High glutamate attenuates S100B and LDH outputs from rat cortical slices enhanced by either oxygen-glucose deprivation or menadione.

abstract：:Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria are intracellular organelles and their interactions are directly involved in different processes such as Ca(2+) signaling in cell survival and death mechanisms. Bcl-2 is an anti-apoptotic protein intrinsically related to ER and mitochondria, modulating Ca(2+) content in thes...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hirata H,Lopes GS,Jurkiewicz A,Garcez-do-Carmo L,Smaili SS

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient exchange of lactate between different cell types (such as astrocytes and neurones) would require that lactate transporters are expressed in contiguous parts of the respective plasma membranes. To settle this issue we explored the subcellular expression pattern of monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) by use...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bergersen L,Rafiki A,Ottersen OP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study attempted to investigate the possible involvement of the brain stem noradrenergic system in the development of hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive rats. Steady-state norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid concentrations and norepinephrine turnover were determined in the in...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yao H,Matsumoto T,Hirano M,Kuroki T,Tsutsumi T,Uchimura H,Nakamura K,Nakahara T,Fujishima M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated oxidative stress associated with a model of experimental epilepsy. Male Wistar rats were injected i.p. with 150 mg/kg convulsant 3-mercaptopropionic acid and decapitated in two stages: during seizures or in the post-seizure period. Spontaneous chemiluminescence, levels of thiobarbituric acid reactive subs...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lores Arnaiz S,Travacio M,Llesuy S,Rodríguez de Lores Arnaiz G

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conversion of phosphoethanolamine to phosphocholine requires 3 separate N-methyltransferases. We had previously purified the enzyme catalyzing the last methylation, phosphodimethylethanolamine N-methyltransferase. We have successfully purified the enzyme catalyzing the initial methylation of phosphoethanolamine. A...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Mukherjee S,Freysz L,Kanfer JN

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging data suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction is prominently involved in Alzheimer disease (AD) progression. Sirtuin-3 (Sirt3) is a member of the sirtuin family of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dependent deacetylases that regulates a variety of mitochondrial functions and suppresses mitochondria-related ph...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang W,Zou Y,Zhang M,Zhao N,Tian Q,Gu M,Liu W,Shi R,Lü Y,Yu W

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acetylcholinesterase from synaptosomal membranes is inhibited by anesthetics: Nembutal, brietal, and thiopental. Nembutal and brietal decrease the Km for acetylthiocholine, without changes in Vmas. A noncompetitive type of inhibition is produced by thiopental. This anesthetic decreases Arrhenius plot discontinuity...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Pastuszko A

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under some pathological conditions in brain, a large amount of superoxide anion (O(2)(-)) is produced, causing various cellular damages. Among three isozymes of superoxide dismutase (SOD), extracellular (EC)-SOD should play a role to detoxify O(2)(-) in extracellular space; however, a little is known about EC-SOD in b...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Takano K,Tanaka N,Kawabe K,Moriyama M,Nakamura Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP(+)) or 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) caused a nuclear damage, the mitochondrial membrane permeability changes, leading to the cytochrome c release and caspase-3 activation, the formation of reactive oxygen species and the depletion of GSH in PC12 cells. Nicardipine (a calcium channel bloc...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lee DH,Han YS,Han ES,Bang H,Lee CS

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have utilized quantitative autoradiography with the GABA(A) receptor chloride channel blocker [35S]t-butylbicyclophosphorothionate ([35S]TBPS) in rodent brain sections to investigate if differential proton modulation of various GABA(A) receptor subtypes expressed in various brain regions are differentially sensitiv...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Uusi-Oukari M,Kosonen P,Homanics GE,Korpi ER

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endogenous phosphorylation of proteins from rat brain synaptosomal plasma membranes was studied in vitro. Cyclic AMP (cAMP) markedly stimulated(32)P incorporation in three protein bands with molecular weights of 75,000, 57,000, and 54,000, respectively. The effect of the behaviorally active peptide ACTH1-24 on this en...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zwiers H,Veldhuis HD,Schotman P,Gispen WH

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a promising biological marker and prognostic indicator in many neurological diseases. Although VEGF concentrations in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are increasingly reported, CSF-VEGF stability pre- and during-assay procedures is seldom evaluated. In the current stud...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang J,Dombrowski SM,Deshpande A,Krajcir N,El-Khoury S,Krishnan C,Luciano MG

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary malignant brain cancer, one of the most deadly diseases, has a high rate of recurrence after treatment. Studies in the past several years have led to the hypothesis that the root of the recurrence may be brain tumor stem cells (BTSCs), stem-like subpopulation of cells that are responsible for propagating the t...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Xie Z

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolism of triacylglycerol (TAG) in developing brain has been examined. TAG is a relatively minor fraction of brain lipid in both suckling and adult rats and cannot be accounted for as entrapped blood. When glycerol tri[1-14C]oleate and [2-3H]glycerol trioleate were simultaneously injected intracerebrally into suck...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Cook HW

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Sendai virosomes or Lipofectin to introduce an AAV vector into primary rat brain astroglial cultures was characterized. The pJDT95npy vector was constructed by inserting rat NPY cDNA downstream from the indigenous AAV p5, p19 and p40 promoters in pJDT95. Lipofectin-mediated transfection with pJDT95npy (...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： de Fiebre CM,Wu P,Notabartolo D,Millard WJ,Meyer EM

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calpains, cathepsins and caspases play crucial role in mediating cell death. In the present study we observed a cascade of events involving the three proteases during middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAo) in Wistar rats. The rats were MCA occluded and reperfused at various time points. We observed a maximal increase...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chaitanya GV,Babu PP

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several models for the transmission and progression of prion diseases have arisen, evolving with the acquisition of new experimental results. It is generally accepted that the PrP(Sc) protein is at least part of the infectious particle and the major protein component of the scrapie-associated fibrils (SAFs) that chara...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Grossman A,Zeiler B,Sapirstein V

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of isoproterenol, norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin on the accumulation of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) was studied in homogeneous neuronal cultures from 8-day chick embryo hemispheres. Among the catecholamines, isoproterenol had a more pronounced effect on the accumulation of cAMP. Norepineph...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ciesielski-Treska J,Ulrich G

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cold restraint stress (CRS) model exerts similar effect as physiological stress because it combines emotional stress (escape reaction) and physical stress (muscle work). It is well established that various responses to stress are regulated by sympathoadrenal system, brain monoaminergic systems and oxidative processes....

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lyle N,Chakrabarti S,Sur T,Gomes A,Bhattacharyya D

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the ability of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) to cause apoptotic cell death in cultured rat forebrain neurons and the potential mechanisms by which oxidative stress triggers delayed neuronal death. H2O2 (25 microM for 5 min) reduced cell viability to 34.5 +/- 8.3% of untreated controls 20 h after exposure, a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hoyt KR,Gallagher AJ,Hastings TG,Reynolds IJ

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：:We propose the following scheme for cerebral uptake and overall metabolism of glucose in vivo: that brain selects from two pools of glucose anomers in arterial blood, that it takes up excess glucose, that glucose enters the brain tissue as glucose-6-phosphate through the actions of mutarotase and hexokinase, that some...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Sacks W,Cowburn D,Bigler RE,Sacks S,Fleischer A

更新日期：1985-02-01 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：:Tanshinone I (TsI) is an important lipophilic diterpene extracted from Danshen (Radix Salvia miltiorrhizae) and has been used in Asia for the treatment of cerebrovascular diseases such as ischemic stroke. In this study, we examined the neuroprotective effect of TsI against ischemic damage and its neuroprotective mecha...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Park JH,Park Ok,Cho JH,Chen BH,Kim IH,Ahn JH,Lee JC,Yan BC,Yoo KY,Lee CH,Hwang IK,Kwon SH,Lee YL,Won MH,Choi JH

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(E)-2-(1-hydroxyl-4-oxocyclohexyl) ethyl caffeine (HOEC), a naturally caffeic ester isolated from Incarvillea mairei, has been reported to possess anti-inflammatory activity by targeting 5-lipoxygenase. However, its other potential activities have yet to be explored. In this study, we measured antioxidant activity of ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chen B,Yue R,Yang Y,Zeng H,Chang W,Gao N,Yuan X,Zhang W,Shan L

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal epileptic seizures can in some patients be managed by inhibiting γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) uptake via the GABA transporter 1 (GAT1) using tiagabine (Gabitril®). Synergistic anti-seizure effects achieved by inhibition of both GAT1 and the betaine/GABA transporter (BGT1) by tiagabine and EF1502, compared to tiaga...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lie MEK,Kickinger S,Skovgaard-Petersen J,Ecker GF,Clausen RP,Schousboe A,White HS,Wellendorph P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites in the brain constitute the main histopathological features of Parkinson's disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy bodies. They comprise amyloid-like fibrils composed of α-synuclein (αS), a small protein (~14 kDa). Because the aggregation of αS in the brain has been implicated as a critical s...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ono K

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triptolide (T10), an extract from the traditional Chinese herb, Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F (TWHF), has been shown to attenuate the rotational behavior induced by D: -amphetamine and prevent the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra in rat models of Parkinson's disease. To examine if the neuroprotecti...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Xue B,Jiao J,Zhang L,Li KR,Gong YT,Xie JX,Wang XM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that multiple forms of cyclic nucleotide phophodiesterase (PDE) activity chromatographically separated from the soluble fraction of bovine hypothalamus are co-eluted with multiple forms of 5'-nucleotidase (5'N) activity. The enzymes could not be resolved from each other by anion-exchange chromato...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Galoyan AA,Gurvitz BYa,Sharova NP

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ingestion of ammonium induces hyperammonemia which increases tubulin content in cerebrum but not in cerebellum. We have dissected 11 discrete areas of cerebrum and quantified the tubulin content in control and hyperammonemic rats. An heterogeneity in the induction of tubulin is shown. The areas more affected are ventr...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Miñana MD,Felipo V,Quel A,Pallardó F,Grisolía S

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00