Modulation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha activity by N-acetyl cysteine attenuates inhibition of oligodendrocyte development in lipopolysaccharide stimulated mixed glial cultures.

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：:The immediate acyl chain donor for fatty acid esterification of proteolipid protein (PLP) was identified in an in vitro system. Rat brain total membranes, after removal of crude nuclear and mitochondrial fractions, were incubated with radioactive acyl donors, extracted with chloroform/methanol, and analyzed by sodium ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bizzozero OA,Lees MB

更新日期：1986-02-01 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：:Prolonged seizures activate members of the Bcl-2 homology domain 3-only sub-group of the Bcl-2 protein family, which are essential for initiation of apoptosis signaling. Bid is a potent pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 homology domain 3-only protein, which upon proteolytic activation translocates to mitochondria to promote activat...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Engel T,Caballero-Caballero A,Schindler CK,Plesnila N,Strasser A,Prehn JH,Henshall DC

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing reports support that air pollution causes neuroinflammation and is linked to central nervous system (CNS) disease/damage. Diesel exhaust particles (DEP) are a major component of urban air pollution, which has been linked to microglial activation and Parkinson's disease-like pathology. To begin to address ho...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Levesque S,Taetzsch T,Lull ME,Johnson JA,McGraw C,Block ML

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous neuropeptide N-acetyl-L-aspartyl-L-glutamate (NAAG) fulfills several criteria required to be accepted as a neurotransmitter. NAAG inactivation may proceed through enzymatic hydrolysis into N-acetyl-L-aspartate and glutamate by an N-acetylated-alpha-linked acidic dipeptidase (NAALADase). Therefore, some ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Serval V,Barbeito L,Pittaluga A,Cheramy A,Lavielle S,Glowinski J

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) concentrations were measured in CSF specimens from two large groups of control subjects, one without neurological or psychiatric disease, and one with a variety of neurological disorders not known to involve altered GABAergic function in brain. CSF GABA was also measured in patients with...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Perry TL,Hansen S,Wall RA,Gauthier SG

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of mRNA encoding glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) and preproenkephalin (PPE) were measured by Northern blot analysis, in the dorsal and the ventral part of the striatum, following long-term treatments with drugs acting selectively on D1 or D2 dopaminergic receptors. Chronic injection of the selective D1 an...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Caboche J,Vernier P,Julien JF,Rogard M,Mallet J,Besson MJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied neurotoxicity induced by pharmacological concentrations of 3-hydroxykynurenine (3-HK), an endogenous toxin implicated in certain neurodegenerative diseases, in cerebellar granule cells, PC12 pheochromocytoma cells, and GT1-7 hypothalamic neurosecretory cells. In all three cell types, the toxicity was i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wei H,Leeds P,Chen RW,Wei W,Leng Y,Bredesen DE,Chuang DM

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia, the resident macrophage of the brain, can release substances that aid neuronal development, differentiation and survival. We have investigated the effects of non-activated microglia on the survival of cultured rat cerebellar granule neurones. Microglial-conditioned medium, collected from primary rat microgl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Morgan SC,Taylor DL,Pocock JM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channels are classically understood to regulate the flux of ions across the plasma membrane in response to a variety of environmental and intracellular cues. Ion channels serve a number of functions in intracellular membranes as well. These channels may be temporarily localized to intracellular membranes as a func...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dong XP,Wang X,Xu H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that tyrosine phosphorylation may play important roles in retinal photoreceptor rod outer segments (ROS). We investigated the tyrosine phosphorylation of endogenous proteins in isolated bovine ROS. Several proteins with apparent molecular masses of 31, 39, 60, 83, 90, 97, 120, 140, and 180 kD...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bell MW,Desai N,Guo XX,Ghalayini AJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mouse myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) gene has been studied in normal and jimpymsd mice. Potential upstream regulatory regions of the normal gene have been cloned and mapped, but when these regions were studied in jimpymsd mice by Southern blots, no alterations were observed, relative to the normal gene. To asses...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Macklin WB,Gardinier MV,Obeso ZO,King KD,Wight PA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Null mutations in progranulin (GRN) are associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration characterized by intraneuronal accumulation of TAR DNA-binding protein-43 (TDP-43). However, the mechanism by which GRN deficiency leads to neurodegeneration remains largely unknown. In primary cortical neurons derived from Grn k...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kleinberger G,Wils H,Ponsaerts P,Joris G,Timmermans JP,Van Broeckhoven C,Kumar-Singh S

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurochemical profile of a new compound, Lu 19-005 [(+/-)trans-3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-N-methyl-1-indanamine hydrochloride], has been investigated. Lu 19-005 is a potent inhibitor of the synaptosomal uptake of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylethylamine (dopamine, DA), noradrenaline (NA), and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, serotonin...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hyttel J,Larsen JJ

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three conserved serine residues (Ser193, Ser194, and Ser197) in transmembrane spanning region (TM) V of the D2 dopamine receptor have been mutated to alanine, individually and in combination, to explore their role in ligand binding and G protein coupling. The multiple Ser -->Ala mutations had no effect on the binding ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Coley C,Woodward R,Johansson AM,Strange PG,Naylor LH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of angiotensin (Ang) IV, an inhibitor of insulin-regulated aminopeptidase (IRAP), on extracellular dopamine levels in the striatum of freely moving rats was examined using in vivo microdialysis. The Ang IV was administered locally in the striatum through the microdialysis probe. A concentration-dependent (1...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Stragier B,Sarre S,Vanderheyden P,Vauquelin G,Fournié-Zaluski MC,Ebinger G,Michotte Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that [3H]imipramine binds to both high- and low-affinity imipramine binding components on membranes prepared from rat cerebral cortex. Scatchard and computer analyses of saturation experiments using a wide range of [3H]imipramine concentrations (0.5 nM-50 nM) revealed the presence of two...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Conway PG,Brunswick DJ

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myocyte enhancer factor 2A-D (MEF2) proteins are members of the MCM1-agamous-deficiens-serum response factor family of transcription factors. Various MEF2 isoform proteins are enriched in neurons and exhibit distinct patterns of expression in different regions of the brain. In neurons, MEF2 functions as a convergi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： She H,Yang Q,Mao Z

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemokine IL-8 is known to be synthesized by glial cells in the brain. It has traditionally been shown to have an important role in neuroinflammation but recent evidence indicates that it may also be involved in rapid signaling in neurons. We investigated how IL-8 participates in rapid neuronal signaling by using ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Puma C,Danik M,Quirion R,Ramon F,Williams S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyltransferase enzymatic activity was detected and measured in homogenates obtained from intact nerve fibers and their saparate cellular components, in the tropical squid Sepioteuthis sepioidea. The levels of acetylcholine synthesis were determined in pooled samples of whole stellar nerve, intact giant nerve fiber,...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Heumann R,Villegas J,Herzfeld DW

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is great interest in soy isoflavones as alternatives to endogenous estrogens not only in hormonal pathologies, but also in inflammatory, neurodegenerative diseases, and pain. We investigated the effect of the isoflavone genistein on neuropathic pain. Genistein binds estrogen receptors (ER) with higher affinity f...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Valsecchi AE,Franchi S,Panerai AE,Sacerdote P,Trovato AE,Colleoni M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibody BM88 recognizes a neurospecific surface antigen in the CNS and the PNS. In the present study, the antigen recognized by BM88 was immunopurified from pig brain and shown to be a 22-kDa polypeptide by reducing sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Under nonreducing conditions a p...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Patsavoudi E,Hurel C,Matsas R

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies demonstrated that 9 kb of the rat tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) 5' flanking sequence directed appropriate spatiotemporal expression of a lacZ reporter gene to catecholaminergic cells in the CNS of transgenic mice. In the present study, specificity of transgene expression was further extended to demonstrat...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Min N,Joh TH,Corp ES,Baker H,Cubells JF,Son JH

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH)-mRNA, assayed by in situ hybridization combined with TH immunocytochemistry, showed a selective increase in the ventral tegmental area (A-10) but not in the substantia nigra (A-9) midbrain dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons 3 days after reserpine treatment. TH-mRNA in locus ceruleus noradrenergic...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pasinetti GM,Morgan DG,Johnson SA,Millar SL,Finch CE

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cetiedil and its analogue MR 16728 were examined on spontaneous acetylcholine release measured with a chemiluminescent assay using choline oxidase in a synaptosomal suspension obtained from Torpedo marmorata electric organ. Evoked acetylcholine release is inhibited by cetiedil, whereas this drug enhance...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Moulian N,Gaudry-Talarmain YM,Israël M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously purified and characterized a nervous system-specific glycoprotein antigen from adult Drosophila heads, designated Nervana [nerve antigen (NRV)] and identified two separate genes coding for three different proteins. All three proteins share homology with the beta subunits of Na+,K+-ATPase from variou...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sun B,Wang W,Salvaterra PM

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five subtypes of the muscarinic receptor have been cloned from both the rat and human genomes. Although all five genes have the coding sequences in a single exon, their structures 5' of the initiation codon are largely uncharacterized, except for the M4 receptor. In the brain, muscarinic receptors mediate motor and me...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Klett CP,Bonner TI

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotoxic effect of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) was tested on mice lacking the dopamine (DA) transporter (DAT-/- mice). Striatal tissue DA content and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) mRNA expression were assessed as markers of MPTP neurotoxicity. MPTP (30 mg/kg, s.c., b.i.d.) produc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gainetdinov RR,Fumagalli F,Jones SR,Caron MG

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated protein (MAP) 1B is a high-molecular-weight cytoskeletal protein that is abundant in developing neuronal processes and appears to be necessary for axonal growth. Various biochemical and immunocytochemical results are reported, indicating that a significant fraction of MAP1B is expressed as an in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tanner SL,Franzen R,Jaffe H,Quarles RH

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00