Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3β by Angelica sinensis extract decreases β-amyloid-induced neurotoxicity and tau phosphorylation in cultured cortical neurons.

abstract：:Programmed cell death involving gene regulation and de novo protein synthesis is a major component of both normal development and a number of disease conditions. Hence, knowledge of its mechanisms, especially transcription factors, that regulate expression of the genes involved in neurodegenerative disorders is of gre...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Mioduszewska B,Jaworski J,Szklarczyk AW,Klejman A,Kaczmarek L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two fundamental questions about neuron cell culture were addressed. Can one serum-free medium that was developed for optimum growth of hippocampal neurons support the growth of neurons from other regions of the brain? Is the region specific state of differentiation maintained in culture? To answer these questions, we ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Brewer GJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine how oligodendrocytes die following Fas receptor activation. An immortalized human oligodendrocyte hybrid line (MO3.13) was challenged with Fas ligand (FasL), and cell death was assessed by flow cytometry and DNA gel electrophoresis. Caspase activation was determined by either...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Li W,Maeda Y,Ming X,Cook S,Chapin J,Husar W,Dowling P

更新日期：2002-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from a study in which 12 chronic mental patients and 12 control subject were given D-[3-14C] glucose intravenously in our arterio-venous technique for determining cerebral metabolism in vivo were reexamined. Previously unpublished whole-blood lactate determinations in these experiments indicated a cerebral produc...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Sacks W,Schechter DC,Sacks S

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol-related events have been proposed to be under neurochemical control. For example, the concentration of methionine enkephalin (Met-enkephalin) in brain has been inversely correlated with ethanol consumption in alcohol-preferring and alcohol-nonpreferring mice. The concentrations of Met-enkephalin are controlled...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Plotkin SR,Banks WA,Waguespack PJ,Kastin AJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence indicates an immunosuppressive role for CD4(+)CD25(+) regulatory T cells (Tregs) in autoimmune diseases. Although an impaired Treg function in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RR-MS) has been reported recently, no information is available so far about Treg function in the pro...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Venken K,Hellings N,Hensen K,Rummens JL,Medaer R,D'hooghe MB,Dubois B,Raus J,Stinissen P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-affinity uptake, potassium-stimulated release and receptor binding of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and taurine were studied in retinas of rats treated with monosodium glutamate (MSG) or iodoacetate-malate (IAM). Such treatments produce a selective damage of the inner retinal layers (MSG) or of the photoreceptor...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Salceda R,Pasantes-Morales H

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of gangliosides of the lactosylceramide (LC) and of the gangliotetraosylceramide (GTC) series on the surface of cells from rat embryonic cerebellar tissue was investigated by double-color indirect immunofluorescence. GD3 was assumed to be representative of LC and was detected using a specific monoclonal...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Gravotta D,Ferreira A,Busciglio J,Caceres A,Landa CA,Maccioni HJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell death in outer hair cells of the mammalian inner ear induced by aminoglycoside antibiotics is mediated by reactive oxygen species (ROS) and can be prevented by antioxidants. The current study investigates the role of the nuclear factor (NF)-kappaB pathway in cell death or survival in adult CBA mice. Kanamycin (70...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Jiang H,Sha SH,Schacht J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metallothionein (MT) belongs to a family of metal-binding cysteine-rich proteins comprising several structurally related proteins implicated in tissue protection and regeneration after injuries and functioning as antiapoptotic antioxidants in neurological disorders. This has been demonstrated in animals receiving MT t...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Asmussen JW,Von Sperling ML,Penkowa M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether one or more opioid receptor types might be preferentially involved in gliogenesis, primary mixed glial cultures derived from mouse cerebra were continuously treated with varying concentrations of opioid agonists selective for mu (mu), i.e., DAGO ([D-Ala2, MePhe4, Gly(ol)5]enkephalin), delta (delta...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Stiene-Martin A,Hauser KF

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence points to roles for oxidative stress, amyloid beta (Aβ), and mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In neurons, the base excision repair pathway is the predominant DNA repair (BER) pathway for repairing oxidized base lesions. Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Kaur N,Dhiman M,Perez-Polo JR,Mantha AK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of differentiation (Id) play an essential role in the neurogenesis of the central nervous system. However, the expression and function of Id in the development of cochlear sensory epithelial cells have yet to be elucidated. In this study, we demonstrate the Id1 gene was expressed in the rapidly growing otoc...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Ozeki M,Hamajima Y,Feng L,Ondrey FG,Schlentz E,Lin J

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that ethanol exposure during embryogenesis affects a variety of parameters of neuronal growth. In this study we examined the direct effects of ethanol exposure on developing neuroblasts in culture. Neuroblast-enriched cultures derived from 3-day-old whole chick embryos were grown in the presence of ethan...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Kentroti S,Vernadakis A

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the effects of hypoglycemia on the brain using neurocognitive testing have suggested that mainly complex functions subserved by secondary and tertiary cortex are affected by mild to moderate hypoglycemia and that intensively treated patients with Type I diabetes mellitus (T1DM) may have altered sensitivity ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Driesen NR,Goldberg PA,Anderson AW,Tang L,Flanagan DE,Sherwin RS,Gore JC

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrins comprise a large family of cell adhesion molecules that mediate interactions between the extracellular environment and the cytoplasm. During the last decade, analysis of the expression and function of these molecules has revealed that integrins regulate many aspects of cell behavior including cell death, pro...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Milner R,Campbell IL

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We suggest that a dysregulation of energy metabolism in the brain of genetic absence epilepsy rats from Strasbourg (GAERS) could create a specific cerebral environment that would favor the expression of spike-and-wave discharges (SWD) in the thalamocortical loop, largely dependent on glutamatergic and gamma-aminobutyr...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Dufour F,Nalecz KA,Nalecz MJ,Nehlig A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A low concentration of transition metal ions Co2+ and Ni2+ increases the inward current density in neurons from the land snail Helix aspersa. The currents were measured using a single electrode voltage-clamp/internal perfusion method under conditions in which the external Na+ was replaced by Tris+, the predominant ext...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Kim YK,Woodruff ML

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, the sources of guidance cues for dendritic outgrowth are mainly associated with external bodies (A) rather than with the same neuron from which dendrites originate (B). To quantify the relationship between factors A and B as determinants of the adult dendritic shape, the morphology of 83 intracellularly...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Samsonovich AV,Ascoli GA

更新日期：2003-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive "dying back" neurodegenerative diseases are debilitating due to loss of connectivity after nerve terminal and axonal withdrawal, which impairs peripheral nerve function and leads ultimately to neuronal cell death. The mutant mouse (Wallerian degeneration slow; Wld(s)) provides an accessible model system to...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Parson SH,Ribchester RR,Davie N,Gandhi NP,Malik RQ,Gillingwater TH,Thomson D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finding inhibitors of the first step of the amyloid cascade, A beta (42) generation, is a major goal of Alzheimer's disease drug development. Two target protease activities, beta-and gamma-secretase, were detected more than 10 years ago but progress in this area has been slow because the enzymes were not identified. U...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Citron M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplanting neural stem cells (NSC) to the damaged brain has been regarded as a potential treatment for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), a condition characterized by memory loss. We hypothesized that transplantation of NSC into the hippocampal regions of APP + PS1 transgenic (Tg) mice, a ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Zhang W,Wang GM,Wang PJ,Zhang Q,Sha SH

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to prepare cultures enriched in type-2 astrocytes (AS) and to analyze some of the properties of these cells over relatively long culture periods. Cultures enriched in type-2 AS were obtained by subculturing, at low cell density and in the presence of fetal calf serum, a cell population...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Aloisi F,Agresti C,Levi G

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the parenchyma of the CNS, the endothelium of all vessels is surrounded by a layer of cells, pericytes in capillaries and periendothelial or intima smooth muscle cells in other vessels. The origin of these cell types, their relationship, and their role are unclear. However, it has been recently shown that genet...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Alliot F,Rutin J,Leenen PJ,Pessac B

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubule-associated protein (MAP)1B-heterozygous (MAP1B+/-) mice are deficient in the expression of MAP1B in the hippocampus, cerebellum, and olfactory cortex. Although MAP1B+/- mice showed half the normal levels of MAP1B protein, they had no measurable amounts of phosphorylated MAP1B. High-frequency theta burst st...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Zervas M,Opitz T,Edelmann W,Wainer B,Kucherlapati R,Stanton PK

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes are essential cells for maintaining brain integrity. We have recently shown that the transcription factor C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP), associated with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, plays a key role in the astrocyte death induced by ischemia. Meanwhile, mediators of apoptosis downstream of CHOP in t...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Fradejas N,Pastor MD,Burgos M,Beyaert R,Tranque P,Calvo S

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated a new cell line, N38, by conditionally immortalizing mouse oligodendrocytes (OLs) at early stages of maturation. The morphology and marker expression pattern suggest N38 cells are similar to immature OLs. N38 cells were sensitive to changes in serum concentrations, and forcing the cells to differentiate i...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Bongarzone ER,Byravan S,Givogri MI,Schonmann V,Campagnoni AT

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a military setting, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is frequently caused by blast waves that can trigger a series of neuronal biochemical changes. Although many animal models have been used to study the effects of primary blast waves, elucidating the mechanisms of damage in a whole-animal model is extremely complex. I...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Zander NE,Piehler T,Boggs ME,Banton R,Benjamin R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (cdk5), in contrast to other members of the cyclin-dependent kinase family, is not activated by cyclins but instead is activated by complexing with neuron-specific activator molecules (p35, p39, and p67). The most effective activator of cdk5 both in vitro and in vivo is p35. We have taken a k...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Amin ND,Albers W,Pant HC

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lithium, the most prevalent treatment for manic-depressive illness, might have a neuroprotective effect after brain injury. In culture, lithium can exert neurotoxic effects associated with reduction in polyamine synthesis but neuroprotective effects as cultured neurons mature. Cumulative evidence suggests that lithium...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Gilad GM,Gilad VH

更新日期：2007-02-15 00:00:00