Müller Cells as a source of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the retina: noradrenaline upregulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in cultured rat Müller cells.

abstract：:The calcium-activated phosphodiesteratic hydrolysis of 32P-labeled phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate in prelabeled nerve ending membranes is inhibited by the aminoglycosides neomycin and gentamicin, and to a lesser extent, by streptomycin. The inhibition is overcome by increasi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Van Rooijen LA,Agranoff BW

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein composition of myelin isolated from the CNS of four different fish species (trout, goldfish), eel, Tilapia) was analysed by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and compared with that of pig and rat brain. Thereby the following features were found typical to the myelin of fish: (1) a basic protein of par...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Jeserich G

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diisopropyl phosphorofluoridate (DFP) produces organophosphorus ester-induced delayed neurotoxicity (OPIDN) in sensitive species. We have investigated the in vivo and in vitro effects of DFP on hen brain tubulin polymerization. Hens were treated with a single dose of DFP (1.7 mg/kg, sc.), and were sacrificed after 18-...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Gupta RP,Abou-Donia MB

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After rapid inactivation of the enzymes responsible for glucose metabolism by microwave irradiation, concentrations of glucose in 20 regions of the mouse brain were estimated with combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The highest concentrations of glucose were found in the periventricular nuclei of th...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shimada M,Kihara T,Watanabe M,Kurimoto K

更新日期：1977-12-01 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：:The effect of maternal hypoxia on the modification of the fetal brain cell membrane N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor and its modulatory sites was investigated. Experiments were conducted in pregnant guinea pigs of 60 days of gestation. Guinea pig fetuses were exposed to maternal hypoxia (FiO2 = 7%) for 60 minutes....

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Mishra OP,Delivoria-Papadopoulos M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study mitochondrial respiratory function of fibroblasts from a patient affected by early-onset parkinsonism carrying the homozygous W437X nonsense mutation in the PINK1 gene has been thoroughly characterized. When compared with normal fibroblasts, the patient's fibroblast mitochondria exhibited a lower ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Piccoli C,Sardanelli A,Scrima R,Ripoli M,Quarato G,D'Aprile A,Bellomo F,Scacco S,De Michele G,Filla A,Iuso A,Boffoli D,Capitanio N,Papa S

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to develop an animal model of hyperpipecolatemia, the uptake of pipecolic acid (PA) in the brain and changes of PA levels in serum following administration of D,L-PA were studied in the mouse using a new sensitive HPLC-EC method. Following i.p. injections (250 mg/kg) to adult male mice, the brain concentr...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kim JS,Giacobini E

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are small secreted proteins that are essential for the recruitment and activation of specific leukocyte subsets at sites of inflammation and for the development and homeostasis of lymphoid and nonlymphoid tissues. During the past decade, chemokines and their receptors have also emerged as key signaling mole...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ambrosini E,Aloisi F

更新日期：2004-05-01 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

abstract：:The spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) has been proposed as an animal model for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The behavioural problems have been suggested to be secondary to altered reinforcement mechanisms in which nucleus accumbens dopaminergic activity plays an important role. Interaction betwe...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： de Villiers AS,Russell VA,Sagvolden T,Searson A,Jaffer A,Taljaard JJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) plays a pivotal role in neuronal migration and differentiation, and in axonal elongation. Although many studies have been conducted to analyze neuronal functions of Cdk5, its kinase activity has also been reported during oligodendrocyte differentiation, which suggests Cdk5 may play an ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： He X,Takahashi S,Suzuki H,Hashikawa T,Kulkarni AB,Mikoshiba K,Ohshima T

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptogenesis, induced by status epilepticus (SE), is a chronic process, and intervention in this progress may prevent chronic epilepsy. It has been proposed that DNA methylation might be related with epileptogenesis. RASgrf1 has a differentially methylated region at the promoter which can silence gene expression. W...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bao Y,Chen X,Wang L,Zhou J,Fu X,Wang X,Xiao Z

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the kappa-opioid receptor (KOR) agonist, BRL52537, has a neuroprotective effect against cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in rats and further explore the underlying mechanisms. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned into sham (group A), I/R (...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fang S,Xu H,Lu J,Zhu Y,Jiang H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As is known to all, neuroinflammation plays a vital role in early brain injury pathogenesis following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). It has been shown that rutin have a property of inhibiting inflammation in many kinds of animal models. However, the effect of rutin on neuroinflammation after SAH remains uninvestigated...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hao G,Dong Y,Huo R,Wen K,Zhang Y,Liang G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to examine the responsiveness of an immortalized catecholaminergic neuronal line, 2N27, to various growth factors and identify those which promote catecholaminergic expression. 2N27 is a newly established neural cell line derived from fetal rat mesencephalic tissue and, thus, contains tyrosi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Grove J,Kentroti S,Prasad K,Vernadakis A

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5- and 6-Hydroxydopamine, which we had earlier identified as naturally occurring amines in human urine, were quantified in Parkinson's patients treated with L-DOPA, Parkinson's patients whose treatment did not include L-DOPA and in age matched controls. Analysis was carried out by GC-MS of the ditrifluoromethylbenzoyl...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Andrew R,Watson DG,Best SA,Midgley JM,Wenlong H,Petty RK

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic agonists stimulate 22Na flux in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. The stimulatory effect of carbamylcholine is maximal at 1 mM, while the stimulatory effect of nicotine and anatoxin maximize at the same level at 100 microM and 10 microM, respectively. The tertiary amines arecolone and isoarecolone have no eff...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Daly JW,Nishizawa Y,Edwards MW,Waters JA,Aronstam RS

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethyl pyruvate (EP) has recently been reported to afford protection against neurodegenerative disorders. However, the mechanism underlying EP-mediated neuroprotection remains to be elucidated. Because peroxynitrite has been extensively implicated in the pathogenesis of various forms of neurodegenerative disorders via ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chen W,Jia Z,Zhu H,Zhou K,Li Y,Misra HP

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that acute ammonia toxicity is mediated by activation of the NMDA type of glutamate receptors. Although it is well known that L-carnitine prevents acute ammonia toxicity, the underlying molecular mechanism is not clear. We suspected that L-carnitine would prevent ammonia toxicity by preventing the toxic ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Felipo V,Miñana MD,Cabedo H,Grisolía S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The volume-regulated anion channel, VRAC, plays an important role in cell volume regulation. This channel is permeable for a wide variety of anions, amino acids, and organic osmolytes, including taurine. However, nothing is known about possible water permeability of this channel. Water permeability of endothelial cell...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nilius B

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Menadione (2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone) is a synthetic derivative of vitamin K that allows rapid redox cycling in cells and thereby generates reactive oxygen species (ROS). To test for the consequences of a treatment of brain astrocytes with menadione, we incubated primary astrocyte cultures with this compound. Incuba...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Steinmeier J,Dringen R

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Kindling" is a phenomenon of epileptogenesis, which has been widely used as an experimental model of temporal lobe epilepsy. At the present work we investigated the contribution of NMDA receptors in the Pentylenetetrazol-induced "kindling" model in the mouse brain, by using quantitative autoradiography and the radioa...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ekonomou A,Angelatou F

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth-promoting macroglia (aldynoglia) with growth properties and immunological markers similar to Schwann cells, are found in loci of the mammalian CNS where axon regeneration occurs throughout life, like the olfactory sytem, hypothalamus-hypophysis and the pineal gland. Contrary to Schwann cells, aldynoglia mingle ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nieto-Sampedro M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental evidence has suggested that the high endogenous levels of taurine found in the rat heart and retina are maintained to a large extent by transport processes out of the blood, rather than by endogenous biosynthesis. When these high levels are depleted, dysfunction ensues. In vitro studies have shown that be...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lake N,De Marte L

更新日期：1988-10-01 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：:We measured the activity of several acid hydrolases in oligodendrocyte and mixed glial (predominantly astrocytic) cell cultures prepared from neonatal rat cerebra. When compared with the mixed glial cultures, the cultured oligodendrocytes exhibited higher levels for all the hydrolases when activities were normalized t...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bradel EJ,Sloan HR

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset, irreversible neurodegenerative disease that leads to progressive paralysis and inevitable death 3-5 years after diagnosis. The mechanisms underlying this process remain unknown, but new evidence indicates that accumulating levels of D-serine result from the downre...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Wang W,Duan W,Wang Y,Wen D,Liu Y,Li Z,Hu H,Cui H,Cui C,Lin H,Li C

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol abuse affects several neurological pathways and causes significant alterations in the brain. Abstention from alcohol causes only a marginal decrease in oxidative stress and neuro inflammation. Our previous studies had shown that an active metabolite of vitamin A, all trans retinoic acid (ATRA), ameliorates alc...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Priyanka SH,Syam Das S,Thushara AJ,Rauf AA,Indira M

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kv1.3 is a voltage gated potassium channel that has been implicated in pathophysiology of multiple sclerosis (MS). In the present study we investigated temporal and cellular expression pattern of this channel in the lumbar part of spinal cords of animals with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), animal mod...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bozic I,Tesovic K,Laketa D,Adzic M,Jakovljevic M,Bjelobaba I,Savic D,Nedeljkovic N,Pekovic S,Lavrnja I

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00