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abstract：:Diminished energy metabolism and reduced activity of brain alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGDHC) occur in a number of neurodegenerative diseases. The relation between diminished KGDHC activity and altered energy metabolism is unknown. The present study tested whether a reduction in the KGDHC activity would...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Shi Q,Risa Ø,Sonnewald U,Gibson GE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aminoguanidine inhibits the development of retinopathy in diabetic animals, but the mechanism remains unclear. Inasmuch as aminoguanidine is a relatively selective inhibitor of the inducible isoform of nitric oxide synthase (iNOS), we have investigated the effects of hyperglycemia on the retinal nitric oxide (NO) path...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Du Y,Smith MA,Miller CM,Kern TS

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the mechanism by which rat retina conserves docosahexaenoic acid during essential fatty acid deficiency. Weanling female albino rats were fed diets containing either 10% by weight hydrogenated coconut oil, safflower oil, or linseed oil for 15 weeks. Plasma and rod outer segment (ROS) membranes were pre...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wiegand RD,Koutz CA,Stinson AM,Anderson RE

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder with widespread neurodegeneration in the brain. Significant oxidative, reductive, metabolic, and proteotoxic alterations have been observed in PD postmortem brains. The alterations of mitochondrial function resulting in decreased bioenergetic health is important and need...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zhang J,Culp ML,Craver JG,Darley-Usmar V

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slices of rabbit caudate and hypothalamus take up and accumulate [3H]imipramine. In superfused slices of both structures electrical stimulation or exposure to tyramine failed to release recently taken up [3H]imipramine. Depolarization by exposure to 30--60 mM-potassium caused only a small release of [3H]imipramine tha...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Langer SZ,Galzin AM,Kamal LA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a potent lipid biomediator that is likely to have diverse roles in the brain. Thus, LPA-induced events in astrocytes were defined. As little as 1 nM LPA induced a rapid increase in the concentration of intracellular free calcium ([Ca2+]i) in astrocytes from neonatal rat brains. This incr...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Keller JN,Steiner MR,Holtsberg FW,Mattson MP,Steiner SM

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutamate (Glu) terminals in rat neostriatum were removed by a unilateral frontal decortication. One to two weeks later the effects of insulin-induced hypoglycemia on the steady-state levels of amino acids [Glu, glutamine (Gln), aspartate (Asp), gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), taurine] and energy metabolites (gluc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Engelsen B,Westerberg E,Fonnum F,Wieloch T

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine IL-8 is known to be synthesized by glial cells in the brain. It has traditionally been shown to have an important role in neuroinflammation but recent evidence indicates that it may also be involved in rapid signaling in neurons. We investigated how IL-8 participates in rapid neuronal signaling by using ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Puma C,Danik M,Quirion R,Ramon F,Williams S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal injection of the cyclic imine 1-piperideine in mice resulted in measurable quantities of 5-aminopentanoic acid in brain. 5-Aminopentanoic acid is a methylene homologue of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) that is a weak GABA agonist. 5-Aminopentanoic acid formed in the periphery was ruled out as the sourc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Callery PS,Geelhaar LA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurocatin, a neuroregulatory factor isolated from mammalian brain, is a powerful affector of protein phosphorylation in rat striatal synaptosomes. Two major synaptosomal phosphoproteins of approximately 80 and approximately 60 kDa, possibly synapsin I and tyrosine hydroxylase, were especially sensitive to neurocatin....

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yee DK,Pastuszko A,Wilson DF

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to brain, the sciatic nerve concentration of vitamin E in rats increased rapidly during the postnatal period (approximately fivefold between days 1 and 8), then decreased dramatically (about twofold between days 8 and 30), and further decreased slowly between days 30 and 60 and remained constant up to 2 ye...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Clément M,Bourre JM

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(R)-[(N-propargyl-(3R) aminoindan-5-yl) ethyl methyl carbamate] (TV3326) is a novel cholinesterase and brain-selective monoamine oxidase (MAO)-A/-B inhibitor. It was developed for the treatment of dementia co-morbid with extra pyramidal disorders (parkinsonism), and depression. On chronic treatment in mice it attenuat...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sagi Y,Weinstock M,Youdim MB

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Declining levels of estrogen in women result in increases in gonadotropins such as luteinizing hormone (LH) through loss of feedback inhibition. LH, like estrogen, is modulated by hormone replacement therapy. However, the role of post-menopausal gonadotropin increases on cognition has not been evaluated. Here, we demo...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bryan KJ,Mudd JC,Richardson SL,Chang J,Lee HG,Zhu X,Smith MA,Casadesus G

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgens affect cognitive processes in both humans and animals. The effects of androgens may be limited to certain cognitive domains, specifically spatial memory, but this hypothesis remains elusive. Here, we tested castrated and sham-operated mice in various behavioral tasks to ask whether androgens affect multiple ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Benice TS,Raber J

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GD3 synthase (Sial-T2) is a key enzyme of ganglioside synthesis that, in concert with GM2 synthase (GalNAc-T), regulates the ratio of a- and b-pathway gangliosides. In this work, we study the sub-Golgi location of an epitope-tagged version of chicken Sial-T2 transfected to CHO-K1 cells. The expressed protein was enzym...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Daniotti JL,Martina JA,Giraudo CG,Zurita AR,Maccioni HJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitotoxicity mediated by alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) receptors has been proposed to play a major role in the selective death of motor neurons in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and motor neurons are more vulnerable to AMPA receptor-mediated excitotoxicity than are o...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sun H,Kawahara Y,Ito K,Kanazawa I,Kwak S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used biologically active derivatives of beta-nerve growth factor (NGF), modified by biotinylation via carboxyl groups, to target the specific binding of liposomes to cultured rat and human tumor cells bearing NGF receptors. Liposomes, to be used for targeting, were prepared by conjugating streptavidin to phosp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rosenberg MB,Breakefield XO,Hawrot E

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein L-isoaspartyl methyltransferase (PIMT) repairs the damaged proteins which have accumulated abnormal aspartyl residues during cell aging. Gene targeting has elucidated a physiological role for PIMT by showing that mice lacking PIMT died prematurely from fatal epileptic seizures. Here we investigated the role of...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lanthier J,Bouthillier A,Lapointe M,Demeule M,Béliveau R,Desrosiers RR

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transport kinetics of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), taurine, and beta-alanine in addition to the mutual inhibition patterns of these compounds were investigated in cultures of neurons and astrocytes derived from mouse cerebral cortex. A high-affinity uptake system for each amino acid was demonstrated both in neu...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Larsson OM,Griffiths R,Allen IC,Schousboe A

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates that increased intracellular Na(+) concentration ([Na(+) ]i ) in astroglial cells is associated with the development of brain edema under ischemic conditions, but the underlying mechanisms are still elusive. Here, we report that in primary cultured rat cortical astrocytes, elevations of...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Minieri L,Pivonkova H,Harantova L,Anderova M,Ferroni S

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beneficial or detrimental role of gap junction communication in the pathophysiology of brain injury is still controversial. We used co-cultures of hippocampal astrocytes and neurons, where we identified homocellular astrocyte-astrocyte and heterocellular astrocyte-neuron coupling by fluorescence recovery after pho...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zündorf G,Kahlert S,Reiser G

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequences encoding two variants of a novel gamma-aminobutyric acidA (GABAA) receptor beta subunit were isolated from an embryonic chicken whole-brain cDNA library and a chicken genomic library. The coding regions of these variants only differ from each other by the absence or presence of 12 bp in the region that e...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bateson AN,Lasham A,Darlison MG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of dopamine (DA) in the synaptic cleft in the mouse striatum in vivo was estimated from the competition between the synaptic DA and the 3H-labelled DA D2 receptor agonists N-n-propylnorapomorphine (NPA) or N,N-diethyl-N'-[(3 alpha, 4a alpha, 10 beta)-1,2,3,4,4a,5,10,10a-octahydro- 7-hydroxyl-1-propyl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ross SB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reactive oxygen and nitrogen species have emerged as predominant effectors of neurodegeneration. We demonstrated that expression of the fully active G93A Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase mutant in neuroblastoma cells is associated with an increased level of oxidatively modified proteins, in terms of carbonylated residues. A...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Aquilano K,Rotilio G,Ciriolo MR

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract Huntingtin is a large, multi-domain protein of unknown function in the brain. An abnormally elongated polyglutamine stretch in its N-terminus causes Huntington's disease (HD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder. Huntingtin has been proposed to play a functional role in membrane trafficking via proteins ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Suopanki J,Götz C,Lutsch G,Schiller J,Harjes P,Herrmann A,Wanker EE

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microelectrophoretic methods were used to study the effects on cat spinal neurones of a number of compounds structurally related to the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonists muscimol, THIP, and isoguvacine. While N-methylmuscimol was an agonist at bicuculline methochloride-sensitive GABA receptors, somewhat weaker t...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Krogsgaard-Larsen P,Hjeds H,Curtis DR,Leah JD,Peet MJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrogenic tissue of Torpedo was found to phosphorylate in vitro external [14C]thiamine by a saturable process. The rate of this metabolisaton was increased when acetate, an efficient precursor of acetylcholine (ACh) synthesis in this tissue, was added to the incubation medium, thus increasing the turnover of AC...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Eder L,Dunant Y,Loctin F

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LIM homeobox family of transcription factors is involved in many processes during the development of the mammalian central nerves system. L3, also called Lhx8 (L3/Lhx8), is a recently identified member of the LIM homeobox gene family and is selectively expressed in the medial ganglionic eminence (MGE). Our previou...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Manabe T,Tatsumi K,Inoue M,Matsuyoshi H,Makinodan M,Yokoyama S,Wanaka A

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that disrupting the expression and post-synaptic clustering of gephyrin in cultured hippocampal pyramidal cells, by either gephyrin RNAi (RNA interference) or over-expression of a dominant negative gephyrin-enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) fusion protein, leads to decreased number of po...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yu W,De Blas AL

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Gi/o protein-coupled receptors on adenylyl cyclase type 2 (AC2) has been studied in Sf9 insect cells. Stimulation of cells expressing AC2 with the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) led to a twofold stimulation of cAMP synthesis that could be blocked with the protein kinase C inhib...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Näsman J,Kukkonen JP,Holmqvist T,Akerman KE

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00