Israel Neuroscience Research - May 2013

Neuroscience laboratories in Israel are producing quality research results and high-impact publications on a daily basis. A selection of Israel neuroscience publications are featured below, posted to the site as they are made publicly available in the U.S. National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health PubMed database. Discuss this research further by leaving a comment or by posting a topic in the Israel Neuroscience Research Forum. If you would like to receive notifications when new publications are added to the site, become a fan of Israel Neuroscience Research Link on Facebook or follow INRL on Twitter (links can be found to the right).


Serotonin is a facilitatory neuromodulator of synaptic transmission and "reinforces" long-term potentiation induction in the vertical lobe of Octopus vulgaris
Shomrat T, Feinstein N, Klein M, Hochner B
Department of Neurobiology, Institute of Life Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, Edmond J Safra Campus, Givat Ram Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

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The efficacy of physiological and pharmacological N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor block is greatly reduced under hyperbaric conditions
Mor A, Grossman Y
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Faculty of Health Sciences and Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

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Rasagiline: a novel anti-Parkinsonian monoamine oxidase-B inhibitor with neuroprotective activity
Weinreb O, Amit T, Bar-Am O, Youdim MB
Eve Topf Centre of Excellence for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Technion-Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Efron St. PO Box 9697, Haifa 31096, Israel

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An experimental model of focal ischemia using an internal carotid artery approach
Boyko M, Zlotnik A, Gruenbaum BF, Gruenbaum SE, Ohayon S, Goldsmith T, Kotz R, Leibowitz A, Sheiner E, Shapira Y, Teichberg VI
Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Soroka Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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The role of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in drug-seeking behavior
Yadid G, Sudai E, Maayan R, Gispan I, Weizman A
The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, The Leslie Susan Gonda Goldschmied Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

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Cannabinoids reveal separate controls for whisking amplitude and timing in rats
Pietr MD, Knutsen PM, Shore DI, Ahissar E, Vogel Z
Department of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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Astrocyte Dysfunction Associated with Cerebellar Attrition in a Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome Animal Model
Galron R, Gruber R, Lifshitz V, Lu H, Kirshner M, Ziv N, Wang ZQ, Shiloh Y, Barzilai A, Frenkel D
Department of Neurobiology, George S. Wise, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

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Orally Administrated Cinnamon Extract Reduces β-Amyloid Oligomerization and Corrects Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer's Disease Animal Models
Frydman-Marom A, Levin A, Farfara D, Benromano T, Scherzer-Attali R, Peled S, Vassar R, Segal D, Gazit E, Frenkel D, Ovadia M
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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