Motivation Figures and captions convey essential information in biomedical documents. As
such, there is a growing interest in mining published biomedical figures and in utilizing their …

Multiple mechanisms likely contribute to neuronal death in Parkinson's disease (PD),
including mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress. Peroxisome proliferator-activated …

Parkinson's disease (PD) involves the loss of dopamine (DA) neurons, making it the most
expected neurodegenerative disease to be treated by cell replacement therapy. Stem cells …

Computational modeling has emerged as a critical tool in investigating the complex
molecular processes involved in biological systems and diseases. In this study, we apply …

Social interaction is known to be the main source of stress in human beings, which explains
the translational importance of this research in animals. Evidence reported over the last …

Rationale Repeated social defeat (RSD) increases the rewarding effects of cocaine in
adolescent and adult rodents. Objective The aim of the present study was to compare the …

Mesodiencephalic dopaminergic (mdDA) neurons are located in the ventral
mesodiencephalon and are involved in psychiatric disorders and severely affected in …

Prenatal stress exerts a strong impact on fetal brain development in rats impairing
adaptation to stressful conditions, subsequent vulnerability to anxiety, altered sexual …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a behaviourally defined brain disorder affecting
approximately 1 in 88 children. Many pathological studies have shown that ASD is …

Development of meso-diencephalic dopamine (mdDA) neurons requires the combined
actions of the orphan nuclear receptor Nurr1 and the paired-like homeobox transcription …