Some oscillations are tonic and last for seconds or even minutes. Other oscillations appear as unstable bursts. Likewise, some oscillations rely on excitatory AMPAergic synapses, but others are GAB...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Peterson EJ,Voytek B

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although fluorescence microscopy has proven to be one of the most powerful tools in biology, its application to the intact animal has been limited to imaging several hundred micrometers below the surface. The rest of the animal has eluded investigation at the microscopic level without excising tissue or performing ext...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Levene MJ,Dombeck DA,Kasischke KA,Molloy RP,Webb WW

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Our previous study showed that two distinct postural modifications occurred when subjects were instructed to step, rather than maintain stance, in response to a backward surface translation: 1) the automatic postural responses to the surfaces perturbation were reduced in magnitude and 2) the anticipatory postural a...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Burleigh A,Horak F

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current-clamp recordings were made from the deep cerebellar nuclei (DCN) of 12- to 15-day-old rats to understand the factors that mediate intrinsic spontaneous firing patterns. All of the cells recorded were spontaneously active with spiking patterns ranging continuously from regular spiking to spontaneous bursting wi...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Aizenman CD,Linden DJ

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the auditory system of the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus), paired conditioned tonal (CS) and unconditioned leg stimuli (US) for auditory fear conditioning elicit tone-specific plasticity represented by best-frequency (BF) shifts that are augmented by acetylcholine, whereas unpaired CS and US for pseudoconditionin...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Ji W,Suga N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the brain processes sensory input to generate behavior remains an important problem in neuroscience. Towards this end, it is useful to compare results obtained across multiple species to gain understanding as to the general principles of neural coding. Here we investigated hindbrain pyramidal cell ac...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Martinez D,Metzen MG,Chacron MJ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary afferent fibers from the electroreceptors of mormyrid electric fish use a latency code to signal the intensity of electrical current evoked by the fish's own electric organ discharge (EOD). The afferent fibers terminate centrally in the deep and superficial granular layers of the electrosensory lobe with morph...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Zhang J,Han VZ,Meek J,Bell CC

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the hippocampus, the calcium-binding protein parvalbumin (PV) is expressed in interneurons that innervate perisomatic regions. PV in GABAergic synaptic terminals was proposed to limit repetitive GABA release by buffering of "residual calcium." We assessed the role of presynaptic PV in Ca(2+)-dependent GABA release ...

journal_title：Journal of neurophysiology

authors： Vreugdenhil M,Jefferys JG,Celio MR,Schwaller B

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00