Metabolism of angiotensin peptides by neuronal and glial cultures from rat brain.

abstract：:Acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR) is an endogenous metabolic intermediate that facilitates the influx and efflux of acetyl groups across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Exogenously administered ALCAR has been used as a nutritional supplement and also as an experimental drug with reported neuroprotective properties and effe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Scafidi S,Fiskum G,Lindauer SL,Bamford P,Shi D,Hopkins I,McKenna MC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium species (MPP+) is the four-electron oxidation product of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and is widely assumed to be the actual neurotoxic species responsible for the MPTP-induced destruction of dopaminergic neurons. MPTP is oxidized by the enzyme monoamine oxidase-B...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Heikkila RE,Hwang J,Ofori S,Geller HM,Nicklas WJ

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron, an essential element for all cells of the body, including those of the brain, is transported bound to transferrin in the blood and the general extracellular fluid of the body. The demonstration of transferrin receptors on brain capillary endothelial cells (BCECs) more than 20 years ago provided the evidence for ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Moos T,Rosengren Nielsen T,Skjørringe T,Morgan EH

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the sympatho-adrenal system, angiotensin II (Ang II) acts as a key neuromodulatory component. At sympathetic nerve terminals, Ang II influences sympathetic transmission by enhancing norepinephrine (NE) synthesis, facilitating NE release and inhibiting NE uptake. Previously, it was demonstrated that tyrosine hydroxy...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Aschrafi A,Berndt A,Kowalak JA,Gale JR,Gioio AE,Kaplan BB

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is necessary for the cell-cycle machinery of neurons to be suppressed to promote differentiation and maintenance of their terminally differentiated state. Reactivation of the cell cycle in response to neurotoxic insults leads to neuronal cell death and some cell-cycle-related proteins contribute to the process. p27...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jaiswal S,Sharma P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Synuclein causes Parkinson's disease if mutated or aberrantly produced in neurons. α-Synuclein-lipid interactions are important for the normal function of the protein, but can also contribute to pathogenesis. We previously reported that deletion of the first 10 N-terminal amino acids dramatically reduced lipid bindi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Vamvaca K,Lansbury PT Jr,Stefanis L

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (.NO) synthase (NOS) was induced in cultured rat astrocytes by incubation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) for 18 h and gap junction permeability was assessed by the scrape-loading/Lucifer yellow transfer technique. Induction of NOS was confirmed by determining either the NG-methyl-L-arginine (NMMA)-inhibita...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bolaños JP,Medina JM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat brain succinyl-CoA:3-oxo-acid CoA-transferase (3-oxo-acid CoA-transferase, EC 2.8.3.5), the first committed enzyme in the oxidation of ketone bodies in mitochondria, was purified to apparent homogeneity as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme has an apparent molecular weight of 90,000 as determ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Russell JJ,Patel MS

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on glial cultures have demonstrated that fetal bovine serum contains a factor that induces bipotential glial precursors known as oligodendrocyte-type 2 astrocyte (O-2A) progenitors to become type 2 astroglia rather than oligodendroglia. The goal of this research project was to characterize and purify this fact...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Levison SW,McCarthy KD

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique of intracerebral dialysis in combination with a sensitive and specific radioenzymatic method was used for recovery and quantification of endogenous extracellular acetylcholine from the striata of freely moving rats. A thin dialysis tube was inserted transversally through the caudate nuclei, and the tube ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Consolo S,Wu CF,Fiorentini F,Ladinsky H,Vezzani A

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix (ECM) is important for both structural integrity and functions of the brain. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) play major roles in ECM-remodeling under both physiological and pathological conditions. Reversion-inducing cysteine-rich protein with Kazal motifs (Reck) is a membrane-anchored MMP-re...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wang H,Imamura Y,Ishibashi R,Chandana EP,Yamamoto M,Noda M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is the second leading cause of dementia in individuals under age 65. In many patients, the predominant pathology includes neuronal cytoplasmic or intranuclear inclusions of ubiquitinated TAR DNA binding protein 43 (FTLD-TDP). Recently, a genome-wide association study identified...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nicholson AM,Finch NA,Wojtas A,Baker MC,Perkerson RB 3rd,Castanedes-Casey M,Rousseau L,Benussi L,Binetti G,Ghidoni R,Hsiung GY,Mackenzie IR,Finger E,Boeve BF,Ertekin-Taner N,Graff-Radford NR,Dickson DW,Rademakers R

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portocaval anastomosis (PCA) in the rat leads, within 4 weeks, to severe liver atrophy, sustained hyperammonemia, and increased brain ammonia. Because brain is not equipped with an effective urea cycle, removal of ammonia involves glutamine synthesis and PCA results in significantly increased brain glutamine. Glutamin...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Butterworth RF,Girard G,Giguère JF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here two types of apoptotic cell death observed in the rat CNS-derived neuroblastoma B50 and B104 cells. One type was induced by dibutyryl cyclic AMP (DBcAMP) after differentiation, and the other was induced by treatment of proliferating cells with cycloheximide. When B50 and B104 cells were treated with 1...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Honma N,Uchida A,Hirose H,Srsen V,Kishimoto T,Hisanaga S

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of Gi/o protein-coupled receptors on adenylyl cyclase type 2 (AC2) has been studied in Sf9 insect cells. Stimulation of cells expressing AC2 with the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) led to a twofold stimulation of cAMP synthesis that could be blocked with the protein kinase C inhib...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Näsman J,Kukkonen JP,Holmqvist T,Akerman KE

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The precursors for neurotrophins are proteolytically cleaved to form biologically active mature molecules which activate their receptors p75NTR and trks. A recent study showed that the precursor for nerve growth factor (NGF) can bind to p75NTR with a high affinity and induces apoptosis of neurons in vitro. Mutation in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zhou XF,Song XY,Zhong JH,Barati S,Zhou FH,Johnson SM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are activated in humans following infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and brain inflammation is thought to be involved in neuronal injury and dysfunction during HIV infection. Numerous studies indicate a role for the HIV regulatory protein Tat in HIV-related inflammatory and neurodegenerative ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bruce-Keller AJ,Barger SW,Moss NI,Pham JT,Keller JN,Nath A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of manipulating the activity of central 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) neurones on extracellular 5-HT in ventral hippocampus of the chloral hydrate-anaesthetized rat was studied using the brain perfusion method, microdialysis. Basal levels of 5-HT in the dialysates were close to the detection limits of our assa...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sharp T,Bramwell SR,Clark D,Grahame-Smith DG

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na+/Ca2+ exchanger is an important element in the maintenance of calcium homeostasis in bovine chromaffin cells. The Na+/Ca2+ exchanger from other cell types has been extensively studied, but little is known about its regulation in the cell. We have investigated the role of reversible protein phosphorylation in th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lin LF,Kao LS,Westhead EW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), an incretin hormone of current interest in type 2 diabetes, is neuroprotective in both cell culture and animal models. To characterize the neuroprotective properties of GLP-1 and associated underlying mechanisms, we over-expressed the GLP-1 receptor (G...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li Y,Tweedie D,Mattson MP,Holloway HW,Greig NH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The content of the tryptophan metabolites quinolinic acid (QUIN), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) was measured in various brain areas of rats bearing a portocaval anastomosis (PCA) for 4 weeks, using mass fragmentography or HPLC. In these animals, the content of the excitotoxic comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Moroni F,Lombardi G,Carlà V,Pellegrini D,Carassale GL,Cortesini C

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that represents the most common type of dementia among elderly people. Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides in extracellular Aβ plaques, produced from the amyloid precursor protein (APP) via sequential processing by β- and γ-secretases, impair hippocampal synaptic plastic...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kuwabara Y,Ishizeki M,Watamura N,Toba J,Yoshii A,Inoue T,Ohshima T

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipids of gastrocnemius muscle from normal and dystrophic (dy) mice of the Bar Harbor, 129Re strain were studied. Animals were fed diets containing either 3.1% or 1.1% of total calories as linoleic acid. Lipid analyses were also done on muscle from a new mouse mutant, A2G-adr, which has abnormal muscle function, c...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rebello T,Watts DC

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine transporter is a plasma membrane protein that controls extracellular concentrations of the neurotransmitter dopamine. The physiological importance of the DAT provides the impetus for studies aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying regulation of the DAT gene. In this study, we identified...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wang J,Bannon MJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of protein kinase C on protein stability and activity of rat AANAT were investigated in vitro and in vivo. When COS-7 cells transfected with AANAT cDNA were treated with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA), both the activity and protein level of AANAT were increased. These effects of PMA were blocked by GF10...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Choi BH,Chae HD,Park TJ,Oh J,Lim J,Kang SS,Ha H,Kim KT

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroactive steroid family includes molecules synthesized in peripheral glands (i.e., hormonal steroids) and directly in the nervous system (i.e., neurosteroids) which are key regulators of the nervous function. As already reported in clinical and experimental studies, neurodegenerative diseases affect the levels of n...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Caruso D,Melis M,Fenu G,Giatti S,Romano S,Grimoldi M,Crippa D,Marrosu MG,Cavaletti G,Melcangi RC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable current interest in the neuroprotective effects of flavonoids. This study focuses on the potential for dietary flavonoids, and their known physiologically relevant metabolites, to enter the brain endothelium and cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) using well-established in vitro models (brain end...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Youdim KA,Dobbie MS,Kuhnle G,Proteggente AR,Abbott NJ,Rice-Evans C

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, a comprehensive characterization of the serum miRNA profile in patients with TBI and the roles of these potential markers in neuronal regulation have rarely been reported. In this study, the l...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yan J,Bu X,Li Z,Wu J,Wang C,Li D,Song J,Wang J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenobam [N-(3-chlorophenyl)-N'-(4,5-dihydro-1-methyl-4-oxo-1H-imidazole-2-yl)urea], a clinically validated non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic, has been shown to be a potent and non-competitive metabotropic glutamate (mGlu)-5 receptor antagonist. In the present study, we have used the site-directed mutagenesis coupled with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Malherbe P,Kratochwil N,Mühlemann A,Zenner MT,Fischer C,Stahl M,Gerber PR,Jaeschke G,Porter RH

更新日期：2006-07-01 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