The temporal relationship between reduction of early imitative responses and the development of attention mechanisms.

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: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 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:Post-stroke hyperglycemia appears to be associated with poor outcome from stroke, greater mortality, and reduced functional recovery. Focal cerebral ischemia data support that neural stem cells (NSCs) play an important role in post-ischemic repair. Here we sought to evaluate the negative effects of hyperglyc...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Chen J,Guo Y,Cheng W,Chen R,Liu T,Chen Z,Tan S

更新日期：2013-03-04 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:Noise exposure (NE) is a severe modern health hazard that induces hearing impairment. However, the noise-induced ultrastructural changes of blood-labyrinth barrier (BLB) and the potential involvements of tight junction proteins (TJP) remain inconclusive. We investigated the effects of NE on not only the ultr...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Wu YX,Zhu GX,Liu XQ,Sun F,Zhou K,Wang S,Wang CM,Jia JW,Song JT,Lu LJ

更新日期：2014-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lateralized processing of speech is a well studied phenomenon in humans. Both anatomical and neurophysiological studies support the view that nonhuman primates and other animal species also reveal hemispheric differences in areas involved in sound processing. In recent years, an increasing number of studies ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Fischer J,Teufel C,Drolet M,Patzelt A,Rübsamen R,von Cramon DY,Schubotz RI

更新日期：2009-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Excitotoxicity (the toxic overstimulation of neurons by the excitatory transmitter Glutamate) is a central process in widespread neurodegenerative conditions such as brain ischemia and chronic neurological diseases. Many mechanisms have been suggested to mediate excitotoxicity, but their significance across ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Del Rosario JS,Feldmann KG,Ahmed T,Amjad U,Ko B,An J,Mahmud T,Salama M,Mei S,Asemota D,Mano I

更新日期：2015-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cigarette smoking enhances the risk of stroke. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. The present study established an in vivo rat secondhand cigarette smoking (SHS) model and examined the hypothesis that SHS upregulates endothelin receptors with increased cerebrovascular contracti...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Cao L,Xu CB,Zhang Y,Cao YX,Edvinsson L

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To reach and grasp an object in space on the basis of its image cast on the retina requires different coordinate transformations that take into account gaze and limb positioning. Eye position in the orbit influences the image's conversion from retinotopic (eye-centered) coordinates to an egocentric frame nec...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Andersson F,Etard O,Denise P,Petit L

更新日期：2004-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms of steroids actions in the brain mainly involve the binding and nuclear translocation of specific cytoplasmic receptors. These receptors can act as transcription factors and regulate gene expression. However, steroid-dependent transcriptional regulation in different types of neural cells is no...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Piechota M,Korostynski M,Golda S,Ficek J,Jantas D,Barbara Z,Przewlocki R

更新日期：2017-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Major depressive disorder is a prevalent disease that is inadequately treated with currently available interventions. Stress increases susceptibility to depression in patients and rodent models. Depression is also associated with aberrant activation of inflammation, such as increases in circulating levels of...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Cheng Y,Jope RS,Beurel E

更新日期：2015-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amyloid precursor protein (APP) is enzymatically cleaved by gamma-secretase to form two peptide products, either Abeta40 or the more neurotoxic Abeta42. The Abeta42/40 ratio is increased in many cases of familial Alzheimer's disease (FAD). The transmembrane domain (TM) of APP contains the known dimerization ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Gorman PM,Kim S,Guo M,Melnyk RA,McLaurin J,Fraser PE,Bowie JU,Chakrabartty A

更新日期：2008-01-30 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: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: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: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:Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the most common of the conformational neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the conversion of a normal biological protein into a β-sheet-rich pathological isoform. In AD the normal soluble Aβ (sAβ) forms oligomers and fibrils which assemble into neuritic plaques. The most t...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Chung E,Ji Y,Sun Y,Kascsak RJ,Kascsak RB,Mehta PD,Strittmatter SM,Wisniewski T

更新日期：2010-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:How does the brain repair obliterated speech and cope with acoustically ambivalent situations? A widely discussed possibility is to use top-down information for solving the ambiguity problem. In the case of speech, this may lead to a match of bottom-up sensory input with lexical expectations resulting in res...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Eulitz C,Hannemann R

更新日期：2010-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The optic nerve is a pure white matter central nervous system (CNS) tract with an isolated blood supply, and is widely used in physiological studies of white matter response to various insults. We examined the gene expression profile of human optic nerve (ON) and, through the NEIBANK online resource, to prov...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Bernstein SL,Guo Y,Peterson K,Wistow G

更新日期：2009-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lateral premotor cortex plays a crucial role in visually guided limb movements. It is divided into two main regions, the dorsal (PMd) and ventral (PMv) areas, which are in turn subdivided into functionally and anatomically distinct rostral (PMd-r and PMv-r) and caudal (PMd-c and PMv-c) sub-regions. We an...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Boussaoud D,Tanné-Gariépy J,Wannier T,Rouiller EM

更新日期：2005-11-25 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: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:Adult neurogenesis continuously adds new neurons to the dentate gyrus and the olfactory bulb. It involves the proliferation and subsequent differentiation of neuronal progenitors, and is thus closely linked to the cell cycle machinery. Cell cycle progression is governed by the successive expression, activati...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Ansorg A,Witte OW,Urbach A

更新日期：2012-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myzus persicae is a globally important aphid pest with a history of developing resistance to insecticides. Unusually, neonicotinoids have remained highly effective as control agents despite nearly two decades of steadily increasing use. In this study, a clone of M. persicae collected from southern France was...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Bass C,Puinean AM,Andrews M,Cutler P,Daniels M,Elias J,Paul VL,Crossthwaite AJ,Denholm I,Field LM,Foster SP,Lind R,Williamson MS,Slater R

更新日期：2011-05-31 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

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:As development proceeds the human embryo attains an ever more complex three dimensional (3D) structure. Analyzing the gene expression patterns that underlie these changes and interpreting their significance depends on identifying the anatomical structures to which they map and following these patterns in dev...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Kerwin J,Scott M,Sharpe J,Puelles L,Robson SC,Martínez-de-la-Torre M,Ferran JL,Feng G,Baldock R,Strachan T,Davidson D,Lindsay S

更新日期：2004-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accumulating evidence suggests that glial signalling is activated by different brain functions. However, knowledge regarding molecular mechanisms of activation or their relation to neuronal activity is limited. The purpose of the present study is to identify the characteristics of ATP-evoked glial signalling...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Molnár T,Dobolyi A,Nyitrai G,Barabás P,Héja L,Emri Z,Palkovits M,Kardos J

更新日期：2011-10-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Early stages in the excitation cascade of Limulus photoreceptors are mediated by activation of Gq by rhodopsin, generation of inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate by phospholipase-C and the release of Ca2+. At the end of the cascade, cGMP-gated channels open and generate the depolarizing receptor potential. A major ...

journal_title：BMC neuroscience

authors： Garger AV,Richard EA,Lisman JE

更新日期：2004-02-26 00:00:00