An astrocyte-specific enhancer of the aquaporin-4 gene functions through a consensus sequence of POU transcription factors in concert with multiple upstream elements.

abstract：:In complex tissues where multiple subtypes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are expressed, immunohistochemistry has been the most popular tool for investigation of nAChR subunit distribution. However, recent studies with nAChR subunit knockout mice demonstrated that a large panel of antibodies is unsuitab...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Shelukhina IV,Kryukova EV,Lips KS,Tsetlin VI,Kummer W

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progress has been made in Guillain-Barré syndrome, a post-infectious autoimmune neuropathy, especially on identifying Campylobacter jejuni genes responsible for the development and determinant of clinical features. C. jejuni strains carrying a sialyltransferase gene (cst-II), which is essential for the biosynthesis of...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yuki N

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurite formation involves coordinated changes between the actin cytoskeleton and the microtubule network. Rho GTPases are clearly implicated in several aspects of neuronal development and function. Indeed, RhoA is a negative regulator of neurite outgrowth and its effector Rho-kinase mediates the Rho-driven neurite re...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Talens-Visconti R,Peris B,Guerri C,Guasch RM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cDNAs encoding four isoforms of the human NMDA receptor (NMDAR) NMDAR2C (hNR2C-1, -2, -3, and -4) have been isolated and characterized. The overall identity of the deduced amino acid sequences of human and rat NR2C-1 is 89.0%. The sequences of the rat and human carboxyl termini (Gly925-Val1,236) are encoded by differe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Daggett LP,Johnson EC,Varney MA,Lin FF,Hess SD,Deal CR,Jachec C,Lu CC,Kerner JA,Landwehrmeyer GB,Standaert DG,Young AB,Harpold MM,Veliçelebi G

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For nearly 100 years following the first description of this neurological disorder by Dr Alois Alzheimer, amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles have been hypothesized to cause neuronal loss. With evidence that the extent of insoluble, deposited amyloid poorly correlated with cognitive impairment, research effort...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Larson ME,Lesné SE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synapses are often located at great distances from the cell body and so must be capable of transducing signals into both local and distant responses. Although progress has been made in understanding biochemical cascades involved in neuronal death during development of the nervous system and in various neurodegenerativ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Duan W,Rangnekar VM,Mattson MP

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pros-Methylimidazoleacetic acid (p-MIAA; 1-methylimidazole-5-acetic acid), an isomer of the histamine metabolite, tele-methylimidazoleacetic acid (t-MIAA), is present in brain and CSF. Its relationship to histamine synthesis and catabolism was assessed in brains of rats. p-MIAA distribution in brain regions was hetero...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Prell GD,Khandelwal JK,Hough LB,Green JP

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melatonin is neuroprotective because of its antioxidative action, but it also can modify neuronal vulnerability by altering gene expression. 5-Lipoxygenase (5-LO) gene expression is suppressed by the binding of melatonin to its high-affinity nuclear receptors. Recently, we reported that in rats the melatonin deficienc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Uz T,Longone P,Manev H

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：:Stimulation of prostaglandin (PG) release in rat astroglial cultures by various substances, including phorbol esters, melittin, or extracellular ATP, has been reported recently. It is shown here that glucocorticoids (GCs) reduced both basal and stimulated PGD2 release. Hydrocortisone, however, did not inhibit ATP-, ca...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gebicke-Haerter PJ,Schobert A,Dieter P,Honegger P,Hertting G

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of morphine on serotonin (5-HT) and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in the CNS of unanesthetized rats was investigated by microdialysis. Morphine was administered either subcutaneously, by local perfusion into the diencephalon, or by intraraphe microinjection. Systemic administration of morphine resulte...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tao R,Auerbach SB

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of the intracellular calcium pool involved in regulating the Ca2+ profile and the neuronal survival rate during development were studied by using thapsigargin (TG), a specific inhibitor of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) Ca2+-ATPase in cultured cerebellar granule neurons. Measuring the neuronal [Ca2+]i directly i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yao CJ,Lin CW,Lin-Shiau SY

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the presenilin 1 (PS1) gene are associated with autosomal dominant, early-onset, familial Alzheimer's disease and result in increased release of the hyperaggregatable 42-amino acid form of the amyloid beta-peptide (A(beta)42). To determine which subcellular compartments are potential source(s) of released...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Petanceska SS,Seeger M,Checler F,Gandy S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation and refinement of synaptic connections are key steps of neural development to establish elaborate brain networks. To investigate the functional role of protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) σ, we employed an olfactory sensory neuron (OSN)-specific gene manipulation system in combination with in vivo imaging...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chen X,Yoshida T,Sagara H,Mikami Y,Mishina M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood-based tests for the differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) are under intensive investigation and have shown promising results with regard to Abeta40 and Abeta42 peptide species in incipient AD. Moreover, plasma Abeta40 was suggested as an independent cerebrovascular risk factor candidate. These consi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bibl M,Esselmann H,Mollenhauer B,Weniger G,Welge V,Liess M,Lewczuk P,Otto M,Schulz JB,Trenkwalder C,Kornhuber J,Wiltfang J

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple sclerosis (MS) pathology is marked by the massive infiltration of myelin-specific T cells into the CNS. Hallmarks of T helper (Th) cells during active disease are pro-inflammatory Th1/Th17 cells that predominate over immunoregulatory Th2/Treg cells. Neurodegeneration, a major factor in progressive MS, is ofte...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Trager N,Smith A,Wallace Iv G,Azuma M,Inoue J,Beeson C,Haque A,Banik NL

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenomedullary chromaffin cells represent an excellent model to study the molecular events linked to exocytosis, because they use the same type of SNAREs for vesicle docking and fusion as neurons. In these cells, both in the intact tissue and in isolated cells in culture, syntaxin-1 and SNAP-25 are present in the pla...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： López-Font I,Torregrosa-Hetland CJ,Villanueva J,Gutiérrez LM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible modulation of nitric oxide (NO) synthase (NOS) activity by protein kinase C (PKC) was investigated. Incubation of rat cerebellar slices with the specific metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist, (+/-)-1-aminocyclopentane-trans-1,3-dicarboxylate (trans-ACPD) increased cyclic GMP concentration two-fold. The...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Okada D

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of chronic (2 weeks) treatment with a typical neuroleptic, haloperidol (1 mg/kg, s.c.), and an atypical neuroleptic, clozapine (20 mg/kg, s.c.), on neurotensin receptor (NTR) mRNA levels by in situ hybridization histochemistry. Quantitative OD analysis showed haloperidol-induced NTR mRNA levels...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bolden-Watson C,Watson MA,Murray KD,Isackson PJ,Richelson E

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine- and cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein (Mr 32 kDa, DARPP-32) is an integrator of multiple neuronal signals and plays a crucial role particularly in mediating the dopaminergic component of the systems involved in the evaluation of stimuli and the ensuing elaboration of complex behavioral responses (e.g., responses...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Scheggi S,De Montis MG,Gambarana C

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N alpha-Acyl amino acid releasing enzyme (NAARE), an enzyme cleaving acetylMet-Ala at the Met-Ala bond was purified from rat brain cytosol to apparent homogeneity by salt precipitation, gel filtration, and several steps of ion exchange. Levels of NAARE exceeded acylase measured with acetylmethionine in all brain regio...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Marks N,Lo ES,Stern F,Danho W

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both phosphointermediate- and vacuolar-type (P- and V-type, respectively) ATPase activities found in cholinergic synaptic vesicles isolated from electric organ are immunoprecipitated by a monoclonal antibody to the SV2 epitope characteristic of synaptic vesicles. The two activities can be distinguished by assay in the...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hicks BW,Parsons SM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative pathology characterized by aggregates of amyloid-β (Aβ) and phosphorylated tau protein, synaptic dysfunction, and spatial memory impairment. The Wnt signaling pathway has several key functions in the adult brain and has been associated with AD, mainly as a neuroprotectiv...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tapia-Rojas C,Inestrosa NC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although alterations in serotonin levels and neurotransmission are associated with depressive disorders and effective antidepressant therapy, the exact cause of these disorders and the mode of action of antidepressant drugs are poorly understood. In a genetic rat model of depression [Flinders sensitive line (FSL) rats...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zangen A,Overstreet DH,Yadid G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable evidence indicates that the amyloid-beta (Abeta) peptide, a proteolytic fragment of the amyloid precursor protein, is the pathogenic agent in Alzheimer's disease (AD). A number of proteases have been reported as capable of degrading Abeta, among them: neprilysin, insulin-degrading enzyme, endothelin-conve...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yamin R,Bagchi S,Hildebrant R,Scaloni A,Widom RL,Abraham CR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied whether microtubule organization is important for actions of ethanol on GABAA ergic responses by testing the effects of microtubule depolymerization on ethanol enhancement of GABA action in mouse L(tk-) cells stably transfected with GABAA receptor alpha 1 beta 1 gamma 2L subunits. The microtubule-disrupting...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Whatley VJ,Brozowski SJ,Hadingham KL,Whiting PJ,Harris RA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that phorbol esters and lithium each stimulate the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) by the anterior pituitary tumor cell line AtT20/D16-16. Pretreatment with either lithium or phorbol ester desensitizes the cells to subsequent stimulation by phorbol ester. An early consequenc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zatz M,Mahan LC,Reisine T

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential assembly of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor subunits determines their functional characteristics. Using in situ hybridization, we found a selective increase of the subunits NR1 and NR2A mRNA at 24 h in ventral motor neurons (VMN) caudal to a standardized spinal cord contusion injury (SCI). Other neur...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Grossman SD,Wolfe BB,Yasuda RP,Wrathall JR

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different forms of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), EC 3.1.1.7, were demonstrated in human brain caudate nucleus. One form was solubilized at high ionic strength, the other with Triton X-100. The detergent-extractable form was purified to homogeneity by affinity chromatography. This form of AChE is amphiphile-dependent; i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sørensen K,Gentinetta R,Brodbeck U

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to investigate whether dexamethasone produces a coordinated, time-dependent effect on all enzymes in the catecholamine biosynthetic pathway in PC12 cells. The levels of mRNAs of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC), and dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) were examined at 0, 6, 1...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kim KT,Park DH,Joh TH

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00