Conformational change, aggregation and fibril formation induced by detergent treatments of cellular prion protein.

abstract：:The dopamine transporter (DAT) plays a key role in regulating dopaminergic signalling in the brain by mediating rapid clearance of dopamine from the synaptic clefts. The psychostimulatory actions of cocaine and amphetamine are primarily the result of a direct interaction of these compounds with DAT leading to attenuat...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Eriksen J,Jørgensen TN,Gether U

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:PK 11195 [1-(2-chlorophenyl)-N-methyl-N-(1-methylpropyl)-3-isoquinolinecarboxamide] is a new ligand for the "peripheral-type" benzodiazepine binding sites, chemically unrelated to benzodiazepines. It displaces with a very high potency (IC50 congruent to 10(-9) M) [3H]-RO5-4864 (a benzodiazepine which specifically labe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Benavides J,Quarteronet D,Imbault F,Malgouris C,Uzan A,Renault C,Dubroeucq MC,Gueremy C,Le Fur G

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) gene expression was analyzed in PC12 cells. PC12 cells transfected with a PACAP promoter-luciferase reporter construct were utilized to investigate the effects of PACAP, either alone or in combination with nerve growth factor (NGF), on PACAP transcriptional re...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hashimoto H,Hagihara N,Koga K,Yamamoto K,Shintani N,Tomimoto S,Mori W,Koyama Y,Matsuda T,Baba A

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex injury involving several physiological alterations, potentially leading to neurological impairment. Previous mouse studies using high-density oligonucleotide array analysis have confirmed the upregulation of transforming growth-interacting factor (TGIF) mRNA in TBI. TGIF is a ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chio CC,Chang CP,Lin MT,Su FC,Yang CZ,Tseng HY,Liu ZM,Huang HS

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of Pb(2+) on vesicular catecholamine release in intact and ionomycin-permeabilized PC12 cells were investigated using carbon fibre microelectrode amperometry. Changes in intracellular Pb(2+) and Ca(2+) were measured from indo-1 fluorescence by confocal laser scanning microscopy. Depolarization of intact cells ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Westerink RH,Vijverberg HP

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of the positron-emitting compound [18F]6-fluoro-L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (*F-DOPA) was studied in carbidopa-pretreated male hooded rats. Thirty minutes following carbidopa administration (5 mg/kg i.p.), animals received *F-DOPA (500 micrograms/kg; specific activity, 175-230 Ci/mol) as an intrajugula...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cumming P,Boyes BE,Martin WR,Adam M,Grierson J,Ruth T,McGeer EG

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lewy body disease (LBD) development is enhanced by mutations in the GBA gene coding for glucocerebrosidase (GCase). The mechanism of this association is thought to involve an abnormal lysosomal system and we therefore sought to evaluate if lysosomal changes contribute to the pathogenesis of idiopathic LBD. Analysis of...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kurzawa-Akanbi M,Hanson PS,Blain PG,Lett DJ,McKeith IG,Chinnery PF,Morris CM

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that following heat shock (42.5 degree C for 30 min), mouse-derived C1300 N2A neuroblastoma cells contain increased levels of mRNA coding for the inducible form of heat shock protein 70 and for ubiquitin. Incubation of C1300 cells with iron also induces an elevation in content of mRNAs coding for the sam...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Uney JB,Anderton BH,Thomas SM

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglial activation can lead to microglial apoptosis, which may serve to remove highly reactive and possibly neurotoxic microglia. However the loss of microglia may have consequences for future recovery, protection and repair. P53, a nuclear phosphoprotein transcription factor, is critical for activating the express...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Davenport CM,Sevastou IG,Hooper C,Pocock JM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibilities of interference by glycerophosphoryl ethanolamine (GPE) in the estimation of taurine levels in cerebral cortex, midbrain, cerebellum, medullapons, and spinal cord of developing human fetal brain regions were eliminated by hydrolyzing tissue extracts with 6 M HCl. Cysteic acid thus produced was separa...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Datta SC

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three major subtypes of glutamate receptors that are coupled to cation channels--N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), kainate, and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate (AMPA) receptors--are known as ionotropic receptors in the mammalian CNS. Recently, an additional subtype that is coupled to GTP binding protei...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Itano Y,Murayama T,Kitamura Y,Nomura Y

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decrease in receptor-stimulated cyclic AMP production after chronic ethanol exposure was suggested previously to be secondary to an ethanol-induced increase in extracellular adenosine. The present study was undertaken to ascertain whether a similar mechanism was responsible for the ethanol-induced desensitization ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rabin RA,Fiorella D,Van Wylen DG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:JNK/SAPK has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, but the upstream cascade leading to JNK/SAPK activation has not been elucidated in the disease. In this study, we focused on one of the physiological activators of JNK/SAPK, JNK kinase 1 (JKK1). Although there was no significant difference in the...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zhu X,Ogawa O,Wang Y,Perry G,Smith MA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The normal cellular form of prion protein (PrP(C)) has been shown to exhibit a diverse range of biological activities. Several recent studies highlighted potential involvement of PrP(C) in embryogenesis or in regulating stem cell self-renewal and proliferation. In the current study, we employed human embryonic stem ce...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lee YJ,Baskakov IV

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focuses on the potential involvement of carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT) on the phospholipid and triglyceride fatty acid turnover in neurons. This category of enzymes, which has been identified in several rat brain tissues, is well known for its role in modulating cellular fatty acid oxidation. Neuronal...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Arduini A,Denisova N,Virmani A,Avrova N,Federici G,Arrigoni-Martelli E

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin A (CsA) is a clinically important immunosuppressive drug widely used to prevent graft rejection following organ or bone marrow transplantation. Although there are reports of serious neurologic alterations associated with the use of the drug, the precise mechanism of its action on the CNS still remains unkn...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mosieniak G,Figiel I,Kaminska B

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preincubation of D384 cells, derived from the human astrocytoma cell line G-CCM, with dopamine resulted in a time-dependent attenuation of cyclic AMP responsiveness to subsequent dopamine stimulation. This effect was agonist specific because the prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) stimulation of cyclic AMP of similarly treated ce...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Balmforth AJ,Warburton P,Ball SG

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), an incretin hormone of current interest in type 2 diabetes, is neuroprotective in both cell culture and animal models. To characterize the neuroprotective properties of GLP-1 and associated underlying mechanisms, we over-expressed the GLP-1 receptor (G...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li Y,Tweedie D,Mattson MP,Holloway HW,Greig NH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined the molecular and functional characterization of choline uptake into cultured rat cortical astrocytes. Choline uptake into astrocytes showed little dependence on extracellular Na+. Na+-independent choline uptake was saturable and mediated by a single transport system, with an apparent Michae...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Inazu M,Takeda H,Matsumiya T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cells to control the balance between the generation and quenching of reactive oxygen species is important in combating potentially damaging effects of oxidative stress. One mechanism that cells use to maintain redox homeostasis is the antioxidant response pathway. Antioxidant response elements (AREs) ar...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cao TT,Ma L,Kandpal G,Warren L,Hess JF,Seabrook GR

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of [2-3H]glycerol-labeled phosphatidylinositol with a crude cytosol fraction of rat brain in the presence of EDTA yielded [3H]lysophosphatidylinositol predominantly without accumulation of labeled monoacylglycerol and diacylglycerol. The pH optimum of this phospholipase A activity was 8.0. The activity for ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ueda H,Kobayashi T,Kishimoto M,Tsutsumi T,Okuyama H

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study used an ethanol antagonist, increased atmospheric pressure, to test the hypothesis that ethanol acts on multiple sites in glycine receptors (GlyRs). The effects of 12 times normal atmospheric pressure of helium-oxygen gas (pressure) on ethanol-induced potentiation of GlyR function in Xenopus oocytes ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Davies DL,Crawford DK,Trudell JR,Mihic SJ,Alkana RL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential screening of a cDNA library prepared from mRNA of the hippocampus of estrogen-stimulated ovariectomized female rats led to the identification of a single estrogen-induced clone. Analysis of the sequence identified this cDNA as the gene coding for subunit III of the enzyme cytochrome c oxidase. Cytochrome ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bettini E,Maggi A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific binding of [3H]8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin ([ 3H]8-OH-DPAT) to 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)-related sites was investigated in several regions of the rat brain. Marked differences were observed in the characteristics of binding to membranes from hippocampus, striatum, and cerebral cortex. Hippocam...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hall MD,el Mestikawy S,Emerit MB,Pichat L,Hamon M,Gozlan H

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachidonic acid (AA) plays an important role as a signaling factor in the CNS. Therefore, exposure to AA may affect cholinergic neurons in the spinal cord. To test this hypothesis, mRNA expression and activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) was measured in cultured spinal cord neurons treated with increasing con...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chalimoniuk M,King-Pospisil K,Pedersen WA,Malecki A,Wylegala E,Mattson MP,Hennig B,Toborek M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cortical neurones exposed to an oxidative insult in the form of hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) for 30 min showed a concentration-dependent increase in oxidative stress followed by a delayed NMDA receptor-dependent cell death measured 24 h later. Extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK1/2), c-jun N-ter...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Crossthwaite AJ,Hasan S,Williams RJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrated that 9 kb of the rat tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) 5' flanking sequence directed appropriate spatiotemporal expression of a lacZ reporter gene to catecholaminergic cells in the CNS of transgenic mice. In the present study, specificity of transgene expression was further extended to demonstrat...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Min N,Joh TH,Corp ES,Baker H,Cubells JF,Son JH

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dp71 has an important role in the central nervous system. To better understand the function of Dp71 domains in neuronal differentiation, PC12 cells were stably transfected with a dystrophin mutant, Dp71Δ(78-79) , which lacks exons 78 and 79. Based on the percentage of cells bearing neurites and neurite length analyses...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Aragón J,Romo-Yáñez J,Martínez-Herrera A,Ceja V,Rendon A,Montañez C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For a long time, prolyl endopeptidase (PEP) was believed to inactivate neuropeptides in the extracellular space. However, reports on the intracellular activity of PEP suggest additional, as yet unidentified, physiological functions for this enzyme. Here, we demonstrate using biochemical methods of subcellular fraction...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schulz I,Zeitschel U,Rudolph T,Ruiz-Carrillo D,Rahfeld JU,Gerhartz B,Bigl V,Demuth HU,Rossner S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00