Acupuncture regulates the glucose metabolism in cerebral functional regions in chronic stage ischemic stroke patients--a PET-CT cerebral functional imaging study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress has shown to contribute in the mechanisms underlying apoptotic cell death occurring in AIDS-dementia complex. Here we investigated the role of peroxynitrite in apoptosis occurring in astroglial cells incubated with supernatants of HIV-infected human primary macrophages (M/M). RESULTS:Flow c...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Muscoli C,Salvemini D,Paolino D,Iannone M,Palma E,Cufari A,Rotiroti D,Perno CF,Aquaro S,Mollace V

更新日期：2002-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mounting evidence indicates that humans have significant difficulties in understanding emotional expressions from individuals of different ethnic backgrounds, leading to reduced recognition accuracy and stronger amygdala activation. However, the impact of gender on the behavioral and neural reactions during ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Derntl B,Habel U,Robinson S,Windischberger C,Kryspin-Exner I,Gur RC,Moser E

更新日期：2012-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine whether early imitative responses fade out following the maturation of attentional mechanisms, the relationship between primitive imitation behaviors and the development of attention was examined in 4-month-old infants. They were divided into high and low imitators, based on an index of imitatio...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Nakagawa A,Sukigara M,Benga O

更新日期：2003-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human inferior frontal junction area (IFJ) is critically involved in three main component processes of cognitive control (working memory, task switching and inhibitory control). As it overlaps with several areas in established anatomical labeling schemes, it is considered to be underreported as a functio...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Sundermann B,Pfleiderer B

更新日期：2012-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been shown that olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) and Schwann cell (SCs) transplantation are beneficial as cellular treatments for spinal cord injury (SCI), especially acute and sub-acute time points. In this study, we transplanted DsRED transduced adult OEG and SCs sub-acutely (14 days) following a T1...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Barbour HR,Plant CD,Harvey AR,Plant GW

更新日期：2013-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The properties of Ca2+ signaling mediated by purinergic receptors are intrinsically linked with functional activity of astrocytes. At present little is known concerning Ca2+-dependent purinergic responses in adult human astrocytes. This work has examined effects of purinergic stimulation to alter levels of i...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Hashioka S,Wang YF,Little JP,Choi HB,Klegeris A,McGeer PL,McLarnon JG

更新日期：2014-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During development the switch from a depolarizing to a hyperpolarizing action of GABA is a consequence of a decrease of the Na+-K+-2Cl- co-transporter (NKCC1, Cl--uptake) and increase of the K+-Cl- co-transporter (KCC2, Cl--extrusion) expression. However albino visual cortex neurons don't show a correspondin...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Diykov D,Turchinovich A,Zoidl G,Hoffmann KP

更新日期：2008-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for the functional replacement of damaged neurons and in vitro disease modeling is of great clinical relevance. Unfortunately, the capacity of iPSC lines to differentiate into neurons is highly variable, prompting the need for a reliable means of assessing th...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Koehler KR,Tropel P,Theile JW,Kondo T,Cummins TR,Viville S,Hashino E

更新日期：2011-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have shown that Stroop interference is stronger in children than in adults. However, in a standard Stroop paradigm, stimulus interference and response interference are confounded. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether interference at the stimulus level and the response lev...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Jongen EM,Jonkman LM

更新日期：2008-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enhanced activity of trigeminal ganglion neurons is thought to underlie neuronal sensitization facilitating the onset of chronic pain attacks, including migraine. Recurrent headache attacks might establish a chronic neuroinflammatory ganglion profile contributing to the hypersensitive phenotype. Since it is ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Franceschini A,Nair A,Bele T,van den Maagdenberg AM,Nistri A,Fabbretti E

更新日期：2012-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been hypothesized that alterations of the serotonergic system contribute to neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer disease (AD). Cellular expressions of the two serotonergic receptors 5-HT2A and 5-HT6 have therefore been determined by immunohistochemistry in the prefrontal cortex of patients with AD (...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Lorke DE,Lu G,Cho E,Yew DT

更新日期：2006-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Knock-in (KI) mouse models of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that endogenously overproduce Aβ without non-physiological overexpression of amyloid precursor protein (APP) provide important insights into the pathogenic mechanisms of AD. Previously, we reported that AppNL-G-F mice, which harbor three familial AD muta...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Sakakibara Y,Sekiya M,Saito T,Saido TC,Iijima KM

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is a hematopoietic growth factor involved in the generation of granulocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells from hematopoietic progenitor cells. We have recently demonstrated that GM-CSF has anti-apoptotic functions on neurons, and is neuroprotectiv...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Krüger C,Laage R,Pitzer C,Schäbitz WR,Schneider A

更新日期：2007-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have recorded responses from single neurons in murine visual cortex to determine the effectiveness of the input from the two murine cone photoreceptor mechanisms and whether there is any unique selectivity for cone inputs at this higher region of the visual system that would support the possibility of col...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Ekesten B,Gouras P

更新日期：2008-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evoked potentials have been proposed to result from phase-locking of electroencephalographic (EEG) activities within specific frequency bands. However, the respective contribution of phasic activity and phase resetting of ongoing EEG oscillation remains largely debated. We here applied the EEGlab procedure i...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Cheron G,Cebolla AM,De Saedeleer C,Bengoetxea A,Leurs F,Leroy A,Dan B

更新日期：2007-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Fronto temporal lobar dementia (FTLD) are common causes of dementia in the aging population for which limited therapeutical options are available. These disorders are associated with Tau accumulation. We have previously shown that Cerebrolysin™ (CBL), a neuropeptide mixture with ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Rockenstein E,Ubhi K,Trejo M,Mante M,Patrick C,Adame A,Novak P,Jech M,Doppler E,Moessler H,Masliah E

更新日期：2014-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:ApoER2 and the neurotrophin receptors Trk and p75(NTR) are expressed in the CNS and regulate key functional aspects of neurons, including development, survival, and neuronal function. It is known that both ApoER2 and p75(NTR) are processed by metalloproteinases, followed by regulated intramembrane proteolysi...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Larios JA,Jausoro I,Benitez ML,Bronfman FC,Marzolo MP

更新日期：2014-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tone languages such as Thai and Mandarin Chinese use differences in fundamental frequency (F0, pitch) to distinguish lexical meaning. Previous behavioral studies have shown that native speakers of a non-tone language have difficulty discriminating among tone contrasts and are sensitive to different F0 dimens...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kaan E,Barkley CM,Bao M,Wayland R

更新日期：2008-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acetylcholine receptors become aggregated at the developing neuromuscular synapse shortly after contact by a motorneuron in one of the earliest manifestations of synaptic development. While a major physiological signal for receptor aggregation (agrin) is known, the mechanism(s) by which muscle cells respond ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kunkel DD,Lee LK,Stollberg J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent work has suggested that the ovarian steroid 17beta-estradiol, at physiological concentrations, may exert protective effects in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and acute ischemic stroke. While physiological concentrations of estrogen have consistently been s...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Dhandapani KM,Brann DW

更新日期：2002-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurogenesis continues to occur throughout life but dramatically decreases with increasing age. This decrease is mostly related to a decline in proliferative activity as a result of an impoverishment of the microenvironment of the aged brain, including a reduction in trophic factors and increased inflammatio...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Bachstetter AD,Pabon MM,Cole MJ,Hudson CE,Sanberg PR,Willing AE,Bickford PC,Gemma C

更新日期：2008-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Auditory perceptual learning persistently modifies neural networks in the central nervous system. Central auditory processing comprises a hierarchy of sound analysis and integration, which transforms an acoustical signal into a meaningful object for perception. Based on latencies and source locations of audi...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Ross B,Jamali S,Tremblay KL

更新日期：2013-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The megencephaly mouse, mceph/mceph, is epileptic and displays a dramatically increased brain volume and neuronal count. The responsible mutation was recently revealed to be an eleven base pair deletion, leading to a frame shift, in the gene encoding the potassium channel Kv1.1. The predicted MCEPH protein i...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Persson AS,Klement G,Almgren M,Sahlholm K,Nilsson J,Petersson S,Arhem P,Schalling M,Lavebratt C

更新日期：2005-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1) disease is an inherited lysosomal storage disease caused by mutation of the Npc1 gene, resulting in a progressive accumulation of unesterified cholesterol and glycolipids in lysosomes of multiple tissues and leading to neurodegeneration and other disease. In Npc1 mutant mice, reti...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Yan X,Ma L,Hovakimyan M,Lukas J,Wree A,Frank M,Guthoff R,Rolfs A,Witt M,Luo J

更新日期：2014-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subjective tinnitus is characterized by an auditory phantom perception in the absence of any physical sound source. Consequently, in a quiet environment, tinnitus patients differ from control participants because they constantly perceive a sound whereas controls do not. We hypothesized that this difference i...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Schlee W,Hartmann T,Langguth B,Weisz N

更新日期：2009-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The neurological complications of HIV infection remain poorly understood. Clinically, in vivo 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) demonstrates brain injury caused by HIV infection even when the MRI is normal. Our goal was to undertsand the dynamics of cerebral injury by performing a longitudinal in vivo...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Fuller RA,Westmoreland SV,Ratai E,Greco JB,Kim JP,Lentz MR,He J,Sehgal PK,Masliah E,Halpern E,Lackner AA,González RG

更新日期：2004-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overexpression and abnormal accumulation of aggregated alpha-synuclein (alphaS) have been linked to Parkinson's disease (PD) and other synucleinopathies. alphaS can misfold and adopt a variety of morphologies but recent studies implicate oligomeric forms as the most cytotoxic species. Both genetic mutations ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Wang MS,Boddapati S,Emadi S,Sierks MR

更新日期：2010-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia and represents one of the highest unmet requirements in medicine today. There is shortage of novel molecules entering into market because of poor pharmacokinetic properties and safety issues. Drug repurposing offers an opportunity to reinvigorat...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kumar S,Chowdhury S,Kumar S

更新日期：2017-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson disease (PD) is a movement disorder affecting 1 % of people over the age of 60. The etiology of the disease is unknown; however, accumulating evidence suggests that mitochondrial defects, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation play important roles in developing the disease. Current medications for...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Javed H,Azimullah S,Abul Khair SB,Ojha S,Haque ME

更新日期：2016-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The neuropeptide arginine vasopressin (Avp) modulates social behaviors via its two centrally expressed receptors, the Avp 1a receptor and the Avp 1b receptor (Avpr1b). Recent work suggests that, at least in mice, Avp signaling through Avpr1b within the CA2 region of the hippocampus is critical for normal agg...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Witchey SK,Stevenson EL,Caldwell HK

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00