Cytochrome c release and caspase-3 activation in retinal ganglion cells following different distance of axotomy of the optic nerve in adult hamsters.

abstract：:Zonisamide (ZNS), an antiepileptic drug having beneficial effects also against Parkinson's disease symptoms, has proven to display an antioxidant effects in different experimental models. In the present study, the effects of ZNS on rotenone-induced cell injury were investigated in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells dif...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Condello S,Currò M,Ferlazzo N,Costa G,Visalli G,Caccamo D,Pisani LR,Costa C,Calabresi P,Ientile R,Pisani F

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we propose a powerful procedure to measure functional activation of the mouse delta-opioid receptor transiently expressed in mammalian cells. Receptor stimulation was assessed using a population of electroporated COS cells, transfected at a 50% efficiency. Under those conditions, agonist-promoted activat...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Befort K,Tabbara L,Kieffer BL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy complicated syndrome that affects multiple organs including the brain that continue post- delivery in both mother and the offspring. We evaluated the expression of oligodendrocytes in the brain of PE rat model through development as well as the cognitive changes and other behavioural ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ijomone OK,Shallie PD,Naicker T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphate activated glutaminase (PAG) was assayed in whole homogenate and synaptosomes of cerebral cortex from normal or fasted for 120 h rats. The specific activity (s.a.) of PAG was found diminished by 25% in the whole homogenate from the fasted animals compared to the normal. On the contrary, fasting did not affect...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lellos V,Tselentis V,Galanopoulos E,Philippidis H,Palaiologos G

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes transport the monocarboxylate acetate, but synaptosomes do not. The reason for this is unknown, because both preparations express monocarboxylate transporters (MCT). The transport and metabolism of lactate, another monocarboxylate, was examined in these two preparations, and the results were compared to tho...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Waniewski RA,Martin DL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of gamma-glutamyltransferase localized in isolated brain synaptic membranes- and microvessels-enriched fractions was assayed after treatment of rats with either phenobarbital or ethanol. Phenobarbital increased the activity of gamma-glutamyltransferase in microvessels, without alteration of synaptic membr...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ghersi-Egea JF,Minn A,Siest G

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of graded doses of D-pipecolic acid (0.005-5 micrograms/animals s.c.) on tolerance to the hypothermic effect of ethanol (4 g/kg i.p.) were investigated in mice. D-Pipecolic acid itself did not change the core temperature or the acute hypothermic response to a single dose of ethanol. Repeated D-pipecolic ac...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Szabó G,Kovács GL,Baláspiri L,Telegdy G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schwann cell biosynthesis of glycolipids was studied by in vitro incorporation of [3H]galactose into neonatal rat sciatic nerves before and after endoneurial explant culture and in culture of purified Schwann cells. In neonatal nerves prior to culture, [3H]galactose was actively incorporated into galactocerebrosides (...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yao JK,Windebank AJ,Poduslo JF,Yoshino JE

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enolase is a glycolytic enzyme whose amino acid sequence is highly conserved across a wide range of animal species. In mammals, enolase is known to be a dimeric protein composed of distinct but closely related subunits: alpha (non-neuronal), beta (muscle-specific), and gamma (neuron-specific). However, little informat...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chun JT,Gioio AE,Crispino M,Giuditta A,Kaplan BB

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice infected with the Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus showed a significant decrease in the GABA content of cerebral hemispheres. Activity of the enzyme which synthetizes GABA, glutamate decarboxylase, is also reduced in whole cerebral hemispheres, neostriatum, and frontal cortex of infected animals, as comp...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bonilla E,Ryder E,Ryder S

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to directly measure in vivo superoxide radical (O*2) a direct indicator of oxidative stress, in the brain of rats with experimentally induced obstructive jaundice by employing a new quantitative ultrasensitive fluorescent assay requiring minimum sample. O*2 anion is specific for dihydroethidine (DHE) a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Konstantinou D,Mavrakis A,Grintzalis K,Papapostolou I,Assimakopoulos SF,Chroni E,Georgiou C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent age-related neurodegenerative disease with physiological manifestations including tremors, bradykinesia, abnormal postural reflexes, rigidity and akinesia and pathological landmarks showing losses of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Although the etiolo...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Miller RL,James-Kracke M,Sun GY,Sun AY

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) has been suggested playing an important role in the pathophysiology of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), however the underlying cellular mechanisms are not fully understood. The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a critical organelle for synthesis of membrane and secretory proteins, and ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Xie J,Han F,Shi Y

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Donepezil is a selective inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) clinically used for treating Alzheimer's disease. Cholinergic effects after short-term exposure of donepezil (up to 12 h) have been extensively studied in rats, but few have addressed the potential long-term effects. After 14 days administration (1x3 mg...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Haug KH,Bogen IL,Osmundsen H,Walaas I,Fonnum F

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Sendai virosomes or Lipofectin to introduce an AAV vector into primary rat brain astroglial cultures was characterized. The pJDT95npy vector was constructed by inserting rat NPY cDNA downstream from the indigenous AAV p5, p19 and p40 promoters in pJDT95. Lipofectin-mediated transfection with pJDT95npy (...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： de Fiebre CM,Wu P,Notabartolo D,Millard WJ,Meyer EM

更新日期：1994-06-01 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 carnitine/acylcarnitine transporter is a transport system whose function is essential for the mitochondrial β-oxidation of fatty acids. Here, the presence of carnitine/acylcarnitine carrier (CACT) in nervous tissue and its sub-cellular localization in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons have been investigated. Weste...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Tonazzi A,Mantovani C,Colella M,Terenghi G,Indiveri C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) stimulates α-secretase processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) and decreases Aβ production. Little is known about the relationship between IGF-1 and β-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1), the protease essential for the production of β-amyloid peptides (A...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zhang H,Gao Y,Dai Z,Meng T,Tu S,Yan Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Convulsions and brain levels of amino acids and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in E1 mice were examined after oral administration of a 1% guanidinoethane sulfonate (GES) solution. The incidence of convulsions increased 3 days after starting GES administration, and this effect continued throughout the 6 months of drug admi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hiramatsu M,Edamatsu R,Kabuto H,Higashihara Y,Mori A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for protein phosphorylation in the process of neurite outgrowth has been inferred from many studies of the effects of protein kinase inhibitors and activators on cultured neurotumor cells and primary neuronal cells from developing brain or ganglia. Here we re-examine this issue, using a culture system derived f...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Heacock AM,Agranoff BW

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cationic lipid formulations consisting of 3beta [N-(N', N'-dimethylaminoethane)-carbamoyl] cholesterol (DC-Chol) and the helper lipid dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) (1.5: 1 molar ratio) were prepared by solvent evaporation and sized by high pressure extrusion. Liposomes made of 1:1 molar ratio 1 ,2-dioleoyl-3...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ajmani PS,Hughes JA

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) regulates numerous physiological process and is the main source of reactive nitrogen species (RNS). NO promotes cell survival, but it also induces apoptotic death having been involved in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. NO and superoxide anion react to form peroxynitrite, which...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Olguín-Albuerne M,Ramos-Pittol JM,Coyoy A,Martínez-Briseño CP,Domínguez G,Morán J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is a neurovisceral disorder characterized by lysosomal sequestration of endocytosed LDL-cholesterol, premature and abnormal enrichment of cholesterol in trans Golgi cisternae and accompanying anomalies in intracellular sterol trafficking. In addition to cholesterol, the NPC lesion has...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Vanier MT

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous sialidase (N-acetylneuraminidase) activity of membranes prepared from goldfish retina and optic tectum displays characteristics similar to those reported for neural plasma membrane sialidases of other organisms. Endogenous membrane sialidase activity was found to be optimal at ph 4.0, and maximal releas...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Leskawa KC,Agranoff BW

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons of the rat cerebral hemispheres are known to undergo a postnatal shift to a short DNA repeat length. In the present study we report that rat neuronal nuclei are more sensitive to digestion with DNAse I when isolated at a developmental stage after the shift in neuronal DNA repeated length compared to nuclei iso...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Greenwood PD,Brown IR

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brofaromine, a selective and reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase-A (MAO-A) was given to 19 women while 17 received placebo for 8 weeks. All met DSM III-R criteria for bulimia nervosa, a psychiatric disorder in which uncontrolled overeating episodes are accompanied by purging activities and extreme concerns about...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kennedy SH,Davis BA,Brown GM,Ford CG,d'Souza J

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The features of neuronal damage induced by the mitochondrial toxin NaN(3) were investigated in rat primary cortical neuron cultures. Cell viability (MTT colorimetric determination) and transmembrane mitochondrial potential (J-C1 fluorescence) were concentration-dependently reduced 24 h after NaN(3); neither nuclear fr...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Selvatici R,Previati M,Marino S,Marani L,Falzarano S,Lanzoni I,Siniscalchi A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of exosomes has been progressively changed from the status of cellular trashcans to multitasking organelles involved in many processes, including internalization, transport and transfer of macromolecules such as proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. While underpinning the mechanisms behind neurodegeneration ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lakshmi S,Essa MM,Hartman RE,Guillemin GJ,Sivan S,Elumalai P

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precise control of the proliferation and differentiation of multipotent neural stem cells (NSCs) is crucial for the proper development of the nervous system. Although cyclinD1 has been implicated as a cause of cancer in many studies, its roles in NSCs remain elusive. In this study, we examined the over-expression of c...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ma J,Cui B,Ding X,Wei J,Cui L

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central control of growth hormone (GH) secretion from the pituitary gland is ultimately achieved by the interaction between two hypothalamic neurohormones, somatostatin which inhibits and growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) which stimulates GH release. The regulation of the somatostatin and GHRH release from t...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fodor M,Kordon C,Epelbaum J

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00