Synaptic concentration of dopamine in the mouse striatum in relationship to the kinetic properties of the dopamine receptors and uptake mechanism.

abstract：:Copper/zinc-superoxide dismutase (CuZn-SOD) transgenic mice overexpress the gene for human CuZn-SOD. To assess the effects of the overexpression of CuZn-SOD on the brain scavenging systems, we have measured the activities of manganese-SOD (Mn-SOD), catalase, and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) in various regions of th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Przedborski S,Jackson-Lewis V,Kostic V,Carlson E,Epstein CJ,Cadet JL

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) results in significant inflammation which contributes to the evolving pathology. Previously, we have demonstrated that cyclic AMP (cAMP), a molecule involved in inflammation, is down-regulated after TBI. To determine the mechanism by which cAMP is down-regulated after TBI, we determined wh...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Oliva AA Jr,Kang Y,Furones C,Alonso OF,Bruno O,Dietrich WD,Atkins CM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rat kidney epithelial cell line expressing the rat neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1 R) was used to investigate the relationship between receptor phosphorylation and desensitization. Substance P (SP) maximally stimulated cellular inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (IP3) production 14-fold within 3 s, after which cellular IP3 le...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Vigna SR

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein is a candidate autoantigen in multiple sclerosis, its function remains unknown. In humans, mRNA expressed by the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein gene is alternatively spliced resulting in at least nine unique protein isoforms. In this study, we investigated the sub-cell...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Boyle LH,Traherne JA,Plotnek G,Ward R,Trowsdale J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before this study, the human norepinephrine transporter (hNET) was the only member of the biogenic amine neurotransmitter transporter family that had not been demonstrated to be a functional homo-oligomer. Here, using two forms of the transporter, I155C and hNET-myc, with distinct antigenicity and inhibitor sensitivit...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kocabas AM,Rudnick G,Kilic F

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycine receptor is a member of the Cys-loop, ligand-gated ion channel family and is responsible for inhibition in the CNS. We examined the orientation of amino acids I229 in transmembrane 1 (TM1) and A288 in TM3, which are both critical for alcohol and volatile anesthetic action. We mutated these two amino acids ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lobo IA,Harris RA,Trudell JR

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signaling by muscarinic agonists is thought to result from the activation of cell surface acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) that transmit extracellular signals to intracellular systems. In N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells, we detected both plasma membrane and intracellular M(1) -mAChRs using both biochemical and pharmacolog...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Uwada J,Anisuzzaman AS,Nishimune A,Yoshiki H,Muramatsu I

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arachidonic acid (AA) plays an important role as a signaling factor in the CNS. Therefore, exposure to AA may affect cholinergic neurons in the spinal cord. To test this hypothesis, mRNA expression and activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) was measured in cultured spinal cord neurons treated with increasing con...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chalimoniuk M,King-Pospisil K,Pedersen WA,Malecki A,Wylegala E,Mattson MP,Hennig B,Toborek M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adrenomedullary protease capable of generating Met5-enkephalin from endogenous precursor(s) has been purified 1,000-fold using affinity chromatography in combination with gel filtration. This trypsin-like enzyme has an apparent molecular weight of 20,000 daltons by gel filtration. The reactivity of the enzyme towar...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lindberg I,Yang HY,Costa E

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protracted opiate withdrawal can extend for months of disrupted hormonal circadian rhythms. We examined rodent behaviors and these circadian disturbances in hormone and peptide levels as well as brain clock gene expression during 60 days of protracted withdrawal. Our behavioral tests included open field, elevated plus...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li SX,Liu LJ,Jiang WG,Sun LL,Zhou SJ,Le Foll B,Zhang XY,Kosten TR,Lu L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids are asymmetrically distributed across the mammalian plasma membrane, with phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine concentrated in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the membrane bilayer and phosphatidylcholine in the exoplasmic leaflet. This asymmetric distribution is dependent on a group of P4 ATPa...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yang Y,Liu W,Sun K,Jiang L,Zhu X

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we demonstrate that an increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration may represent a specific common step(s) in the mechanism(s) of action of glutamate (Glu) and depolarizing agents on formation of inositol phosphates (IPs) in 8-day-old rat forebrain synaptoneurosomes. In fact, A23187, a Ca2+ ionophore...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Guiramand J,Vignes M,Récasens M

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RIC-3 enhances the functional expression of certain nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) in vertebrates and invertebrates and increases the availability of functional receptors in cultured cells and Xenopus laevis oocytes. Maximal activity of RIC-3 may be cell-type dependent, so neither mammalian nor invertebrat...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bennett HM,Lees K,Harper KM,Jones AK,Sattelle DB,Wonnacott S,Wolstenholme AJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperexcitability of the hippocampus is a commonly observed phenomenon in the years preceding a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Our previous work suggests a dysregulation in glutamate neurotransmission may mediate this hyperexcitability, and glutamate dysregulation correlates with cognitive deficits in the rTg(...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hunsberger HC,Weitzner DS,Rudy CC,Hickman JE,Libell EM,Speer RR,Gerhardt GA,Reed MN

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic receptors are the predominant cholinergic receptors in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Recently, activation of muscarinic receptors was found to elicit pigment granule dispersion in retinal pigment epithelium isolated from bluegill fish. Pigment granule movement in retinal pigment epithelium is ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Phatarpekar PV,Durdan SF,Copeland CM,Crittenden EL,Neece JD,García DM

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoradiographic method with L-[35S]methionine was used to determine the effects of an n-3 fatty acid deficiency on brain protein synthesis. Brain protein synthesis was significantly increased (from 50 to 150%) in 45 of the 52 brain structures studied in n-3 fatty acid-deficient rats as compared with control anima...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Giaume M,Gay N,Baubet V,Gharib A,Durand G,Bobillier P,Sarda N

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of [2-3H]glycerol-labeled phosphatidylinositol with a crude cytosol fraction of rat brain in the presence of EDTA yielded [3H]lysophosphatidylinositol predominantly without accumulation of labeled monoacylglycerol and diacylglycerol. The pH optimum of this phospholipase A activity was 8.0. The activity for ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ueda H,Kobayashi T,Kishimoto M,Tsutsumi T,Okuyama H

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：:The contribution of neuromelanin (NM) to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) has long been suspected. In particular, a correlation has been reported between the estimated cell loss in the mesencephalic dopaminergic cell groups and the percentage of NM-pigmented neurons in these cell groups. To test whether th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kastner A,Hirsch EC,Lejeune O,Javoy-Agid F,Rascol O,Agid Y

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The NMDA receptor has recently been found to be phosphorylated on tyrosine. To assess the possible connection between tyrosine phosphorylation of the NMDA receptor and signaling pathways in the postsynaptic cell, we have investigated the relationship between tyrosine phosphorylation and the binding of NMDA receptor su...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gurd JW,Bissoon N

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysregulation of the central noradrenergic system is a core feature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, we examined molecular changes in locus coeruleus (LC) triggered by single-prolonged stress (SPS) PTSD model at a time when behavioral symptoms are manifested, and the effect of early intervention with in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sabban EL,Laukova M,Alaluf LG,Olsson E,Serova LI

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AAAD) activity of the rat retina increases when animals are placed in a lighted environment from the dark. The rise of activity can be inhibited by administering alpha 2 adrenoceptor agonists. In the dark, the enzyme activity can be made to increase by administering alpha 2 adrenoc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rossetti Z,Krajnc D,Neff NH,Hadjiconstantinou M

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregation of conformation-abnormal peptides probably plays a key role in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases. DSCR1 Down syndrome (DS) critical region 1, was identified from a chromosomal region (21q22.1-q22.2) for the clinical manifestations of DS when an extra-copy is present. We report that expres...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ma H,Xiong H,Liu T,Zhang L,Godzik A,Zhang Z

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to examine how sustained exposure to two 1,4-benzodiazepines (BZDs) with different action period, diazepam and brotizolam, and a 1,5-BZD, clobazam, affects L-type high voltage-gated calcium channel (HVCC) functions and its mechanisms using primary cultures of mouse cerebral cortical neurons. T...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Katsura M,Shibasaki M,Kurokawa K,Tsujimura A,Ohkuma S

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake of L-glutamine (2 mM) by rat brain cortex slices against a concentration gradient is markedly inhibited (40%) by branched-chain L-amino acids (1 mM), L-phenylalanine (1 mM), or L-methionine (1 mM); that of L-asparagine (2 mM) is much less affected by these amino acids. Other amino acids investigated have little...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Benjamin AM,Verjee ZH,Quastel JH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is well known as a hormone important in the central control of appetitive behaviors via receptor-mediated actions in the hypothalamus, where leptin adjusts food intake to maintain homeostasis with the body's energy stores. Recent evidence has shown that leptin and its receptors are widespread in the CNS and may...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Signore AP,Zhang F,Weng Z,Gao Y,Chen J

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the potential importance of dexamethasone-mediated alterations in energy metabolism in providing protection against hypoxic-ischemic brain damage in immature rats. Seven-day-old rats (n = 165) that had been treated with dexamethasone (0.1 mg/kg, i.p.) or vehicle were assigned to control or hypoxic-ischemic...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tuor UI,Yager JY,Bascaramurty S,Del Bigio MR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-100 proteins are a group of three 21-kilodalton, acidic, Ca2+-binding proteins of the "E-F hand" type shown to regulate several cell activities, including microtubule (MT) assembly-disassembly. We show here that S-100 proteins interact with MTs assembled from either whole microtubule protein or purified tubulin, bot...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Donato R,Giambanco I

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone fracture at the acute stage of stroke exacerbates stroke injury by increasing neuroinflammation. We hypothesize that activation of α-7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α-7 nAchR) attenuates neuroinflammation and oxidative stress, and reduces brain injury in mice with bone fracture and stroke. Permanent middle ce...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Han Z,Li L,Wang L,Degos V,Maze M,Su H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opiate abuse alters the progression of human immunodeficiency virus and may increase the risk of neuroAIDS. As neuroAIDS is associated with altered microglial reactivity, the combined effects of human immunodeficiency virus-Tat and morphine were determined in cultured microglia. Specifically, experiments determined th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Turchan-Cholewo J,Dimayuga FO,Gupta S,Keller JN,Knapp PE,Hauser KF,Bruce-Keller AJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00