Dietary taurine supplementation prevents glial alterations in retina of diabetic rats.

abstract：:Nicotine has been reported to exert certain protective effect in the Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Whether it has a similar action in focal cerebral ischemia was unclear. In the present study, rats received either an injection of (-)-nicotine hydrogen tartrate salt (1.2 mg/kg, i.p.) or the vehicle 2 h before t...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chen Y,Nie H,Tian L,Tong L,Yang L,Lao N,Dong H,Sang H,Xiong L

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immediate and long-term effects of the selective serotonergic neurotoxin 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT) on rat striatal serotonergic neurons were examined after its intracerebroventricular administration using in vivo voltammetry. Extracellular concentration of 5-hydroxyindoles increased immediately following i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nakazato T,Akiyama A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence indicates that adhesion molecules are critically involved in the regulation of mechanisms of synaptic plasticity including synapse formation, but also synaptic remodeling associated to changes in synaptic strength. Among these, the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM) and its polysialylated form PS...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Muller D,Mendez P,De Roo M,Klauser P,Steen S,Poglia L

更新日期：2008-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of evidence indicate that ATP may play an important role in Long-Term Potentiation. In this investigation we evaluated the effect of a memory task (step-down inhibitory avoidance) on the synaptosomal ecto-enzymes (ATP diphosphohydrolase and 5'-nucleotidase) involved in the degradation of ATP to adenosine...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bonan CD,Dias MM,Battastini AM,Dias RD,Sarkis JJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for neuronotrophic factors addressing CNS neurons requires CNS neuronal cell cultures to quantitate putative effects on neuronal survival. Investigation of neurons dissociated from several embryonic CNS tissues have shown that their short-term survival requires supplementation of the culture medium with eit...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chau RM,Skaper SD,Varon S

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative condition that affects the elderly population. Its primary symptom is memory loss. The memory dysfunction in AD has been associated with cortical cholinergic deficiency and loss of cholinergic neurons of the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM). Zizyphus jujube (ZJ) a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Rabiei Z,Rafieian-Kopaei M,Heidarian E,Saghaei E,Mokhtari S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic Liver X receptor (LXR) activator T0901317 has been reported to exert neuroprotective effect in Alzheimer's disease, but the relationship between LXR activation and beta-site amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme 1 (BACE-1) remains uncertain. This study investigated the effect of T0901317 on membrane ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Cui W,Sun Y,Wang Z,Xu C,Xu L,Wang F,Chen Z,Peng Y,Li R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration to rats of mood-stabilizers that are effective against mania in bipolar disorder, is reported to downregulate markers of the brain arachidonic acid cascade. We hypothesized that chronic administration of lamotrigine, which is used to treat depression and rapid cycling in bipolar disorder, might ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lee HJ,Ertley RN,Rapoport SI,Bazinet RP,Rao JS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens such as bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) play an important role in promoting the production of the inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 beta (IL-1β) and tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in response to infection or damage in microglia. However, whether different signalling pathways regulate these two inflam...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fu SY,Xiong RP,Peng Y,Zhang ZH,Chen X,Zhao Y,Ning YL,Yang N,Zhou YG,Li P

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmortem cerebral neocortical and hippocampal samples were taken from patients who died with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) and individuals without diagnoses of neurological or psychiatric disease (control). Nicotinic binding was assayed with 20 nM [3H]acetylcholine [( 3H]ACh) in the presence of atropine, or w...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： London ED,Ball MJ,Waller SB

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral deposition of amyloid β-peptide (Aβ), a fundamental feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD), damages the neurocytes and impairs the cognition functions and associative learning memory of AD patients. A series of novel 2-arylethenylquinoline derivatives were synthesized and evaluated in our previous study, which i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： He Q,Huang G,Chen Y,Wang X,Huang Z,Chen Z

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carnitine/acylcarnitine transporter is a transport system whose function is essential for the mitochondrial β-oxidation of fatty acids. Here, the presence of carnitine/acylcarnitine carrier (CACT) in nervous tissue and its sub-cellular localization in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons have been investigated. Weste...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Tonazzi A,Mantovani C,Colella M,Terenghi G,Indiveri C

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood-brain barrier formed by brain capillary endothelial cells, being in contact with astrocytes endfeet and pericytes, separates extracellular fluid from plasma. Supply of necessary nutrients and removal of certain metabolites takes place due to the activity of transporting proteins from ABC (ATP binding cassette) a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nałęcz KA

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal hypoxia/ischemia (HI) is the most common cause of developmental neurological, cognitive and behavioral deficits in children, with hyperoxia (HHI) treatment being a clinical therapy for newborn resuscitation. Although cerebral edema is a common outcome after HI, the mechanisms leading to excessive fluid accumu...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ferrari DC,Nesic O,Perez-Polo JR

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptides are derived from large and inactive proteins which require endoproteolytic processing for the biosynthesis of the bioactive peptides. The maturation of pro-neuropeptide to neuropeptide is believed to be performed by ortholog pro-protein convertase EGL-3 in Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). Furthermore...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Salem JB,Nkambeu B,Arvanitis DN,Beaudry F

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective and limited proteolysis is a key step in the post-translational modification of peptide hormone precursors. This process appears to involve a proteolytic machinery including highly specific endoproteases. Some of the enzyme systems possibly involved in the processing of pro-neuropeptides will be described an...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Gluschankof P,Cohen P

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of oxidative stress, induced by Fe(2+)-EDTA system, on Na+,K(+)-ATPase, Na+/CA2+ exchanger and membrane fluidity of synaptosomes was investigated. Synaptosomes isolated from gerbil whole forebrain were incubated in the presence of 200 microM FeSO4-EDTA per mg of protein at 37 degrees C for 30 min. The oxida...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kaplán P,Matejovicová M,Mézesová V

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mortality of patients with malignant gliomas remains high despite the advancement in multi-modal therapy including surgery, radio- and chemotherapy. Glioma stem cells (GSCs), sharing some characteristics with normal neural stem cells (NSCs), contribute to the cellular origin for primary gliomas and the recurrence ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zhang S,Luo X,Wan F,Lei T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was found that acute ethanol intoxication caused an imbalance of the neurotransmitters in the CNS: accumulation of GABA and serotonin and depletion of catecholamines. Alcohol depression was characterized by suppression of the evoked potentials of the various rat brain structures. Under chronic ethanol intoxication ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Blagova OE,Budantsev AY,Sytinsky IA,Lajtha A

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNase I sensitivity experiments were performed utilizing DNA probes to genes which are either transcribed in rat cortical neurons (the 68 kDa neurofilament gene and the neuron-specific enolase gene) or are transcriptionally silent (albumin). Results suggest that unlike liver, in which a hierarchy in chromatin conforma...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ivanov TR,Brown IR

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotrophins brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) are both expressed in developing cerebellum in addition to their tyrosine kinase receptors. TrkB and TrkC. In contrast to BDNF.NT-3 has only a negligible or a transient survival activity on cultured cerebellar granule neurons. The gra...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zirrgiebel U,Lindholm D

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Kindling" is a phenomenon of epileptogenesis, which has been widely used as an experimental model of temporal lobe epilepsy. At the present work we investigated the contribution of NMDA receptors in the Pentylenetetrazol-induced "kindling" model in the mouse brain, by using quantitative autoradiography and the radioa...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ekonomou A,Angelatou F

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aimed to directly measure in vivo superoxide radical (O*2) a direct indicator of oxidative stress, in the brain of rats with experimentally induced obstructive jaundice by employing a new quantitative ultrasensitive fluorescent assay requiring minimum sample. O*2 anion is specific for dihydroethidine (DHE) a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Konstantinou D,Mavrakis A,Grintzalis K,Papapostolou I,Assimakopoulos SF,Chroni E,Georgiou C

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5HT) synthesis in brain is influenced by precursor (tryptophan (TRP)) concentrations, which are modified by food ingestion. Hence, in rats, a carbohydrate meal raises brain TRP and 5HT; a protein-containing meal does not, but little attention has focused on differences among dietary proteins. Recently, sing...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Choi S,DiSilvio B,Fernstrom MH,Fernstrom JD

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons, purified by bulk-isolation procedures from 10 day-old rat brain, are 80-90% homogeneous. Contaminants are primarily blood vessels and occasional oligodendroglia. All sizes and shapes of neurons are obtained, as they are isolated from all areas of the brain, except the cerebellum. Neurotransmitter enzyme activ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chechik T,Poduslo SE

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pre-treatment with ENA-713, an acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitor, on changes in pre- and postsynaptic cholinergic indices in gerbil brain following transient ischemia were studied at 4 and 14 days after recirculation. In the ischemic group, hippocampal acetylcholine (ACh) level was significantly red...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Tanaka K,Ogawa N,Mizukawa K,Asanuma M,Kondo Y,Nishibayashi S,Mori A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase C has recently attracted considerable attention because of its importance in the control of cell division, cell differentiation, and signal transduction across the cell membrane. The activity of this enzyme is altered by several lipids such as diacylglycerol, free fatty acids, lipoxins, gangliosides, an...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Farooqui AA,Farooqui T,Yates AJ,Horrocks LA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific [3H]MK801 binding to rat brain NMDA receptors after the administration of the convulsant drug 3-mercaptopropionic acid (MP) and the adenosine analogue cyclopentyladenosine (CPA) was studied by means of a quantitative autoradiographic method. MP administration (150 mg/kg, i.p.) caused significant decreases in ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Giraldez L,Girardi E

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that mechanisms involved in reward and mechanisms involved in learning interact, in that reward includes learning processes and learning includes reward processes. In spite of such interactions, reward and learning represent distinct functions. In the present study, as part of an examination ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fallon S,Shearman E,Sershen H,Lajtha A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prominent feature of brain pathology in Alzheimer's disease is a robust activation of the neuronal lysosomal system and major cellular pathways converging on the lysosome, namely, endocytosis and autophagy. Recent studies that identify a disturbance of the endocytic pathway as one of the earliest known manifestation...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nixon RA,Cataldo AM,Mathews PM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00