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  1. Previous studies have demonstrated that electrical stimulation of the cerebellar fastigial nucleus (FNS) can considerably decrease infarction volume and improve neurofunction restoration following cerebral isc...

    Authors: Jinggui Gao, Xiaomin Pang, Lei Zhang, Shenghua Li, Zhenxiu Qin, Xiaoyun Xie and Jingli Liu
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:40
  2. Prognosticating the clinical outcome of neurological diseases is essential to guide treatment and facilitate decision-making. It usually depends on clinical and radiological findings. Biomarkers have been sugg...

    Authors: Tammam Abboud, Veit Rohde and Dorothee Mielke
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:38
  3. Hydrogen (H2) can protect against blood‒brain barrier (BBB) damage in sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE), but the mechanism is still unclear. We examined whether it is related to PPARα and its regulatory targ...

    Authors: Yuanyuan Bai, Wen Mi, Xiaoyin Meng, Beibei Dong, Yi Jiang, Yuechun Lu and Yonghao Yu
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:37
  4. Authors: Emmanuel C. Nwosu, Martha J. Holmes, Mark F. Cotton, Els Dobbels, Francesca Little, Barbara Laughton, Andre van der Kouwe, Frances Robertson and Ernesta M. Meintjes
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:36

    The original article was published in BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:15

  5. When it comes to studying neural plasticity and psychedelics, the numerous and diverse neuroscientific fields converging on the topic provide unique insight into a complex picture. This editorial will describe...

    Authors: Rachael Sumner and Kacper Lukasiewicz
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:35
  6. The cross-talk between T cells and astrocytes occurring under physiological and, even more, neuroinflammatory conditions may profoundly impact the generation of adaptive immune responses in the nervous tissue....

    Authors: Emanuela Colombo, Anthea De Angelis, Claudia Bassani, Francesca Ruffini, Linda Ottoboni, Livia Garzetti, Annamaria Finardi, Gianvito Martino, Roberto Furlan and Cinthia Farina
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:33
  7. The glycinergic system plays an important inhibitory role in the mouse central nervous system, where glycine controls the excitability of spinal itch- and pain-mediating neurons. Impairments of the glycine rec...

    Authors: Mikaela M. Ceder, Hannah M. Weman, Ebba Johansson, Katharina Henriksson, Kajsa A. Magnusson, Erika Roman and Malin C. Lagerström
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:32
  8. It is widely demonstrated that high frequency (HF) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has facilitative effects and is therefore capable to inducing changes in motor responses. One of the most ...

    Authors: Fiorenzo Moscatelli, Giusi Antonia Toto, Anna Valenzano, Giuseppe Cibelli, Vincenzo Monda, Pierpaolo Limone, Nicola Mancini, Antonietta Messina, Gabriella Marsala, Giovanni Messina and Rita Polito
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:30
  9. Despite large morphological differences between the nervous systems of lower animals and humans, striking functional similarities have been reported. However, little is known about how these functional similar...

    Authors: Jannes Freiberg, Lukas Lang, Christian Kaernbach and Julian Keil
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:29
  10. Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors affect cell homeostasis, gene expression, and cell cycle progression and promote cell terminal differentiation or apoptosis. However, the effect of HDAC inhibition on SH-S...

    Authors: Jiyun Choi, Jinsu Hwang, Mahesh Ramalingam, Han-Seong Jeong and Sujeong Jang
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:28
  11. Neonatal hyperoxic brain injury is caused by exposure to hyperphysiological oxygen content during the period of incomplete development of the oxidative stress defence system, resulting in a large number of rea...

    Authors: Menghan Yang, Yunchuan Shen, Shuai Zhao, Rong Zhang, Wenbin Dong and Xiaoping Lei
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:27
  12. It has been reported that age-associated cognitive decline (AACD) accelerated by maternal lipopolysaccharide (LPS) insult during late pregnancy can be transmitted to the second generation in a sex-specificity ...

    Authors: Bao-Ling Luo, Zhe-Zhe Zhang, Jing Chen, Xue Liu, Yue-Ming Zhang, Qi-Gang Yang and Gui-Hai Chen
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:26
  13. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been shown to have positive effects on exercise performance and cognitive function in the normal ambient condition. Hypoxia is deemed a stressful situation wi...

    Authors: Matin Etemadi, Ehsan Amiri, Vahid Tadibi, Sidney Grospretre, Vahid Valipour Dehnou and Daniel Gomes da Silva Machado
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:25
  14. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is increasingly used as a promising non-pharmacological treatment for Parkinson’s disease (PD). Scalp-to-cortex distance (SCD), as a key technical parameter of TMS, play...

    Authors: Hanna Lu, Jing Li, Li Zhang, Lin Meng, Yuping Ning and Tianzi Jiang
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:24
  15. Rodent social behavior is a commonly used preclinical model to interrogate the mechanisms underpinning various human neurological conditions. To investigate the interplay between neural systems and social beha...

    Authors: Bingbin Liu, Yuxuan Qian and Jianxin Wang
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:23
  16. In the cerebral cortex, disinhibited activity is characterized by propagating waves that spread across neural tissue. In this pathological state, a widely reported form of activity are spiral waves that travel...

    Authors: Megan Boucher-Routhier and Jean-Philippe Thivierge
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:22
  17. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a X-linked disease characterized by severe and progressive muscle weakness, alongside cognitive impairment and a range of neurobehavioral disorders secondary to brain dystrophin ...

    Authors: Abbe H. Crawford, Natasha L. Hornby, Alerie G. de la Fuente and Richard J. Piercy
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:21
  18. Vinpocetine (Vin) is known as a phosphodiesterase 1 inhibitor (PDE1-I) drug with multilateral effects, including antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity. In this research, we investigated the neuroprotectiv...

    Authors: Meysam Shekarian, Iraj Salehi, Safoura Raoufi, Masoumeh Asadbegi, Masoumeh Kourosh-Arami and Alireza Komaki
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:20
  19. Sexual differences in the biology of human stem cells are increasingly recognized to influence their proliferation, differentiation and maturation. Especially in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimers d...

    Authors: Tarek Niemann, Johannes F.W. Greiner, Christian Kaltschmidt and Barbara Kaltschmidt
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:19
  20. Although ataxia is associated with cerebellar dysfunction, little is known about the effects of 3-AP exposure on Purkinje cell electrophysiological properties. Here, we evaluated these parameters in cerebellar...

    Authors: Hoda Ranjbar, Monavareh Soti, Kristi A. Kohlmeier, Mahyar Janahmadi and Mohammad Shabani
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:18
  21. Microglial polarization and the subsequent neuroinflammatory response and oxidative stress are contributing factors for traumatic brain injury (TBI) plus hemorrhagic shock (HS) induced brain injury. In the pre...

    Authors: Jimin Cai, Yang Yang, Jiahui Han, Yu Gao, Xin Li and Xin Ge
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:17
  22. Life-long early ART (started before age 2 years), often with periods of treatment interruption, is now the standard of care in pediatric HIV infection. Although cross-sectional studies have investigated HIV-re...

    Authors: Emmanuel C. Nwosu, Martha J. Holmes, Mark F. Cotton, Els Dobbels, Francesca Little, Barbara Laughton, Andre van der Kouwe, Frances Robertson and Ernesta M. Meintjes
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:15

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:36

  23. Neuroinflammation plays a critical role in amyloid-β (Aβ) pathophysiology. The cytokine interleukin-17A (IL-17) is involved in the learning and memory process in the central nervous system, and its level was r...

    Authors: Yulan Liu, Yang Meng, Chenliang Zhou, Juanjuan Yan, Cuiping Guo and Weiguo Dong
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:14

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:45

  24. During non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM), alternating periods of synchronised high (ON period) and low (OFF period) neuronal activity are associated with high amplitude delta band (0.5–4 Hz) oscillations in ...

    Authors: Christian D. Harding, Mathilde C. C. Guillaumin, Lukas B. Krone, Martin C. Kahn, Cristina Blanco-Duque, Christian Mikutta and Vladyslav V. Vyazovskiy
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:13
  25. Trait anxiety refers to a stable tendency to experience fears and worries across many situations. High trait anxiety is a vulnerability factor for the development of psychopathologies. Self-reported trait anxi...

    Authors: Vivien Günther, Jonas Pecher, Carolin Webelhorst, Charlott Maria Bodenschatz, Simone Mucha, Anette Kersting, Karl-Titus Hoffmann, Boris Egloff, Donald Lobsien and Thomas Suslow
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:12
  26. Authors: Melanni Nanni-Zepeda, Sarah Alizadeh, Tara Chand, Vanessa Kasties, Yan Fan, Johan van der Meer, Luisa Herrmann, Johannes C. Vester, Myron Schulz, Britta Naschold and Martin Walter
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:11

    The original article was published in BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:68

  27. Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignant intracranial tumor with a low survival rate. However, only few drugs responsible for GBM therpies, hence new drug development for it is highly required. The natu...

    Authors: Jinlin Pan, Rongchuan Zhao, Caihua Dong, Jiao Yang, Ruobing Zhang, Minxuan Sun, Nafees Ahmad, Yuanshuai Zhou and Yanxiang Liu
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:10
  28. As a common complication in elderly patients after surgery/anesthesia, postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) is mainly characterized by memory, attention, motor, and intellectual retardation. Neuroinflamm...

    Authors: Junjie Zhou, Chao Zhang, Xu Fang, Naixin Zhang, Xiaoxi Zhang and Zhaoqiong Zhu
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:9

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:31

  29. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) can act as microRNA (miRNA) sponges, thus regulating gene expression. The role of circRNAs in the process of oxygen-glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/R) is unclear. Here, we explo...

    Authors: Lei Yang, Hong Du, Xuejing Zhang, Bulang Gao, Dongliang Zhang, Zongrong Qiao, Xianhui Su, Tong Bao and Siqin Han
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:8
  30. Ischemic stroke is a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Translation into the clinical setting of neuroprotective agents showing promising results in pre-clinical studies has systematically failed. ...

    Authors: Laura Ramiro, Júlia Faura, Alba Simats, Paula García-Rodríguez, Feifei Ma, Luna Martín, Francesc Canals, Anna Rosell and Joan Montaner
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:7
  31. Multispectral fluorescence imaging coupled with linear unmixing is a form of image data collection and analysis that allows for measuring multiple molecular signals in a single biological sample. Multiple fluo...

    Authors: Vijay Sadashivaiah, Madhavi Tippani, Stephanie C. Page, Sang Ho Kwon, Svitlana V. Bach, Rahul A. Bharadwaj, Thomas M. Hyde, Joel E. Kleinman, Andrew E. Jaffe and Kristen R. Maynard
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:6
  32. Autism spectrum condition or ‘autism’ is associated with numerous genetic risk factors including the polygenic 16p11.2 microdeletion. The balance between excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the cerebral cortex i...

    Authors: Yifei Yang, Sam A. Booker, James M. Clegg, Idoia Quintana-Urzainqui, Anna Sumera, Zrinko Kozic, Owen Dando, Sandra Martin Lorenzo, Yann Herault, Peter C. Kind, David J. Price and Thomas Pratt
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:5
  33. A historically definitive marker for cholinergic neurons is choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), a synthesizing enzyme for acetylcholine, (ACh), which can be found in high concentrations in cholinergic neurons, b...

    Authors: Rashmi Gamage, Laszlo Zaborszky, Gerald Münch and Erika Gyengesi
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:4
  34. The release of various neurotransmitters and thereby the excitability of neuronal circuits are regulated by the endocannabinoid system in an activity-dependent manner. Hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP) ...

    Authors: Masoumeh Nazari, Seyed Asaad Karimi, Somayeh Komaki, Masoumeh Kourosh Arami and Alireza Komaki
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:3
  35. The head-twitch response (HTR) in mice is considered a behavioral model for hallucinogens and serotonin 5-HT2A receptor function, as well as Tourette syndrome in humans. It is mediated by 5-HT2A receptor agonists...

    Authors: Yina Sun, Seetha Chebolu, Stone Skegrud, Setareh Kamali and Nissar A. Darmani
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2023 24:2
  36. Cataplexy is a loss of muscle tone that can lead to postural collapse, disturbing the daily life of narcolepsy patients; it is often triggered by positive emotions such as laughter in human patients. Narcoleps...

    Authors: Mayuko Yoshida, Koki Yamamoto and Tomoyuki Kuwaki
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:82
  37. Hearing loss is a major health problem and psychological burden in humans. Mouse models offer a possibility to elucidate genes involved in the underlying developmental and pathophysiological mechanisms of hear...

    Authors: Dominik Thalmeier, Gregor Miller, Elida Schneltzer, Anja Hurt, Martin Hrabě deAngelis, Lore Becker, Christian L. Müller and Holger Maier
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:81
  38. In the treatment of ischemic cerebral stroke (ICS), most conventional treatments, including carotid endarterectomy and carotid artery stenting, may cause cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury (CIRI). For treate...

    Authors: Lu Yin, Tengfei Yu, Linggang Cheng, Xinyao Liu, Wei Zhang, Hongxia Zhang, Lijuan Du and Wen He
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:80
  39. Infant emotional stimuli can preferentially engage adults’ attention and provide valuable information essential for successful interaction between adults and infants. Exploring the neural processes of recogniz...

    Authors: Kaihua Zhang, Xiaoyu Du, Xianling Liu, Wei Su, Zhenhua Sun, Mengxing Wang and Xiaoxia Du
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:79
  40. Electromagnetic induction has recently been considered as an important factor affecting the activity of neurons. However, as an important form of intervention in epilepsy treatment, few people have linked the ...

    Authors: Yuqin Sun, Yuting Chen, Hudong Zhang and Yuan Chai
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:78
  41. Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency (SSADH-D) is an autosomal recessive gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) metabolism disorder that can arise due to ALDH5A1 mutations, resulting in severe, progressive, unt...

    Authors: Xiaodan Chen, Minzhi Peng, Yanna Cai, Chengcheng Zhou and Li Liu
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:77
  42. Intraluminal monofilament model of middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) is widely adopted for ischemic stroke; and Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats are commonly used rodents for preclinical research. Due to the pau...

    Authors: I. J. Biose, W. H. Chastain, H. Wang, B. Ouvrier and G. J. Bix
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:75
  43. Sodium formononetin-3ʹ-sulphonate (Sul-F) may alleviate I/R injury in vivo with uncertain mechanism. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-mediated apoptosis participates in the process of cerebral ischemia‐reperf...

    Authors: Yue Bai, Zhiwei He, Weisong Duan, He Gu, Kefeng Wu, Wei Yuan, Wenkang Liu, Huaipeng Huang and Yanan Li
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:74
  44. In the military, constant physiological and psychological stress encountered by Soldiers can lead to development of the combat and operational stress reaction (COSR), which can effect pain management. Similar ...

    Authors: Misty M. Strain, Sirima Tongkhuya, Nathan Wienandt, Farah Alsadoon, Roger Chavez, Jamar Daniels, Thomas Garza, Alex V. Trevino, Kenney Wells, Thomas Stark, John Clifford and Natasha M. Sosanya
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:73
  45. To explore the feasibility of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) metrics to predict the histologic subtypes and genetic status of gliomas (e.g., IDH, MGMT, and TERT) noninvasively.

    Authors: Sirui Liu, Yiwei Zhang, Ziren Kong, Chendan Jiang, Yu Wang, Dachun Zhao, Hui You, Wenbin Ma and Feng Feng
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2022 23:72

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