abstract：:Resveratrol shows ability to eliminate prion replication, but the exact mechanism for prion eradication was not clear yet. Our previous studies demonstrate a downregulation of brain-derived nerve growth factor (BDNF) during prion infection, meanwhile recovery of cerebral nerve growth factor (NGF) level by resveratrol ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Hu C,Chen C,Chen J,Xiao K,Wang J,Shi Q,Ma Y,Gao LP,Wu YZ,Liu L,Xia Y,Yan P,Maimaitiming A,Zhou DH,Zhang LN,Chen ZB,Dong XP

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a method of monitoring brain oxygenation. This technique investigates hemodynamic changes in the cerebral cortex. fNIRS is widely used in clinical and scientific research. In this review, we focus on the applications of fNIRS on neonates. Here, applications form two dis...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Peng C,Hou X

更新日期：2020-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cell-based therapy has recently offered a promising alternative for the remedy of neurodegenerative disorders like Huntington's disease (HD). Herein, we investigated the potential ameliorative effects of implantation of dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) in 3-nitropropionic acid (3-NP) rat models of HD. In this regar...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Eskandari N,Boroujeni ME,Abdollahifar MA,Piryaei A,Khodagholi F,Mirbehbahani SH,Siroosi S,Moghaddam MH,Aliaghaei A,Sadeghi Y

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent rapid progress in genome analysis and large-scale consortia has made it possible to discover variants with a variety of allele frequencies and effect sizes associated with psychiatric disorders. Among psychiatric disorder-susceptibility variants, rare variants with large effect sizes detected by sequencing anal...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kimura H,Mori D,Aleksic B,Ozaki N

更新日期：2020-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nandrolone is the most popular compound that are mainly abused. Experimental studies have reported that administration of nandrolone affects cognitive performance. So, the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of nandrolone on spatial localization and synaptic plasticity of male adolescent rats. Experimantal gro...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Salimi Z,Khajehpour L,Moradpour F,Moazedi AA,Pourmotabbed A,Zarei F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We suggest a time-varying partial correlation as a statistical measure of dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) in the human brain. Traditional statistical models often assume specific distributions on the measured data such as the Gaussian distribution, which prohibits their application to neuroimaging data analysis....

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Lee N,Kim JM

更新日期：2020-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The adult human brain appears to have specialized and independent neural systems for the visual processing of faces and words: greater selectivity for faces in the right hemisphere (RH) while greater selectivity for words in the left hemisphere (LH). Nevertheless, the nature of functional differences between the hemis...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Inamizu S,Yamada E,Ogata K,Uehara T,Kira JI,Tobimatsu S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) generally induces hyperpolarization and inhibition in the adult brain, but causes depolarization (and can be excitatory) in the immature brain. Depolarizing GABA actions are necessary for neurogenesis, differentiation, migration, and synaptogenesis. Additionally, the conversion of GABA respo...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Fukuda A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural activity on cellular, regional, and behavioral levels shows context-dependence. Here we suggest the processing of input-output relationships in terms divisive normalization (DN), including (i) summing/averaging inputs and (ii) normalizing output against input stages, as a computational mechanism to underlie con...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Northoff G,Mushiake H

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using high resolution spectral methods to uncover neuromarkers of social, cognitive and behavioral function, we have found that hemi-lateralized pairs of oscillations such as left and right occipital alpha or left and right rolandic mu dissociate spectrally. That is, they show a shifted frequency distribution, with on...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tognoli E,Kelso JAS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynamic binding of different brain areas is critical for various cognitive functions. The thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) is a GABAergic nucleus that constrains information flow through thalamocortical loop by providing inhibitory innervation to the thalamus. In this review, I summarize anatomical and single-cell-lev...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Takata N

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective connectivity analysis has been widely applied to noninvasive recordings such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and electroencephalograms (EEGs). Previous studies have aimed to extract the causal relations between brain regions, but the validity of the derived connectivity has not yet been fully determ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ye S,Kitajo K,Kitano K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we describe recent experimental observations and model simulations in the research subject of brain-machine interface (BMI). Studies of BMIs have applied decoding models to extract functional characteristics of the recorded neurons, and some of these have more focused on adaptation based on neural oper...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ito H,Fujiki S,Mori Y,Kansaku K

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this communication, I first summarize the mechanisms underlying human voluntary movements and define the involuntary movements (medical term). CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN MOVEMENTS:Human movements are classified into two main kinds: intentional movements and non-intentional movements in which the involuntary movements...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ugawa Y

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eugenol modulates neuronal activity through actions on voltage-gated ionic channels and/or transient receptor potential channels. We previously suggested that eugenol inhibited cellular (and/or network) mechanisms essential for the maintenance of the respiratory burst activity in a brainstem-spinal cord preparation fr...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kotani S,Yazawa I,Onimaru H,Izumizaki M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge remains limited about how chronic cathinone exposure impacts dopamine systems in brain reward circuits. In the present study, a binge-like MDPV exposure that impaired novel object recognition (NOR) dysregulated dopamine markers in mesocorticolimbic substrates of rats, with especially profound effects on D1 a...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Bernstein DL,Nayak SU,Oliver CF,Rawls SM,Rom S

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unprovoked seizures in the late period of traumatic brain injury (TBI) occur in almost 20% of humans and experimental animals, psychiatric comorbidities being common in both situations. The aim of the study was to evaluate epileptiform activity in the early period of TBI induced by lateral fluid percussion brain injur...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Komoltsev IG,Frankevich SO,Shirobokova NI,Volkova AA,Levshina IP,Novikova MR,Manolova AO,Gulyaeva NV

更新日期：2020-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is a very complex chronic pain state, the detailed molecular mechanisms of which remain unclear. In the present study, Shank3 was found to play an important role in neuropathic pain in rats following spared nerve injury (SNI). Shank3 was upregulated in the spinal dorsal horn of rats subjected to SNI, ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Zhang X,Li X,Wang H,Xie X,Li Y,Xu X,Su S,Zhao H,Li J,Ke C,Liu J

更新日期：2020-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which could improve learning and memory, is widely used in psychiatry and neurology as a therapeutic approach. There are few studies reporting effective countermeasures to cognition decline in astronauts during space flight. Accordingly, we examined whether rTMS was...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Zhai B,Fu J,Xiang S,Shang Y,Yan Y,Yin T,Zhang T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most imaging studies of the enteric nervous system (ENS) that regulates the function of the gastrointestinal tract are so far performed using preparations isolated from animals, thus hindering the understanding of the ENS function in vivo. Here we report a method for imaging the ENS cellular network activity in living...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Motegi Y,Sato M,Horiguchi K,Ohkura M,Gengyo-Ando K,Ikegaya Y,Fusamae Y,Hongo Y,Suzuki M,Ogawa K,Takaki M,Nakai J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural and molecular mechanisms underlying food preference have been poorly understood. We previously showed that Bifidobacterium infantis (B. infantis), a well-known probiotic bacterium, extends the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) compared with a standard food, Escherichia coli (E. coli) OP50. In ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Sun S,Ohta A,Kuhara A,Nishikawa Y,Kage-Nakadai E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subiculum is one of output structures of the hippocampal formation and plays a pivotal role in learning and memory. Because its morphological features are less investigated than those of the hippocampus proper, we explored the internal structure of the rat subiculum using immunohistochemistry. The septal subiculum...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ishihara Y,Fukuda T,Sato F

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the amygdala's role in survival mechanisms, and its pivotal contributions to psychological processes, it is no surprise that it is one of the most well-studied brain regions. One of the common methods for understanding the functional role of the amygdala is the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Murphy JE,Yanes JA,Kirby LAJ,Reid MA,Robinson JL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral blood flow (CBF) is essential for neuronal metabolic functions. CBF is partly regulated by cholinergic projections from the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) during cortical processing of sensory information. During pain-related processing, however, this mechanism may be altered by large fluctuations in system...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Paquette T,Tokunaga R,Touj S,Leblond H,Piché M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term depression at parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses plays a principal role in learning in the cerebellum, which acts as a supervised learning machine. Recent experiments demonstrate various forms of synaptic plasticity at different sites within the cerebellum. In this article, we take into consideration syna...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yamazaki T,Lennon W

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The critical flicker-fusion frequency (CFF), defined as the frequency at which a flickering light is indistinguishable from a continuous light, is a useful measure of visual temporal resolution. The mouse CFF has been studied by electrophysiological approaches such as recordings of the electroretinogram (ERG) and the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Nomura Y,Ikuta S,Yokota S,Mita J,Oikawa M,Matsushima H,Amano A,Shimonomura K,Seya Y,Koike C

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased levels of proinflammatory cytokines have been implicated in schizophrenia; however, their pathophysiological roles in abnormal brain dysfunctions remain unclear. We evaluated the effect of proinflammatory cytokines on a high-fat diet (HFD)-induced prepulse inhibition (PPI) deficits in the acoustic startle re...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Wakabayashi C,Kunugi H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radioprotective effect of herb epimedium (or yin yang huo) extract (5 g/kg, oral administration daily for 4 weeks) on neurogenesis and cognition after acute radiation exposure with 5.5 Gy was evaluated in Balb/c mice by behavioral tests and immunohistochemical study. The results indicated that epimedium extract co...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Wang SW,Ren BX,Qian F,Luo XZ,Tang X,Peng XC,Huang JR,Tang FR

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation could enhance nerve regeneration and functional recovery. The objective of this study was to evaluate the regenerative effects of implanted electrodes with different contacts in resected sciatic nerve. Sciatic nerve resection and microsurgical repair models were established and randomly divided ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yu AP,Shen YJ,Qiu YQ,Li J,Shen YD,Wang XM,Cong M,He QR,Chen QZ,Jiang S

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines related neuroinflammation and N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) mediated nociceptive transmission are pivotal determinants in the pathogenesis of opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH), but little is known about specific mechanism and treatment. Chemokine CXCL12 with its receptor CXCR4 is implicated in diffe...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Li T,Wang H,Wang J,Chen Y,Yang C,Zhao M,Wang G,Yang Z

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult neurogenesis is a process of generating new neurons from neural stem/precursor cells (NS/PCs) in restricted adult brain regions throughout life. It is now generally known that adult neurogenesis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) and subventricular zone participates in various higher brain functions, such as ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Murao N,Matsubara S,Matsuda T,Noguchi H,Mutoh T,Mutoh M,Koseki H,Namihira M,Nakashima K

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal circuits are intensively shaped depending on experiences received during developmental critical periods. How neuronal circuits are sculpted can even affect the later development of higher cognitive functions, such as vocal communication skills. Here, we propose songbirds that learn to sing from early auditory...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yazaki-Sugiyama Y

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During brain development, neural stem cells change their competency to give sequential rise to neurons and glial cells. Expression of the basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH)-type cell-fate determination factors Ascl1, Olig2, and Hes1 is oscillatory in neural stem cells. Conversely, sustained expression of these factors medi...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Kageyama R,Shimojo H,Ohtsuka T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the efficacy of mifepristone on weight restoration in rats subjected to dietary restriction and methylphenidate administration. 25 female rats aged between 9 and 12 months were divided into 2 groups: 5 controls (exposed only to dietary restriction) and 20 rats that were administered 5 mg/kg/d of m...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Bou Khalil R,Smayra V,Saliba Y,Hajal J,Bakhos JJ,Souaiby L,Richa S,Tamraz J,Farès N

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor imagery (MI) is a mental practice that reproduces the visual- and/or kinesthetic-modality brain activations accompanying movement. It is a useful rehabilitation technique as the affected motor cortex can be stimulated in patients with stroke and hemiplegia. However, most patients with stroke have difficulty with...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Tani M,Ono Y,Matsubara M,Ohmatsu S,Yukawa Y,Kohno M,Tominaga T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a multifactorial neurological disorder caused by selective dopaminergic neuronal loss. Quercetin (QC) in combination with piperine (bioenhancer) acts as potential antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective against 6-OHDA rat model of PD. Rats were injected 6-OHDA (8μg/2μl, saline) u...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Singh S,Kumar P

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cat perigeniculate nucleus (PGN) is a visual sector of the thalamic reticular nucleus that consists of GABAergic neurons. It receives excitatory axon-collateral input from relay neurons of the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) to which it provides inhibitory input. Thus, it is usually argued that the PGN wor...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Osaki H,Naito T,Soma S,Sato H

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental refinement of neuronal connectivity is crucial for proper brain function. In the early phase of development, input fibers arrive at their target areas guided by specific molecular cues and form abundant immature synapses. Then, functionally important synapses are preserved and strengthened by neural acti...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Narushima M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost all organisms on Earth have an internal biological clock, known as the circadian clock. This clock system drives robust oscillations in metabolism, physiology, and behavior, such as hormone secretions, blood pressure, and sleep/wake cycles, with a period of approximately 24h. In mammals, circadian rhythms are g...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Yamaguchi Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal development is composed of the complex steps which involve many signaling proteins. On the other hand, there are many proteins highly expressed in the differentiated neurons at developmental stages, but of which physiological functions are not precisely known so far. Glycoprotein 6a (GPM6a) currently belongs ...

journal_title：Neuroscience research

authors： Ito Y,Honda A,Igarashi M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00