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Angiotensinergic innervation of rat and human mesenteric resistant blood vessels
In contrast to the current believe that angiotensin II (Ang II) only interacts with the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) as a circulating hormone, we document here the existence of an endogenous re…
Received 05 July 2007 07:58 UTC; Posted 05 July 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience
Workshop report: 1st INCF Workshop on Large-scale Modeling of the Nervous System
The goal of this workshop was to survey current demands, ongoing activities, and plans relating to development of tools for scalable neural network simulation. Areas covered included software compo…
Received 27 June 2007 12:26 UTC; Posted 27 June 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience, Bioinformatics
Review: Dystroglycan in the Nervous System
Dystroglycan is part of a large complex of proteins, the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex, which has been implicated in the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophies for a long time. Besides muscular de…
Received 23 June 2007 03:40 UTC; Posted 26 June 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience
Reading the Neural Code: What do Spikes Mean for Behavior?
The present study reveals the existence of an intrinsic spatial code within neuronal spikes that predicts behavior. As rats learnt a T-maze procedural task, simultaneous changes in temporal occurre…
Received 18 June 2007 15:10 UTC; Posted 18 June 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience
Dynamic Topology of Biological Networks
The mammalian cell can be represented as a large modular network that consists of a central signal network that interacts with and regulates multiple cellular machines that are responsible for phen…
Received 23 January 2007 16:48 UTC; Posted 23 January 2007
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Bioinformatics
DARPP-32 is a robust integrator of dopamine and glutamate signals
Integration of neurotransmitter and neuromodulator signals in the striatum plays a central role in the functions and dysfunctions of the basal ganglia. DARPP-32 is a key actor of this integration i…
Received 30 November 2006 13:14 UTC; Posted 30 November 2006
Posted to: Neuroscience
INCF — new capability for global coordination in neuroinformatics
The Global Science Forum (GSF) of the OECD has initiated a new international organization, INCF, to further the development of Neuroinformatics as a global effort with the support of all ministers …
Received 16 November 2006 12:26 UTC; Posted 16 November 2006
Posted to: Neuroscience