Dolichol is the major lipid component of human substantia nigra neuromelanin.

abstract：:We have studied neurotoxicity induced by pharmacological concentrations of 3-hydroxykynurenine (3-HK), an endogenous toxin implicated in certain neurodegenerative diseases, in cerebellar granule cells, PC12 pheochromocytoma cells, and GT1-7 hypothalamic neurosecretory cells. In all three cell types, the toxicity was i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wei H,Leeds P,Chen RW,Wei W,Leng Y,Bredesen DE,Chuang DM

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyltransferase enzymatic activity was detected and measured in homogenates obtained from intact nerve fibers and their saparate cellular components, in the tropical squid Sepioteuthis sepioidea. The levels of acetylcholine synthesis were determined in pooled samples of whole stellar nerve, intact giant nerve fiber,...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Heumann R,Villegas J,Herzfeld DW

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rarefaction of the dendritic tree leading to neuronal dysfunction is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases and we have shown previously that heat shock protein B5 (HspB5)/αB-crystallin is able to increase dendritic complexity in vitro. The aim of this study was to investigate if this effect is also present in ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bartelt-Kirbach B,Wiegreffe C,Birk S,Baur T,Moron M,Britsch S,Golenhofen N

更新日期：2020-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitotoxicity, caused by exaggerated neuronal stimulation by Glutamate (Glu), is a major cause of neurodegeneration in brain ischemia. While we know that neurodegeneration is triggered by overstimulation of Glu-receptors (GluRs), the subsequent mechanisms that lead to cellular demise remain controversial. Surprisingl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Feldmann KG,Chowdhury A,Becker JL,McAlpin N,Ahmed T,Haider S,Richard Xia JX,Diaz K,Mehta MG,Mano I

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:Three conserved serine residues (Ser193, Ser194, and Ser197) in transmembrane spanning region (TM) V of the D2 dopamine receptor have been mutated to alanine, individually and in combination, to explore their role in ligand binding and G protein coupling. The multiple Ser -->Ala mutations had no effect on the binding ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Coley C,Woodward R,Johansson AM,Strange PG,Naylor LH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a neurotrophic factor essential for maintenance of motor neurons. Loss of this factor produces a phenotype similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We recently showed that ALS-producing mutations of Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) disrupt post-transcriptional regul...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li X,Lu L,Bush DJ,Zhang X,Zheng L,Suswam EA,King PH

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the preceding report we demonstrated a dose-dependent increase in 32P-phosphoprotein labeling after 24-h exposure of cultured cerebellar granule neurons to methyl mercury (MeHg), a response that was not observed in glial cultures. In the present study we have examined 32P-labeled phosphoproteins by two-dimensional ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sarafian T,Verity MA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has suggested that the initial effects of cellular free radical neurotoxic insult involve large increases in intracellular Ca2+. However, the exact role of oxidative stress on the various parameters involved in these increases has not been specified. The present experiments were performed to examine ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Joseph JA,Strain JG,Jimenez ND,Fisher D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-synuclein (ASYN) is a major constituent of the typical protein aggregates observed in several neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively referred to as synucleinopathies. A causal involvement of ASYN in the initiation and progression of neurological diseases is suggested by observations indicating that sin...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schildknecht S,Gerding HR,Karreman C,Drescher M,Lashuel HA,Outeiro TF,Di Monte DA,Leist M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Amyloid peptide accumulates in the brain of patients affected by sporadic or familial forms of Alzheimer's disease. It derives from the proteolytic attacks of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (betaAPP) by beta- and gamma-secretase activities. An additional epsilon cleavage taking place a few residues C-terminal...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lefranc-Jullien S,Sunyach C,Checler F

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to examine how sustained exposure to two 1,4-benzodiazepines (BZDs) with different action period, diazepam and brotizolam, and a 1,5-BZD, clobazam, affects L-type high voltage-gated calcium channel (HVCC) functions and its mechanisms using primary cultures of mouse cerebral cortical neurons. T...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Katsura M,Shibasaki M,Kurokawa K,Tsujimura A,Ohkuma S

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical areas including the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) play critical roles in different types of chronic pain. Most of previous studies focus on the sensory inputs from somatic areas, and less information about plastic changes in the cortex for visceral pain. In this study, chronic visceral pain animal model was...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Liu SB,Wang XS,Yue J,Yang L,Li XH,Hu LN,Lu JS,Song Q,Zhang K,Yang Q,Zhang MM,Bernabucci M,Zhao MG,Zhuo M

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptinotoxin-h (LPTx), a neurotoxin (otherwise designated beta-leptinotarsin-h) known to stimulate the release of neurotransmitters from synapses, was purified from the hemolymph of the potato beetle, Leptinotarsa haldemani, by a simplification of the procedure originally developed by Crosland et al. [Biochemistry 23,...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Madeddu L,Pozzan T,Robello M,Rolandi R,Hsiao TH,Meldolesi J

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kappa-opioid receptor agonists including U-50,488H and dynorphin A (1-17) in ranges of 0.1-100 nM inhibited the hydrolysis of GTP to GDP (P(i) release) inherent in GTP-binding proteins (G proteins) in guinea pig cerebellar membranes. U-50,488H inhibited only high-affinity GTPase activity, not low-affinity activity...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ueda H,Misawa H,Fukushima N,Katada T,Ui M,Satoh M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone encoding a novel G protein-linked receptor was isolated from a rat cerebral cortex cDNA library using a polymerase chain reaction-amplified cDNA fragment as a probe. This 2.4-kb clone encodes a 367 amino acid protein with seven putative transmembrane spanning domains. The protein is highly homologous to t...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lachowicz JE,Shen Y,Monsma FJ Jr,Sibley DR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that phorbol esters and lithium each stimulate the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) by the anterior pituitary tumor cell line AtT20/D16-16. Pretreatment with either lithium or phorbol ester desensitizes the cells to subsequent stimulation by phorbol ester. An early consequenc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zatz M,Mahan LC,Reisine T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities of alpha-synuclein (alpha-Syn) are mechanistically linked to Parkinson's disease (PD) and other alpha-synucleinopathies. To gain additional insights into the relationships between alpha-Syn expression and cell death, we examined the effects of expressing human alpha-Syn (Hualpha-Syn) variants on the cell...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li W,Lee MK

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem cells (NSCs) play an essential role in both the developing embryonic nervous system through to adulthood where the capacity for self-renewal may be important for normal function of the CNS, such as in learning, memory and response to injury. There has been much excitement about the possibility of transplan...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tamm C,Duckworth J,Hermanson O,Ceccatelli S

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：:Recently, in the course of our search for the prostacyclin receptor in the brain, we found a novel subtype, designated as IP2, which was finely discriminated by use of the specific ligand (15R)-16-m-tolyl-17,18,19,20-tetranorisocarbacyclin (15R-TIC) and specifically localized in the rostral part of the brain. In the p...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Watanabe Y,Matsumura K,Takechi H,Kato K,Morii H,Björkman M,Långström B,Noyori R,Suzuki M,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nigrostriatal neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease (PD) has been postulated to be caused by various pathological conditions, such as mitochondrial defects, oxidative stress, and ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) dysfunction. Pharmacological strategies designed to interfere with these pathological pathways may effe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zhu W,Xie W,Pan T,Jankovic J,Li J,Youdim MB,Le W

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first calpain protease was discovered over 40 years ago now, yet despite the vast amount of literature that has subsequently emerged detailing their involvement in the pathophysiology of a variety of human diseases, it is only in the last decade that calpain-mediated actions along the secretory pathway have begun ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Evans JS,Turner MD

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein is a candidate autoantigen in multiple sclerosis, its function remains unknown. In humans, mRNA expressed by the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein gene is alternatively spliced resulting in at least nine unique protein isoforms. In this study, we investigated the sub-cell...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Boyle LH,Traherne JA,Plotnek G,Ward R,Trowsdale J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Methyleneaspartate, a specific inhibitor of aspartate aminotransferase (EC 2.6.1.1.), was used to investigate the role of the malate-aspartate shuttle in rat brain synaptosomes. Incubation of rat brain cytosol, "free" mitochondria, synaptosol, and synaptic mitochondria, with 2 mM beta-methyleneaspartate resulted ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cheeseman AJ,Clark JB

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic pathway of inositol phospholipids represents a series of synthetic and hydrolytic reactions with inositol as a by-product. Hence, the rate of [3H]inositol release from prelabeled phospholipids can be used as a reflection of activity of this pathway. In the frog sympathetic ganglion prelabeled with [3H]in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rubio R,Bencherif M,Berne RM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral cortex tissue was obtained at autopsy from neonatal Poll Hereford calves with clinically confirmed maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), neonatal Holstein-Friesian calves with clinically confirmed citrullinemia, and matched controls. From this, synaptosomes were prepared for studies of neurotransmitter amino acid...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dodd PR,Williams SH,Gundlach AL,Harper PA,Healy PJ,Dennis JA,Johnston GA

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol abuse leads to tolerance, dependence, and memory impairments that involve excitatory glutamatergic NMDA synaptic transmission. The NMDA receptor (NMDAR) is known to undergo activity-dependent adaptive functional changes. Since we observed that acute ethanol inhibition of the NMDAR was regulated by protein tyro...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wu PH,Coultrap S,Browning MD,Proctor WR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the epididymal portion of rat vas deferens, facilitation of noradrenaline release mediated by adenosine A2A receptors, but not that mediated by beta2-adrenoceptors or by direct activation of adenylyl cyclase, was attenuated by blockade of alpha2-adrenoceptors and abolished by simultaneous blockade of alpha2-adrenoc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Queiroz G,Talaia C,Gonçalves J

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is caused by the loss of functional fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). Loss of FMRP results in an elevated basal protein expression profile of FMRP targeted mRNAs, a loss of local metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR)-regulated protein synthesis, exaggerated long-term depression an...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schmit TL,Dowell JA,Maes ME,Wilhelm M

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00