Membrane viscosity correlates with alpha 1-adrenergic signal transduction of the aged rat cerebral cortex.

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：:The NMDA receptor/channel has been shown to be inhibited by ethanol in the clinically relevant range 25-100 mM. We studied heteromeric assemblies (NR1b/NR2) of the NMDA receptor, expressed in oocytes, to address three questions regarding this inhibition, and discovered the following: (1) The inhibition was nearly equi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chu B,Anantharam V,Treistman SN

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neural stem/progenitor cells (NSPCs) are multipotent cells within the embryonic and adult brain that give rise to both neuronal and glial cell lineages. Maintenance of NSPC multipotency is promoted by low oxygen tension, although the metabolic underpinnings of this trait have not been described. In this study, we inve...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Candelario KM,Shuttleworth CW,Cunningham LA

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of biochemical and autoradiographic evidence for glucocorticoid binding sites in the spinal cord (SC), events occurring after the preliminary step of hormone binding were not studied. In this investigation, we have examined the transformation (activation) of the cytosolic receptor coupled to [3H]dexamethasone...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ortí E,Tornello S,De Nicola AF

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments assessed the effects of SR 48692, a selective nonpeptide antagonist of neurotensin receptors, on mesolimbic dopaminergic neurotransmission. Dopamine release evoked by the electrical stimulation of the median forebrain bundle (20 Hz, 10 s) was measured in the nucleus accumbens of urethane-anesth...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Brun P,Steinberg R,Le Fur G,Soubrié P

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein aggregation into amyloid fibrils is a key feature of a multitude of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Prion disease. To detect amyloid fibrils, fluorophores with high sensitivity and better efficiency coupled with the low toxicity are in high demand even to date. In this pursuit,...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pravin N,Kumar R,Tripathi S,Kumar P,Mohite GM,Navalkar A,Panigrahi R,Singh N,Gadhe LG,Manchanda S,Shimozawa M,Nilsson P,Johansson J,Kumar A,Maji SK,Shanmugam M

更新日期：2020-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the carboxyl-terminal fragment (CT) of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) in transgenic animals has been linked with neurotoxicity. However, it remains to be clarified whether the neurotoxicity is caused by beta-amyloid proteins (A betas) derived from CT or by CT itself. To study the in vivo neurot...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Song DK,Won MH,Jung JS,Lee JC,Kang TC,Suh HW,Huh SO,Paek SH,Kim YH,Kim SH,Suh YH

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant comorbidity exists between alcohol and methamphetamine (Meth) abuse but the neurochemical consequences of this co-abuse are unknown. Alcohol and Meth independently and differentially affect glutamatergic transmission but the unique effects of their serial exposure on glutamate signaling in mediating dama...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Blaker AL,Moore ER,Yamamoto BK

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of angiotensin II-like peptide was measured in primary cultured brain cells from the fetal rat. Cells from the whole brains of 20-day gestational age Sprague-Dawley rats were dissociated by mild trypsinization and grown for 5 days in supplemented (serum-free) medium prior to experimental analysis. The...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Weyhenmeyer JA,Meyer JM,Watkins JE

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) are bioactive eicosanoids produced from arachidonic acid by cytochrome P450 epoxygenases. We previously described the expression of cytochrome P450-2J epoxygenase in rat trigeminal ganglion neurons and that EETs signaling is involved in cerebrovascular dilation resulting from perivascu...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Iliff JJ,Fairbanks SL,Balkowiec A,Alkayed NJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), the enzyme synthesizing acetylcholine, is known to be activated by brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). We found that the specific removal of the carbohydrate polysialic acid (PSA) significantly increased BDNF-induced ChAT-activity in embryonic septal neurons. Using a p75 neurotr...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Burgess A,Aubert I

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total pellet from pig forebrain (from which the cytosolic sialidase was completely washed out) was treated with phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C (PIPLC) and centrifuged at high speed. The supernatant contained sialidase and 5'-nucleotidase activities. The greatest liberation of sialidase was obtained after inc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chiarini A,Fiorilli A,Siniscalco C,Tettamanti G,Venerando B

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible expression of the group-I metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGlu1alpha) in Chinese hamster ovary cells allows for the study of receptor density dependent effects. However, expression levels attainable with this system are lower than those reported for various brain regions and achieved by conventional (consti...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nash MS,Selkirk JV,Gaymer CE,Challiss RA,Nahorski SR

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH) is the initial and rate-limiting enzyme in serotonin biosynthesis. The enzyme activity is dependent on molecular oxygen, a tetrahydropterin cosubstrate, and ferrous iron. The present study demonstrates that TPH is inhibited by a novel compound, p-ethynylphenylalanine (pEPA), produced by th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Stokes AH,Xu Y,Daunais JA,Tamir H,Gershon MD,Butkerait P,Kayser B,Altman J,Beck W,Vrana KE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophospholipids are generated during the turnover and breakdown of membrane phospholipids. We have identified and partially characterized three enzymes involved in the metabolism of lysophospholipids in human brain, namely, lysophospholipase, lysophospholipid:acyl-CoA acyltransferase (acyltransferase), and lysophosp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ross BM,Kish SJ

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic trafficking and translation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) transcripts play a key role in mediating synaptic plasticity. Recently, we demonstrated that siRNA-mediated knockdown of translin, an RNA-binding protein, impairs KCl-induced dendritic trafficking of BDNF mRNA in cultured hippocampal neu...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wu YC,Williamson R,Li Z,Vicario A,Xu J,Kasai M,Chern Y,Tongiorgi E,Baraban JM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HPLC analysis of guanidinium hydrochloride extracts of neonatal and adult rat brain revealed a polypeptide that is present in high concentration in the immature nervous system, but whose levels decline dramatically in the adult. This polypeptide has been isolated and its complete amino acid sequence determined by gas-...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lugo DI,Chen SC,Hall AK,Ziai R,Hempstead JL,Morgan JI

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether the concentration gradient of glutamine (Gln) drives concentrative Na(+)-independent uptake of neutral amino acids (NAA) in mouse cerebral astrocytes, uptake was compared in "Gln-depleted" and "Gln-replete" cultures. Uptake (30 min in Na(+)-free buffer) of histidine, kynurenine, leucine, tyrosine, a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Brookes N

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The time course of changes in extracellular glutamic acid levels and their Ca2+ dependency were studied in the rat striatum during focal cerebral ischaemia, using microdialysis. Ischaemia-induced changes were compared with those produced by high K(+)-evoked local depolarization. To optimize time resolution, glutamate ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wahl F,Obrenovitch TP,Hardy AM,Plotkine M,Boulu R,Symon L

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown recently that the presence of albumin in astrocytes triggers the synthesis and release of oleic acid, which behaves as a neurotrophic factor for neurons. Thus, oleic acid promotes axonal growth together with the expression of the axonal growth-associated protein, GAP-43. Here we attempted to elucidate wh...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rodríguez-Rodríguez RA,Tabernero A,Velasco A,Lavado EM,Medina JM

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine A(1) receptors (A(1)Rs) have been characterized in primary cultures of neurons from cerebral cortex. The specific adenosine A(1) antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-[(3)H]dipropylxanthine bound to both membranes and intact cells. When saturation experiments were performed in membranes, a K(D) value of 0.76 nM and a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ruiz MA,Escriche M,Lluis C,Franco R,Martín M,Andrés A,Ros M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nociception evoked prostaglandin (PG) release in the spinal cord considerably contributes to the induction of hyperalgesia and allodynia. To evaluate the relative contribution of cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) and COX-2 in this process we assessed the effects of the selective COX-1 inhibitor SC560 and the selective COX-2 in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tegeder I,Niederberger E,Vetter G,Bräutigam L,Geisslinger G

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine (DA) transporter (DAT) regulates DA neurotransmission by recycling DA back into neurons. Drugs that interfere with DAT function, e.g., cocaine and amphetamine, can have profound behavioral effects. The kinetics of DA transport by DAT in isolated synaptosomal or single cell preparations have been previousl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jones SR,Joseph JD,Barak LS,Caron MG,Wightman RM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-Methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors mediate increases in intracellular calcium that can be modulated by protein kinase C (PKC). As PKC modulation of NMDA receptors in neurons is complex, we studied the effects of PKC activation on recombinant NMDA receptor-mediated calcium rises in a nonneuronal mammalian cell line,...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Grant ER,Bacskai BJ,Anegawa NJ,Pleasure DE,Lynch DR

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, the underlying mechanisms and the specific cell types associated with Japanese encephalitis-associated leukocyte trafficking are not understood. Brain microvascular endothelial cells represent a functional barrier and could play key roles in leukocyte central nervous system trafficking. We found that cultur...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lai CY,Ou YC,Chang CY,Pan HC,Chang CJ,Liao SL,Su HL,Chen CJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both trafficking and secretion critically depend on accurate and specific membrane recognition and fusion. A key step in these processes is the assembly of a complex consisting of a small number of proteins, i.e., the exocytic core complex. In nerve terminals, this set consists of VAMP and synaptotagmin, which reside ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Linial M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spiroxatrine has been reported to be a 5-HT1A serotonin receptor antagonist. Therefore [3H]spiroxatrine was synthesized and its 5-HT1A receptor binding properties in homogenates of rat hippocampal membranes were characterized with the expectation that it would be the first 5-HT1A antagonist radioligand. [3H]8-Hydroxyd...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Herrick-Davis K,Titeler M

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major component of the amyloid deposition that characterizes Alzheimer's disease is the 4-kDa beta A4 protein, which is derived from a much larger amyloid protein precursor (APP). A procedure for the complete purification of APP from human brain is described. The same amino terminal sequence of APP was found in tw...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Moir RD,Martins RN,Bush AI,Small DH,Milward EA,Rumble BA,Multhaup G,Beyreuther K,Masters CL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique modification of the neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) by polysialic acid (polySia) is tightly associated with nervous system development and plasticity. The prevailing view that this large carbohydrate polymer acts as an anti-adhesive factor seems straightforward at first sight. However, during almost 25...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hildebrandt H,Mühlenhoff M,Weinhold B,Gerardy-Schahn R

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During CNS injury and diseases, nitric oxide (NO) is released at a high flux rate leading to formation of peroxynitrite (ONOO(*)) and other reactive nitrogenous species, which nitrate tyrosines of proteins to form 3-nitrotyrosine (3NY), leading to cell death. Previously, we have found that motor neurons exposed to low...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bishop A,Gooch R,Eguchi A,Jeffrey S,Smallwood L,Anderson J,Estevez AG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00