Cortical neurons of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients express the urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor.

abstract：:It is known that mice homozygous for the retinal degeneration (rd) mutation are able to synchronize their circadian rhythms to light-dark cycles. In the present experiments mice were given a choice of a dark or an illuminated living and nesting area. C3H, CBA and C57 rd/rd mice spent more time in the dark than in the ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Mrosovsky N,Hampton RR

更新日期：1997-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We wanted to verify the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) abnormalities that occur in the central nervous system (CNS) of cobalamin-deficient (Cbl-D) rats. The rats were made Cbl-D by means of total gastrectomy or feeding a Cbl-D diet. MR images of the cervical tract of the vertebral canal were recorded using a vertica...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Veber D,Mutti E,Sironi L,Guerrini U,Gianazza E,Scalabrino G

更新日期：2008-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether any specific requirement for extracellular Ca2+ exists in the control synaptic vesicle retrieval, we examined the ability of the divalent cation Ba2+ to substitute for Ca2+ in both vesicle exocytosis and endocytosis. Ba2+ stimulated glutamate release from rat cerebrocortical synaptosomes. Ba2+-e...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cousin MA,Robinson PJ

更新日期：1998-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin protection against H2O2-induced lipid peroxidation in brain homogenates was measured in vitro. The level of malonaldehyde (MDA) plus 4-hydroxyalkenals (4-HDA) was assayed in brain homogenates as an index of induced membrane oxidative damage. Brain homogenates were co-incubated with H2O2 alone or in combinati...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sewerynek E,Poeggeler B,Melchiorri D,Reiter RJ

更新日期：1995-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A differential localization of binding sites in the rat brain for [3H]D-Ala2,Leu5-enkephalin ([3H]DADL) and [3H]etorphine ([3H]Eto) was been demonstrated by an in vitro autoradiography technique. Labeling with [3H]DADL was found predominantly in septum and paraventricular nuclei of hypothalamus, whereas [3H]Eto labeli...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Duka T,Schubert P,Wüster M,Stoiber R,Herz A

更新日期：1981-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that administration of low extracellular levels of magnesium ions ([Mg(2+)](o)) to primary cultured cerebral vascular smooth muscle cells will cause lipid peroxidation, degradation of IkappaB-alpha, and activation of nuclear transcription factor kappa B (NF-kappaB)...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Altura BM,Gebrewold A,Zhang A,Altura BT

更新日期：2003-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have indicated that higher levels of childhood aerobic fitness is associated with superior cognitive function, and this association is disproportionately observed in tasks requiring greater top-down control. We designed the current study to clarify the relationship between childhood fitness and top-dow...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Kamijo K,Takeda Y,Takai Y,Haramura M

更新日期：2016-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by the selective loss of dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons in the substantia nigra and the subsequent depletion of dopamine (DA). This study assessed the protective effects of costunolide on DA-induced apoptosis in human DAergic SH-SY5Y cells, and its regulation of DA metabolism-...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Ham A,Lee SJ,Shin J,Kim KH,Mar W

更新日期：2012-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) concentration were measured in cortical synaptosomes. Preincubation with adenosine deaminase reduced cAMP concentration by 45%. Oxotremorine, clonidine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and baclofen produced no change in basal concentration. 2-Chloroadenosine and no...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Fillenz M,Bloomfield MR

更新日期：1986-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were injected (i.p.) once daily with either 1 mg/kg CGP 56999A, a gamma-aminobutyric acid(B) (GABA(B)) receptor antagonist, or an equivalent volume of saline beginning 7 days prior to, and continuing for 7 days following, a unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine lesion of the nigrostriatal dopamine (DA) pathway. At the end...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Enna SJ,Reisman SA,Stanford JA

更新日期：2006-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve plexuses showing 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)-like immunoreactivity (5-HTLI) have been demonstrated in all the major cerebral arteries of the rat using fluorescence immunohistochemistry on whole-mount stretch preparations. Following bilateral superior cervical ganglionectomy, nerves disappeared from all the vessel...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cowen T,Alafaci C,Crockard HA,Burnstock G

更新日期：1987-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion-induced degeneration was combined with immunocytochemistry to study, with electron microscopy, the synaptic connectivity between corticothalamic axon terminals from the first and second somatosensory areas and local circuit neurons of the ipsilateral ventrobasal complex (VB), selectively labelled with an antibo...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Barbaresi P,Manzoni T

更新日期：2003-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Presenilin1 (PSEN1) 1143T and G384A mutations give rise to severe early-onset Alzheimer's disease in two extensively studied Belgian families. In the present study, we examined the effect of PSEN1 1143T and G384A mutations on tau phosphorylation in human SH-SY5Y and mouse Neuro-2a neuroblastoma cell lines that were tr...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Julliams A,Vanderhoeven I,Kuhn S,Van Broeckhoven C,De Jonghe C

更新日期：1999-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Four new tactile areas in the cerebellar cortex (crus I, crus II, paramedian lobule and uvula) have recently been described in the rat. Ipsilateral orofacial regions are chiefly represented in these areas. Our study of trigeminocerebellar afferents to these areas using the HRP retrograde tracing technique shows that t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Watson CR,Switzer RC 3rd

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fe65 is a brain enriched multi domain adaptor protein involved in diverse cellular functions. One of its binding partners is the amyloid-β (Aβ) precursor protein (APP), which after sequential proteolytic processing by secretases gives rise to the Alzheimer's Aβ peptide. Fe65 binds to the APP intracellular domain (AICD...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Koistinen NA,Bacanu S,Iverfeldt K

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pitrazepin is a potent new GABA antagonist which differs from bicuculline in its chemical structure and its interaction with both [3H]muscimol and [3H]flunitrazepam binding sites, whereby the potency of pitrazepin in displacing [3H]muscimol exceeds that of bicuculline by at least a factor of 10. In physiological exper...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gähwiler BH,Maurer R,Wüthrich HJ

更新日期：1984-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that D-cycloserine displaces [3H]glycine binding to a recognition site with properties consistent with an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor modulatory site. Additionally, D-cycloserine positively modulates the NMDA receptor as evidenced by its dose-dependent enhancement of [3H]1-[1-(2-thien...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Hood WF,Compton RP,Monahan JB

更新日期：1989-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine, synthesized in the cytoplasm of cholinergic neurons by choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), is packaged in synaptic vesicles by vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT). The entire VAChT gene has been reported to be located within the first intron of the ChAT gene. In order to examine whether or not ChA...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Matsuura J,Ajiki K,Ichikawa T,Misawa H

更新日期：1997-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of neurons containing the messenger RNA encoding preprotachykinin, the precursor of the neuropeptides substance P and K, was examined in the striatum of the rat. The large majority of cells densely labelled by in situ hybridization histochemistry (using a 35S-radiolabelled RNA probe complementary of t...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Chesselet MF,Robbins E

更新日期：1989-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromelanin (NM)-containing dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra are selectively vulnerable in Parkinson's disease (PD), suggesting the involvement of NM in the pathogenesis. NM is composed of protein, lipid, trace metals and melanin component, a mixture of eumelanin produced from dopamine (DA)-quinone and ph...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Naoi M,Yi H,Maruyama W,Inaba K,Shamoto-Nagai M,Akao Y,Gerlach M,Riederer P

更新日期：2009-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) increased neuronal excitability specifically in type II neurons of the dorsolateral part of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (dlBNST). Because the majority of type II dlBNST neurons are thought to be GABAergic interneurons, at least a portion of w...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Nagano Y,Kaneda K,Maruyama C,Ide S,Kato F,Minami M

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of our survey of natural compounds inhibiting prostaglandin E2 release and/or lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced transcriptional stimulation via NF-kappaB, a central regulator of inflammatory genes, from natural resources, we found garcinone B, a xanthone from callus tissue culture of Hypericum patulum, as...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Yamakuni T,Aoki K,Nakatani K,Kondo N,Oku H,Ishiguro K,Ohizumi Y

更新日期：2006-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study tests the hypothesis that nitration is a potential mechanism of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor modification, by assessing the effect of peroxynitrite in vitro on the glutamate and ion-channel sites of the NMDA receptor in the fetal guinea pig. Nitration of NMDA receptor subunits was confirmed b...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Zanelli SA,Ashraf QM,Delivoria-Papadopoulos M,Mishra OP

更新日期：2000-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study was made of the enzyme choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) from normal and Alzheimer (senile dementia of the Alzheimer type) brain. The number of molecular weight and charge forms of the enzyme were determined in the caudate region of both brains. Efficient purification of active ChAT was achieved usi...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Bruce G

更新日期：1985-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) antagonist alpha-bungarotoxin (alpha-Btx) binds to two different classes of high affinity binding sites from the Drosophila central nervous system. We have used the bivalent reagent 1-ethyl-3-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]carbodiimide (EDAC) to cross-link 125I-alpha-Btx (M(r) = ...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Schloss P,Mayser W,Gundelfinger ED,Betz H

更新日期：1992-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Amyloid protein immunoreactivity in neocortex and hippocampus of Alzheimer's disease and control brains has been measured using an automatic image analysis system. Successive fields from the pial surface to white matter in 4 neocortical sites, parahippocampal gyrus and along the pyramidal cell layer in the hippoc...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Cairns NJ,Chadwick A,Luthert PJ,Lantos PL

更新日期：1991-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Antipsychotic drugs remain the mainstay of pharmacotherapy for schizophrenia. As there are large individual variations in efficacy and side-effects of antipsychotic drugs, there is a strong demand for personalized medication to treat schizophrenia. Pharmacogenetic research into antipsychotic drugs has examined a numbe...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Han M,Deng C

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous tracer studies have revealed the sacculus to be connected to the vestibular and cochlear nuclei in the guinea pig. Due to its own innervation pattern, an anterior and posterior part of the sacculus can be distinguished. The present study investigated whether the two parts differ concerning their fiber contrib...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Gstoettner W,Burian M,Zundritsch R,Mayr R

更新日期：1991-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotics participate actively in the neuropsychiatric disorders. However, their roles on ischemic stroke remain unclear. This study aims to determine whether Clostridium butyricum (C. butyricum) could attenuate cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury and its possible mechanisms. Male ICR mice were intragastricall...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Sun J,Ling Z,Wang F,Chen W,Li H,Jin J,Zhang H,Pang M,Yu J,Liu J

更新日期：2016-02-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of NMDA receptor (NMDAR) activation and other mechanisms regulating neuronal excitability have not been thoroughly described. While excess activation of NMDARs results in excitotoxicity, partial activation of NMDARs by d-cycloserine (DCS) is nootropic, enhancing both acquisition and extinction of memor...

journal_title：Neuroscience letters

authors： Donzis EJ,Thompson LT

更新日期：2014-06-13 00:00:00