Somatosensory Cortex - Drug effects
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Altered distribution and function of A2A adenosine receptors in the brain of WAG/Rij rats with genetic absence epilepsy, before and after appearance of the disease.

30 Aug 2009 The involvement of excitatory adenosine A(2A) receptors (A(2A)Rs), which probably contribute to the pathophysiology of convulsive seizures, has never been investigated in absence epilepsy. Here, we examined the distribution and function of A(2A)Rs ... Read more...

Neuronal circuit remodeling in the contralateral cortical hemisphere during functional recovery from cerebral infarction.

10 Aug 2009 Recent advances in functional imaging of human brain activity in stroke patients, e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging, have revealed that cortical hemisphere contralateral to the infarction plays an important role in the recovery process. ... Read more...

Boosting cholinergic activity in gustatory cortex enhances the salience of a familiar conditioned stimulus in taste aversion learning.

30 Jul 2009 The cholinergic system is important for learning, memory, and responses to novel stimuli. Exposure to novel, but not familiar, tastes increases extracellular acetylcholine (ACh) levels in insular cortex (IC). To further examine whether cholinergic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Somatosensory Cortex - Drug effects'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Altered distribution and function of A2A adenosine receptors in the brain of WAG/Rij rats with genetic absence epilepsy, before and after appearance of the disease. 30 Aug 2009
• Neuronal circuit remodeling in the contralateral cortical hemisphere during functional recovery from cerebral infarction. 10 Aug 2009
• Boosting cholinergic activity in gustatory cortex enhances the salience of a familiar conditioned stimulus in taste aversion learning. 30 Jul 2009
• Cholecystokinin action on layer 6b neurons in somatosensory cortex. 31 May 2009
• Effect of voltage sensitive fluorescent proteins on neuronal excitability. 18 May 2009
• Transgenic mice expressing a cameleon fluorescent Ca2+ indicator in astrocytes and Schwann cells allow study of glial cell Ca2+ signals in situ and in vivo. 16 May 2009
• Repeated 4-aminopyridine induced seizures diminish the efficacy of glutamatergic transmission in the neocortex. 11 May 2009
• Curcumin attenuates aluminium-induced functional neurotoxicity in rats. 15 Apr 2009
• Effects of chronic fluoxetine treatment on the rat somatosensory cortex: activation and induction of neuronal structural plasticity. 3 Apr 2009
• [Modulation of cortical pain processing by cyclooxygenase inhibition: a functional MRI study] 30 Mar 2009
• Corticofugal outputs facilitate acute, but inhibit chronic pain in rats. 21 Jan 2009
• Endothelin-1 induced MCAO: dose dependency of cerebral blood flow. 18 Jan 2009
• Levodopa affects functional brain networks in Parkinsonian resting tremor. 13 Jan 2009
• Anti-allodynic effect of intracerebroventricularly administered antioxidant and free radical scavenger in a mouse model of orofacial pain. 30 Dec 2008
• The effect of intravenous lidocaine on brain activation during non-noxious and acute noxious stimulation of the forepaw: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in the rat. 30 Dec 2008
• Region-specific spike-frequency acceleration in layer 5 pyramidal neurons mediated by Kv1 subunits. 15 Dec 2008
• NMDAR blockade-induced neonatal brain injury: Reversal by the calcium channel agonist BayK 8644. 4 Dec 2008
• Decline in age-dependent, MK801-induced injury coincides with developmental switch in parvalbumin expression: somatosensory and motor cortex. 30 Oct 2008
• Effects of the N-methyl-D-Aspartate receptor antagonist dextromethorphan on vibrotactile adaptation. 14 Sep 2008
• ERK-dependent PSD-95 induction in the gustatory cortex is necessary for taste learning, but not retrieval. 5 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Somatosensory Cortex'

Definition: Area of the parietal lobe concerned with receiving general sensations. It lies posterior to the central sulcus.

Descriptor UI: D013003

Alternative terms: Somatosensory Cortex; Cortex, Somatosensory;

Allowable Qualifiers: abnormalities; anatomy & histology; blood supply; cytology; drug effects; embryology; enzymology; growth & development; immunology; injuries; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; pathology; physiology; physiopathology; radiation effects; radiography; radionuclide imaging; secretion; surgery; transplantation; ultrastructure; ultrasonography; chemistry; virology;

Tree Number: A08.186.211.730.885.287.500.670.675;

History Note: 71