abstract：:Development of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) is a pathological hallmark in various neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recently, we identified a granular tau oligomer having a pre-filamentous structure. To determine the role of this oligomer in NFT formation, we quantified the amount of gr...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Maeda S,Sahara N,Saito Y,Murayama S,Ikai A,Takashima A

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise appears to improve hippocampal plasticity and cognitive function, leading us to postulate that exercise may activate hippocampal neurons, which in turn increase hippocampal cerebral blood flow (Hip-CBF). Recent studies using laser-Doppler flowmetry (LDF) have shown that Hip-CBF increases with behavior and loc...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nishijima T,Soya H

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole-cell recordings were performed to examine the morphological properties of electrophysiologically classified area postrema (AP) neurons in rat brain slices. Using electrophysiological criteria, AP neurons were subdivided into three groups: (1) cells displaying both the hyperpolarization-activated cation current (...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Funahashi M,Mitoh Y,Akaike T,Matsuo R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients tend to have increased plasma levels of homocysteine. However, it is unclear whether abnormality in homocysteine levels is a primary cause of Alzheimer's disease or a disease marker. In order to investigate the relative impact of Alzheimer's disease on plasma homocysteine levels, tota...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Santiard-Baron D,Aupetit J,Janel N

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) and an electron microscope, we investigated the organization of the main olfactory bulb (MOB) of tenrecs, which were previously included into insectivores but now considered to be in a new order "Afrosoricida" in the superclade 'Afrotheria'. We confirmed that the overa...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kosaka K,Künzle H,Kosaka T

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inheritable neurodegenerative disorder currently without effective treatment. It is caused by an expanded polyglutamine (poly Q) tract in the corresponding protein, huntingtin (htt), and therefore suppressing the huntingtin expression in brain neurons is expected to d...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Wang YL,Liu W,Wada E,Murata M,Wada K,Kanazawa I

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus communicates with the neocortex via the entorhinal cortex and is thought to be critically involved in the consolidation of memories. This paper contains in vivo evidence of a projection from the hippocampal area CA1 to the entorhinal cortex. Current theories of memory formation suggest that the backpro...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Craig S,Commins S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Mannosidosis is a lysosomal storage disease resulting from a deficiency of the enzyme alpha-D-mannosidase. A major feature of alpha-mannosidosis is progressive neurological decline, for which there is no safe and effective treatment available. We have a guinea pig model of alpha-mannosidosis that models the huma...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Robinson AJ,Meedeniya AC,Hemsley KM,Auclair D,Crawley AC,Hopwood JJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was to aim at investigating the potential interaction for the serotonin receptor gene (5-HTR) 2A and serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) polymorphisms in the development of schizophrenia, as well as the interaction of the two polymorphisms in relation with symptomatology, family history, age of onset and ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Pae CU,Artioli P,Serretti A,Kim TS,Kim JJ,Lee CU,Lee SJ,Lee C,Paik IH

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the role mesostriatal dopamine system plays in pain processing, we examined the withdrawal response of rat hindpaws to mechanical stimulus at 1, 4, and 12 weeks after unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) lesions of the mesostriatal pathway. In all of the 6-OHDA rats examined, almost no tyrosine hydroxy...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Takeda R,Ikeda T,Tsuda F,Abe H,Hashiguchi H,Ishida Y,Nishimori T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the distribution and colocalization pattern of the two corticosteroid receptors, mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) and glucocorticoid receptor (GR), in the hippocampus and hypothalamus, the main target regions of corticosterone in the rat brain, using double immunofluorescence histochemistry in conjuncti...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Han F,Ozawa H,Matsuda K,Nishi M,Kawata M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing slice preparations of GAD67-GFP knock-in mouse, in which GABAergic neurons are specifically labeled with GFP fluorescence, we studied electrophysiological characteristics of GABAergic neurons of IC by whole-cell patch clamp-recording combined with biocytin-intracellular-staining techniques. GABAergic neurons...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ono M,Yanagawa Y,Koyano K

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contradictory data on behavioral changes in MPTP-treated C57BL/6 mice have been reported, even though the toxin-treated mice have been widely used for non-clinical studies as an in vivo model of Parkinson's disease (PD). We found that the duration of immobility in the tail suspension test (TST) was significantly incre...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Mori A,Ohashi S,Nakai M,Moriizumi T,Mitsumoto Y

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium ion (MPP(+)), an inhibitor of mitochondrial complex I, has been widely used as a neurotoxin because it elicits a severe Parkinson's disease-like syndrome with elevation of intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) level and apoptotic death. Salvianic acid A (SA), isolated from the Chinese...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Wang XJ,Xu JX

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed to determine whether the voltage gated Cl- channel (CLC) expression is altered in the hippocampus of seizure sensitive (SS) gerbils, and to identify the strong fast paired-pulse inhibition in the dentate gyrus of SS gerbils is associated with altered CLC expression. In the hippocampal p...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kim DS,Yoo KY,Hwang IK,Jung JY,Won MH,Choi SY,Kwon OS,Seo JH,Kang TC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-pulse TMS to the human motor cortex (M1) influences reaction time (RT). We may summarize from previous studies where different groups of subjects participated in various types of RT tasks that TMS above motor threshold (MT) delays RT, whereas TMS below MT shortens RT and that these RT changes depends on TMS t...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Hashimoto T,Inaba D,Matsumura M,Naito E

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we measured cardiovascular and respiratory reflexes evoked by administration of bradykinin and capsaicin into the hindlimb vasculature of anaesthetised rats, whilst simultaneously recording activity of sensory afferents on the adventitial surface of femoral arteries and veins. Bradykinin (0.9 nmol...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Smith PJ,McQueen DS

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the representation of facial skin areas in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI), we recorded magnetic fields evoked by air pressure-induced tactile stimulation applied to six points on the face, lower lip and thumb. The thumb area in the SI was located more medial and superior to the lip area, which wa...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nguyen BT,Tran TD,Hoshiyama M,Inui K,Kakigi R

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal stress, viral infection, and obstetric complications, which trigger cytokine signaling, are hypothesized to be involved in schizophrenia and its related disorders. The etiologic contribution of individual cytokines to such psychiatric disorders, however, remains to be evaluated. To estimate the impact of peri...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tohmi M,Tsuda N,Watanabe Y,Kakita A,Nawa H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been indicated that Pyk2/Src signaling pathway is involved in modulation of N-methyl-D-aspartate-type (NMDA) glutamate receptor activity. Lithium protects against glutamate-induced excitotoxicity in cultured neurons and in animal models of diseases. The neuroprotection against excitotoxicity afforded by lithium...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ma J,Zhang GY,Liu Y,Yan JZ,Hao ZB

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the patterns of membrane potential changes in vocal cord tensor motoneurons, i.e. cricothyroid muscle motoneurons (CTMs), during fictive breathing, vocalization, coughing, and swallowing in decerebrate paralyzed cats to determine the nature of central drives to CTMs during these behaviors. CTMs were identif...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Numasawa T,Shiba K,Nakazawa K,Umezaki T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate temporal characteristics of oscillatory neural activity and the effect of chronic dopamine depletion on it, local field potentials were measured in anesthetized rats without or with a 6-OHDA lesion at either the ventral tegmental area or the substantia nigra compacta, using a pair of electrodes...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Lee KM,Ahn TB,Jeon BS,Kim DG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injury to the central nervous system causes glial reactions, which eventually lead to the formation of a glial scar and inhibit axonal regeneration. The present study aimed to reduce the extent of glial scar formation in injured cerebral cortex using heparin hexasaccharide (6-mer) and octasaccharide (8-mer). A single ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Hayashi N,Miyata S,Kariya Y,Takano R,Hara S,Kamei K

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We newly developed an infrared video-oculographic system for on-line tracking of the eye position in awake and head-fixed mice, with high temporal resolution (240 Hz). The system consists of a commercially available high-speed CCD camera and an image processing software written in LabVIEW run on IBM-PC with a plug-in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sakatani T,Isa T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using median nerve injury and immunocytochemical methods, we examined the temporal changes in neuropeptide Y (NPY) expression in the cuneate nucleus (CN) in rats following median nerve transection. Under normal circumstances, neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive (NPY-IR) fibers was not detectable in the CN. A few NPY-IR fibe...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tsai YJ,Leong SM,Day AS,Wen CY,Shieh JY,Lue JH

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are a family of peptides originally identified as the factors regulating the migration of leukocytes in inflammatory and immune responses. Recently, they have been shown to be produced in the central and peripheral nervous systems under various pathological conditions and act on neuronal and glial cells. In...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tanaka T,Minami M,Nakagawa T,Satoh M

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of intrinsic balance control factors to fall mechanisms has received little investigation in studies on occupational accidents. The aim of this study was to assess whether postural regulation in falling workers might have specificities in terms of sensorimotor strategies and neuromuscular responses to...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Vouriot A,Gauchard GC,Chau N,Benamghar L,Lepori ML,Mur JM,Perrin PP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines have been implicated in the etiology or pathology of various psychiatric diseases of developmental origin such as autism and schizophrenia. Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is induced by a variety of brain insults and known to have many influences on mature and immature nervous system. Here, we assessed the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Watanabe Y,Hashimoto S,Kakita A,Takahashi H,Ko J,Mizuno M,Someya T,Patterson PH,Nawa H

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the inferior temporal (IT) cortex respond not only to the shape, color or texture of objects, but to the horizontal positional disparity of visual features in the right and left retinal images. IT neurons with similar shape selectivity cluster in columns. In this study, we examined how IT neurons are spatia...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yoshiyama K,Uka T,Tanaka H,Fujita I

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, little was known about the rostral part of the dorsal premotor cortex (PMdr). In the present study, somatotopical representations of the PMdr were electrophysiologically identified in the macaque monkey, and the distribution of corticostriatal input from the forelimb region of the PMdr was analyzed in ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tachibana Y,Nambu A,Hatanaka N,Miyachi S,Takada M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Axonal transport is the specialized and well-developed intracellular transport system for regulated and/or long-distance transport based on generalized cellular machineries. Among them, slow axonal transport conveys cytoplasmic proteins. The motor molecule, the nature of transporting complex and the transport regulati...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Terada S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have generated a transgenic mouse model in which astrocytes express an enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) under the control of the mouse glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) promoter. EGFP, which is characteristically found throughout the cell, was expressed in these animals even in astrocytic fine process...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Suzuki R,Watanabe J,Arata S,Funahashi H,Kikuyama S,Shioda S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) function as muscular nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) antagonists, several studies have shown that they block neuronal nAChRs as well, which led us to hypothesize that these agents can affect neuronal nAChRs expressed in respiratory centers. To test this hypothesi...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sakuraba S,Kuwana S,Ochiai R,Okada Y,Kashiwagi M,Hatori E,Takeda J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol's actions in brain have been suggested to be partially mediated by a mechanism involving the ethanol-induced activation of the endogenous opioid system. Opioid systems, which are closely linked with dopamine transmission, are thought to be affected by ethanol through alterations in the processing, release, and...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Méndez M,Leriche M,Carlos Calva J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of arachidonic acid by cyclooxygenase is one of the primary sources of reactive oxygen species in the ischemic brain. Neuronal overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 has recently been shown to contribute to neurodegeneration following ischemic injury. In the present study, we examined the possibility that the n...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Candelario-Jalil E,Alvarez D,Merino N,León OS

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immuno-electron microscopy specifically enhanced with silver staining has been used to demonstrate the localization of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in the ependymocytes of the hamster subcommissural organ (SCO). Hamster SCO consists of the ependymal and hypendymal cell layers, the latter being arranged as ro...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tsai MH,Wu CH,Chen WP,Shieh JY,Wen CY

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) and its animal model, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), are inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) characterized by localized areas of demyelination. MS is believed to be an autoimmune disorder mediated by activated immune cells such as T- and B-lymphocytes and...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Hisahara S,Okano H,Miura M

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate recovery function of and effects of hyperventilation (HV) on high-frequency oscillations (HFOs) of median nerve somatosensory evoked potential (SEP), we recorded SEPs in 8 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with enlarged HFOs, 4 myoclonus epilepsy (ME) patients and 10 healthy volunteers (N). SEP was recorde...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Mochizuki H,Machii K,Terao Y,Furubayashi T,Hanajima R,Enomoto H,Uesugi H,Shiio Y,Kamakura K,Kanazawa I,Ugawa Y

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrastriatal hemorrhage in rats causes neurodegenaration of the substantia nigra (SN) followed by the appearance of ED1(+) cells (macrophage/microglia). ED1(+) cells were observed for at least 8 weeks after hemorrhage. Phosphorylation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) was shown in ED1(+) cells with the e...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Imamura N,Hida H,Aihara N,Ishida K,Kanda Y,Nishino H,Yamada K

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a new method to visualize the myeloarchitecture in fresh slices, and investigated the properties of the functional neural connections around the boundary between the primary auditory cortex (area 41) and area 18a in rat cerebral slices. A fresh slice illuminated by near-vertical light was observed with a ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Hishida R,Hoshino K,Kudoh M,Norita M,Shibuki K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00