The cytotoxicity of dopamine may be an artefact of cell culture.

abstract：:We investigated the effect of chronically blocking NMDA receptor stimulation to examine changes in GABA(A) receptor expression and pharmacology in cerebellar granule cells at different stages of maturation. We have previously shown that NMDA-selective glutamate receptor stimulation alters GABA(A) receptor pharmacology...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wang XH,Zhu WJ,Corsi L,Ikonomovic S,Paljug WR,Vicini S,Grayson DR

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogeny of chick brain and heart ventricle calcium antagonist binding sites was determined, using [3H]nitrendipine ([3H]NDP), as the ligand. The binding of [3H]NDP to adult heart and brain was kinetically very similar, with the former displaying a KD of 0.28 +/- 0.02 nM and a Bmax of 138 +/- 17 fmol/mg protein, a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Marangos PJ,Sperelakis N,Patel J

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to establish whether the antioxidant and iron-chelating activities of R-apomorphine (R-APO), a D(1)-D(2) receptor agonist, may contribute to its neuroprotective property, its S-isomer, which is not a dopamine agonist, was studied. The neuroprotective property of R- and S-APO has been studied in the MPTP model...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Grünblatt E,Mandel S,Maor G,Youdim MB

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic properties of soluble tyrosine hydroxylase from rat striatum and the activation of the enzyme by the polyanion heparin were assessed as a function of the monovalent cations K+, Na+, tetramethylammonium (TMA+), and Tris. Substitution of K+ or Na+ for TMA+ or Tris can alter the kinetic properties of tyrosine...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kuczenski R

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are the main players of the brain immune response. They act as active sensors that rapidly respond to injurious insults by shifting into different activated states. Elevated levels of unconjugated bilirubin (UCB) induce cell death, immunostimulation and oxidative stress in both neurons and astrocytes. We rec...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Silva SL,Osório C,Vaz AR,Barateiro A,Falcão AS,Silva RF,Brites D

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinants of charge selectivity of the Cys-loop family of ligand-gated ion channels have been studied for more than a decade. The investigations have mainly covered homomeric receptors e.g. the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha7, the glycine receptor alpha1 and the serotonin receptor 5-HT(3A). Only recentl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jensen ML,Schousboe A,Ahring PK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malonaldehyde formation by cortical brain slices from rat brain was determined as a function of incubation time and of oxygen pressure. This substance, a byproduce of lipid peroxidation, was detected by the thiobarbituric acid test. Significant amounts of malonaldehyde were formed by brain slices during incubation in ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kovachich GB,Mishra OP

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial uptake of neurotransmitter glutamate (GLU) from the extracellular fluid was studied in vivo in rat brain by (13)C NMR and microdialysis combined with gas-chromatography/mass-spectrometry. Brain GLU C5 was (13)C enriched by intravenous [2,5-(13)C]glucose infusion, followed by [(12)C]glucose infusion to chase (13)...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kanamori K,Ross BD,Kondrat RW

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:G protein-coupled receptors are important regulators of cellular signaling processes. Within the large family of rhodopsin-like receptors, those binding to biogenic amines form a discrete subgroup. Activation of biogenic amine receptors leads to transient changes of intracellular Ca²⁺-([Ca²⁺](i)) or 3',5'-cyclic adeno...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Balfanz S,Jordan N,Langenstück T,Breuer J,Bergmeier V,Baumann A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine uptake by cerebral smooth muscle cells is a carrier-mediated process. The Km value for adenosine uptake is 10.0 microM and the Vmax is 0.95 nmol/min-mg cell protein. This uptake system is inhibited by the adenosine analog 2-chloroadenosine at low adenosine concentrations. These results prove the existence of...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Beck DW,Vinters HV,Moore SA,Hart MN,Cancilla PA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSC) are involved in the generation of action potentials in neurons. Brevetoxins (PbTx) are potent allosteric enhancers of VGSC function and are associated with the periodic 'red tide' blooms. Using PbTx-2 as a probe, we have characterized the effects of activation of VGSC on Ca(2+) dyn...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dravid SM,Baden DG,Murray TF

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early postnatal period, energy metabolism in the suckling rodent brain relies to a large extent on metabolic pathways alternate to glucose such as the utilization of ketone bodies (KBs). However, how KBs affect neuronal excitability is not known. Using recordings of single NMDA and GABA-activated channels in ne...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rheims S,Holmgren CD,Chazal G,Mulder J,Harkany T,Zilberter T,Zilberter Y

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is a critique of the paper by Khairnar et al. in the current issue of the Journal of Neurochemistry which describes the use of a sophisticated magnetic resonance imaging technique, diffusion kurtosis imaging, to investigate microstructural changes in the brain of TNWT-61 mice that are over-expressing α-sy...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Williams S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified two genes from the parasitic nematode Haemonchus contortus, Hco-unc-49B and Hco-unc-49C that encode two GABA-gated chloride channel subunits. Electrophysiological analysis revealed that this channel has properties similar to those of the UNC-49 channel from the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis el...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Siddiqui SZ,Brown DD,Rao VT,Forrester SG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is extensive experimental evidence indicating a crucial role for glutamate in epileptogenesis and epileptic activity. The glial glutamate transporters GLT1 and GLAST are proposed to account for the majority of extracellular glutamate re-uptake. In the present study, polyclonal antibodies specific to GLT1 and GLA...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ingram EM,Wiseman JW,Tessler S,Emson PC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cathepsin D (CTSD) deficiencies are fatal neurological diseases that in human infants and in sheep are characterized by extreme loss of neurons and myelin. To date, similar morphological evidence for myelin disruption in CTSD knockout mice has not been reported. Here, we show that CTSD deficiency leads to pronounced m...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mutka AL,Haapanen A,Käkelä R,Lindfors M,Wright AK,Inkinen T,Hermansson M,Rokka A,Corthals G,Jauhiainen M,Gillingwater TH,Ikonen E,Tyynelä J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous observations have shown that neuroactive steroid levels in the brain are affected by acute experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) with sex and regional specificity (Giatti et al. 2010). To better understand the effect of EAE on neuroactive steroids, we have here assessed the levels of pregnenolon...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Caruso D,D'Intino G,Giatti S,Maschi O,Pesaresi M,Calabrese D,Garcia-Segura LM,Calza L,Melcangi RC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PC12D cells, a new subline of conventional PC12 cells, respond not only to nerve growth factor but also to cyclic AMP by extending their neurites. These cells are flat in shape and are similar in appearance to PC12 cells that have been treated with nerve growth factor for a few days. In both cell lines, we have charac...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Katoh-Semba R,Oohira A,Sano M,Watanabe K,Kitajima S,Kashiwamata S

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:The protein kinase C γ (PKCγ) undergoes multistep activation and participates in various cellular processes in Purkinje cells. Perturbations in its phosphorylation state, conformation or localization can disrupt kinase signalling, such as in spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14) that is caused by missense mutations i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jezierska J,Goedhart J,Kampinga HH,Reits EA,Verbeek DS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neolactoglycolipids are derived from neolactotetraosylceramide (nLcOse4Cer). They are found during the embryonic and neonatal developmental periods in the rat cerebral cortex and disappear shortly after birth. These glycolipids are, however, abundant in the adult cerebellum. Lactotriosylceramide (LcOse3Cer):galactosyl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chou DK,Jungalwala FB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear mitochondrial and synaptosomal fractions of rat brain were each found to contain some 25-30% of the total aldehyde dehydrogenase activity. The cytoplasmic fraction had a very low total aldehyde dehydrogenase activity. There were differences in the distribution of the activity when different aldehydes were ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Koivula T,Turner AJ,Huttunen M,Koivusalo M

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of inhibition and down-regulation of protein kinase C (PKC) subtypes alpha, epsilon, and zeta on noradrenaline (NA) secretion from human SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells was investigated. The PKC inhibitor Ro 31-7549 inhibited carbachol-evoked NA release (IC(50) 0.6 microM) but not 100 mM (K+)-evoked release. In...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Turner NA,Walker JH,Ball SG,Vaughan PF

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marked accumulation of arachidonic acid (AA) and intracellular Ca2+ and Na+ overloads are seen during brain ischemia. In this study, we show that, in neurons, AA induces cytosolic Na+ ([Na+](cyt)) and Ca2+ ([Ca2+](cyt)) overload via a non-selective cation conductance (NSCC), resulting in mitochondrial [Na+](m) and [Ca...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fang KM,Chang WL,Wang SM,Su MJ,Wu ML

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic receptors are the predominant cholinergic receptors in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Recently, activation of muscarinic receptors was found to elicit pigment granule dispersion in retinal pigment epithelium isolated from bluegill fish. Pigment granule movement in retinal pigment epithelium is ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Phatarpekar PV,Durdan SF,Copeland CM,Crittenden EL,Neece JD,García DM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiroxatrine has been reported to be a 5-HT1A serotonin receptor antagonist. Therefore [3H]spiroxatrine was synthesized and its 5-HT1A receptor binding properties in homogenates of rat hippocampal membranes were characterized with the expectation that it would be the first 5-HT1A antagonist radioligand. [3H]8-Hydroxyd...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Herrick-Davis K,Titeler M

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin A metabolite retinoic acid (RA) plays a major role in the aging adult brain plasticity. Conversely, chronic excess of glucocorticoids (GC) elicits some deleterious effects in the hippocampus. We questioned here the involvement of RA and GC in the expression of target proteins in hippocampal neurons. We investi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Brossaud J,Roumes H,Moisan MP,Pallet V,Redonnet A,Corcuff JB

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipoprotein (apo) A-I is the major protein component of high-density lipoproteins (HDLs), which are responsible for reverse cholesterol transport from peripheral tissues to the liver. A low level of plasma HDL is correlated with susceptibility to atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Mammalian apo A-I synthes...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Möckel B,Zinke H,Flach R,Weiss B,Weiler-Güttler H,Gassen HG

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) reaction involves the transfer of the acetyl group of acetyl-CoA to choline, in which an active site histidine is believed to act as a general acid/base catalyst. A comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences of the enzyme from Drosophila, pig, rat, and Caernohabditis elegans re...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Carbini LA,Hersh LB

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ε4 allele of ApoE is the strongest genetic risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). Supplementation of ApoE proteins or mimetics has been pursued for drug developments against AD. A very low-density lipoprotein (HDL) mimetic peptide 4F was shown to alleviate AD-related deficits in APP transgenic mice, and ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wang W,Zhu X

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00