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  1. Sign-language comprehension activates the auditory cortex in deaf subjects. It is not known whether this functional plasticity in the temporal cortex is age dependent. We conducted functional magnetic-resonanc...

    Authors: Norihiro Sadato, Hiroki Yamada, Tomohisa Okada, Masaki Yoshida, Takehiro Hasegawa, Ken-Ichi Matsuki, Yoshiharu Yonekura and Harumi Itoh
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:56
  2. The neuroprotective effect of xenon has been demonstrated for glutamatergic neurons. In the present study it is investigated if dopaminergic neurons, i.e. nerve-growth-factor differentiated PC-12 cells, are pr...

    Authors: Christian Petzelt, Per Blom, Wolfgang Schmehl, Jana Müller and Wolfgang J Kox
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:55
  3. Leptin and insulin are long-term regulators of body weight. They act in hypothalamic centres to modulate the function of specific neuronal subtypes, by altering transcriptional control of releasable peptides a...

    Authors: Shirin Mirshamsi, Hilary A Laidlaw, Ke Ning, Erin Anderson, Laura A Burgess, Alexander Gray, Calum Sutherland and Michael LJ Ashford
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:54
  4. GABAergic inhibition and effects of intracellular chloride ions on calcium channel activity have been proposed to regulate neurotransmission from photoreceptors. To assess the impact of these and other chlorid...

    Authors: Wallace B Thoreson and Eric J Bryson
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:53
  5. Ischemia within the optic nerve head (ONH) may contribute to retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss in primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). Ischemia has been reported to increase neurotrophin and high affinity Trk re...

    Authors: Wendi S Lambert, Abbot F Clark and Robert J Wordinger
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:51
  6. Chronic food restriction augments the rewarding effect of centrally administered psychostimulant drugs and this effect may involve a previously documented upregulation of D-1 dopamine receptor-mediated MAP kin...

    Authors: Yan Pan, Yemiliya Berman and Kenneth D Carr
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:50
  7. There is great interest in appropriate phenotypes that serve as indicator of genetically transmitted frontal (dys)function, such as ADHD. Here we investigate the ability to deal with response conflict, and we ...

    Authors: John F Stins, G Caroline M van Baal, Tinca JC Polderman, Frank C Verhulst and Dorret I Boomsma
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:49
  8. Behavior results from the integration of ongoing sensory signals and contextual information in various forms, such as past experience, expectations, current goals, etc. Thus, the response to a specific stimulu...

    Authors: Emilio Salinas
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:47
  9. During the preovulatory surge of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), a very large amount of the peptide is released in the hypothalamo-hypophyseal portal blood for 24-36H00. To study whether this release is...

    Authors: Martine Batailler, Alain Caraty, Benoît Malpaux and Yves Tillet
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:46
  10. Human faces provide important signals in social interactions by inferring two main types of information, individual identity and emotional expression. The ability to readily assess both, the variability and co...

    Authors: Jan Gläscher, Oliver Tüscher, Cornelius Weiller and Christian Büchel
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:45
  11. Knowledge of how synapses alter their efficiency of communication is central to the understanding of learning and memory. The most extensively studied forms of synaptic plasticity are long-term potentiation (L...

    Authors: Andreas Lüthi, Martin A Wikström, Mary J Palmer, Paul Matthews, Tim A Benke, John TR Isaac and Graham L Collingridge
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:44
  12. Topographic reorganization of central maps following peripheral nerve injury has been well characterized. Despite extensive documentation of these physiological changes, the underlying anatomical correlates ha...

    Authors: James D Churchill, Jason A Tharp, Cara L Wellman, Dale R Sengelaub and Preston E Garraghty
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:43
  13. Consciousness poses two main problems. The first is understanding the conditions that determine to what extent a system has conscious experience. For instance, why is our consciousness generated by certain par...

    Authors: Giulio Tononi
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:42
  14. In order to optimize the potential benefits of neural stem cell (NSC) transplantation for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders, it is necessary to understand their biological characteristics. Although ...

    Authors: Lennard P Niles, Kristen J Armstrong, Lyda M Rincón Castro, Chung V Dao, Rohita Sharma, Catherine R McMillan, Laurie C Doering and David L Kirkham
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:41
  15. How does the brain convert sounds and phonemes into comprehensible speech? In the present magnetoencephalographic study we examined the hypothesis that the coherence of electromagnetic oscillatory activity wit...

    Authors: Markus Härle, Brigitte S Rockstroh, Andreas Keil, Christian Wienbruch and Thomas R Elbert
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:40
  16. Tasks involving conflict are widely used to study executive attention. In the flanker task, a target stimulus is surrounded by distracting information that can be congruent or incongruent with the correct resp...

    Authors: M Rosario Rueda, Michael I Posner, Mary K Rothbart and Clintin P Davis-Stober
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:39
  17. While it is well known that bradykinin B2 agonists increase plasma protein extravasation (PPE) in brain tumors, the bradykinin B1 agonists tested thus far are unable to produce this effect. Here we examine the...

    Authors: Ronie Cleverson Cardoso, Bruno Lobão-Soares, Marino Muxfeldt Bianchin, Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Jr, Roger Walz, Márcio Alvarez-Silva, Andréa Gonçalves Trentin and Mauro Nicolau
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:38
  18. Microvascular alterations contribute to the development of stroke and vascular dementia. The goal of this study was to evaluate age and hypertension related changes of the basal lamina in cerebral microvessels...

    Authors: Olga Uspenskaia, Martin Liebetrau, Jochen Herms, Adrian Danek and Gerhard F Hamann
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:37
  19. The mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) have been shown to participate in a wide array of cellular functions. A role for some MAPKs (e.g., extracellular signal-regulated kinase, Erk1/2) has been document...

    Authors: Chang-peng Shen, Yelena Tsimberg, Christopher Salvadore and Emanuel Meller
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:36
  20. 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 infl...

    Authors: Frédéric Andersson, Olivier Etard, Pierre Denise and Laurent Petit
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:35
  21. Hemin, the oxidized form of heme, accumulates in intracranial hematomas and is a potent oxidant. Growing evidence suggests that it contributes to delayed injury to surrounding tissue, and that this process is ...

    Authors: Raymond F Regan, Jing Chen and Luna Benvenisti-Zarom
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:34
  22. Spontaneous repair is limited after CNS injury or degeneration because neurogenesis and axonal regrowth rarely occur in the adult brain. As a result, cell transplantation has raised much interest as potential ...

    Authors: Sabine Wislet-Gendebien, Françoise Bruyère, Grégory Hans, Pierre Leprince, Gustave Moonen and Bernard Rogister
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:33
  23. In rat, deafferentation of one labyrinth (unilateral labyrinthectomy) results in a characteristic syndrome of ocular and motor postural disorders (e.g., barrel rotation, circling behavior, and spontaneous nyst...

    Authors: Adrian F Lozada, Antti A Aarnisalo, Kaj Karlstedt, Holger Stark and Pertti Panula
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:32
  24. The inferior colliculus, which receives almost all ascending and descending auditory signals, plays a crucial role in the processing of auditory information. While the majority of the recorded activities in th...

    Authors: Walaiporn Tongjaroenbungam, Nopporn Jongkamonwiwat, Joanna Cunningham, Pansiri Phansuwan-Pujito, Hilary C Dodson, Andrew Forge, Piyarat Govitrapong and Stefano O Casalotti
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:31
  25. We examine results of gain-of-function experiments on retinocollicular maps in knock-in mice [Brown et al. (2000) Cell 102:77]. In wild-type mice the temporal-nasal axis of retina is mapped to the rostral-caud...

    Authors: Alexei A Koulakov and Dmitry N Tsigankov
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:30
  26. The primary sensory cortex (S1) in the postcentral gyrus is comprised of four areas that each contain a body map, where the representation of the hand is located with the thumb most laterally, anteriorly and i...

    Authors: Danielle van Westen, Peter Fransson, Johan Olsrud, Birgitta Rosén, Göran Lundborg and Elna-Marie Larsson
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:28
  27. 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 de...

    Authors: Janet Kerwin, Mark Scott, James Sharpe, Luis Puelles, Stephen C Robson, Margaret Martínez-de-la-Torre, Jose Luis Ferran, Guangjie Feng, Richard Baldock, Tom Strachan, Duncan Davidson and Susan Lindsay
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:27
  28. Activation of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) type glutamate receptors is essential in triggering various forms of synaptic plasticity. A critical issue is to what extent such plasticity involves persistent change...

    Authors: Mikhail Dozmorov, Rui Li, Hui-Ping Xu, Barbro Jilderos and Holger Wigström
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:26
  29. The channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, is invested with a high density of cutaneous taste receptors, particularly on the barbel appendages. Many of these receptors are sensitive to selected amino acids, one of...

    Authors: William Grosvenor, Yuri Kaulin, Andrew I Spielman, Douglas L Bayley, D Lynn Kalinoski, John H Teeter and Joseph G Brand
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:25
  30. In fish, melanin pigment granules in the retinal pigment epithelium disperse into apical projections as part of the suite of responses the eye makes to bright light conditions. This pigment granule dispersion ...

    Authors: Alfredo González III, Elizabeth L Crittenden and Dana M García
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:23
  31. In prior work we detected reduced anti-Aβ antibody titers in Aβ-vaccinated transgenic mice expressing the human amyloid precursor protein (APP) compared to nontransgenic littermates. We investigated this obser...

    Authors: Qingyou Li, Chuanhai Cao, Bryce Chackerian, John Schiller, Marcia Gordon, Kenneth E Ugen and Dave Morgan
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:21
  32. Although previous studies suggest that postural control requires attention and other cognitive resources, the central mechanisms responsible for this relationship remain unclear. To address this issue, we exam...

    Authors: Sylvia Quant, Allan L Adkin, W Richard Staines, Brian E Maki and William E McIlroy
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:18
  33. Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanded CAG repeat in the HD gene. Both excitotoxicity and oxidative stress have been proposed to play important roles in the pat...

    Authors: Joana MAC Gil, Marcel Leist, Natalija Popovic, Patrik Brundin and Åsa Petersén
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:17
  34. Conserved proteins preferentially expressed in synaptic terminals of the nervous system are likely to play a significant role in brain function. We have previously identified and molecularly characterized the Sap...

    Authors: Natalja Funk, Sonja Becker, Saskia Huber, Marion Brunner and Erich Buchner
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:16
  35. Interruption of mature axons activates a cascade of events in neuronal cell bodies which leads to various outcomes from functional regeneration in the PNS to the failure of any significant regeneration in the ...

    Authors: Sebastian Breuer, Katrin Pech, Armin Buss, Christoph Spitzer, Juris Ozols, Elly M Hol, Nicole Heussen, Johannes Noth, Franz-Werner Schwaiger and Andreas B Schmitt
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:15
  36. Human brain activity in the gamma frequency range has been shown to be a correlate of numerous cognitive functions like attention, perception and memory access. More specifically, gamma activity has been found...

    Authors: Christoph S Herrmann, Daniel Lenz, Stefanie Junge, Niko A Busch and Burkhard Maess
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:13
  37. Apoptosis is important for normal cerebral cortical development. We previously showed that the Fas suicide receptor was expressed within the developing cerebral cortex, and that in vitro Fas activation resulted i...

    Authors: Zulfiqar F Cheema, Daniel R Santillano, Stephen B Wade, Joseph M Newman and Rajesh C Miranda
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:11
  38. 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...

    Authors: Robert A Fuller, Susan V Westmoreland, Eva Ratai, Jane B Greco, John P Kim, Margaret R Lentz, Julian He, Prabhat K Sehgal, Eliezer Masliah, Elkan Halpern, Andrew A Lackner and R Gilberto González
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:10
  39. Many changes in gene expression occur in distal stumps of injured nerves but the transcriptional control of these events is poorly understood. We have examined the expression of the transcription factors ATF3 ...

    Authors: David Hunt, Kismet Hossain-Ibrahim, Matthew RJ Mason, Robert S Coffin, AR Lieberman, Julia Winterbottom and PN Anderson
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:9
  40. Tinnitus is an auditory sensation frequently following hearing loss. After cochlear injury, deafferented neurons become sensitive to neighbouring intact edge-frequencies, guiding an enhanced central representa...

    Authors: Nathan Weisz, Sandra Voss, Patrick Berg and Thomas Elbert
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:8
  41. 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...

    Authors: Alexander V Garger, Edwin A Richard and John E Lisman
    Citation: BMC Neuroscience 2004 5:7

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