Occipital repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation does not affect multifocal visual evoked potentials.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydophila (Chlamydia) pneumoniae is an intracellular bacterium that has been identified within cells in areas of neuropathology found in Alzheimer disease (AD), including endothelia, glia, and neurons. Depending on the cell type of the host, infection by C. pneumoniae has been shown to influence apoptoti...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Appelt DM,Roupas MR,Way DS,Bell MG,Albert EV,Hammond CJ,Balin BJ

更新日期：2008-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutamate, a major excitatory amino acid neurotransmitter, causes apoptotic neuronal cell death at high concentrations. Our previous studies have shown that depending on the neuronal cell type, glutamate-induced apoptotic cell death was associated with regulation of genes such as Bcl-2, Bax, and/or caspase-3...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Zhang Y,Bhavnani BR

更新日期：2006-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A delay in surgical nerve repair results in impaired nerve function in humans, but mechanisms behind the weakened nerve regeneration are not known. Activating transcription factor 3 (ATF3) increases the intrinsic growth state of injured neurons early after injury, but the role of long-term changes and their ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Saito H,Dahlin LB

更新日期：2008-09-18 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:Recent evidence has suggested that Alzheimer's disease (AD)-associated neuronal loss may occur via the caspase-independent route of programmed cell death (PCD) in addition to caspase-dependent mechanisms. However, the brain region specificity of caspase-independent PCD in AD-associated neurodegeneration is u...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Yu W,Bonnet M,Farso M,Ma K,Chabot JG,Martin E,Torriglia A,Guan Z,McLaurin J,Quirion R,Krantic S

更新日期：2014-06-10 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:The Na+,K+-ATPase plays an important role for ion homeostasis in virtually all mammalian cells, including neurons. Despite this, there is as yet little known about the isoform specific distribution in neurons. RESULTS:With help of superresolving stimulated emission depletion microscopy the spatial distribut...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Blom H,Rönnlund D,Scott L,Spicarova Z,Widengren J,Bondar A,Aperia A,Brismar H

更新日期：2011-01-27 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:Recent research has revealed that the community of microorganisms inhabiting the gut affects brain development, function and behaviour. In particular, disruption of the gut microbiome during critical developmental windows can have lasting effects on host physiology. Both antibiotic exposure and germ-free con...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Johnson KVA,Burnet PWJ

更新日期：2020-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Many studies have highlighted the pathological involvement of iron accumulation and iron-related oxidative stress (OS) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Iron was further demonstrated to modulate expression of the Alzheimer's amyloid precursor holo-protein (APP) by a mechanism similar to that of regulation of ferritin-L and...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Avramovich-Tirosh Y,Amit T,Bar-Am O,Weinreb O,Youdim MB

更新日期：2008-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations, which are present in all mitochondria-containing cells, paradoxically cause tissue-specific disease. For example, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) results from one of three point mutations mtDNA coding for complex I components, but is only manifested in retinal ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Hoegger MJ,Lieven CJ,Levin LA

更新日期：2008-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circadian clocks are endogenous biochemical oscillators that control daily behavioral rhythms in all living organisms. In fruit fly, the circadian rhythms are typically studied using power spectra of multiday behavioral recordings. Despite decades of study, a quantitative understanding of the temporal shape ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Lazopulo A,Syed S

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The "inverse" problem is related to the determination of unknown causes on the bases of the observation of their effects. This is the opposite of the corresponding "direct" problem, which relates to the prediction of the effects generated by a complete description of some agencies. The solution of an inverse...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Arisi I,Cattaneo A,Rosato V

更新日期：2006-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies found that rats subjected to carrageenan injection develop hyperalgesia, and despite complete recovery in several days, they continue to have an enhanced hyperalgesic response to a new noxious challenge for more than 28d. The study's aim was to identify candidate genes that have a role in th...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Yukhananov R,Kissin I

更新日期：2008-03-13 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:The processing of verbal fluency tasks relies on the coordinated activity of a number of brain areas, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobes of the left hemisphere. Recent studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the neural networks subserving verbal fluency functions have ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Wagner S,Sebastian A,Lieb K,Tüscher O,Tadić A

更新日期：2014-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glutamate gated postsynaptic receptors in the central nervous system (CNS) are essential for environmentally stimulated behaviours including learning and memory in both invertebrates and vertebrates. Though their genetics, biochemistry, physiology, and role in behaviour have been intensely studied in vitro a...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Ryan TJ,Emes RD,Grant SG,Komiyama NH

更新日期：2008-01-15 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:Even though more than 600 stroke treatments have been shown effective in preclinical studies, clinically proven treatment alternatives for cerebral infarction remain scarce. Amongst the reasons for the discrepancy may be methodological shortcomings, such as high mortality and outcome variability, in the prec...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Ström JO,Ingberg E,Theodorsson A,Theodorsson E

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:SLC10A4 belongs to the solute carrier family SLC10 whose founding members are the Na(+)/taurocholate co-transporting polypeptide (NTCP, SLC10A1) and the apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT, SLC10A2). These carriers maintain the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids between the liver and the...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Schmidt S,Moncada M,Burger S,Geyer J

更新日期：2015-06-19 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:Fetal asphyctic (FA) preconditioning is effective in attenuating brain damage incurred by a subsequent perinatal asphyctic insult. Unraveling mechanisms of this endogenous neuroprotection, activated by FA preconditioning, is an important step towards new clinical strategies for asphyctic neonates. Genomic re...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Cox-Limpens KE,Vles JS,Schlechter J,Zimmermann LJ,Strackx E,Gavilanes AW

更新日期：2013-06-22 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: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:To measure the impact of masticatory reduction on learning and memory, previous studies have produced experimental masticatory reduction by modified diet or molar removal. Here we induced spatial learning impairment in mice by reducing masticatory activity and then tested the effect of a combination of envir...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Mendes Fde C,de Almeida MN,Felício AP,Fadel AC,Silva Dde J,Borralho TG,da Silva RP,Bento-Torres J,Vasconcelos PF,Perry VH,Ramos EM,Picanço-Diniz CW,Sosthenes MC

更新日期：2013-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bone morphogenic proteins (BMPs) promote the survival of neurons, suggesting a therapeutic application of BMPs in the treatment of acute and chronic neurodegenerative disorders. However, the application of recombinant BMPs in vivo is limited by their short half-life. To provide a continuous supply for functi...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Heinonen AM,Rahman M,Dogbevia G,Jakobi H,Wölfl S,Sprengel R,Schwaninger M

更新日期：2014-03-11 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:Rett syndrome (RTT, MIM #312750) is a severe neurological disorder caused by mutations in the X-linked methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. Female patients are affected with an incidence of 1/15000 live births and develop normally from birth to 6-18 months of age before the onset of deficits in autonom...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Panayotis N,Ghata A,Villard L,Roux JC

更新日期：2011-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The olfactory neuroepithelium lines the upper nasal cavity and is in direct contact with the external environment and the olfactory bulbs. The ability to self-renew throughout life and the reproducible recovery after injury, make it a model tissue to study mechanisms underlying neurogenesis. In this study, X...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Cunha C,Hort Y,Shine J,Doyle KL

更新日期：2012-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, there has been a strong emphasis on identifying an in vitro model for neurotoxicity research that combines the biological relevance of primary neurons with the scalability, reproducibility and genetic tractability of continuous cell lines. Derived neurons should be homotypic, exhibit neuron-specifi...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Hubbard KS,Gut IM,Lyman ME,Tuznik KM,Mesngon MT,McNutt PM

更新日期：2012-10-24 00:00:00