Presence of calpain-induced proteolysis in retinal degeneration and dysfunction in a rat model of acute ocular hypertension.

abstract：:Using morphological, immunocytochemical, and functional parameters we have previously shown that highly purified adult rat microglial cells undergo a process of "activation" when cultured in a serum-containing medium in the absence of added proinflammatory substances or other factors (Slepko and Levi: Glia 16:241-246,...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Slepko N,Minghetti L,Polazzi E,Nicolini A,Levi G

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim has been to investigate the ability of the rat brain to retain its level of neurotransmitter release over life. We have investigated the neurotransmitter release from the rat brain synaptosomes prelabeled with 3H-DA, 3H-NA, or 3H-5HT, and perfused with Krebs-Ringer medium alone (basal release) or containing a ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Cerrito F,Aloisi G,Arminio P

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes are the predominant cell type in the vicinity of glutamatergic synapses, where they monitor and maintain low levels of glutamate. Synaptic homeostasis of glutamate involves its removal from the synaptic cleft via high-affinity glutamate transporters, glutamate transporter-1 (GLT-1)/excitatory amino acid tra...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Sandhu JK,Sikorska M,Walker PR

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral neocortex is known to modulate asymmetrically certain components of the immune system. It was previously shown that large ablation of the left cortex reduces B and T cell-mediated responses, whereas symmetrical right lesions enhance these responses. We have studied the immunomodulatory role of the brain c...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Neveu PJ,Barnéoud P,Georgiades O,Vitiello S,Vincendeau P,Le Moal M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the following review, we address difficulties that have arisen when attempting to convert the myelin multilayers into vesicles. The emphasis is on CNS myelin of adult mammals although both central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS) myelin are considered. The ability to prepare vesicle of myeli...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Sedzik J,Blaurock AE

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation explores the central nervous system protein-synthetic responses to hemisection of the spinal cord. Adult male rats hemisected at mid T2 were given intravenous injections of 14C-leucine at 0.7, 30, or 70 days postoperative. Four hours later the T1, T2, T3, and C6 segments of the spinal cord and right...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Luttge WG,Mannis MJ,Bernstein JJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha2-adrenergic receptors control norepinephrine (NE) release and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) production from neurons. TNF regulates NE release, depending on alpha2-adrenergic receptor functioning. The relationship between TNF production in the brain and alpha2-adrenergic receptor activation could have profoun...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Reynolds JL,Ignatowski TA,Spengler RN

更新日期：2005-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathetic noradrenergic nerve fibers, stained with antiserum for tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), richly innervate the splenic white pulp. These fibers distribute with the vascular and trabecular systems, and associate mainly with the central artery and its branches, the periarteriolar lymphatic sheath (PALS), the margina...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Felten DL,Ackerman KD,Wiegand SJ,Felten SY

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common sequela of the disorder that has a large impact on patient well-being. Its physiological etiology, however, remains elusive. Our study used graph theory analysis to investigate the large-scale topological patterns of the extrastriatal dopamine D2 receptor netwo...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Mihaescu AS,Kim J,Masellis M,Graff-Guerrero A,Cho SS,Christopher L,Valli M,Díez-Cirarda M,Koshimori Y,Strafella AP

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in ganglioside composition and metabolism of deafferentiated rat hippocampus were estimated after septal lesion. A significant decrease in total ganglioside concentration was found 7 days after the lesion. The reduced level of total gangliosides persisted at 17 and 25 days. Relative increase in the proport...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Domańska-Janik K

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium, the most prevalent treatment for manic-depressive illness, might have a neuroprotective effect after brain injury. In culture, lithium can exert neurotoxic effects associated with reduction in polyamine synthesis but neuroprotective effects as cultured neurons mature. Cumulative evidence suggests that lithium...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Gilad GM,Gilad VH

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of heat-shock protein 70 (hsp70) mRNA in the hyperthermic rabbit brain has been examined previously by using Northern blotting and in situ hybridization procedures that measure steady-state levels of mRNA, which may be influenced by transcript stability and transcription rate. In the present investigatio...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： D'Souza CA,Rush SJ,Brown IR

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combination of nerve growth factor (NGF) and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) rapidly induced the locomotion of PC12 cells by sequentially stimulating lamellar spreading, ruffling with pinocytosis, and polarization by retraction from the substratum. During migration, cells acquired long processes as a result ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Altun-Gultekin ZF,Wagner JA

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study tested the hypothesis that sensitivity to the Ca(2+) -induced loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨ(m)) and the sensitivity of the loss of ΔΨ to mitochondrial permeability transition pore (PTP) inhibitors are different for neurons and astrocytes. Primary cultures of rat cortical neurons and astrocyte...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Kahraman S,Bambrick LL,Fiskum G

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In offspring, an adequate maternal diet is important for neurodevelopment. One mechanism by which maternal diet impacts neurodevelopment is through its dynamic role in the development of the gut microbiota. Communication between the gut, and its associated microbiota, and the brain is facilitated by the vagus nerve, i...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Al Rubaye H,Adamson CC,Jadavji NM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clusterin (apolipoprotein J) is a highly conserved, multifunctional, vertebrate glycoprotein. Several isoforms of clusterin have been described including the predominant secreted isoform (sCLU) and several nuclear isoforms (nCLU) associated with cell death. sCLU has been shown to bind a variety of partly unfolded, str...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Carreras I,Garrett-Young R,Ullman MD,Eisenhauer PB,Fine RE,Wells JM,Conn KJ

更新日期：2005-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In chronic demyelinating lesions of the central nervous system, insufficient generation of oligodendrocytes (OLs) is not due to a lack of oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs), because the accumulation of OPCs and premyelinating OLs can be observed within these lesions. Here we sought to identify the basis for the fa...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Shimizu T,Tanaka KF,Takebayashi H,Higashi M,Wisesmith W,Ono K,Hitoshi S,Ikenaka K

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The remarkable quantities of myelin membrane produced by oligodendrocytes has led us to examine the mechanisms involved in the sorting and transport of proteins and lipids during myelinogenesis. Noting that it has been proposed that proteins destined for the apical surface of polarized epithelial cells co-cluster with...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Kim T,Fiedler K,Madison DL,Krueger WH,Pfeiffer SE

更新日期：1995-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpains and cathepsins are two families of proteases that play an important role in ischemic cell death. In this study, we investigated the effect of E64d, a mu-calpain and cathepsin B inhibitor, in the prevention of neuronal and endothelial apoptotic cell death after focal cerebral ischemia in rats. Rats underwent 2...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Tsubokawa T,Yamaguchi-Okada M,Calvert JW,Solaroglu I,Shimamura N,Yata K,Zhang JH

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of type-1 plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has not previously been reported. As a member of the serpin superfamily of serine protease inhibitors and an acute phase response component, PAI-1 has powerful potential roles in nervous system homeostasis. We have dete...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Rao JS,Chen M,Festoff BW

更新日期：1993-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Immature and mature rat astroglia in culture were assayed for glutamine synthetase (GS) activity after a single exposure to the epileptogen FeCl2. Cells were cultured with both standard and elevated extracellular potassium or glutamate (Glu) concentrations. FeCl2 reduced GS activity below control levels, whereas high ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Tiffany-Castiglioni E,Roberts JA,Sheeler-Gough LV

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinal cord injury (SCI) triggers chronic intraspinal inflammation consisting of activated resident and infiltrating immune cells (especially microglia/macrophages). The environmental factors contributing to this protracted inflammation are not well understood; however, myelin lipid debris is a hallmark of SCI. Myelin...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Kopper TJ,Gensel JC

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Hydroxyoxindole has been identified as a urinary metabolite of indole, which is produced from tryptophane via the tryptophanase activity of gut bacteria. We have demonstrated recently that 5-hydroxyoxindole is an endogenous compound in blood and tissues of mammals, including humans. To date, 5-hydroxyoxindole's role...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Crumeyrolle-Arias M,Tournaire MC,Rabot S,Malpaux B,Thiéry JC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to widely held beliefs, the gene encoding proteolipid protein (PLP), the major structural protein of central nervous system myelin, is expressed in Schwann cells and their tumors. Proteolipid mRNA was identified in human acoustic neuromas and in rat and rabbit sciatic nerves using a human PLP cDNA as a probe....

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Puckett C,Hudson L,Ono K,Friedrich V,Benecke J,Dubois-Dalcq M,Lazzarini RA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulatory factor X4 variant 3 (RFX4_v3) is a recently identified transcription factor specifically expressed in the brain. Gene disruption in mice demonstrated that interruption of a single allele (heterozygous, +/-) prevented formation of the subcommissural organ (SCO), resulting in congenital hydrocephalus, whereas...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Zhang D,Zeldin DC,Blackshear PJ

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applications of neural progenitor cells in clinical therapy for neural degeneration, such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and cerebral infarction, have long been explored widely. It had been suggested that these cells may block the apoptosis of ischemia-induced neuronal damage and may themselves resi...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Hsieh WY,Hsieh YL,Liu DD,Yang SN,Wu JN

更新日期：2003-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of intracellular proteases (e.g., calpains and caspases) in the pathophysiology of neuronal cell death has been extensively investigated. More recently, accumulating data have suggested that extracellular proteolysis also plays a critical role. The two major systems that modify the extracellular matrix in bra...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Lo EH,Wang X,Cuzner ML

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chondroitinase ABC (Ch'ase ABC) is a bacterial lyase that degrades chondroitin sulfate (CS), dermatan sulfate, and hyaluronan glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). This enzyme has received significant attention as a potential therapy for promoting central nervous system and peripheral nervous system repair based on its degradati...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Tester NJ,Plaas AH,Howland DR

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cations on the spontaneous and potassium-stimulated taurine release from mouse cerebral cortex slices were assessed with an emphasis on the as yet unestablished calcium dependence of the stimulated release. Spontaneous and stimulated GABA release was analyzed for comparison. A depolarizing concentration...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Oja SS,Kontro P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study demonstrated the release of newly loaded radiolabelled taurine (Tau) from cultured rabbit Müller glia not only following typical cell volume-increasing treatments with high (65 mM) potassium ions or hypotonic media, but also with ammonium chloride (further referred to as ammonia), in a dose-dependent ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Faff L,Reichenbach A,Albrecht J

更新日期：1996-10-15 00:00:00