Arginine specific endopeptidases modify the aggregation properties of a synthetic peptide derived from Alzheimer beta/A4 amyloid.

abstract：:Regional cerebral glucose utilization (RCGU) and behavior were studied during naloxone-precipitated withdrawal in rats after chronic intravenous (IV) or intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of sufentanil citrate, a potent, highly selective mu opiate agonist. Changes in RCGU were indistinguishable between the t...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Adams RE,Wooten GF

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a promising biological marker and prognostic indicator in many neurological diseases. Although VEGF concentrations in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are increasingly reported, CSF-VEGF stability pre- and during-assay procedures is seldom evaluated. In the current stud...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang J,Dombrowski SM,Deshpande A,Krajcir N,El-Khoury S,Krishnan C,Luciano MG

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyroptosis is a newly identified lytic form of programmed cell death which is characterized by plasma membrane blebbing and rupture. Pyroptosis occurs in cerebral ischemia injury, and contributes to the activation and secretion of the inflammatory cytokines interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-18, and IL-6. Previous reports have f...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Liu D,Dong Z,Xiang F,Liu H,Wang Y,Wang Q,Rao J

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard ELISA technique was improved for the detection of antigalactocerebroside antibody in biological fluid. Mouse monoclonal antigalactocerebroside antibody was used to demonstrate specificity and sensitivity of the technique. After optimization of the assay, the usefulness of this measurement for the evaluati...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ichioka T,Uobe K,Stoskopf M,Kishimoto Y,Tennekoon G,Tourtellotte WW

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of polyamines (PA) synthesis in NMDA receptor-mediated 45Ca2+ fluxes and norepinephrine release was studied in rat hippocampal synaptosomes. NMDA (50 microM) caused a sharp (> 2-fold) transient increase in PA synthesis regulating enzyme, ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity with concomitant elevation in PA ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Siddiqui F,Iqbal Z

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is ample evidence stating Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as neurotoxins. In the current study, we have analyzed the behavioural impact of PCBs exposure in adult rats and assessed the simultaneous effect of antioxidant melatonin against the PCBs action. The rats were grouped into four and treated intraperitonea...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bavithra S,Selvakumar K,Sundareswaran L,Arunakaran J

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies provide solid evidence for the importance to delineate the co-relationship between preconditioning stimuli and therapeutic efficacy of drugs commonly used in clinic. However, very little is known about this important topic. In the present study, we investigated the effects of hyperthermia on the protect...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Du F,Qian ZM,Zhu L,Wu XM,Yung WH,Ke Y

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that 5-methyltetrahydrofolate influences neuro-secretion. The present study more precisely characterises the processes involved and considers one probable site of action. Focusing on the tyrosine-noradrenalin axis in cerebellum we showed 5-methyltetrahydrofolate causes a significant reduction ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lucock MD,Green M,Levene MI

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive avoidance (PA) conditioning is a fear motivated task able to initiate a cascade of altered gene expression within the hippocampus, a structure critical to learning and memory. We have previously shown that neurofibromin (NF1) and amyloid precursor protein (APP), two genes implicated in cognitive function, are ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： D'Amico AG,Castorina A,Leggio GM,Drago F,D'Agata V

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of c-Fos protein-like immunoreactive (c-Fos-IR) neurons in the spinal dorsal horn evoked by noxious stimulation was previously shown to be increased following peripheral nerve injury, and this increase was proposed to reflect the neuropathic pain state. The aim of this study was to investigate whether anoma...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Terayama R,Kishimoto N,Yamamoto Y,Maruhama K,Tsuchiya H,Mizutani M,Iida S,Sugimoto T

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of gene expression in the brain is a valuable tool to study the function of the brain under normal and pathological conditions. Although there are many techniques used to measure gene expression the validity of any such experiment is directly related to the quality of the RNA in the samples. The most readily ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Van Deerlin VM,Gill LH,Nelson PT

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have demonstrated that the Acetyl Coenzyme A-dependent arylamine NAT enzyme exist in many tissues of experimental animals including humans, and that NAT has been shown to be exist in mouse brain tissue. Increased NAT activity levels are associated with increased sensitivity to the mutagenic effects of...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lin SS,Hung CF,Ho CC,Liu YH,Ho HC,Chung JG

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：:The synthetic Liver X receptor (LXR) activator T0901317 has been reported to exert neuroprotective effect in Alzheimer's disease, but the relationship between LXR activation and beta-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1) remains uncertain. This study investigated the effect of T0901317 on membrane ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Cui W,Sun Y,Wang Z,Xu C,Xu L,Wang F,Chen Z,Peng Y,Li R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study conducted in this laboratory revealed a decrease in total cholinesterase (total ChE) in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and striatum in aged rats (24 months) of various strains, as compared with young animals (3 months). The purpose of the present experiments was to extend the study to other brain ar...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Meneguz A,Bisso GM,Michalek H

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of castration on the levels of brain monoamines and their metabolites has been investigated in rats which became or did not become muricidal following long-term isolation. Fourteen brain areas were explored: olfactory bulbs (OB), olfactory tubercles (OT), septum (Se), striatum (Sr), amygdala (A), thalamus (...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Rastegar A,Ciesielski L,Simler S,Messripour M,Mandel P

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the experimental setting, taurine is known to be released from swollen cells to reestablish their normal volume. However, its clinical relevance has not been fully understood. This study was undertaken to reveal changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amino acids concentration in patients with severe traumatic brain i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Seki Y,Kimura M,Mizutani N,Fujita M,Aimi Y,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus-derived neuroestradiol plays a major role in neuroplasticity, independent of circulating estradiol that originates from gonads. The response of hypothalamus-pituitary regions towards the synthesis of neuroestradiol in the hippocampus is an emerging scientific concept in cognitive neuroscience. Hippocam...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kandasamy M,Radhakrishnan RK,Poornimai Abirami GP,Roshan SA,Yesudhas A,Balamuthu K,Prahalathan C,Shanmugaapriya S,Moorthy A,Essa MM,Anusuyadevi M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now established that (1) concentrations of 2-phenylethylamine (PEA) are greatly increased in brain following administration of monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) antidepressants; (2) PEA is a metabolite of the MAOI antidepressant phenelzine; and (3) PEA may be a neuromodulator of catecholamine activity. On the b...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Paetsch PR,Greenshaw AJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is an important public health problem in neurology, which is not only associated with high mortality but also leading to disability. Yet no satisfactory treatment has been developed. The secondary injury that resulted from a number of self-destructive processes such as neuroinflammation,...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Wei N,Wei Y,Li B,Pang L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial enzyme, pyruvate carboxylase (PC; EC 6.4.1.1) is considered to play a significant role in the intermediary metabolism of neural tissue. PC-catalyzed carboxylation of pyruvate to oxaloacetate is a major anaplerotic reaction in brain. Anaplerosis is essential for homeostasis of the members of the trica...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Murin R,Cesar M,Kowtharapu BS,Verleysdonk S,Hamprecht B

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system. MS is the most common neurological disorder in young adults with a greater incidence among females. Male gonadal hormones have a protective effect on neural system development and myelin maturation. In this study, we investigat...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Sherafat MA,Javan M,Mozafari S,Mirnajafi-Zadeh J,Motamedi F

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antipsychotics represent high affinity for sigma receptors and sigma-like drugs often have the psychotomimetic properties. Besides, the receptors are unevenly distributed in human brain. These findings suggest that sigma receptors might be involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Sigma receptors in rat and hu...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shibuya H,Mori H,Toru M

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brief limb ischemia was reported to protect neurons against injury induced by subsequent cerebral ischemia-reperfusion, and this phenomenon is known as limb ischemic preconditioning (LIP). To explore the role of nitric oxide (NO) in neuroprotection of LIP in rats, we observed changes in the content of nitric oxide (NO...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zhao HG,Sun XC,Xian XH,Li WB,Zhang M,Li QJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12/15-lipoxygenase(s) (LOX), poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP-1) activity and mitochondrial apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) protein in the amyloid β (Aβ) toxicity were investigated in PC12 cells that express either wild-type (APPwt) or double Swedish mutation (APPsw) forms of human Aβ precursor protein. Different...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Strosznajder JB,Cieslik M,Cakala M,Jesko H,Eckert A,Strosznajder RP

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gelsolin is an actin regulatory protein that generally distributed in a wide variety of body tissues, especially the brain tissues and cerebrospinal fluid. In this study we found that lumbar CSF-gelsolin concentrations markedly decreased in epileptic patients by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. In order to help judg...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Peng X,Zhang X,Wang L,Zhu Q,Luo J,Wang W,Wang X

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the isolation of fractions enriched in components of the myelin-like membranes surrounding the giant axons of the earthworm. Lumbricus terrestris L. The composition and purity of the fractions have been assessed using SDS-protein electrophoresis, Western immunoblots, and electron microscopy. Preliminary...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Pereyra PM,Roots BI

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hippocampal cells dissociated from 5-day-old rat pups were grown in a suitable chemically defined basal medium, supplemented or not with 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3), [Arg8]-vasopressin (AVP), or both, at different concentrations. Four days after plating, neuron-like cells began to degenerate drastically in the bas...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Clos J,Gabrion J

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of guanine deaminase (GAH, E.C.3.5.4.3) was lower in rat cerebellum soluble and microsomal fractions than in rat brain subfractions. Adenosine deaminase (ADA, E.C.3.5.4.4) activity was released in higher proportion than guanine deaminase, purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP, E.C.2.1.2.4), 5'-nucleotidase...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Franco R,Canela EI,Bozal J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of evidence suggest that the mechanism underlying drug-induced neuronal apoptosis is initiated by the increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). 1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), a neurotoxin, has been shown to initiate an apoptotic cascade by increasing ROS in the dopamine...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nopparat C,Porter JE,Ebadi M,Govitrapong P

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00