funded by research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health(CIHR):MOP 89825,EKL;PRJ153101,EKL and JM;support of a CIHR Banting and Best Canada Graduate Scholarship and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship,SKP.
Background Cognitive reserve allows for resilience to neuropathology,potentially through active compensation.Here,we examine ex vivo electrophysiological evidence for active compensation in Alzheimer’s disease(AD)foc...
Nicotine use is more prevalent in patients with psychiatric disorders,especially those diagnosed with psychotic illnesses.Previously,this higher prevalence has been partially attributed to the potential ameliorative e...
supported by the Burke Foundation and the National Institutes of Health Common Fund,No.DP2 NS106663(to ERH);the New York State Department of Health Spinal Cord Injury Research Board Postdoctoral Fellowship,No.C32633GG(to YL)。
Therapeutic intervention for spinal cord injury is limited,with many approaches relying on strengthening the remaining substrate and driving recovery through rehabilitative training.As compared with learning novel com...
funded by National Key Re-search and Development Project of China(No.2018YFD0200802).
The insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptor(nAChR)is a pentameric channel protein and also a target for neonicotinoids.There are few reported studies on the molecular interactions of Leptinotarsa decemlineata nAChRs w...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32001941 and 31972303);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2020M683586);the Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Northwest A&F University(Z1090219195).
Spinosyns,including spinosad and spinetoram,act on the insect central nervous system,gradually paralyzing or destroying the target insect.Spinosad resistance is associated with loss-of-function mutations in the nicoti...
supported by Inserm(to SV,LFF,CT,JV,SB,SS,SC);by the Labex IRON(ANR-11-LABX-18-01:to all authors).
To date there is no treatment able to stop or slow down the loss of dopaminergic neurons that characterizes Parkinson’s disease.It was recently observed in a rodent model of Alzheimer’s disease that the interaction ...
supported by the Gordon Fellowship from Harvard Medical School(to Changliang Liu).
Motor control in the striatum is an orchestra played by various neuronal populations.Loss of harmony due to dopamine de?ciency is considered the primary pathological cause of the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease(PD).R...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 201762011 for R. Y.);National Laboratory Director Fund from the Qingdao National Laboratory of Marine Science and Technology (No. QNLM201709);the NSFC-Shandong Joint Fund (No. U1406402)
Theα7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors(nAChRs)are widely expressed in the central and peripheral nervous systems and are important drug targets for the treatment of neurological diseases.However,differentiation of t...
This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China(ZR2014HQ007,ZR2017MH048),the Foundation of Overseas Distinguished Taishan Scholars of Shandong Province of China(to H-TZ)and Collaborative Innovation Center for Research and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Mount Tai.
Background and Objective:Increased blood pressure variability(BPV),which has been considered to cause brain damage,can be induced by sinoaortic denervation(SAD)in rats.This study was designed to test the hypothesis th...
supported by a grant KAKENHI 15K06786;the Center of Innovation Science and Technology based Radical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program(COI STREAM)of the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Science and Technology(MEXT),Japan
Alzheimer’s disease(AD)is a progressive cognitive disorder that develops predominantly in elderly patients and is characterized by cognitive impairments affecting memory,learning,and attention(Selkoe,2002).