Functional expression of rat ABCG2 on the luminal side of brain capillaries and its enhancement by astrocyte-derived soluble factor(s).

abstract：:The hydrolysis of phosphoinositides (PI) elicited in cerebellar granule cell cultures by agonists of metabolotropic glutamate receptors, glutmate and quisqualate, was enhanced when the cells were pretreated with concanavalin A (Con-A). A similar effect was produced by wheat germ agglutinin, but not by several other le...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Raulli R,Danysz W,Wroblewski JT

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purines are a class of small organic molecules that are essential for all cells. They play critical roles in neuronal differentiation and function. Their importance is highlighted by several inherited disorders of purine metabolism, such as Lesch-Nyhan disease, which is caused by a deficiency of the purine salvage enz...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Göttle M,Burhenne H,Sutcliffe D,Jinnah HA

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The choline analogue ethylcholine mustard aziridinium (AF64A) is a potent and irreversible inhibitor of choline uptake in brain synaptosomes and is used as a neurotoxin to produce animal models of cholinergic hypofunction. However, previous studies have shown that intraocular administration of AF64A in rats not only r...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gómez C,Martín C,Galea E,Estrada C

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotoxic effect of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) was tested on mice lacking the dopamine (DA) transporter (DAT-/- mice). Striatal tissue DA content and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) mRNA expression were assessed as markers of MPTP neurotoxicity. MPTP (30 mg/kg, s.c., b.i.d.) produc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gainetdinov RR,Fumagalli F,Jones SR,Caron MG

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosecretory terminals (neurosecretosomes, NSS) were isolated from rat neurohypophyses. High [K+]o or veratridine stimulated secretion of vasopressin and oxytocin by up to approximately 100-fold. Stimulated secretion was dependent on calcium and temperature, and could be elicited from NSS maintained in culture for 4...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Payza K,Russell JT

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that ischemia-induced release of glutamate and the subsequent activation of post-synaptic glutamate receptors are important processes involved in the development of ischemic neuronal damage. Moderate intraischemic hypothermia attenuates glutamate release and confers protection from ischemic dama...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Busto R,Globus MY,Neary JT,Ginsberg MD

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that alternative transcripts of tissue transglutaminase (tTG or TG2) were present in hippocampal brain regions of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but not in control, non-demented, age-matched brains. Since antecedent non-severe trauma has been implicated in AD and other neurodegenerative diseases, such as ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Festoff BW,SantaCruz K,Arnold PM,Sebastian CT,Davies PJ,Citron BA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have supported the hypothesis that macromolecular synthesis occurs in the brain during sleep as a response to prior waking activities and that prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) is an endogenous sleep substance whose effects are dependent on adenosine A2a receptor-mediated signaling. We compared gene expression ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Terao A,Huang ZL,Wisor JP,Mochizuki T,Gerashchenko D,Urade Y,Kilduff TS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to examine the proteins involved in the methamphetamine (MA)-induced nigrostriatal dopaminergic toxicity. Infusion of anisomycin into striatum and substantia nigra both abolished the MA-induced striatal dopamine (DA) and dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) depletions, indicating a critical role ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Liao PC,Kuo YM,Hsu HC,Cherng CG,Yu L

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:β-Site amyloid precursor protein (APP) cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE1) is the transmembrane aspartyl protease that catalyzes the first cleavage step in the proteolysis of the APP to the amyloid β-protein (Aβ), a process involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease. BACE1 pre-mRNA undergoes complex alternative splicing,...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fisette JF,Montagna DR,Mihailescu MR,Wolfe MS

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：:Our previous studies have implicated perlecan, a specific heparan sulfate proteoglycan, in the pathogenesis of fibrillar beta-amyloid protein (A beta) accumulation and persistence in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. In the present investigation, we determined if perlecan mRNA was present in rodent and human brain tissu...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Maresh GA,Erezyilmaz D,Murry CE,Nochlin D,Snow AD

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the common complications associated with diabetes mellitus and the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Recent research has demonstrated that DR is not only a microvascular disease but may be a result of neurodegenerative processes. Moreover, glucose-induced neuron and glial cell d...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zorrilla-Zubilete MA,Yeste A,Quintana FJ,Toiber D,Mostoslavsky R,Silberman DM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mediatophore is a presynaptic membrane protein that has been shown to translocate acetylcholine (ACh) under calcium stimulation when reconstituted into artificial membranes. The mediatophore subunit, a 15-kDa proteolipid, presents a very high sequence homology with the N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD)-binding ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sbia M,Diebler MF,Morel N,Israël M

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：:We investigated the receptor mechanisms by which vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) and related peptides exert their effects on tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) gene expression. VIP, secretin, and peptide histidine isoleucine (PHI) each produced increases in TH gene expression, as measured by increases in TH mRNA levels...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wessels-Reiker M,Basiboina R,Howlett AC,Strong R

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different forms of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), EC 3.1.1.7, were demonstrated in human brain caudate nucleus. One form was solubilized at high ionic strength, the other with Triton X-100. The detergent-extractable form was purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography. This form of AChE is amphiphile-dependent; i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sørensen K,Gentinetta R,Brodbeck U

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This laboratory has previously demonstrated that the mu-selective opiate receptor agonist sufentanil can produce a naloxone-reversible increase or decrease in the stimulated formation of cyclic AMP (cAMP) in the myenteric plexus, depending on the concentration of opioid used. On the basis of these results, it was sugg...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wang L,Gintzler AR

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, a comprehensive characterization of the serum miRNA profile in patients with TBI and the roles of these potential markers in neuronal regulation have rarely been reported. In this study, the l...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yan J,Bu X,Li Z,Wu J,Wang C,Li D,Song J,Wang J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myocyte enhancer factor 2A-D (MEF2) proteins are members of the MCM1-agamous-deficiens-serum response factor family of transcription factors. Various MEF2 isoform proteins are enriched in neurons and exhibit distinct patterns of expression in different regions of the brain. In neurons, MEF2 functions as a convergi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： She H,Yang Q,Mao Z

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of V1 vasopressin (VP) receptors prevents serum deprivation-induced apoptosis in neuronal H32 cells, partially through mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) mediated Bad phosphorylation. In this study, we investigated the role of protein kinases C (PKC) and B (PKB) mediating VP-induced antiapoptosis in H3...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chen J,Liu Y,Soh JW,Aguilera G

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aberrant production of amyloid-beta peptides by processing of the beta-amyloid precursor protein leads to the formation of characteristic extracellular protein deposits which are thought to be the cause of Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, inhibiting the key enzymes responsible for amyloid-beta peptide generation, beta-...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Beher D,Wrigley JD,Owens AP,Shearman MS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide is the major constituent of the extracellular amyloid plaques deposited in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients and is central to the pathogenic pathway causing this disease. The identity of the neurotoxic Aβ species remains elusive. We previously reported that Aβ toxicity correlates st...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jana MK,Cappai R,Pham CL,Ciccotosto GD

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tomosyn is a cytoplasmic protein that was shown to bind to Syntaxin1 and SNAP-25 through an R-SNARE domain, forming a complex that is almost identical in structure to the neuronal SNARE complex. Tomosyn inhibits exocytosis in various cell types and these effects were attributed to direct competition between tomosyn's ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yizhar O,Lipstein N,Gladycheva SE,Matti U,Ernst SA,Rettig J,Stuenkel EL,Ashery U

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on the molecular and pharmacological characterization of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors expressed by progenitors and differentiated oligodendrocytes. We also analyzed the role of muscarinic receptors in regulating downstream signal transduction pathways and the functional significance of recepto...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ragheb F,Molina-Holgado E,Cui QL,Khorchid A,Liu HN,Larocca JN,Almazan G

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), purified from human fetal retinal pigment epithelium cell culture medium, was shown to potentiate the differentiation of human Y-79 retinoblastoma cells. To investigate potential neurotrophic effects of PEDF on neurons other than those of retinal derivation, we used cultures o...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Taniwaki T,Becerra SP,Chader GJ,Schwartz JP

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidylserine (PS), which is synthesized in mammalian tissues by the exchange between free serine and the nitrogen bases present in membrane glycerophospholipids, is strictly required for protein kinase C (PKC) activity. PKC, as other molecules involved in signal transduction, is present in lipid rafts, considere...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Buratta S,Felicetti M,Mozzi R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) belongs to one of the most multifactorial, complex and heterogeneous morbidity-leading disorders. Despite the extensive research in the field, AD pathogenesis is still at some extend obscure. Mechanisms linking AD with certain comorbidities, namely diabetes mellitus, obesity and dyslipidemia, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nday CM,Eleftheriadou D,Jackson G

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modulation by adenosine analogues and endogenous adenosine of the electrically evoked release of [3H]acetylcholine ([3H]ACh) was compared in subslices of the three areas of the rat hippocampus (CA1, CA3, and dentate gyrus). The mixed A1/A2 agonist 2-chloroadenosine (CADO; 2-10 microM) inhibited, in a concentration...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cunha RA,Milusheva E,Vizi ES,Ribeiro JA,Sebastião AM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of conformation-abnormal peptides probably plays a key role in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases. DSCR1 Down syndrome (DS) critical region 1, was identified from a chromosomal region (21q22.1-q22.2) for the clinical manifestations of DS when an extra-copy is present. We report that expres...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ma H,Xiong H,Liu T,Zhang L,Godzik A,Zhang Z

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00