supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51125028 and 51407103);Beijing Natural Science Foundation(7154214);Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program
Humans have never stopped exploring their brains,one of the most complex systems in nature.A thorough understanding of the brain is the ultimate challenge for neuroscientists.As there is a rapid increase in the aging ...
Supported by a foundation of the City of Tianjin,China (Grand No. 983113411)
Rheumatoid arthritis(RA),which is marked by inflammatory synovitis,is a common,chronic autoim-mune-disease,whose pathogenesis is complex and still unclear.In order to explore the effects of heat and hyposmotic stimuli...
Elicitor prepared from the cell walls of Peni-cillium citrinum induces multiple responses of Taxuschinensis cells, including nitric oxide (NO) generation, se-quentially followed by the activation of PAL and synthesis ...
The effects of stimulating locus coeruleus (LC) on neuronal activity of cerebellar fastigial nucleus (FN) was investigated. Stimulation of LC elicited inhibitory, excitatory and biphasic (inhibition-excitation) respon...
Project supported by grants from the State Commission of Science;Technology of China;National Institutes of Health of USA;the International Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)
The centrifugal innervation of the retina has been extensively described in birds, in which retinal centrifugal fibres originating in the nucleus isthmoopticus terminate directly on amacrine cells. Physiological role ...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
It has been established that the nucleus isthmi (NI) in lower vertebrates and its mammalian analogue, the nucleus parabigeminalis, receive input from the ipsilateral tectum and project back ipsilaterally in teleosts a...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Electric potential transmission (EPT) is proved widely in higher plants.Many investigations are involved recently in exploring the physiological role of EPT.However,a few of researches are related to biochemical bases...
Substance P (SP) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) are neuropeptides synthesized in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG). These neuropeptides diffuse toward the central nervous system and peripheral nerve endings. It ...
We have shown previously that 2 Hz- and 100 Hz-electroacupuncture (EA) could induce the release of Met-enkephalin (ME) and dynorphin respectively from the spinal cord of the rat to produce analgesia. It remains to be ...
Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 851212, Biol. 85-424
In recent years, considerable progress has been made in research of the physi- ological functions of nucleus raphe magnus (NRM). It is suggested that the neu- rons in NRM play important roles in the modulation of pain...