A kainate receptor linked to nitric oxide synthesis from arginine.

abstract：:Choroid plexi from the lateral ventricles of rabbits, cats, and dogfish (Mustelus canis) were used to characterize the prostaglandin (PG) uptake process and to establish its kinetic parameters and substrate specificity. The apparent Kt for PGF2 alpha transport by the rabbit choroid plexus was 20 microM; the Jmax was 2...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： DiBenedetto FE,Bito LZ

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogenesis of alpha 2-adrenoceptors and GTP-binding proteins and their coupling activity were investigated in telencephalon membranes of developing rats. The manganese-induced elevation of [3H]clonidine binding was increased in an age-dependent manner but the guanosine 5'-O-(3-thio)triphosphate-induced decrease i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kitamura Y,Mochii M,Kodama R,Agata K,Watanabe K,Eguchi G,Nomura Y

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) motor symptoms are caused by degeneration of nigrostriatal dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons. The most common causes of hereditary PD are mutations in the PARKIN gene. The ubiquitin ligase parkin has been shown to mediate neuroprotection in cell culture and in vivo, but the molecular mechanisms a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hasegawa T,Treis A,Patenge N,Fiesel FC,Springer W,Kahle PJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that a subtoxic dose of the succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) inhibitor malonate greatly enhances the neurotoxicity of three different excitatory amino acid agonists: N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), S-alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (S-AMPA), and L-glutamate. In male Sprague-Dawley rats, in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Greene JG,Greenamyre JT

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho family GTPases promote the survival of certain neuronal populations. However, pro-survival and pro-death signaling pathways regulated downstream of Rho GTPases are largely unknown. Cerebellar granule neurons (CGNs) exposed to Clostridium difficile toxin B (ToxB), a monoglucosyltransferase that specifically inhibit...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Loucks FA,Le SS,Zimmermann AK,Ryan KR,Barth H,Aktories K,Linseman DA

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depletion of glutathione in the substantia nigra is one of the earliest changes observed in Parkinson's disease (PD) and could initiate dopaminergic neuronal degeneration. Nevertheless, experimental glutathione depletion does not result in preferential toxicity to dopaminergic neurons either in vivo or in vitro. Moreo...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nakamura K,Wright DA,Wiatr T,Kowlessur D,Milstien S,Lei XG,Kang UJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the common complications associated with diabetes mellitus and the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Recent research has demonstrated that DR is not only a microvascular disease but may be a result of neurodegenerative processes. Moreover, glucose-induced neuron and glial cell d...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zorrilla-Zubilete MA,Yeste A,Quintana FJ,Toiber D,Mostoslavsky R,Silberman DM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The olfactory bulb is one of the most vulnerable brain regions in age-related proteinopathies. Proteinopathic stress is mitigated by the heat shock protein (Hsp) family of chaperones. Here, we describe age-related decreases in Hsc70 in the olfactory bulb of the female rat and higher levels of Hsp70 and Hsp25 in middle...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Crum TS,Gleixner AM,Posimo JM,Mason DM,Broeren MT,Heinemann SD,Wipf P,Brodsky JL,Leak RK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanidino compounds in CSF of 57 human subjects were determined fluorometrically after reaction with phenanthrenequinone in alkali solution, using HPLC. Creatinine (65.2 +/- 13.4 nmol/ml), arginine (24.7 +/- 6.4 nmol/ml), and homoarginine (0.7 +/- 0.3 nmol/ml) were found in all subjects. Trace amounts of guanidinosucc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mori A,Watanabe Y,Fujimoto N

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Kölliker-Fuse nucleus (KF) is a functionally distinct component of the parabrachial complex, located in the dorsolateral pons of mammals. The KF has a major role in respiration and upper airway control. A comprehensive understanding of the KF and its contributions to respiratory function and dysfunction requires a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Varga AG,Maletz SN,Bateman JT,Reid BT,Levitt ES

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified, by affinity chromatography, two putative binding proteins for the presynaptic snake venom toxin taipoxin. We have previously characterized one of these proteins [neuronal pentraxin (NP)] as a neuronally secreted protein with homology to acute-phase proteins. Here we report the identification of the seco...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dodds D,Schlimgen AK,Lu SY,Perin MS

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterised the induction of the mitogen-inducible form of cyclooxygenase, COX-2, in the rat cerebral cortex in response to excitotoxin injection into the nucleus basalis. This model is associated with intense stimulation of the ascending pathway to the cerebral cortex, seizure activity, and subsequent ipsil...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Adams J,Collaço-Moraes Y,de Belleroche J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3 alpha-Hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.50) was localized in the rat brain by cryostat sectioning, microassay, and neurochemical lesions. Single 16-microns sections were cut, homogenized, and assayed. In the olfactory tubercle 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase activity is high in the piaglial layer at the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Krieger NR,Scott RG

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) deprivation in rodents reduces brain arachidonic acid (20:4n-6) concentration and 20:4n-6-preferring cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2) -IVA) and cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 expression, while increasing brain docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n-3) concentration and DHA-selectiv...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Igarashi M,Kim HW,Chang L,Ma K,Rapoport SI

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear mitochondrial and synaptosomal fractions of rat brain were each found to contain some 25-30% of the total aldehyde dehydrogenase activity. The cytoplasmic fraction had a very low total aldehyde dehydrogenase activity. There were differences in the distribution of the activity when different aldehydes were ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Koivula T,Turner AJ,Huttunen M,Koivusalo M

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) on the extracellular levels of taurine and on excitability in the dentate gyrus were studied in anesthetized rats by the dialytrode technique. The dentate gyrus was perfused by means of a dialytrode with Krebs-Ringer-bicarbonate or GABA solutions. Amino acid contents in pe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lerma J,Herranz AS,Herreras O,Muñoz D,Solís JM,del Río RM,Delgado JM

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromogranin A and two other proteins (A1 and A2) of the soluble proteins of bovine chromaffin granules were isolated by extraction from polyacrylamide gels after electrophoresis. The carbohydrate content of these proteins was 5%, with galactose, N-acetylgalactosamine, and sialic acid as the main sugars. Membranes of ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fischer-Colbrie R,Schachinger M,Zangerle R,Winkler H

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisilencer or antirepressor elements have been described, thus far, for only a few eukaryotic genes and were identified by their ability not to augment gene expression per se but to override repression mediated via negative transcription regulatory elements. Here we report the first case of antisilencing for a neura...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dobretsova A,Wight PA

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity-dependent fusion, retrieval and recycling of synaptic vesicles is essential for the maintenance of neurotransmission. Until relatively recently it was believed that most mutations in genes that were essential for this process would be incompatible with life, because of this fundamental role. However, an e...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bonnycastle K,Davenport EC,Cousin MA

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study measured extracellular fluid (ECF) levels of excitatory amino acids before and during the onset of thiamine deficiency-induced pathologic lesions. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with daily pyrithiamine (0.25 mg/kg i.p.) and a thiamine-deficient diet (PTD). Microdialysates were simultaneously c...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Langlais PJ,Zhang SX

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals trained in a passive avoidance task exhibit a transient time-dependent increase in hippocampal neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) polysialylation at 12-24 h following the initial learning trial. Using immunocytochemical techniques with a monoclonal antibody that specifically recognises NCAM-polysialic acid h...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fox GB,O'Connell AW,Murphy KJ,Regan CM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptors contain seven putative transmembrane domains and couple via different guanine nucleotide binding proteins to specific effector enzymes. Studies with other receptors identify the second and third intracellular loops or the C-terminus of the receptor as important for selective effect...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Oksenberg D,Havlik S,Peroutka SJ,Ashkenazi A

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functions of cellular prion protein (PrP(C)) are under intense debate and PrP(C) loss of function has been implicated in the pathology of prion diseases. Neuronal PrP(C) engagement with stress-inducible protein-1 and laminin (LN) plays a key role in cell survival and differentiation. The present study evaluated wh...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lima FR,Arantes CP,Muras AG,Nomizo R,Brentani RR,Martins VR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental goals of lipidomics research is to identify the linkage of an individual gene with a given lipidome, thereby revealing the role of that gene in lipid metabolism, transport, and homeostasis. In this study, we have identified four apolipoprotein E (apoE)-induced alterations in the lipidome of mous...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cheng H,Jiang X,Han X

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro and ex vivo effects of lithium on muscarinic cholinergic inositol phospholipid hydrolysis and muscarinic cholinergic inhibition of dopamine D1-receptor-stimulated cyclic AMP formation were examined in rat brain slices. Following chronic lithium feeding, carbachol-stimulated inositol phosphate accumulation...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Whitworth P,Kendall DA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative proton and quantitative proton-decoupled 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) of the brain was performed in 16 patients with liver disease (10 with and six without chronic hepatic encephalopathy) and four patients with hyponatremia, as well as 20 age-matched normal subjects. Patients with hepatic enc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bluml S,Zuckerman E,Tan J,Ross BD

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin, the obese gene product, was reported to stimulate prolactin (PRL) secretion, but the neuroendocrine mechanism underlying this hormonal response is largely unknown. Thus, in this study we examined the involvement of several important PRL regulators in the leptin-induced PRL secretion in male rats. Compared with...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Watanobe H,Schiöth HB,Izumi J

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipocalin-type prostaglandin (PG) D synthase (L-PGDS) is responsible for the production of PGD(2), the main PG in the CNS. PGD(2) is an endogenous sleep inducer, and it is involved in the control of odor and pain responses and body temperature. In addition, PGD synthase transports lipophilic molecules in the subarachn...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： García-Fernández LF,Iñiguez MA,Eguchi N,Fresno M,Urade Y,Muñoz A

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated previously that D1 dopamine receptors are coupled to both Gs alpha and Go alpha. We examine here the coupling between human D5 dopamine receptors and G proteins in transfected rat pituitary GH4C1 cells. Similar to D1 receptors, cholera toxin treatment of cells reduced, but did not abolish, D5 agon...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sidhu A,Kimura K,Uh M,White BH,Patel S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00