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INTRODUCTION: Extracellular recordings reflect transmembrane currents of neural and glial cells and thus have long been the foundation of measurements of neural activity. Recorded potential reflects activity of the underlying neural network and is directly related to the distribution of current sources along the active cells (current source density, CSD). The long‑range of the electric field leads...
INTRODUCTION: Around 50 million people worldwide are affected by epilepsy. Despite efficiency and steady development of pharmacological treatments, every third patient suffers from intractable seizures. A surgical intervention may be the only solution in these cases. To identify the region for resection, neurosurgeons implant intracranial and subdural electrodes which are used to localize the epileptogenic...
INTRODUCTION: The low-frequency part of extracellular potential, called the Local Field Potential (LFP), is a useful measure of neural systems activity. However, a direct interpretation of LFP is problematic as it is not a local measure – each electrode may record activity observed millimeters away from source. Estimation of current source density (CSD), the volume density of net transmembrane currents,...
INTRODUCTION: Current Source Density (CSD) is spatially smoothed transmembrane activity of the neurons. Local Field Potential (LFP) is the electric potential generated by ionic currents in the neural tissue and it is directly related to the CSD. LFP is relatively easily accessible experimentally but due to the long range of electric field, it is difficult to interpret. CSD needs to be calculated but...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Action of tricyclic antidepressant drugs (TCA) involves inhibition of noradrenaline re-uptake, however, several of TCA also exhibit affinities for adrenergic receptors (α1-ARs). Furthermore there are reports in literature implying role of α1-AR in depression and antidepressant action. However due to scarcity of selective ligands discriminating the α1-ARs, the specific role of...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The stress impaired the structure and activity ofthe prefrontal cortical(PFC) neurons has been postulated to underlie the pathology of stress related psychiatric disorders. NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptors of PFC were shown to be affected by stress. High level of the noradrenaline release during stress is known to stimulate the β adrenergic receptors (βAR), densely expressed...
Heat shock proteins HSP70 play a protective role against stressinduced damage of cells. We assessed the expression of inducible Hsp72 in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HIP) of male Wistar rats subjected to the chronic mild stress (CMS), the procedure inducing depression-like symptoms, and subsequently Different brain areas are thought to be integrated into largescale networks. Recent...
Cerebral α1-adrenoceptors (α1-AR) are known to be changed by stress conditions and involved inthe mechanism of antidepressant action. The chronic mild stress (CMS) procedure that induces depression-like symptoms in animals is a useful tool to study the mechanisms of action of antidepressant drugs in animals. We aimed to investigate the expression of α1A-, α1B-, and α1D-AR mRNAs in the hippocampus...
An underlying mechanism of degeneration in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is unknown. The animal models of PD, developed so far have certain disadvantages; hence a search for a new model of PD seems necessary. Chronic, unilateral, intraventricular delivery of MPP+ (0.284 and 0.428 mg/kg/day for 28 days) using an ALZET osmotic minipump, implanted s.c., produced a marked, dose-dependent loss of DA and its...
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