Systems Neuroscience Group Publications

Members of the Systems Neuroscience Group have published over 60 original papers and reviews in the period of 30 months between January 1998 and June 2000. The original papers are published in high impact factor journals.

2000

Bourne JA, Fosbraey P (2000) Novel method of monitoring electroencephalography at the site of microdialysis during chemically evoked seizures in a freely moving animal. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 99, 85-90 (original paper).

Ichida JM, Rosa MGP, Casagrande VA (2000) Does the visual system of the flying fox resemble that of primates? The distribution of calcium-binding proteins in the primary visual pathway of Pteropus poliocephalus. Journal of Comparative Neurology 417:73-87 (original paper).

Irvine DRF, Rajan R, McDermott H (2000) Injury-induced reorganization in adult auditory cortex and its perceptual concesquences: a review. Hearing Reseach. 44:1-12 (review).

Martinich S, Pontes MN, Rocha-Miranda CE (2000) Patterns of corticocortical, corticotectal, and commissural connections in the opossum visual cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology 416:224-244 (original paper).

Morgan DL, Whitehead NP, Wise AK, Gregory JE, Proske U (2000) Tension changes in the cat soleus muscle following slow stretch or shortening of the contracting muscle. Journal of Physiology (London) 522: 503-513 (original paper).

Proske U, Wise AK, Gregory JE (2000) The role of muscle receptors in the detection of movements. Progress in Neurobiology 60:83-94 (review).

Rosa MGP, Tweedale R (2000) Visual areas in lateral and ventral extrastriate cortices of the marmoset monkey. Journal of Comparative Neurology 422:621-651 (original paper).

Rosa MGP, Pinon MC, Gattass R, Sousa AP (2000) "Third tier" ventral extrastriate cortex in the New World monkey, Cebus apella. Experimental Brain Research 132:287-305 (original paper).

Rosa MGP, Tweedale R, Elston GN (2000) Visual responses of neurons in the middle temporal area of new world monkeys after lesions of striate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 20:5552-5563 (original paper).

Scott CJ, Pereira AM, Rawson JA, Simmons DM, Rossmanith WG, Ing NH, Clarke IJ (2000) The distribution of progesterone receptor immunoreactivity and mRNA in the preoptic area and hypothalamus of the ewe: upregulation of progesterone receptor mRNA in the mediobasal hypothalamus by oestrogen. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 12:565-575 (original paper).

Scott CJ, Tilbrook AJ, Rawson JA, Clarke IJ (2000) Gonadal steroid receptors in the regulation of GnRH secretion in farm animals. Animal Reproduction Science 60-61:313-326 (original paper).

Scott CJ, Tilbrook AJ, Simmons DM, Chu S, Fuller PJ, Rawson JA, Ing N, Clarke IJ (2000) the distribution of cells containing estrogen receptor-a (ERa) and estrogen receptor-b (ER-b) mRNA in the preoptic area and hypothalamus of the sheep: comparison of males and females. Endocrinology 141: 2951-2962 (original paper).

Papers in press in July 2000

Bourne JA, Fosbraey P, Halliday J (2000) SCH 23390 affords protection against soman-evoked seizures in the freely moving guinea-pig: a concomitant neurochemical, electrophysiological and behavioural study. Neuropharmacology , in press (original paper).

Brockett C, Morgan DL, Proske U (2000). Human hamstring muscles adapt to damage from eccentric exercise by changing optimum length. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise , in press (original paper).

Clarke IJ, Scott CJ, Rao A, Pompolo S, Barker-Gibb ML (2000) Seasonal changes in the expression of neuropeptide Y and pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA in the arcuate nucleus of the ovariectomised ewe; relationship to the seasonal appetite and breeding cycles. Journal of Neuroendocrinology , in press (original paper).

Manger PR, Rosa MGP, CollinsR (2000)- Somatotopic organization and cortical projecions of the ventrobasal complex of the flying fox: an inverted wing representation in the thalamus. Somatosensory and Motor Research , in press (original paper).

Proske U (2000). The watery world of the platypus. Sanctuary , in press (review).

Rajan R (2000) Centrifugal pathways protect hearing sensitivity at the cochlea in noisy environments that exacerbate the damage induced by loud sound. Journal of Neuroscience , in press (original paper).

Wise AK, Morgan DL, Gregory JE, Proske U (2000) Measurements of fatigue in the medial gastrocnemius muscle of the anaesthetised cat during distributed, optimised stimulation Journal of Applied Physiology , in press (original paper).

Wise AK, Morgan DL, Gregory JE, Proske U (2000). Fatigue in mammalian skeletal muscle stimulated under computer control. Journal of Applied Physiology , in press (original paper). 1999:

1999

Brown TI, Huang Y, Morgan DL, Proske U, Wise A (1999) A new strategy for controlling the level of activation in artificially stimulated muscle. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering 7:167-173 (original paper).

Calford MB, Schmid LM, Rosa MGP (1999) Monocular focal retinal lesions induce short-term topographic plasticity in adult cat visual cortex. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266:499-507 (original paper).

Elston GN, DeFelipe J, Arellano JI, Gonzilez-Albo MC, Rosa MGP (1999) Variation in the spatial relationship between parvalbumin immunoreactive interneurones and pyramidal neurones in rat somatosensory cortex. Neuroreport 10:2975-2979 (original paper).

Elston GN, Tweedale R, Rosa MGP (1999) Supragranular pyramidal neurones in the medial posterior parietal cortex of the macaque monkey: morphological heterogeneity in subdivisions of area 7. Neuroreport 10:1925-1929 (original paper).

Elston GN, Tweedale R, Rosa MGP (1999) Cortical integration in the visual system of the macaque monkey: large-scale morphological differences in the pyramidal neurons in the occipital, parietal and temporal lobes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266:1367-1374 (original paper).

Elston GN, Tweedale R, Rosa MGP (1999) Cellular heterogeneity in cerebral cortex: a study of the morphology of pyramidal neurones in visual areas of the marmoset monkey. Journal of Comparative Neurology 415:33-51 (original paper).

Morgan DL, Whitehead NP, Wise AK, Gregory JE, Proske U (1999) Tension changes in the cat soleus muscle following slow stretch or shortening of the contracting muscle. Journal of Physiology (London) 522: 503-513 (original paper).

Nichols NR (1999) Glial responses to steroids as markers of brain aging. Journal of Neurobiology 40:585-601 (review).

Proske U, Gregory JE (1999) Vibration sensitivity of cat muscle spindles at short muscle lengths. Experimental Brain Research 124: 166-172 (original paper).

Proske U, Gregory JE, Wise AK (1999) Movement detection thresholds at the human elbow joint. Progress in Brain Research 123: 143-147 (review).

Proske U, Morgan DL (1999) Do cross-bridges contribute to the tension during stretch of passive muscle? Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility 20:433-442 (original paper).

Rosa MGP (1999) Topographic organisation of extrastriate areas in the flying fox: implications for the evolution of mammalian visual cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology 411:503-523 (original paper).

Rosa MGP, Krubitzer LA (1999) The evolution of visual cortex: where is V2? Trends in Neurosciences 22:242-248 (review).

Rosa MGP, Krubitzer LA, Molnar Z, Nelson JE (1999) Organization of visual cortex in the northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus: evidence for a homologue of the second visual area in marsupials. European Journal of Neuroscience 11:907-915 (original paper).

West JM, Barclay CJ, Luff AR, Walker DW (1999) Developmental changes in the activation properties and ultrastructure of fast- and slow-twitch muscles from fetal sheep. Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility 20:249-264 (original paper).

Wise AK, Gregory JE, Proske U (1999) The responses of muscle spindles to small, slow movements in passive muscle and during fusimotor activity. Brain Research 821: 87-94 (original paper).