Locomotor hyperactivity and alterations in dopamine neurotransmission are associated with overexpression of A53T mutant human alpha-synuclein in mice.

abstract：:Endocannabinoids function as neurotransmitters and neuromodulators in the central nervous system via specific receptors and apparently have a neuroprotective role. We assumed that the endocannabinoid system could be involved in the pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy (HE), a neuropsychiatric syndrome due to liver d...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Avraham Y,Israeli E,Gabbay E,Okun A,Zolotarev O,Silberman I,Ganzburg V,Dagon Y,Magen I,Vorobia L,Pappo O,Mechoulam R,Ilan Y,Berry EM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of α-synuclein (α-syn) is neuropathologically and genetically linked to Parkinson's disease (PD). Since stereotypic cell-to-cell spreading of α-syn pathology is believed to contribute to disease progression, immunotherapy with antibodies directed against α-syn is considered a promising therapeutic approach...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Weihofen A,Liu Y,Arndt JW,Huy C,Quan C,Smith BA,Baeriswyl JL,Cavegn N,Senn L,Su L,Marsh G,Auluck PK,Montrasio F,Nitsch RM,Hirst WD,Cedarbaum JM,Pepinsky RB,Grimm J,Weinreb PH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A crucial question in polyQ-induced neurodegeneration is the influence of wild type protein on the formation of aggregates and toxicity. Recently it was shown that non-expanded ataxin-3 protein mitigated neurodegeneration in a Drosophila and mouse model of SCA3. We now explored the effects of overexpressing non-expand...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Hübener J,Riess O

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic microglial activation has been linked to the progressive degeneration of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons evidenced in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis. The exact etiology of PD remains poorly understood. Although both oxidative stress and neuroinflammation are identified as co-contributors in PD pa...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Gordon R,Singh N,Lawana V,Ghosh A,Harischandra DS,Jin H,Hogan C,Sarkar S,Rokad D,Panicker N,Anantharam V,Kanthasamy AG,Kanthasamy A

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) or Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) belongs to a group of autosomal dominant neurodegenerative diseases, which are caused by the expansion of a polyglutamine repeat in the affected protein, in this case ataxin-3. Ataxin-3 is mainly localized in the cytoplasm; however, one hallmark of S...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Antony PM,Mäntele S,Mollenkopf P,Boy J,Kehlenbach RH,Riess O,Schmidt T

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we analyze the molecular mechanisms underlying motor neuron degeneration in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS). For this, we used a transgenic mouse model expressing the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene with a Gly(86) to Arg (G86R) mutation equivalent to that found in a subset of ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Dupuis L,de Tapia M,René F,Lutz-Bucher B,Gordon JW,Mercken L,Pradier L,Loeffler JP

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroprotective functions of erythropoietin (Epo) are thought to involve a heteroreceptor composed of both Epo receptor (Epo-R) and common beta chain (betac). Here, we measured the response of hippocampal Epo system components (Epo, Epo-R and betac) during neurodegenerative processes following pilocarpine-induced stat...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Nadam J,Navarro F,Sanchez P,Moulin C,Georges B,Laglaine A,Pequignot JM,Morales A,Ryvlin P,Bezin L

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate structural connectivity and the relationship between axonal microstructure and clinical, cognitive, and motor functions in premanifest (pre-HD) and symptomatic (symp-HD) Huntington's disease. METHOD:Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data were acquired from 35 pre-HD, 36 symp-HD, and 35 controls. ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Poudel GR,Stout JC,Domínguez D JF,Salmon L,Churchyard A,Chua P,Georgiou-Karistianis N,Egan GF

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-amyloid (Abeta) deposition is one important pathological hallmark in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, low levels of Abeta may modify critical endogenous protection systems before neurodegeneration occurs. We examined the time-course effect of sublethal concentrations of Abeta on total BDNF (panBDNF), BDNF trans...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Aliaga E,Silhol M,Bonneau N,Maurice T,Arancibia S,Tapia-Arancibia L

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDA receptor dysfunction is central to the encephalopathies caused by missense mutations in the NMDA receptor subunit genes. Missense variants of GRIN1, GRIN2A, and GRIN2B cause similar syndromes with varying severity of intellectual impairment, autism, epilepsy, and motor dysfunction. To gain insight into possible b...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Intson K,van Eede MC,Islam R,Milenkovic M,Yan Y,Salahpour A,Henkelman RM,Ramsey AJ

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary sensory neuropathy type 1 (HSN-1) is a peripheral neuropathy most frequently caused by mutations in the SPTLC1 or SPTLC2 genes, which code for two subunits of the enzyme serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT). SPT catalyzes the first step of de novo sphingolipid synthesis. Mutations in SPT result in a change in ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Wilson ER,Kugathasan U,Abramov AY,Clark AJ,Bennett DLH,Reilly MM,Greensmith L,Kalmar B

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization of mouse models of Alzheimer disease (AD) with amyloid-peptide (Abeta) reduces Abeta deposits and attenuates their memory and learning deficits. Recent clinical trials were halted due to meningoencephalitis, presumably induced by T cell mediated and/or Fc-mediated immune responses. Because injection of an...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Fukuchi K,Tahara K,Kim HD,Maxwell JA,Lewis TL,Accavitti-Loper MA,Kim H,Ponnazhagan S,Lalonde R

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation is a growing area of research in neurodegeneration. In Huntington's disease (HD), a fatal inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by a CAG-repeat expansion in the gene encoding huntingtin, patients have increased plasma levels of inflammatory cytokines and circulating monocytes that are hyper-responsiv...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Träger U,Andre R,Magnusson-Lind A,Miller JR,Connolly C,Weiss A,Grueninger S,Silajdžić E,Smith DL,Leavitt BR,Bates GP,Björkqvist M,Tabrizi SJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substantial interest persists for developing neurotrophic factors to treat neurodegenerative diseases. At the same time, significant progress has been made in implementing gene therapy as a means to provide long-term expression of bioactive neurotrophic factors to targeted sites in the brain. Nonetheless, to date, no ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Bartus RT,Kordower JH,Johnson EM Jr,Brown L,Kruegel BR,Chu Y,Baumann TL,Lang AE,Olanow CW,Herzog CD

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder that results in motor, cognitive and psychiatric abnormalities. Dysfunction in neuronal processing between the cortex and the basal ganglia is fundamental to the onset and progression of the HD phenotype. The corticosubthalamic hyperdirect p...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Callahan JW,Abercrombie ED

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments reported here were motivated by studies in both human epilepsy and animal models in which stunted dendritic arbors are observed. Our goal was to determine if chronic network hyperexcitability alters dendritic growth. Experiments were conducted in hippocampal slice cultures obtained from infant mice that ex...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Nishimura M,Owens J,Swann JW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain clinical features of schizophrenia, such as working memory disturbances, appear to emerge from altered gamma oscillatory activity in the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Given the essential role of GABA neurotransmission in both working memory and gamma oscillations, understanding the cellular substrate for their dist...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Dienel SJ,Lewis DA

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans (CSPGs), up-regulated in and around the lesion after traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI), are key extracellular matrix inhibitory molecules that limit axon growth and consequent recovery of function. CSPG-mediated inhibition occurs via interactions with axonal receptors, including leuk...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Cheng L,Sami A,Ghosh B,Urban MW,Heinsinger NM,Liang SS,Smith GM,Wright MC,Li S,Lepore AC

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hippocampus is often injured in neonatal stroke. We have investigated the effect of erythropoietin (EPO) on oxygen-glucose deprived hippocampal slices and hypoxic progenitor cells. EPO improved survival of the organotypic hippocampal slices with significantly less cell death in the dentate gyrus and an increased n...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Osredkar D,Sall JW,Bickler PE,Ferriero DM

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental illness is the leading cause of disability worldwide. We are only just beginning to reveal and comprehend the complex interaction that exists between the genetic makeup of an organism and the potential modifying effect of the environment in which it lives, and how this translates into mediating susceptibility t...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Renoir T,Pang TY,Hannan AJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Recent studies revealed that pharmacological modulation of NAE-hydrolyzing acid amidase (NAAA) can be achieved with PEA oxazoline (PEA-OXA). Hence, the aim of the present work was to thoroughly evaluate the anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects of PEA-OXA in an experimental model of vascular dementia (VaD) ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Impellizzeri D,Siracusa R,Cordaro M,Crupi R,Peritore AF,Gugliandolo E,D'Amico R,Petrosino S,Evangelista M,Di Paola R,Cuzzocrea S

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since aberrant miRNA expression has been implicated in numerous brain diseases, we studied miRNA expression and miRNA regulation of important signaling pathways during temporal lobe epileptogenesis in order to identify possible targets for epilepsy therapy. The temporal profile of miRNA expression was analyzed in thre...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Gorter JA,Iyer A,White I,Colzi A,van Vliet EA,Sisodiya S,Aronica E

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motor neuron degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a form of apoptosis, but the mechanisms for this neuronal cell death are not known. We evaluated whether motor neuron degeneration in ALS is associated with changes in the levels and function of the apoptosis regulating protein p53. The protein levels...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Martin LJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system is protected by barriers which control the entry of compounds into the brain, thereby regulating brain homeostasis. The blood-brain barrier, formed by the endothelial cells of the brain capillaries, restricts access to brain cells of blood-borne compounds and facilitates nutrients essential ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Gabathuler R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have showed that prenatal cocaine exposure (PCOC) can impair cognitive function and social behavior of the offspring; however, the mechanism underlying such effect is poorly understood. Insulin-like growth factor II (Igf-II), an imprinted gene, has a critical role in memory consolidation and enhancement. We hy...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Zhao Q,Hou J,Chen B,Shao X,Zhu R,Bu Q,Gu H,Li Y,Zhang B,Du C,Fu D,Kong J,Luo L,Long H,Li H,Deng Y,Zhao Y,Cen X

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-synuclein (aSyn) is the major protein component of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, the typical pathological hallmarks in Parkinson's disease (PD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies. aSyn is capable of inducing transcriptional deregulation, but the precise effect of specific aSyn mutants associated with familial forms ...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Paiva I,Jain G,Lázaro DF,Jerčić KG,Hentrich T,Kerimoglu C,Pinho R,Szegő ÈM,Burkhardt S,Capece V,Halder R,Islam R,Xylaki M,Caldi Gomes LA,Roser AE,Lingor P,Schulze-Hentrich JM,Borovečki F,Fischer A,Outeiro TF

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precursor cells in the adult dentate gyrus are a heterogeneous population. Astrocytic cell types with radial glia-like morphology and low proliferative activity have been distinguished from highly dividing subtypes expressing early neuronal properties. Recent evidence indicates that physiological stimuli predominantly...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Kunze A,Grass S,Witte OW,Yamaguchi M,Kempermann G,Redecker C

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradykinesia is the most important feature contributing to motor difficulties in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, the pathophysiology underlying bradykinesia is not fully understood. One important aspect is that PD patients have difficulty in performing learned motor skills automatically, but this problem has been g...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Wu T,Hallett M,Chan P

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms of major mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, are unclear. To address this fundamental question, many groups have studied molecular expression profiles in postmortem brains and other tissues from patients compared with those from normal controls. Development of unbiase...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Lin CY,Sawa A,Jaaro-Peled H

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is typified by behavioral and cognitive changes manifested as altered social comportment and impaired memory performance. To investigate the neurodegenerative consequences of progranulin gene (GRN) mutations, which cause an inherited form of FTD, we used previously generated progranulin k...

journal_title：Neurobiology of disease

authors： Ghoshal N,Dearborn JT,Wozniak DF,Cairns NJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00