Characterization of neuronal and endothelial forms of angiotensin converting enzyme in pig brain.

abstract：:The question of developmental relationships amongst myelin-related membranes in subfractions of myelinating mouse brain (15 days) was investigated by a time-staggered double isotope protocol using [3H]leucine and [14C]leucine. Preliminary results are interpreted and discussed in the context of a mathematical conceptua...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pereyra PM,Braun PE,Greenfield S,Hogan EL

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether prolonged nicotine exposure persistently inactivates rat alpha4beta2 nicotinic receptors expressed in Xenopus oocytes, we measured the voltage-clamped alpha4beta2 response to acetylcholine (ACh) before and 24 h after, 1-h or 12-h incubations in 10 microm nicotine. A 12-h incubation in 10 microm ni...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jia L,Flotildes K,Li M,Cohen BN

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau, a microtubule-associated protein, is encoded by a single gene, whose expression is primarily neuronal. In this work, we defined an 80-bp region of the tau promoter that confers tau protein with neuronal expression. This fragment works in conjunction with an endogenous initiation region to activate neuronal precur...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Heicklen-Klein A,Ginzburg I

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocannabinoids (eCBs) play key roles in short-term and long-term synaptic plasticity in the corticostriatal circuit. By activating cannabinoid receptors expressed in the central nervous system, eCBs regulate several neural functions and behaviors. The major eCB 2-arachidonoyl-glycerol (2-AG) is particularly importan...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Socodato R

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three major subtypes of glutamate receptors that are coupled to cation channels--N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), kainate, and alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate (AMPA) receptors--are known as ionotropic receptors in the mammalian CNS. Recently, an additional subtype that is coupled to GTP binding protei...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Itano Y,Murayama T,Kitamura Y,Nomura Y

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia is known to induce microvascular complications, thereby altering blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability. This study investigated the role of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their endogenous inhibitors in increased BBB permeability and evaluated the protective effect of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Aggarwal A,Khera A,Singh I,Sandhir R

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a selective loss of motor neurones accompanied by intense gliosis in lesioned areas of the brain and spinal cord. Glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity resulting from impaired astroglial uptake constitutes one of the current pathophysiolog...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Vermeiren C,Hemptinne I,Vanhoutte N,Tilleux S,Maloteaux JM,Hermans E

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptosomes and mitochondria were isolated from the brains of warm-adapted, hibernating, and cold-acclimated golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). Lipid extracts of these subcellular fractions were prepared and assayed for plasmenylethanolamine (ethanolamine plasmalogen) and cholesterol levels. The ganglioside comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Demediuk P,Moscatelli EA

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:The incorporation of radioactive precursors into gangliosides and other glycolipids, glycoproteins, and total lipids has been studied in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. Starting with the same PC12 cell pool, cultures displaying different degrees of neuritic expression in response to nerve growth factor (NGF) and comb...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Katoh-Semba R,Skaper SD,Varon S

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation of an ascending path of the locus ceruleus-norepinephrine system was used to elicit release of norepinephrine at noradrenergic terminal fields of the rat thalamus. Overflow into the extracellular fluid space was measured by fast in vivo chronoamperometry. At pretreated carbon fibers, the electro...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ghasemzadeh MB,Capella P,Mitchell K,Adams RN

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) is an autoimmune, animal model of multiple sclerosis (MS) in which demyelination and paralysis are evident. Quinolinic acid (QUIN) is a neurotoxin and endogenous N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor agonist formed from tryptophan. The role of neurotoxins in general and QUIN in pa...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Flanagan EM,Erickson JB,Viveros OH,Chang SY,Reinhard JF Jr

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Properties so far studied of the 125-kDa 14C-arginylated protein from rat brain show remarkable similarities with those of the STOP (stable tubule only polypeptide) protein. On sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis the 125-kDa 14C-arginylated protein moves to the same position as the STOP protein. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bongiovanni G,Barra HS,Hallak ME

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reported that the nuclear isoforms of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaM KII) are involved in the expression of the exon IV-containing brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) mRNA. We document here the cis-elements and transcription factors responsive to CaM KII in the activation of the promoter...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Takeuchi Y,Miyamoto E,Fukunaga K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of acute and chronic administration of a subconvulsive dose of picrotoxin on t-[35S]butylbicyclophosphorothionate ([3S]TBPS), [3H]muscimol, and [3H]flunitrazepam binding characteristics in various regions and on the convulsant potency of picrotoxin in Sprague-Dawley rats were examined. Acute administration...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ito Y,Lim DK,Nabeshima T,Ho IK

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple radioenzymatic method for the determination of DOPA is described. The method is based on the conversion of DOPA to 3-O-[methyl-3H]DOPA by catechol-O-methyltransferase in the presence of S-adenosyl-[methyl-3H]methionine and purification of the labelled product by Sephadex G10 and Dowex 50 W x 4 ion exchange re...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Argiolas A,Gessa GL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketimine reductase (E.C. 1.5.1.25) was purified to apparent homogeneity from lamb forebrain by means of a rapid multi-step chromatography protocol. The purified enzyme was identified by MS/MS (mass spectrometry) as μ-crystallin. The identity was confirmed by heterologously expressing human μ-crystallin in Escherichia ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hallen A,Cooper AJ,Jamie JF,Haynes PA,Willows RD

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:EAAC1/EAAT3 is a transporter of glutamate (Glu) present at the post-synaptic neuronal element, in opposition to the two other main transporters, GLAST/EAAT1 and GLT1/EAAT2, expressed at the excitatory amino acid (EAA) synapse by surrounding astrocytes. Although, in the adult, EAAC1/EAAT3 exhibits a rather low expressi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nieoullon A,Canolle B,Masmejean F,Guillet B,Pisano P,Lortet S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine A(1) receptors (A(1)Rs) have been characterized in primary cultures of neurons from cerebral cortex. The specific adenosine A(1) antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-[(3)H]dipropylxanthine bound to both membranes and intact cells. When saturation experiments were performed in membranes, a K(D) value of 0.76 nM and a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ruiz MA,Escriche M,Lluis C,Franco R,Martín M,Andrés A,Ros M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Alzheimer's disease, the neuritic or senile amyloid plaques in hippocampus and association cortex, the diffuse plaques in brain areas such as the cerebellum and sensorimotor cortex, and the amyloid deposits in the walls of pial and parenchymal blood vessels are mainly composed of amyloid beta-peptides. In the prese...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ghersi-Egea JF,Gorevic PD,Ghiso J,Frangione B,Patlak CS,Fenstermacher JD

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucine and beta-(+/-)-2-aminobicyclo[2.2.1]heptane-2-carboxylic acid (BCH) stimulated, in a dose-dependent manner, reductive amination of 2-oxoglutarate in rat brain synaptosomes treated with Triton X-100. The concentration dependence curves were sigmoid, with 10-15-fold stimulations at 15 mM leucine (or BCH); oxidat...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Erecińska M,Nelson D

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential assembly of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunits determines their functional characteristics. Using in situ hybridization, we found a selective increase of the subunits NR1 and NR2A mRNA at 24 h in ventral motor neurons (VMN) caudal to a standardized spinal cord contusion injury (SCI). Other neur...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Grossman SD,Wolfe BB,Yasuda RP,Wrathall JR

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinolinic acid (QA) has been shown to evoke neurotoxic events via NMDA receptor (NMDAR) overactivation and oxidative stress. NMDARs are particularly vulnerable to free radicals, which can modulate protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) and phosphotyrosine phosphatase (PTP) activities. The src family of tyrosine kinases are as...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Metere A,Mallozzi C,Minetti M,Domenici MR,Pèzzola A,Popoli P,Di Stasi AM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho-kinase and myosin phosphatase are implicated in the phosphorylation-state of myosin light chain downstream of Rho, which is thought to induce smooth muscle contraction and stress fibre formation in non-muscle cells. Here, we found that microtubule-associated proteins, Tau and MAP2, interacted with the myosin-bindi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Amano M,Kaneko T,Maeda A,Nakayama M,Ito M,Yamauchi T,Goto H,Fukata Y,Oshiro N,Shinohara A,Iwamatsu A,Kaibuchi K

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks are internal timing systems that enable organisms to adjust their behavioral and physiological rhythms to the daily changes of their environment. These clocks generate self-sustained oscillations at the cellular, tissue, and behavioral level. The rhythm-generating mechanism is based on a gene expressi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Srikanta SB,Cermakian N

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Fused in sarcoma (FUS) is a ubiquitously expressed RNA/DNA-binding protein that plays different roles in the cell. FUS pathology has been reported in neurodegenerative diseases amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Mutations in FUS have also been linked to a subset of familial ALS. FUS...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Arenas A,Kuang L,Zhang J,Kingren MS,Zhu H

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated by indirect immunofluorescence the cellular localization of a monoclonal antibody (mAb 224-58), produced after immunization of a mouse with human central nervous system (CNS) myelin. Serologically, mAb 224-58 was found to be specific for 3'-sulfomonogalactosylglycolipids, namely 3'-sulfogalactosyl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Guerci A,Monge M,Baron-Van Evercooren A,Lubetzki C,Dancea S,Boutry JM,Goujet-Zalc C,Zalc B

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are known to be a primary inflammatory cell type in the brain. However, microglial inflammatory responses are attenuated in the injured brain compared to those in cultured pure microglia. In the present study, we found that astrocytes challenged by oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) or H(2) O(2) released solub...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kim JH,Min KJ,Seol W,Jou I,Joe EH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stressful treatments and immune challenges have been shown previously to elevate brain concentrations of tryptophan. The role of the autonomic nervous system in this neurochemical change was investigated using pharmacological treatments that inhibit autonomic effects. Pretreatment with the ganglionic blocker chlorison...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dunn AJ,Welch J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of dissociation of [3H]methyl beta-carboline-3-carboxylate (beta-CCM) binding was studied in a synaptosomal membrane preparation of rat cerebral cortex. Dissociation was biphasic: a faster phase (10-30% contribution) was followed by a slower phase. Picrotoxin pretreatment at 22 degrees C enhanced the equi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Maksay G,Simonyi M

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00