Down-regulation of serum gonadotropins is as effective as estrogen replacement at improving menopause-associated cognitive deficits.

abstract：:The consequences of H(2)O(2)/Fe(2+)-induced oxidative stress on translocation of ethanolamine phosphoglyceride (EPG) and serine phosphoglyceride (SPG) were studied in an oligodendroglia-like cell line (OLN 93) following 3 days of supplementation with 0.1 mM docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and a series of polar head group p...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Brand A,Yavin E

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used biologically active derivatives of beta-nerve growth factor (NGF), modified by biotinylation via carboxyl groups, to target the specific binding of liposomes to cultured rat and human tumor cells bearing NGF receptors. Liposomes, to be used for targeting, were prepared by conjugating streptavidin to phosp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rosenberg MB,Breakefield XO,Hawrot E

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuronal nitric oxide (NO) synthase generates NO from arginine. NO mediates its physiological effects mainly by stimulating the synthesis of cyclic GMP. We have investigated the role of the arginine availability on the NMDA-induced cyclic GMP accumulation in immature rat brain slices. The effect of NMDA was blocke...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Grima G,Cuénod M,Pfeiffer S,Mayer B,Do KQ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia is known to induce microvascular complications, thereby altering blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability. This study investigated the role of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their endogenous inhibitors in increased BBB permeability and evaluated the protective effect of S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Aggarwal A,Khera A,Singh I,Sandhir R

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:JNK/SAPK has been implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, but the upstream cascade leading to JNK/SAPK activation has not been elucidated in the disease. In this study, we focused on one of the physiological activators of JNK/SAPK, JNK kinase 1 (JKK1). Although there was no significant difference in the...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zhu X,Ogawa O,Wang Y,Perry G,Smith MA

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near total inhibition of brain adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity in rats injected with the potent ADA inhibitor 2'-deoxycoformycin (DCF) was previously shown to reduce enzyme activity for up to 50 days during which time the enzyme exhibited reduced sensitivity to in vivo inhibition by DCF. Here, we investigated the b...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Padua RA,Geiger JD,Delaney SM,Nagy JI

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism(s) underlying neurodegeneration-associated activation of ERK1/2 remain poorly understood. We report that in cultured rat cortical neurons, whose basal ERK1/2 phosphorylation required NMDA receptors (NMDAR), the neurotoxic DNA intercalating drug cisplatin increased ERK1/2 phosphorylation via NMDAR despite...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gozdz A,Vashishta A,Kalita K,Szatmari E,Zheng JJ,Tamiya S,Delamere NA,Hetman M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In invertebrates, the phenolamines, tyramine and octopamine, mediate many functional roles usually associated with the catecholamines, noradrenaline and adrenaline, in vertebrates. The α- and β-adrenergic classes of insect octopamine receptor are better activated by octopamine than tyramine. Similarly, the Tyramine 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bayliss A,Roselli G,Evans PD

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain insight into the mechanism through which the neurotransmitter glutamate causally participates in several neurological diseases, in vitro cultured cerebellar granule cells were exposed to glutamate and oxygen radical production was investigated. To this aim, a novel procedure was developed to detect oxygen radi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Atlante A,Gagliardi S,Minervini GM,Ciotti MT,Marra E,Calissano P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder characterized pathologically by motor neuron degeneration and associated with aggregation of RNA-binding proteins. TATA-binding protein-associated factor 15 (TAF15) accumulates as cytoplasmic aggregates in neuronal cells, and clearance of these...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Choi HJ,Joo Cha S,Do HA,Kim HJ,Lee JW,Kim K

更新日期：2020-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In the presence of lithium, carbamylcholine chloride (carbachol) and epinephrine increase the accumulation of inositol monophosphate severalfold in hippocampal slices from the rat. The stimulation by carbachol (EC50, 31 microM) is mediated by muscarinic receptors, whereas the effects of epinephrine (EC50, 2 microM) ar...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lenox RH,Hendley D,Ellis J

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cultures of astrocytes from newborn rat brain showed evidence of a substrate-saturable process for glucose transport. The system shows a relatively high affinity for the substrate, with an apparent Km of approximately 1 mM. Maintenance of the cells in medium containing thyroid-hormone-free serum for 3, 6, or 9...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Roeder LM,Williams IB,Tildon JT

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-type natriuretic peptide and sodium nitroprusside, a nitric oxide donor molecule, induced large increases in cyclic GMP formation in cultured rat brain capillary endothelial cells. Isoproterenol, a potent agonist of adenylate cyclase, potentiated the actions of C-type natriuretic peptide and of sodium nitroprusside....

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Vigne P,Lund L,Frelin C

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for the nerve growth factor protein (NGF) have been isolated from three cell types [embryonic chicken sensory neurons (dorsal root sensory ganglia; DRG), rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) and human neuroblastoma (LAN-1) cells] and have been shown to be similar with respect to equilibrium dissociation constants. Th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Stach RW,Lyons CR,Perez-Polo JR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Converging lines of evidence suggest that progressive accumulation of the amyloid beta-protein (A beta) plays a central role in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease, but it was long assumed that A beta had to be assembled into extracellular amyloid fibrils to exert its cytotoxic effects. Over the past decade, data have ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Walsh DM,Selkoe DJ

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) binds to methylated DNA and acts as a transcriptional repressor. Mutations of human MECP2 gene lead to Rett syndrome, a severe neural developmental disorder. Here, we report that the MeCP2 protein can be modified by covalent linkage to small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) and SUMOy...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cheng J,Huang M,Zhu Y,Xin YJ,Zhao YK,Huang J,Yu JX,Zhou WH,Qiu Z

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspase-3 has been identified as a key protease that, by targeting a limited number of proteins, can disrupt essential homeostatic processes and initiate an orderly disassembly of cells, including degradation of genomic DNA. We demonstrate the usefulness of an antibody specific for activated caspase-3 in a model of ne...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zhu C,Wang X,Hagberg H,Blomgren K

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To differentiate the effect of muscle contractile activity from that of motor nerve on oxidative processes in type I muscle, oxidative processes were studied in muscle after immobilization and after denervation. The two processes led to similar atrophy of muscle weight and of the mean diameter of muscle fibers. Disuse...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nemeth PM,Meyer D,Kark RA

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelination, during both normal development and with respect to disorders of myelination, is commonly studied by morphological and/or biochemical techniques that assay as their end-points the extent of myelination. The rate of myelination is potentially a more useful parameter, but it is difficult and time-consuming t...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Muse ED,Jurevics H,Toews AD,Matsushima GK,Morell P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of concanavalin A on transmitter release were investigated in primary cultures of chick sympathetic neurons. The lectin reduced electrically evoked [3H]noradrenaline release by up to 30% with half-maximal inhibition at 0.16 microM. Concanavalin A also reduced the release triggered by extracellular Ca2+ in neur...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Boehm S,Huck S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transporters of the solute carrier 6 (SLC6) family mediate the reuptake of neurotransmitters such as dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, GABA, and glycine. SLC6 family members are 12 transmembrane helix-spanning proteins that operate using the transmembrane sodium gradient for transport. These transporters assume var...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jayaraman K,Das AK,Luethi D,Szöllősi D,Schütz GJ,Reith MEA,Sitte HH,Stockner T

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of endogenous 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), substance P (SP), and neurokinin A (NKA) from superfused tissue slices of rat ventral lumbar spinal cord, where SP and NKA coexist with 5-HT in terminals of descending bulbospinal neurons, was investigated. Electrical field stimulation was performed using square-wa...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Franck J,Brodin E,Fried G

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-carbolines have been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease as a result of their structural similarity to the neurotoxin N -methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). The chloral-derived beta-carboline derivative 1-trichloromethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline (TaClo) caus...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Riederer F,Luborzewski A,God R,Bringmann G,Scholz J,Feineis D,Moser A

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to excessive levels of light induces photoreceptor apoptosis and can be a causative factor in age-related macular degeneration (AMD). However, the cellular events that mediate this apoptotic response are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the roles of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in light-induced c...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nakanishi T,Shimazawa M,Sugitani S,Kudo T,Imai S,Inokuchi Y,Tsuruma K,Hara H

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral endothelial cells form the selective permeability barrier between brain and blood by virtue of their impermeable tight junctions and the presence of specific carrier systems. These specialized properties of brain capillaries are reflected in the presence of proteins that are not found in other capillaries of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Risau W,Dingler A,Albrecht U,Dehouck MP,Cecchelli R

更新日期：1992-02-01 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：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a proinflammatory cytokine released by many cell types that acts in both an autocrine and/or paracrine fashion. While IL-1 is best described as an important mediator of the peripheral immune response during infection and inflammation, increasing evidence implicates IL-1 signaling in the pathoge...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fogal B,Hewett SJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To better understand amyloid-beta (Abeta) metabolism in vivo, we assessed the concentration of Abeta in the CSF and plasma of APP(V717F) (PDAPP) transgenic mice, a model that develops age-dependent Alzheimer's disease (AD)-like pathology. In 3-month-old mice, prior to the development of Abeta deposition in the brain, ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： DeMattos RB,Bales KR,Parsadanian M,O'Dell MA,Foss EM,Paul SM,Holtzman DM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin basic protein (MBP) dissociated from brain myelin membranes when they were incubated (37 degrees C; pH 7.4) at physiological ionic strength. Zinc ions inhibited, and calcium promoted, this process. Protease activity in the membrane preparations cleaved the dissociated MBP into both small (less than 4 kilodalton...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Earl C,Chantry A,Mohammad N,Glynn P

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is one of at least nine inherited neurodegenerative diseases caused by an expansion of a polyglutamine tract within corresponding disease-specific proteins. In case of SCA3, mutation of Ataxin-3 results in aggregation of misfolded protein, formation of intranuclear as well as cytos...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Liman J,Deeg S,Voigt A,Voßfeldt H,Dohm CP,Karch A,Weishaupt J,Schulz JB,Bähr M,Kermer P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00