Arc protein expression after unilateral intracranial self-stimulation of the medial forebrain bundle is upregulated in specific nuclei of memory-related areas.

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:The effects induced by administering the anticonvulsant lamotrigine, the preferential inhibitor of neuronal nitric oxide synthase 7-nitroindazole and the precursor of NO synthesis L-arginine, alone or in combination, on an experimental model of partial complex seizures (maximal dentate gyrus activation) were...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Sardo P,Ferraro G

更新日期：2007-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human KALRN gene, which encodes a complex, multifunctional Rho GDP/GTP exchange factor, has been linked to cardiovascular disease, psychiatric disorders and neurodegeneration. Examination of existing Kalrn knockout mouse models has focused only on neuronal phenotypes. However, Kalirin was first identifie...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Mandela P,Yankova M,Conti LH,Ma XM,Grady J,Eipper BA,Mains RE

更新日期：2012-11-01 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:Glutamergic excitotoxicity has been shown to play a deleterious role in the pathophysiology of spinal cord injury (SCI). The aim of this study was to investigate the neuroprotective effect of dizocilpine maleate, MK801 (2 mg/Kg, 30 min and 6 hours after injury) in a mice model of SCI. The spinal cord trauma ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Esposito E,Paterniti I,Mazzon E,Genovese T,Galuppo M,Meli R,Bramanti P,Cuzzocrea S

更新日期：2011-04-14 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: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:Ample evidence suggests a substantial contribution of cellular and molecular changes in the spinal cord to the induction and persistence of chronic neuropathic pain conditions. While for a long time, proteases were mainly considered as protein degrading enzymes, they are now receiving growing interest as sig...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Leichsenring A,Bäcker I,Wendt W,Andriske M,Schmitz B,Stichel CC,Lübbert H

更新日期：2008-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GABAA receptor-mediated neurotransmission is greatly influenced by cation-chloride cotransporter activity during developmental stages. In embryonic neurons Na-K-2Cl (NKCC1) cotransporters mediate active chloride uptake, thus increasing the intracellular chloride concentration associated with GABA-induced dep...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Chabwine JN,Talavera K,Van Den Bosch L,Callewaert G

更新日期：2015-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously described planar areal differences in adult mouse visual, somatosensory, and neocortex that collectively discriminated C57BL/6J and DBA/2J inbred strain identity. Here we use a novel application of established methods of two-dimensional geometric morphometrics to examine shape differences in th...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Airey DC,Wu F,Guan M,Collins CE

更新日期：2006-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:White matter hyperintensities (WMH) can lead to dementia but the underlying physiological mechanisms are unclear. We compared relative oscillatory power from electroencephalographic studies (EEGs) of 17 patients with subcortical ischemic vascular dementia, based on extensive white matter hyperintensities (SI...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： van Straaten EC,de Haan W,de Waal H,Scheltens P,van der Flier WM,Barkhof F,Koene T,Stam CJ

更新日期：2012-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies of cerebral asymmetries in different species lead, on the one hand, to a better understanding of the functions of each cerebral hemisphere and, on the other hand, to develop an evolutionary history of hemispheric laterality. Our animal model is particularly interesting because of its original ev...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Blois-Heulin C,Crével M,Böye M,Lemasson A

更新日期：2012-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gap junction proteins, connexins, are expressed in most endocrine and exocrine glands in the body and are at least in some glands crucial for the hormonal secretion. To what extent connexins are expressed in neurons releasing hormones or neuropeptides from or within the central nervous system is, however, un...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Westberg L,Sawa E,Wang AY,Gunaydin LA,Ribeiro AC,Pfaff DW

更新日期：2009-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO) is a multifunctional molecule synthesized by three isozymes of the NO synthase (NOSs) acting as a messenger/modulator and/or a potential neurotoxin. In rodents, the role of NOSs in sleep processes and throughout aging is now well established. For example, sleep parameters are highly deterio...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Colas D,Gharib A,Bezin L,Morales A,Guidon G,Cespuglio R,Sarda N

更新日期：2006-12-21 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:Inhibitors of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase, known as statins, are commonly used as cholesterol-lowering drugs. During the past decade, evidence has emerged that statins also have neuroprotective effects. Research in the retina has shown that simvastatin, a commonly used statin, increases A...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Brand Y,Setz C,Levano S,Listyo A,Chavez E,Pak K,Sung M,Radojevic V,Ryan AF,Bodmer D

更新日期：2011-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Synaptic degeneration and accumulation of amyloid β-peptides (Aβ) are hallmarks of the Alzheimer diseased brain. Aβ is synaptotoxic and produced by sequential cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) by the β-secretase BACE1 and by γ-secretase. If APP is instead cleaved by the α-secretase ADAM10, Aβ w...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Lundgren JL,Vandermeulen L,Sandebring-Matton A,Ahmed S,Winblad B,Di Luca M,Tjernberg LO,Marcello E,Frykman S

更新日期：2020-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Impaired speech perception is one of the major sequelae of aging. In addition to peripheral hearing loss, central deficits of auditory processing are supposed to contribute to the deterioration of speech perception in older individuals. To test the hypothesis that auditory temporal processing is compromised ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Sörös P,Teismann IK,Manemann E,Lütkenhöner B

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding the underlying causes of nicotine addiction will require a multidisciplinary approach examining the key molecular, cellular and neuronal circuit functional changes that drive escalating levels of nicotine self-administration. In this study, we examined whether mice pretreated with chronic nicot...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Renda A,Nashmi R

更新日期：2014-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Errorless learning has advantages over errorful learning. The erroneous items produced during errorful learning compete with correct items at retrieval resulting in decreased memory performance. This interference is associated with an increased demand on executive monitoring processes. Event-related function...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Hammer A,Tempelmann C,Münte TF

更新日期：2013-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an early component of event-related potentials/fields, which can be observed in response to violations of regularities in sound sequences. The MMN can be elicited by simple feature (e.g. pitch) deviations in standard oddball paradigms as well as by violations of more complex ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Herholz SC,Lappe C,Pantev C

更新日期：2009-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peripherin, a type III neuronal intermediate filament, is widely expressed in neurons of the peripheral nervous system and in selected central nervous system hindbrain areas with projections towards peripheral structures, such as cranial nerves and spinal cord neurons. Peripherin appears to play a role in ne...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Eriksson KS,Zhang S,Lin L,Larivière RC,Julien JP,Mignot E

更新日期：2008-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder predominantly affecting the cerebral cortex and striatum. Transgenic mice (R6/1 line), expressing a CAG repeat encoding an expanded polyglutamine tract in the N-terminus of the huntingtin protein, closely model HD. We have previously shown that enviro...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： van Dellen A,Cordery PM,Spires TL,Blakemore C,Hannan AJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Symptoms of schizophrenia are related to deficits in self-monitoring function, which may be a consequence of irregularity in aspects of the default mode network (DMN). Schizophrenia can also be characterized by a functional abnormality of the brain activity that is reflected in the resting state. Oscillatory...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kim JS,Shin KS,Jung WH,Kim SN,Kwon JS,Chung CK

更新日期：2014-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Astaxanthin is a carotenoid pigment that possesses potent antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, and immunomodulatory activities. Previous studies have demonstrated that astaxanthin displays potential neuroprotective properties for the treatment of central nervous system diseases, such as ischemic brai...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Zhang M,Cui Z,Cui H,Cao Y,Zhong C,Wang Y

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

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:Anticipatory planning, the ability to anticipate future perceptual-motor demands of a goal-oriented action sequence, is essential for flexible, purposeful behavior. Once an action goal has been defined, movement details necessary to achieve that goal can be selected. Here, we investigate if anticipatory plan...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Marangon M,Bucchioni G,Massacesi S,Castiello U

更新日期：2013-08-28 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:Astrocytes are responsible for a broad range of functions that maintain homeostasis in the brain. However, their response to the pro-inflammatory cytokines released by activated microglia in various neurological pathologies may exacerbate neurodegenerative processes. Accumulating evidence suggests that omega...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Zgórzyńska E,Stulczewski D,Dziedzic B,Su KP,Walczewska A

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Pde6brd1 (Rd1) mouse is widely used as a murine model for human retinitis pigmentosa. Understanding the spatio-temporal patterns of cone degeneration is important for evaluating potential treatments. In the present study we performed a systematic characterization of the spatio-temporal patterns of S- and...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Narayan DS,Ao J,Wood JPM,Casson RJ,Chidlow G

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00