21-aminosteroids interact with the dopamine transporter to protect against 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium-induced neurotoxicity.

abstract：:Lead poisoning can cause a wide range of symptoms with particularly severe clinical effects on the CNS. Lead can increase spontaneous neurotransmitter release but decrease evoked neurotransmitter release. These effects may be caused by an interaction of lead with specific molecular targets involved in neurotransmitter...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bouton CM,Frelin LP,Forde CE,Arnold Godwin H,Pevsner J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the role of intracellular pH (pHi) in catecholamine secretion and the regulation of pHi in bovine chromaffin cells, the pH-sensitive fluorescent indicator [2',7'-bis(carboxyethyl)-5(6)-carboxyfluorescein] was used to monitor the on-line changes in pHi. The pHi of chromaffin cells at resting state is approxima...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kao LS,Ho MY,Cragoe EJ Jr

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mediatophore is a presynaptic membrane protein that has been shown to translocate acetylcholine (ACh) under calcium stimulation when reconstituted into artificial membranes. The mediatophore subunit, a 15-kDa proteolipid, presents a very high sequence homology with the N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD)-binding ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sbia M,Diebler MF,Morel N,Israël M

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies from this laboratory have shown that synthesis of GT3, the precursor of c series gangliosides, occurs in proximal Golgi compartments, as has been shown for the synthesis of GM3 and GD3, the precursors of a and b series gangliosides, respectively. In this work we studied whether the synthesis of GM3, G...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rosales Fritz VM,Maxzúd MK,Maccioni HJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (8-18C5) directed against myelin/oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) induced demyelination in aggregating brain cell cultures. With increasing doses of anti-MOG antibody in the presence of complement, myelin basic protein (MBP) concentration decreased in a dose-related manner. A similar, albeit le...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kerlero de Rosbo N,Honegger P,Lassmann H,Matthieu JM

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the expression of the gene encoding glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) gene is affected by at least three cis-acting elements. A positive regulatory element that is located between nucleotides -1,631 and -1,479 can confer cell type-specific expression on a heterologous gene. A second regulatory elemen...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sarkar S,Cowan NJ

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OPA1, a nuclear encoded mitochondrial protein causing autosomal dominant optic atrophy, is a key player in mitochondrial fusion and cristae morphology regulation. In the present study, we have compared the OPA1 transcription and translation products of different mouse tissues. Unlike in humans, we found only two exons...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Akepati VR,Müller EC,Otto A,Strauss HM,Portwich M,Alexander C

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute seizures and other stimuli that increase neuronal activity cause a rapid induction of the immediate-early genes c-fos and c-jun, also referred to as nuclear proto-oncogenes, in the nervous system. In the present study, rats were administered one or more electroconvulsive seizures (ECS) and the responsiveness of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Winston SM,Hayward MD,Nestler EJ,Duman RS

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-amyloid peptides play a major role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Therefore, preventing beta-amyloid formation by inhibition of the beta site amyloid precursor protein-cleaving enzyme (BACE) 1 is considered as a potential strategy to treat AD. Cholinergic mechanisms have been shown to control am...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zuchner T,Schliebs R,Perez-Polo JR

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of a series of glycosylated beta-galactosidases to a fraction rich in synaptic membrane of bovine brain was examined. beta-galactosidase modified with p-aminophenyl beta-D-galactopyranoside (beta-D-Gal beta-gal) was found the most effective in binding to synaptic membrane, followed by that modified with be...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Naoi M,Nagatsu T

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kainate receptors (KARs) modulate synaptic transmission at both pre-synaptic and post-synaptic sites. The overlap in the distribution of KA-2 and GluR6/7 subunits in several brain regions suggests the co-assembly of these subunits in native KARs. The molecular mechanisms that control the assembly and surface expressio...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gallyas F Jr,Ball SM,Molnar E

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recycling of synaptic vesicles in nerve terminals involves multiple steps, underlies all aspects of synaptic transmission, and is a key to understanding the basis of synaptic plasticity. The development of styryl dyes as fluorescent molecules that label recycling synaptic vesicles has revolutionized the way in whi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cousin MA,Robinson PJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity in bovine brain coated vesicles displayed a Km of approximately 22 microM for cyclic AMP, a Vmax of 3.2 nmol/min/mg protein, and a Hill coefficient of 1.5, suggesting positive cooperativity. The enzyme activity was stimulated by cyclic GMP with maximal indexes of stimulation rangi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Silva WI,Schook W,Mittag TW,Puszkin S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found NAD to be rapidly degraded by extracellular enzymes present on intact rat brain synaptosomes. The enzyme involved had the specificity of an NADase cleaving the molecule at the nicotinamide-glycoside linkage and was inhibited by nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN). This inhibitor did not displace specific b...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Snell CR,Snell PH,Richards CD

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Copine is a novel protein with two C2 domains. Its expression is brain specific and up-regulated by neuronal activity such as kainate stimulation and tetanus stimulation evoking hippocampal CA1 long-term potentiation. We examined the localization and subcellular distribution of N-copine in mouse brain. In situ hybri...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nakayama T,Yaoi T,Kuwajima G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrogenic tissue of Torpedo was found to phosphorylate in vitro external [14C]thiamine by a saturable process. The rate of this metabolisaton was increased when acetate, an efficient precursor of acetylcholine (ACh) synthesis in this tissue, was added to the incubation medium, thus increasing the turnover of AC...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Eder L,Dunant Y,Loctin F

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently isolated from bovine adrenal medulla a novel C-terminally amidated opioid peptide, amidorphin, which derives from proenkephalin A. Amidorphin revealed a widespread distribution in bovine, ovine, and porcine tissue. Particularly high concentrations of amidorphin immunoreactivity were detected in adrena...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Liebisch DC,Seizinger BR,Michael G,Herz A

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative pathology characterized by aggregates of amyloid-β (Aβ) and phosphorylated tau protein, synaptic dysfunction, and spatial memory impairment. The Wnt signaling pathway has several key functions in the adult brain and has been associated with AD, mainly as a neuroprotectiv...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tapia-Rojas C,Inestrosa NC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The FE65 adaptor protein family was identified in two-hybrid screens as proteins that bind the cytoplasmic domain of the amyloid precursor protein (APP). Studies have shown that FE65 binding to APP modulates APP processing. Increased levels of alpha-secretase derived secreted APP (APPsalpha) and beta-amyloid (Abeta) w...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Guénette SY,Chang Y,Hyman BT,Tanzi RE,Rebeck GW

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid compositions of 10 different brain regions from patients affected by Alzheimer's disease/senile dementia of Alzheimer's type were analyzed. The total phospholipid amount decreased somewhat in nucleus caudatus and in white matter. The cortical areas that are morphologically affected by Alzheimer's disease, i....

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Söderberg M,Edlund C,Alafuzoff I,Kristensson K,Dallner G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroleptics are thought to exert their anti-psychotic effects by counteracting a hyper-dopaminergic transmission. Here, we have examined the dopaminergic status of STOP (stable tubule only polypeptide) null mice, which lack a microtubule-stabilizing protein and which display neuroleptic-sensitive behavioural disorder...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Brun P,Bégou M,Andrieux A,Mouly-Badina L,Clerget M,Schweitzer A,Scarna H,Renaud B,Job D,Suaud-Chagny MF

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the common complications associated with diabetes mellitus and the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Recent research has demonstrated that DR is not only a microvascular disease but may be a result of neurodegenerative processes. Moreover, glucose-induced neuron and glial cell d...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zorrilla-Zubilete MA,Yeste A,Quintana FJ,Toiber D,Mostoslavsky R,Silberman DM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau is a microtubule-associated protein that loses microtubule binding activity and aggregates into paired helical filaments (PHFs) in Alzheimer's disease. Nonenzymic glycation is one of the posttranslational modifications detected in PHF-tau, but not in normal tau. PHF-tau has reduced ability to bind to microtubules....

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nacharaju P,Ko L,Yen SH

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Aplysia, serotonin mediates behavioral sensitization by increasing the strength of the synapse between sensory and motor neurons, a process known as facilitation. The retention of long-term facilitation is blocked by rapamycin, an inhibitor of a specific translational pathway. One possible rapamycin-sensitive targe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Carroll M,Warren O,Fan X,Sossin WS

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the molecular mechanism underlying the ganglioside-induced initiation of the assembly of wild and hereditary variant-type amyloid beta-proteins, including Arctic-, Dutch-, and Flemish-type amyloid beta-proteins. We monitored the assembly of amyloid beta-protein by thioflavin-T assay, western blotting a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yamamoto N,Matsuzaki K,Yanagisawa K

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for neurotrophic factors, in particular brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), in modulating synaptic plasticity in the adult brain has been described in recent years by several laboratories. A great deal of emphasis has been placed on establishing its precise role in the expression of long-term potentiation...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gooney M,Lynch MA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drebrin is a well-known side-binding protein of F-actin in the brain. Immunohistochemical data suggest that the peripheral parts of growing axons are enriched in the drebrin E isoform and mature axons are not. It has also been observed that drebrin E is concentrated in the growth cones of PC12 cells. These data strong...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mizui T,Kojima N,Yamazaki H,Katayama M,Hanamura K,Shirao T

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) play important roles in neuronal migration and survival. However, a direct link between the neurotrophic effects of PACAP and tPA has never been investigated. In this study, we show that, in PC12 cells, PACAP induced a 9....

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Raoult E,Roussel BD,Bénard M,Lefebvre T,Ravni A,Ali C,Vivien D,Komuro H,Fournier A,Vaudry H,Vaudry D,Galas L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The normal cellular form of prion protein (PrP(C)) has been shown to exhibit a diverse range of biological activities. Several recent studies highlighted potential involvement of PrP(C) in embryogenesis or in regulating stem cell self-renewal and proliferation. In the current study, we employed human embryonic stem ce...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lee YJ,Baskakov IV

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporin A (CsA) is a clinically important immunosuppressive drug widely used to prevent graft rejection following organ or bone marrow transplantation. Although there are reports of serious neurologic alterations associated with the use of the drug, the precise mechanism of its action on the CNS still remains unkn...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mosieniak G,Figiel I,Kaminska B

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00