Amtyr1: characterization of a gene from honeybee (Apis mellifera) brain encoding a functional tyramine receptor.

abstract：:A diverse group of neurodegenerative diseases - including progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), corticobasal degeneration and Alzheimer's disease among others, collectively referred to as tauopathies - are characterized by progressive, age-dependent intracellular formations of misfolded protein aggregates that play ke...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pasinetti GM,Ksiezak-Reding H,Santa-Maria I,Wang J,Ho L

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin-1A (5-HT(1A) receptors in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) function as somatodendritic autoreceptors, and therefore play a critical role in controlling serotonergic cell firing and serotonergic neurotransmission. We hypothesized that a decrease in the capacity of 5-HT(1A) receptors to activate G proteins was a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rossi DV,Burke TF,McCasland M,Hensler JG

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR) is an endogenous metabolic intermediate that facilitates the influx and efflux of acetyl groups across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Exogenously administered ALCAR has been used as a nutritional supplement and also as an experimental drug with reported neuroprotective properties and effe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Scafidi S,Fiskum G,Lindauer SL,Bamford P,Shi D,Hopkins I,McKenna MC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged seizures activate members of the Bcl-2 homology domain 3-only sub-group of the Bcl-2 protein family, which are essential for initiation of apoptosis signaling. Bid is a potent pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 homology domain 3-only protein, which upon proteolytic activation translocates to mitochondria to promote activat...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Engel T,Caballero-Caballero A,Schindler CK,Plesnila N,Strasser A,Prehn JH,Henshall DC

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal regulation of brain glycogen metabolism is believed to underlie insulin-induced hypoglycaemia, which may be serious or fatal in diabetic patients on insulin therapy. A key regulator of glycogen levels is glycogen targeted protein phosphatase 1 (PP1), which dephosphorylates and activates glycogen synthase (GS)...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kelsall IR,Voss M,Munro S,Cuthbertson DJ,Cohen PT

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments assessed the effects of SR 48692, a selective nonpeptide antagonist of neurotensin receptors, on mesolimbic dopaminergic neurotransmission. Dopamine release evoked by the electrical stimulation of the median forebrain bundle (20 Hz, 10 s) was measured in the nucleus accumbens of urethane-anesth...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Brun P,Steinberg R,Le Fur G,Soubrié P

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sites of interaction of quinacrine with synaptic membranes were labeled with quinacrine mustard. Quinacrine mustard had an inhibitory effect on depolarization-induced calcium uptake by synaptosomes similar to that of quinacrine. The inhibition of depolarization-induced calcium uptake by quinacrine was reduced by 7...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ohta A,Baba A,Iwata H

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) on neuronal survival was studied in cultured cells isolated from newborn rat retina. In vivo, the content of DHA in the retina increased nearly fourfold from days 2 to 12 after birth, whereas in retinal cells in culture it remained constant. Unlike amacrine cells, the photorece...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rotstein NP,Aveldaño MI,Barrantes FJ,Politi LE

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A great body of evidence points toward a functional interaction between metabotropic glutamate 5 receptors (mGluR5) and NMDA receptors (NMDAR) that enhances synaptic plasticity and cognition. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this interaction remains unclear. Here, we show that co-activation of mGluR5 and NM...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sarantis K,Tsiamaki E,Kouvaros S,Papatheodoropoulos C,Angelatou F

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that nerve terminals and glial cells lack an active uptake system capable of terminating transmitter action of substance P (SP). In the present study, we demonstrated the existence of an active uptake system for SP carboxy-terminal heptapeptide, (5-11)SP. When the slices from either rat brain or...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nakata Y,Kusaka Y,Yajima H,Segawa T

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanocortin-4 receptors (MC4 R) are unique among G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) as they have endogenous ligands that can exhibit inverse agonistic properties in the case of elevated basal activity. It is known that the constitutive activity of GPCRs strongly affects the ligand-dependent physiological responses, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Link R,Veiksina S,Tahk MJ,Laasfeld T,Paiste P,Kopanchuk S,Rinken A

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess maturation of central serotonin and catecholamine pathways at birth, we measured lumbar CSF homovanillic acid (HVA) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA), stable acid metabolites of dopamine and serotonin, using HPLC with electrochemical detection. CSFs from 57 neonates (38 premature and 19 at term) and 13...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Silverstein FS,Donn S,Buchanan K,Johnston MV

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxymethylation and phosphorylation of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) catalytic C subunit are evolutionary conserved mechanisms that critically control PP2A holoenzyme assembly and substrate specificity. Down-regulation of PP2A methylation and PP2A enzymes containing the B alpha regulatory subunit occur in Alzheimer...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nunbhakdi-Craig V,Schuechner S,Sontag JM,Montgomery L,Pallas DC,Juno C,Mudrak I,Ogris E,Sontag E

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vesicular sequestration is important in the regulation of cytoplasmic concentrations of monoamines such as dopamine. Moreover, recent evidence suggests that increases in cytoplasmic dopamine levels, perhaps attributable to changes in vesicular monoamine transporter function, contribute to methamphetamine-induced dopam...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Brown JM,Hanson GR,Fleckenstein AE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a whole-cell binding procedure with long incubations at low temperature and subsequent acid stripping, we have characterized an atypical endothelin (ET) receptor in primary rat cortical astrocyte cultures. We found the following: (a) no competition for 125I-ET-1 binding by the ET(A) antagonists BQ-123 and LU 135...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jensen N,Hasselblatt M,Sirén AL,Schilling L,Schmidt M,Ehrenreich H

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kainate receptors (KARs) modulate synaptic transmission at both pre-synaptic and post-synaptic sites. The overlap in the distribution of KA-2 and GluR6/7 subunits in several brain regions suggests the co-assembly of these subunits in native KARs. The molecular mechanisms that control the assembly and surface expressio...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gallyas F Jr,Ball SM,Molnar E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chick imprinting behavior is a good model for the study of learning and memory. Imprinting object is recognized and processed in the visual wulst, and the memory is stored in the intermediate medial mesopallium in the dorsal pallium of the telencephalon. We identified chicken cholecystokinin (CCK)-expressing cells loc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Maekawa F,Nakamori T,Uchimura M,Fujiwara K,Yada T,Tsukahara S,Kanamatsu T,Tanaka K,Ohki-Hamazaki H

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) concentrations were measured in CSF specimens from two large groups of control subjects, one without neurological or psychiatric disease, and one with a variety of neurological disorders not known to involve altered GABAergic function in brain. CSF GABA was also measured in patients with...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Perry TL,Hansen S,Wall RA,Gauthier SG

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are activated in humans following infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and brain inflammation is thought to be involved in neuronal injury and dysfunction during HIV infection. Numerous studies indicate a role for the HIV regulatory protein Tat in HIV-related inflammatory and neurodegenerative ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bruce-Keller AJ,Barger SW,Moss NI,Pham JT,Keller JN,Nath A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with phorbol esters such as 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol acetate (TPA) rapidly enhances [3H]norepinephrine secretion from digitonin-permeabilized adrenal chromaffin cells. When TPA treatment was prolonged for several hours, a second distinct enhancing effect was observed. This later enhancement was most promine...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bittner MA,Holz RW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MDL 72145, (E)-2-(3',4'-dimethoxyphenyl)-3-fluoroallylamine hydrochloride, was designed and synthesised as a potential enzyme-activated irreversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase (MAO). In vitro, the compound displayed time-dependent pseudo-first-order irreversible inhibitory characteristics with high selectivity for...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zreika M,McDonald IA,Bey P,Palfreyman MG

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of the prodynorphin gene occurs in a tissue-specific manner following different physiological stimuli. Using electrophoretic mobility shift assays, we studied the relative activity of the five major regulatory sites in the rat prodynorphin promoter. Prodynorphin cyclic AMP-responsive element 2 (DynCRE2), Dyn...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Carrión AM,Mellström B,Luckman SM,Naranjo JR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin, the obese gene product, was reported to stimulate prolactin (PRL) secretion, but the neuroendocrine mechanism underlying this hormonal response is largely unknown. Thus, in this study we examined the involvement of several important PRL regulators in the leptin-induced PRL secretion in male rats. Compared with...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Watanobe H,Schiöth HB,Izumi J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of acute and chronic administration of a subconvulsive dose of picrotoxin on t-[35S]butylbicyclophosphorothionate ([3S]TBPS), [3H]muscimol, and [3H]flunitrazepam binding characteristics in various regions and on the convulsant potency of picrotoxin in Sprague-Dawley rats were examined. Acute administration...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ito Y,Lim DK,Nabeshima T,Ho IK

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motor signs of Parkinson's disease have been partly attributed to an overinhibition of the external globus pallidus (GP) that results from hyperactivity of striatopallidal GABA/enkephalinergic neurons. The goals of this study were to measure basal levels of extracellular fluid GABA in the GP of normal cats, 1-meth...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schroeder JA,Schneider JS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR) is a low-affinity receptor that is capable of binding neurotrophins. Two different p75NTR knockout mouse lines are available either with a deletion in Exon III (p75NTRExIII-/- ) or in Exon IV (p75NTRExIV-/- ). In p75NTRExIII knockout mice, only the full-length p75NTR is deleted, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Busch R,Baldus M,Vogt MA,Berger SM,Bartsch D,Gass P,von Bohlen Und Halbach O

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has a number of physiological and pathophysiological effects in the nervous system. One target of NO is the mitochondrion, where it inhibits respiration and ATP synthesis, which may contribute to NO-mediated neuronal injury. Our recent studies suggested that impaired mitochondrial function impairs mi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rintoul GL,Bennett VJ,Papaconstandinou NA,Reynolds IJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of spiperone inhibition of [3H]5-hydroxytryptamine [(3H]5-HT; [3H]serotonin) binding were examined in dorsal (DH) and ventral (VH) hippocampus, corpus striatum (CS) or caudate nucleus (CN), and frontal cortex (FC) in the rabbit, guinea pig, and cat. Some of the properties of spiperone inhibition of...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schnellmann RG,Waters SJ,Nelson DL

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic fragmentation of [3H]diisopropylfluorophosphate-labelled catalytic subunits of different molecular forms of acetylcholinesterase demonstrates that all forms extracted from the electric organ from Torpedo marmorata are true acetylcholinesterases. This is supported by immunochemical results showing that the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Stieger S,Brodbeck U,Witzemann V

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GABA(A) receptors are the major inhibitory neurotransmitter receptors in the brain. Some of them are targets of benzodiazepines that are widely used in clinical practice for their sedative/hypnotic, anxiolytic, muscle relaxant and anticonvulsant effects. In order to rationally separate these different drug actions, we...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tan KR,Baur R,Charon S,Goeldner M,Sigel E

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00