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BMC Neuroscience is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of cellular, tissue-level, organismal, functional and developmental aspects of the nervous system.
BMC Neuroscience (ISSN 1471-2202) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Scientific (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :34
Increased exercise from an early age delays onset of motor coordination deficits without ameliorating neural degeneration in a mouse model of Huntington’ s disease, highlighting the importance of an early start in inducing neuroprotection through activity.
BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :32
Excessive pain sensitivity in rats that have recovered from inflammation is associated with changes in expression of 356 genes in the spinal cord, some of which may underlie the transition from acute to chronic pain.
BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :31
The teratocarcinoma cell line NTERA-2 expresses doublecortin, a marker of early neuronal differentiation, after being induced to differentiate with retinoic acid, making this cell line a suitable model of early neuronal development.
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Expression profile of the entire family of Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors in mouse and rat Tatjana Haitina, Fredrik Olsson, Olga Stephansson, Johan Alsio, Erika Roman, Ted Ebendal, Helgi B Schioth, Robert Fredriksson BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :43 (29 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Isolation of neuronal chromatin from brain tissue Yan Jiang, Anouch Matevossian, Hsien-Sung Huang, Juerg Straubhaar, Schahram Akbarian BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :42 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Dysfunctional GABAergic inhibition in the prefrontal cortex leading to "psychotic" hyperactivation Shoji Tanaka BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :41 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Identification of Tmem10/Opalin as a novel marker for oligodendrocytes using gene expression profiling Angelika Kippert, Katarina Trajkovic, Dirk Fitzner, Lennart Opitz, Mikael Simons BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :40 (25 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Extensive neuroadaptive changes in cortical gene-transcript expressions of the glutamate system in response to repeated intermittent MDMA administration in adolescent rats Anna MS Kindlundh-H BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :39 (17 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Elucidating a normal function of huntingtin by functional and microarray analysis of huntingtin-null mouse embryonic fibroblasts Hua Zhang, Sudipto Das, Quan-Zhen Li, Ioannis Dragatsis, Joyce Repa, Scott Zeitlin, Gyorgy Hajnoczky, Ilya Bezprozvanny BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :38 (15 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology article
Enhanced nigrostriatal neuron-specific, long-term expression by using neural-specific promoters in combination with targeted gene transfer by modified helper virus-free HSV-1 vector particles Haiyan Cao, Guo-rong Zhang, Xiaodan Wang, Lingxin Kong, Alfred I Geller BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :37 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Protein fingerprints of cultured CA3-CA1 hippocampal neurons: comparative analysis of the distribution of synaptosomal and cytosolic proteins Valeria Corti, Yovan Sanchez-Ruiz, Giovanni Piccoli, Andrea Bergamaschi, Carlo V Cannistraci, Linda Pattini, Sergio Cerutti, Angela Bachi, Massimo Alessio, Antonio Malgaroli BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :36 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Non-cell autonomous impairment of oligodendrocyte differentiation precedes CNS degeneration in the Zitter rat: Implications of macrophage/microglial activation in the pathogenesis Shin-ichi Sakakibara, Kazuhiko Nakadate, Shigeo Ookawara, Shuichi Ueda BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :35 (5 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Wheel running from a juvenile age delays onset of specific motor deficits but does not alter protein aggregate density in a mouse model of Huntington's disease Anton van Dellen, Patricia M Cordery, Tara L Spires, Colin Blakemore, Anthony J Hannan BMC Neuroscience 2008, 9 :34 (1 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ] [F1000 Biology ]
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Incentive motivation processing in first-episode psychosis: a behavioural study Graham K Murray, Luke Clark, Philip R Corlett, Andrew D Blackwell, Roshan Cools, Peter B Jones, Trevor W Robbins, Luise Poustka BMC Psychiatry 2008, 8 :34 (8 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Identification of valid reference genes for the normalization of RT qPCR gene expression data in human brain tissue. David T R Coulson, Simon Brockbank, Joseph G Quinn, Suzanne Murphy, Rivka Ravid, G BRENT Irvine, Janet A Johnston BMC Molecular Biology 2008, 9 :46 (6 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Experience of road and other trauma by the opiate dependent patient: a survey report Albert S Reece Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2008, 3 :10 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Circadian Genomics of the Chick Pineal Gland In Vitro Stephen P Karaganis, Vinod Kumar, Phillip D Beremand, Michael J Bailey, Terry L Thomas, Vincent M Cassone BMC Genomics 2008, 9 :206 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Case report
Delayed spinal extradural hematoma following thoracic spine surgery and resulting in paraplegia: a case report Chandra JKB Parthiban, Shiju A Majeed Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2 :141 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The Effect of Acupuncture Duration on Analgesia and Peripheral Sensory Thresholds Albert Y Leung, Susan J Kim, Gery Schulteis, Tony Yaksh BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2008, 8 :18 (1 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The TOBY Study
Whole body hypothermia for the treatment of perinatal asphyxial encephalopathy:a randomised controlled trial.
Denis Azzopardi, Peter Brocklehurst, David Edwards, Henry Halliday, Malcolm Levene, Marianne Thoresen, Andrew Whitelaw BMC Pediatrics 2008, 8 :17 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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The abdomen of Drosophila: does planar cell polarity orient the neurons of mechanosensory bristles? Caroline CG Fabre, Jose Casal, Peter A Lawrence Neural Development 2008, 3 :12 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Differential activation of p38 and extracellular signal-regulated kinase in spinal cord in a model of bee venom-induced inflammation and hyperalgesia Xiu-Yu Cui, Yi Dai, Sheng-Lan Wang, Hiroki Yamanaka, Kimiko Kobayashi, Koichi Obata, Jun Chen, Koichi Noguchi Molecular Pain 2008, 4 :17 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Improved outcomes from the administration of progesterone for patients with acute severe traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial Guomin Xiao, Jing Wei, Weiqi Yan, Weimin Wang, Zhenhui Lu Critical Care 2008, 12 :R61 (30 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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