Campylobacter sialyltransferase gene polymorphism directs clinical features of Guillain-Barré syndrome.

abstract：:Exhaustive in vitro dephosphorylation of porcine neurofilaments (NFs) by alkaline or acid phosphatase did not cause a dissociation of the 210-kD (NF-H), 160-kD (NF-M), or 70-kD (NF-L) subunits and had no effect on the reassembly of NFs from urea or guanidine solution. Electron microscopy revealed that the NFs reassemb...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Georges E,Lefebvre S,Mushynski WE

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse models of MPTP intoxication have been used extensively to explore the molecular mechanisms of Parkinson's disease. However, these models present some limitations since; (i) Dopaminergic (DA) cell death occurs rapidly in contrast to the presumably slow evolution of the disease process. (ii) Some of the key histol...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Alvarez-Fischer D,Guerreiro S,Hunot S,Saurini F,Marien M,Sokoloff P,Hirsch EC,Hartmann A,Michel PP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MRC OX-2 monoclonal antibody recognises membrane glycoproteins of Mr 41,000 in rat brain and 47,000 on thymocytes. It also reacts with follicular dendritic cells in lymphoid organs, endothelium, smooth muscle, and B-lymphocytes. Indirect immunoperoxidase staining of cryostat sections showed that OX-2 antigen was p...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Webb M,Barclay AN

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RGS proteins are a recently discovered family of G protein regulators that have been shown to act as GTPase-activating proteins (GAPs) on the G(alpha i) and G(alpha q) subfamilies of the heterotrimeric G proteins. Here, we demonstrate that RGS7 is a potent GAP in vitro on G(alpha i1), and G(alpha o) heterotrimeric...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Shuey DJ,Betty M,Jones PG,Khawaja XZ,Cockett MI

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromodulation is a fundamental process in the brain that regulates synaptic transmission, neuronal network activity and behavior. Emerging evidence demonstrates that astrocytes, a major population of glial cells in the brain, play previously unrecognized functions in neuronal modulation. Astrocytes can detect the le...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fellin T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the excitatory action of GABA has been shown to activate the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), its molecular mechanisms remain unclear. Using cultured rat cortical cells, we here demonstrated that GABA induced Bdnf mRNA expression mainly via L-type voltage-dependent Ca(2+) channels (L-VD...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fukuchi M,Kirikoshi Y,Mori A,Eda R,Ihara D,Takasaki I,Tabuchi A,Tsuda M

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural progenitor cells isolated from the embryonic cerebral cortex are well known to differentiate into neurons and glial cells, but recent reports have demonstrated differentiation into smooth muscle cells (SMCs) under the influence of fetal bovine serum. In this study, we report that agonists for G protein-coupled ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Morishita R,Nagata K,Ito H,Ueda H,Asano M,Shinohara H,Kato K,Asano T

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) is a specific phenotypic marker of cholinergic neurons. Previous reports showed that different upstream regions of the ChAT gene are necessary for cell type-specific expression of reporter genes in cholinergic cell lines. The identity of the mouse ChAT promoter region controlling the e...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Naciff JM,Behbehani MM,Misawa H,Dedman JR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitors of apoptosis (IAPs) are emerging as key proteins in the control of cell death. In this study, we evaluated the expression and subcellular distribution of the antiapoptotic protein X-linked IAP (XIAP), and its interactions with the XIAP-associated factor 1 (XAF1) in neonatal rat brain following hypoxia-i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Russell JC,Whiting H,Szuflita N,Hossain MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a neurotrophic factor essential for maintenance of motor neurons. Loss of this factor produces a phenotype similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We recently showed that ALS-producing mutations of Cu/Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1) disrupt post-transcriptional regul...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li X,Lu L,Bush DJ,Zhang X,Zheng L,Suswam EA,King PH

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rat parotid gland, substance P has been shown to induce a phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate breakdown resulting in an inositol trisphosphate production. These data suggested that substance P activated a phospholipase C and thus mediated its effects through the calcium-phospholipid pathway. To determine which ne...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Guillemain I,Rollandy I,Imhoff V,Rossignol B

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enkephalin (ENK) has been implicated in nociceptive transmission in the spinal cord while its functional role is not clear because of difficulties in ideally visualizing ENKergic neurons. We thus developed preproenkephalin-green fluorescent protein transgenic mice to better identify ENKergic neurons. Real-time reverse...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Huang J,Chen J,Wang W,Wang W,Koshimizu Y,Wei YY,Kaneko T,Li YQ,Wu SX

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats rendered hyperthyroid by chronic treatment with L-triiodothyronine (T3) hormone there was a 21 and 27% decrease, respectively, in the number of binding sites for [3H]flunitrazepam ([3H]FNZ) and [3H]ethyl-beta-carboline-3-carboxylate ([3H]beta-CCE) without changes in affinity for the two ligands. Two weeks afte...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Medina JH,De Robertis E

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke is the third leading cause of death as dementia is a main symptom of Alzheimer's disease. One of the important mechanisms in the pathogeny of stroke is free radical production during the reperfusion period, therefore the effects of a type of natural antioxidant, i.e. Crataegus flavonoids (CF), on brain ischemic...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zhang DL,Zhang YT,Yin JJ,Zhao BL

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified noradrenergic, large, dense-cored vesicles were isolated from bovine sympathetic nerve endings by sucrose-D2O density gradient centrifugation. Their concentration of glycoprotein hexosamine and sialic acid was 6.6 and 3.9 mumol/100 mg lipid-free dry weight, respectively, values which are similar to tho...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Margolis RU,Ledeen RW,Sbaschnig-Agler M,Byrne MC,Klein RL,Douglas BH 2nd,Margolis RK

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylone, 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), and mephedrone are psychoactive ingredients of 'bath salts' and their abuse represents a growing public health care concern. These drugs are cathinone derivatives and are classified chemically as β-ketoamphetamines. Because of their close structural similarity to the a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Anneken JH,Angoa-Pérez M,Kuhn DM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium-coupled, hemicholinium-3-sensitive, high-affinity choline transporter (CHT) is responsible for transport of choline into cholinergic nerve terminals from the synaptic cleft following acetylcholine release and hydrolysis. In this study, we address regulation of CHT function by plasma membrane cholesterol. We...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cuddy LK,Winick-Ng W,Rylett RJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic and cDNA clones encoding the rat D1 receptor were isolated and sequenced. Comparison of the D1 receptor cDNA and genomic sequences revealed that the rat D1 receptor gene is organized into two exons separated by a small intron in the 5' untranslated region of its mRNA. The transcription start site is located 86...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zhou QY,Li C,Civelli O

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder is a severe and chronic illness with high lifetime prevalence and a high incidence of suicide as the cause of death for patients with this diagnosis. Major depressive disorder is often treated with anti-depressants. Although these drugs have been used for many years, their exact mode of actio...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gulbins E,Walter S,Becker KA,Halmer R,Liu Y,Reichel M,Edwards MJ,Müller CP,Fassbender K,Kornhuber J

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the ability of ependymal, microglial and oligodendroglial cells to degrade leucine, the presence of 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase (MCC) was investigated in cultures of these cells. MCC is a biotin-containing heterodimeric enzyme that is specific for the irreversible part of the leucine catabolic pathway...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Murín R,Verleysdonk S,Rapp M,Hamprecht B

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that phorbol esters and lithium each stimulate the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) by the anterior pituitary tumor cell line AtT20/D16-16. Pretreatment with either lithium or phorbol ester desensitizes the cells to subsequent stimulation by phorbol ester. An early consequenc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zatz M,Mahan LC,Reisine T

更新日期：1987-01-01 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 choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) reaction involves the transfer of the acetyl group of acetyl-CoA to choline, in which an active site histidine is believed to act as a general acid/base catalyst. A comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences of the enzyme from Drosophila, pig, rat, and Caernohabditis elegans re...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Carbini LA,Hersh LB

更新日期：1993-07-01 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：:It has been established that neurosteroids can either inhibit or enhance GABA(A) receptor activity. Although GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian retina, the effects of neurosteroids on retinal GABAergic activity have not been investigated. The aim of this work was to study the neurochemical a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jaliffa CO,Howard S,Hoijman E,Salido E,Sarmiento MI,Arias P,Rosenstein RE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of protease-sensitive prion protein (PrP-sen) to a high beta-sheet, protease-resistant and often fibrillar form (PrP-res) is a central event in transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) or prion diseases. This conversion can be induced by PrP-res itself in cell-free conversion reactions. The deter...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Xiong LW,Raymond LD,Hayes SF,Raymond GJ,Caughey B

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau is a microtubule-associated protein whose transcript undergoes complex regulated splicing in the mammalian nervous system. Exon 6 of the gene is an alternatively spliced cassette whose expression pattern and splicing regulation had not been previously analyzed in the human. The expression profile of exon 6 is comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wei ML,Andreadis A

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a 125I-calmodulin overlay assay, three major high-affinity calmodulin-binding proteins, showing apparent molecular masses of 135, 60, and 50 kDa, have been detected in purified nuclear fractions isolated from rat neurons. It has been shown that after extraction of the nuclei with nucleases and high salt, all ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pujol MJ,Bosser R,Vendrell M,Serratosa J,Bachs O

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) autoreceptor in the regulation of the activity of tryptophan hydroxylase was investigated in rat raphe slices. The activity of tryptophan hydroxylase was estimated by measuring the accumulation of 5-hydroxytryptophan in the presence of inhibition of aromatic L-amino acid...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sawada M,Nagatsu T

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Painful neuropathy is one of the most serious complications of diabetes and remains difficult to treat. The muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) agonists have a profound analgesic effect on painful diabetic neuropathy. Here we determined changes in T-type and high voltage-activated Ca(2+) channels (HVACCs) and th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cao XH,Byun HS,Chen SR,Pan HL

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00