Is the volume-regulated anion channel VRAC a "water-permeable" channel?

abstract：:Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) have diverse utility these days ranging from being part of nanosensors to be ingredient of cosmetics. Present study was designed to report the effect of variable doses of ZnO NPs on selected aspects of male albino mice behavior. Nano particles were synthesized by sol-gel auto-combust...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zahra J,Iqbal S,Zahra K,Javed Z,Shad MA,Akbar A,Ashiq MN,Iqbal F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activation of caspase-3 is considered to be a reliable marker for apoptotic cell death, and a 120-kDa fragment of αII-spectrin is generated by caspase-3 mediated cleavage of this structural protein. In the present study, we compared cleaved αII-spectrin (120-kDa) and cleaved caspase-3-immunoreactive cells and thei...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hwang IK,Ahn JH,Yoo DY,Lee CH,Yoo KY,Choi JH,Moon SM,Shin HC,Won MH

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the main pathological symptoms of early diabetic retinal neuropathy is retina neuronal apoptosis. In the present work we investigated the effects of indoleamine hormone melatonin, a powerful free radical scavenger, on streptozotocin-induced retina neuronal cell apoptosis in high blood glucose rat. After melaton...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Li X,Zhang M,Tang W

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the activity of several acid hydrolases in oligodendrocyte and mixed glial (predominantly astrocytic) cell cultures prepared from neonatal rat cerebra. When compared with the mixed glial cultures, the cultured oligodendrocytes exhibited higher levels for all the hydrolases when activities were normalized t...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bradel EJ,Sloan HR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine synthetase (GS) from the chick brain was purified to apparent homogeneity by ammonium sulfate fractionation followed by affinity chromatography, electrofocusing and Sephadex G-150 chromatography. The purified enzyme showed a single band on sodium dodecyl sulfate analysis in polyacrylamide gel. By sedimentati...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Tholey G,Bloch S,Ledig M,Mandel P,Wedler F

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission in the central nervous system can be modulated by neurosteroids. We previously found that in rat hippocampal slices allopregnanolone (3α-hydroxy-5α-pregnan-20-one), a positive GABA(A) receptor modulator, suppresses the epileptic discharges induced by 4-aminopyridine (4-AP), ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Salazar P,Tapia R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study has attempted to elucidate the alteration of serotonin turnover after 24 h REM sleep deprivation in different regions in brain of young rat. Sleep deprivation was induced by the inverted flower pot technique. Results of this study show increased serotonin turnover after 24 h REM sleep deprivation in ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Senthilvelan M,Ravindran R,Samson J,Devi RS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention and amelioration of Mibyou (sub-healthy condition) is the critical target for disease prevention including age-related diseases and cancer although the Mibyou condition is not yet pathologically defined. Since the oxidative stress is an underlying basic etiology associated with many diseases and aging, the ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Konishi T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are small secreted proteins that are essential for the recruitment and activation of specific leukocyte subsets at sites of inflammation and for the development and homeostasis of lymphoid and nonlymphoid tissues. During the past decade, chemokines and their receptors have also emerged as key signaling mole...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ambrosini E,Aloisi F

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prominent feature of brain pathology in Alzheimer's disease is a robust activation of the neuronal lysosomal system and major cellular pathways converging on the lysosome, namely, endocytosis and autophagy. Recent studies that identify a disturbance of the endocytic pathway as one of the earliest known manifestation...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nixon RA,Cataldo AM,Mathews PM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of the uptake of p-tyramine, m-tyramine, and dopamine were investigated in slices of the hypothalamus and striatum of the rat in the presence of nialamide. When uptake was analyzed by a least-squares fit to a Lineweaver-Burk plot, each amine appeared to be concentrated by both a "low"-affinity and a "high...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Petrali EH,Boulton AA,Dyck LE

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review article, we summarize recently accumulated knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms, which control retinal development. Retinal neurons are born in two waves of cytogenesis. In the first wave, neurons of cone circuitry are generated, whereas in the second wave, rod circuitry is added. Neurons genera...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Sharma RK,Johnson DA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study demonstrates that in hippocampal neurons mitochondrial Ca(2+) processing supports Ca(2+) influx via ionotropic glutamate (Glu) receptors. We define mitochondrial Ca(2+) processing as Ca(2+) uptake via mitochondrial Ca(2+) uniporter (MCU) combined with subsequent Ca(2+) release via mitochondrial Na(+)...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Strokin M,Reiser G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc (Zn2+) was shown to invariably inhibit muscimol-stimulated 36Cl- uptake by synaptoneurosomes in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and cerebellum. The Zn2+ sensitivity of the GABAA receptor-gated 36Cl- uptake in the cerebral cortex was comparable to that in the hippocampus, whereas the uptake in the cerebellum was ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ito Y,Segawa K,Kobayashi M,Fukuda H

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in genes for Alzheimer's disease (AD) result in a modulating of gene expressions in the brains of patients with AD. The aim of this study was to identify genes whose expression is modulated due to the over-expression of human mutant presenilin-2 (N141I) (hPS2m) in transgenic mice, which has previously been p...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hwang DY,Cho JS,Oh JH,Shim SB,Jee SW,Lee SH,Seo SJ,Lee SK,Lee SH,Kim YK

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in lysosomal proteases have been implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases. The current study demonstrates a concentration-dependent decrease in PC12 cell viability and transient changes in cystatin C (CYSC), cathepsin B (CATB), cathepsin D (CATD) and caspase-3 following exposure to H2O2. Furthermore, ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lee DC,Mason CW,Goodman CB,Holder MS,Kirksey OW,Womble TA,Severs WB,Palm DE

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the distribution of serotonin (5-HT) receptors of type 3 (5-HT3) in human brain areas, by means of the the specific binding of [3H]GR65630. The brains were obtained during autoptic sessions from 6 subjects. Human brain membranes and the binding of [3H]GR65630 were carried out according to standardized ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Marazziti D,Betti L,Giannaccini G,Rossi A,Masala I,Baroni S,Cassano GB,Lucacchini A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative dopamine D4 receptor protein in rat brain was labelled and quantified autoradiographically using two selective benzamides: [3H]YM-09151-2 which labels D2, D3 and D4 dopamine receptors and [3H]Raclopride which labels D2 and D3. The difference in densities of both ligands at saturable concentrations, show a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Defagot MC,Antonelli MC

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and specificity of insulin receptors was investigated in culture cells obtained from 15-16 days old embryonic mouse cerebra. Developmental studies suggested that the maximum insulin binding occurred at about 11 days in vitro (DIV). Scatchard analysis of binding data revealed two types of binding sites. On...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shanker G,Pieringer RA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We review here the possible mechanisms of neuronal degeneration caused by L-cysteine, an odd excitotoxin. L-Cysteine lacks the omega carboxyl group required for excitotoxic actions via excitatory amino acid receptors, yet it evokes N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) -like excitotoxic neuronal death and potentiates the Ca2+ i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Janáky R,Varga V,Hermann A,Saransaari P,Oja SS

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review we examine successively: 1) the major effects of thyroid hormone deficiency seen during brain development with special emphasis on the changes in neuronal morphology and migration occurring postnatally in the cerebellum. 2) The effects of this hormone on microtubule assembly during neurite outgrowth and...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nunez J,Couchie D,Aniello F,Bridoux AM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pineal gland is a neuroendocrine gland responsible for nocturnal synthesis of melatonin. During early development of the rodent pineal gland from the roof of the diencephalon, homeobox genes of the orthodenticle homeobox (Otx)- and paired box (Pax)-families are expressed and are essential for normal pineal develop...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Rath MF,Rohde K,Klein DC,Møller M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vesicular hypothesis has stimulated fruitful investigations on many secreting systems. In the case of rapid synaptic transmission, however, the hypothesis has been found difficult to reconcile with a number of well established observations. Brief impulses of transmitter molecules (quanta) are emitted from nerve te...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Dunant Y,Israël M

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures are accompanied by an exacerbated activation of cerebral ion channels. 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) is a pro-convulsive agent which mechanism of action involves activation of Na(+) and Ca(2+) channels, and several antiepileptic drugs control seizures by reducing these channels permeability. The antidepressant, sert...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Sitges M,Aldana BI,Reed RC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have adopted the PC12 cell line as in vitro cell model for studying Dp71 function in neuronal cells. These cells express a cytoplasmic (Dp71f) and a nuclear (Dp71d) isoform of Dp71 as well as various dystrophin-associated proteins (DAPs). In this study, we revealed by confocal microscopy analysis and Western blotti...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Villarreal-Silva M,Suárez-Sánchez R,Rodríguez-Muñoz R,Mornet D,Cisneros B

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models for the transmission and progression of prion diseases have arisen, evolving with the acquisition of new experimental results. It is generally accepted that the PrP(Sc) protein is at least part of the infectious particle and the major protein component of the scrapie-associated fibrils (SAFs) that chara...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Grossman A,Zeiler B,Sapirstein V

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of glial cells has been observed in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease (AD). Aggregation of amyloid β (Aβ) is profusely observed as characteristic pathology in AD brain. In our previous study using microglial cell line BV-2, tissue-type transglutaminase (TG2) was found to be involved i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kawabe K,Takano K,Moriyama M,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation was performed to evaluate the effects of ACPD [(1S,3R)-1-aminocyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid], a metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist, on cerebral O2 consumption during focal cerebral ischemia. Male Wistar rats were placed in control (n = 7) and ACPD (n = 7) groups under isoflurane anesthesia...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Liu X,Chi OZ,Weiss HR

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta 9-THC) administration on the central serotoninergic system were evaluated by biochemical assays of tissue levels of indoleamines; a measure of the serotonin (5-HT) innervation was obtained by using [3H]paroxetine as a marker of 5-HT uptake sites. Two different delta 9...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Molina-Holgado F,Molina-Holgado E,Leret ML,González MI,Reader TA

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the dose-response characteristics and the temporal profile of inhibition of brain nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS) elicited by i.v. administration of the NOS inhibitor nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME). L-NAME was administered i.v. in awake rats equipped with a venous cannula. L-NAME was injected in cu...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Iadecola C,Xu X,Zhang F,Hu J,el-Fakahany EE

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00