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NMDA receptor-independent LTP in basal versus apical dendrites of CA1 pyramidal cells in rat hippocampal slice.

The ability of hippocampal CA1 basal synapses to express N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-independent long-term potentiation (non-NMDA LTP) was studied and compared to the simultaneously induced apical dendritic non-NMDA LTP. Non-NMDA LTP in…

Persistent left ventricular dysfunction after cocaine treatment in rabbits.

The present study was undertaken to determine whether the diminished cardiac performance associated with cocaine administration persists after the drug has been eliminated from the body. Cocaine (5 or 10 mg/kg iv) was administered to conscious (n =…

Prenatal cocaine exposure leads to enhanced long-term potentiation in region CA1 of hippocampus.

Cocaine use by pregnant women is currently of concern for its social and economic impact. Clinical studies of cocaine exposed offspring are limited by methodological constraints. In this study we used a rabbit model to examine the effects of…

Tags: *Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects, 1996, Animals, Brain research. Developmental brain research, Cocaine/*administration & dosage/pharmacology, Electrophysiology, Female, Hippocampus/*drug effects/physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Little J Z, Long-Term Potentiation/*drug effects, Narcotics/*administration & dosage/pharmacology, Neuronal Plasticity/drug effects, Pregnancy, Rabbits, Reference Values, Synapses/drug effects, Teyler T J

Presynaptic mechanism for heterosynaptic, posttetanic depression in area CA1 of rat hippocampus.

Conditioning stimulation applied to afferent fibers in stratum radiatum or stratum oriens of hippocampal area CA1 produced heterosynaptic, posttetanic depression (PTD) of excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs). PTD amounted to a

Pulmonary vasoconstriction in a canine model of neurogenic pulmonary edema.

The intracisternal administration of veratrine to the chloralose-anesthetized dog produces pulmonary hypertension (PH) and neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE). To determine whether pulmonary vasoconstriction, mediated by a circulating agent, contributes…

Redox-dependent coronary metabolic dilation.

We have observed that hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), the dismutated product of superoxide, is a coronary metabolic dilator and couples myocardial oxygen consumption to coronary blood flow. Because the chemical activity of H2O2 favors its role as an…

Tags: *Paracrine Communication, *Vasodilation/drug effects, 2007, Acetylcysteine/pharmacology, American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, Animals, Antioxidants/pharmacology, Cardiac/drug effects/*metabolism, Chilian William M, Conditioned/metabolism, Coronary Vessels/drug effects/enzymology/*metabolism, Culture Media, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Dick Gregory M, Dithiothreitol/pharmacology, Enzyme Activation, Fluorescence, Hydrogen Peroxide/metabolism, Imidazoles/pharmacology, In Vitro Techniques, Kiyooka Takahiko, Microscopy, Myocytes, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nitroprusside/pharmacology, Oxidation-Reduction, p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism, Park Yoonjung, Phosphorylation, Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology, Pyridines/pharmacology, Rats, Reactive Oxygen Species/*metabolism, Reducing Agents/pharmacology, Rocic Petra, Rogers Paul A, Saitoh Shu-ichi, Sulfhydryl Compounds/*metabolism, Swafford Albert, Vasodilator Agents/pharmacology, Viswanathan Chandrasekar, Wistar, Zhang Cuihua

Reduced vascular responsiveness after a single bout of dynamic exercise in the conscious rabbit.

We measured agonist-induced changes in the iliac artery blood flow velocity (IFV) independent of baroreflex-mediated compensatory mechanisms in chronically instrumented New Zealand White rabbits (n = 8). Animals were instrumented with a Doppler flow…

Relationships among gender, age, time, and temperature in methamphetamine-induced striatal dopaminergic neurotoxicity.

A neurotoxic regimen of methamphetamine (MA-40 mg/kg ip) administered at 0 (control-MA vehicle), 0.5 and 72 h prior to determinations of striatal dopamine (DA) and DOPAC (3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid)/DA ratios were compared among juvenile and…

Role of adenosine in heterosynaptic, posttetanic depression in area CA1 of hippocampus.

Conditioning stimulation of afferent fibers in hippocampal area CA1 produced heterosynaptic, posttetanic depression (PTD) of responses evoked by stimulation of an independent set of afferent fibers. PTD was present within 5 s of conditioning…

Role of EDRF in the cardiopulmonary dysfunction produced by massive sympathetic activation.

This study was undertaken to determine whether endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) modulates the pulmonary and systemic hemodynamic responses to massive sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation and, in so doing, also modulates the degree of…

Selective photothermolysis of the sebaceous glands for acne treatment.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a long pulse diode laser (Cynosure, Inc.) to target and destroy enlarged sebaceous glands that are preloaded with Indocyanine green (ICG) chromophore. STUDY…

Tags: *Hyperthermia, *Photolysis, *Phototherapy, 2002, Acne Vulgaris/pathology/*therapy, Combined Modality Therapy, Department of Internal Medicine, Feasibility Studies, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, In Vitro Techniques, Induced, Lasers in surgery and medicine, Lloyd Jenifer R, Mirkov Mirko, NEOMED College of Medicine, Sebaceous Glands/pathology/*radiation effects, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome

Sex differences in extracellular and intracellular calcium-mediated vascular reactivity to vasopressin in rat aorta.

In rat thoracic aorta, contractile responses to arginine vasopressin are two-fold higher in females than in males. To determine the roles of extracellular and intracellular Ca2+ in this sexual dimorphism in vascular function, vascular reactivity and…

Sex differences in methamphetamine-evoked striatal dopamine output are abolished following gonadectomy: comparisons with potassium-evoked output and responses in prepubertal mice.

Sex differences are reported for methamphetamine (MA)-induced neurotoxicity of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system. In an attempt to understand some of the bases for these differences, we investigated MA-evoked dopamine (DA) responses from…

Tags: 2005, Animals, Dluzen Dean E, Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors/*pharmacology, Dopamine/*metabolism, Female, In Vitro Techniques, Male, Methamphetamine/*pharmacology, Mice, Neostriatum/drug effects/*metabolism, Neuroendocrinology, Orchiectomy, Ovariectomy, Potassium/*pharmacology, Salvaterra Ty J, Sex Characteristics, Sexual Maturation

Sex differences in nitric oxide-mediated attenuation of vascular reactivity to vasopressin are abolished by gonadectomy.

In the rat thoracic aorta, contractile responses to vasopressin are two-fold higher in females than in males, primarily because nitric oxide-mediated attenuation of contraction is greater in males than in females. To determine the role of the gonadal…

Spermine depresses NMDA, K/AMPA and GABAA-mediated synaptic transmission in the rat hippocampal slice preparation.

The effects of spermine, an endogenous polyamine, were examined in area CA1 of the rat hippocampal slice preparation. Spermine, at low millimolar concentrations, rapidly and potently depressed NMDA and K/AMPA-mediated population EPSPs, and…

Surface clustering of metabotropic glutamate receptor 1 induced by long Homer proteins.

BACKGROUND: Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) regulate neuronal excitability and synaptic strength. The group I mGluRs, mGluR1 and 5, are widespread in the brain and localize to post-synaptic sites. The Homer protein family regulates group I…

Testosterone causes direct relaxation of rat thoracic aorta.

Several recent studies have provided evidence that gonadal steroid hormones can exert acute (nongenomic) effects on both neural and vascular tissues. This study examines the acute effects of testosterone (T) on vascular reactivity of the rat thoracic…

The development of GABAB-mediated activity in the rat dentate gyrus.

We examined the effects of GABAB receptor activation in the dentate gyrus of hippocampal slices prepared from 6-8-day-old rat pup. Baclofen (0.25-1.0 microM), a GABAB agonist, rapidly and potently disinhibited the developing dentate, similar to its…

Tags: 1994, Animals, Baclofen/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology, Brain research. Developmental brain research, DiScenna P G, Electric Stimulation, Evoked Potentials/drug effects, GABA-A Receptor Antagonists, GABA-A/drug effects/physiology, GABA-B Receptor Antagonists, GABA-B/*metabolism, Hippocampus/*growth & development/*metabolism, In Vitro Techniques, Nowicky A V, Organophosphorus Compounds/pharmacology, Rats, Receptors, Teyler T J

The effect of long-term treatment with deprenyl on basal and L-dopa evoked dopamine release in vitro from the corpus striatum of aged rats.

In the present experiment, male rats (15-17 months) were injected with deprenyl (0.25 mg/kg) three times per week for six months. At 21-23 months of age the male rats were sacrificed, the corpus striatum removed and superfused in vitro. Basal and…

Tags: 1991, 3, 4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid/*metabolism, Aging/metabolism, Amphetamine/pharmacology, Animals, Corpus Striatum/*drug effects/metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/*metabolism, In Vitro Techniques, Journal of neural transmission. General section, Levodopa/pharmacology, Male, McDermott J L, Rats, Selegiline/*pharmacology

The modulation of long-term potentiation by delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the rat hippocampus, in vitro.

The duration of long-term potentiation (LTP) of the CA1 evoked field potential in rat hippocampal slices was significantly modulated by pre-treatment of slices with delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) added to the incubation media. The three THC doses…

Tags: 1987, Animals, Brain research bulletin, Dronabinol/*pharmacology, Evoked Potentials/drug effects, Hippocampus/*drug effects/physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Kinetics, Male, Nowicky A V, Pyramidal Tracts/drug effects/physiology, Rats, Teyler T J, Time Factors, Vardaris R M

The role of NMDA receptors in long-term potentiation (LTP) and depression (LTD) in rat visual cortex.

The purpose of the present study was to improve our understanding of the role of NMDA receptors in neocortical synaptic plasticity. In slices of rat visual cortex the field potential elicited in layer III in response to white matter stimulation…

Time course of blood volume changes in an isolated lung lobe after venous pressure elevation.

The elevation of venous pressure (Pv) in isolated perfused organs causes organ weight to increase in a biphasic manner. The initial rapid phase results primarily from an increase in blood volume (BV), whereas the second slower phase is generally…

Tags: *Blood Volume/drug effects, *Pulmonary Circulation, *Venous Pressure, 1994, Animals, Dogs, Extravascular Lung Water/metabolism, Female, In Vitro Techniques, Indicator Dilution Techniques, Indocyanine Green, Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), Lane S M, Lung/*physiology, Male, Maron M B, Papaverine/pharmacology, Perfusion, Time Factors

Triethyltin exposure suppresses synaptic transmission in area CA1 of the rat hippocampal slice.

To examine the effects of TET on the electrophysiology of area CA1 of hippocampus, hippocampal slices were obtained from adult hooded rats and were maintained in vitro using standard techniques. Stimulating and recording electrodes were placed in the…

Tags: 1988, Animals, Evoked Potentials/drug effects, Female, Fountain S B, Hennes S K, Hippocampus/drug effects/*pathology/physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Neurotoxicology and teratology, Pyramidal Tracts/drug effects/*pathology/physiology, Rats, Synapses/drug effects/*physiology, Synaptic Transmission/*drug effects, Teyler T J, Ting Y L, Trialkyltin Compounds/*toxicity, Triethyltin Compounds/*toxicity

Two components of long-term potentiation induced by different patterns of afferent activation.

Long-term potentiation (LTP) of excitatory synaptic transmission could be a mechanism underlying memory. Induction of LTP requires Ca2+ influx into postsynaptic neurons through ion channels gated by NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors in…

Tags: 1990, 2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate/*pharmacology, Afferent Pathways/physiology, Animals, Calcium/*physiology, Grover L M, Hippocampus/*physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Membrane Potentials, Memory/*physiology, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/*physiology, Nature, Neuronal Plasticity, Receptors, Synaptic Transmission, Teyler T J, Time Factors

Use of brain slices to study long-term potentiation and depression as examples of synaptic plasticity.

Brain slices have been responsible for the majority of advances in our understanding of the cellular aspects of altered synaptic strength underlying memory, long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD), and increases and decreases,…

Tags: *Long-Term Potentiation, *Neuronal Plasticity, 1999, Animals, Brain/*physiology, Electrophysiology/methods, Glutamic Acid/physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Memory/*physiology, Methods (San Diego, Calif.), Models, Neurological, Synapses/*physiology, Synaptic Transmission, Teyler T J

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