Synthetic cathinones: a new public health problem.

abstract：:It is well recognized the role of the Wnt pathway in many developmental processes such as neuronal maturation, migration, neuronal connectivity and synaptic formation. Growing evidence is also demonstrating its function in the mature brain where is associated with modulation of axonal remodeling, dendrite outgrowth, s...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Ortiz-Matamoros A,Salcedo-Tello P,Avila-Muñoz E,Zepeda A,Arias C

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural phenolic compounds in medicinal herbs and dietary plants are antioxidants which play therapeutic or preventive roles in different pathological situations, such as oxidative stress and inflammation. One of the most studied phenolic compounds in the last decade is chlorogenic acid (CGA), which is a pot...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Bagdas D,Gul Z,Meade JA,Cam B,Cinkilic N,Gurun MS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury and neuroinflammatory multiple sclerosis are diverse disorders of the central nervous system. However, they are all characterized by various levels of inappropriate inflammatory/immune response along with tissue destruction. In the gastro...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Földes A,Kádár K,Kerémi B,Zsembery Á,Gyires K,S Zádori Z,Varga G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary cerebellar ataxias are a group of disorders characterized by heterogeneous clinical manifestations, progressive clinical course, and diverse genetic causes. No disease modifying treatments are yet available for many of these disorders. Oxidative stress has been recurrently identified in different ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Barca E,Emmanuele V,DiMauro S,Toscano A,Quinzii CM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors are an important therapeutic strategy in Alzheimer's disease, efforts are being made in search of new molecules with anti-AChE activity. The fact that naturally-occurring compounds from plants are considered to be a potential source of new inhibitors has led to the discovery o...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Murray AP,Faraoni MB,Castro MJ,Alza NP,Cavallaro V

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the principal cause of invalidity and death in the population under 45 years of age worldwide. This mini-review aims to systematize the forensic approach in neuropathological studies, highlighting the proper elements to be noted during external, radiological, autoptical, and histologica...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Bertozzi G,Maglietta F,Sessa F,Scoto E,Cipolloni L,Di Mizio G,Salerno M,Pomara C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The concept of food addiction attracts much interest in the scientific community. Research is mainly based on the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), a tool developed to assess food addiction. Substance use disorder criteria have been used to develop this scale. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this paper was to review t...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Penzenstadler L,Soares C,Karila L,Khazaal Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microglia are the resident immunocompetent cells of the CNS and also constitute a unique cell type that contributes to neural network homeostasis and function. Understanding microglia cell-signaling not only will reveal their diverse functions but also will help to identify pharmacological and non-pharmacolo...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Pena-Ortega F

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When discussing AED conversion in the clinic, both the patient and physician perspectives on the goals and risks of this change are important to consider. To identify patient-reported and clinician-perceived concerns, a panel of epilepsy specialists was questioned about the topics discussed with patients and the clini...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Smith BJ,St Louis EK,Stern JM,Green C,Bramley T

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor (TRAF) is an important binding protein of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) superfamily and the toll/IL-1 receptor (TIR) superfamily, which play an important role in innate immunity and acquired immunity. TRAFs family have 7 members (TRAF1-7), and TRAF6 has its special factur...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Dou Y,Tian X,Zhang J,Wang Z,Chen G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many issues remain unresolved about antipsychotic drugs. Their therapeutic potency scales with affinity for dopamine D2 receptors, but there are indications that they act indirectly, with dopamine D1 receptors (and others) as possible ultimate targets. Classical neuroleptic drugs disinhibit striatal cholinergic intern...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Miller R

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ketamine is a noncompetitive antagonist of the NMDA-receptors, used as a dissociative anesthetic, presently included in the category of the psychoactive substances known as "club drugs". Ketamine administration was associated with impaired working memory and increased psychopathological symptoms, but there is a lack o...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Venâncio C,Magalhães A,Antunes L,Summavielle T

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) is the only FDA-approved drug for acute ischemic stroke treatment, but its clinical use is limited due to the narrow therapeutic time window and severe adverse effects, including hemorrhagic transformation (HT) and neurotoxicity. One of the potential resolutions is to use adjunct th...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Chen HS,Qi SH,Shen JG

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphetamines exert their persistent addictive effects by activating brain's reward pathways, perhaps through the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens (and/or in other places). On the other hand, there is a relationship between dopamine and all behavioural aspects that involve motor activity and it has been dem...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Fontes-Ribeiro CA,Marques E,Pereira FC,Silva AP,Macedo TR

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temozolomide (TMZ), an oral alkylating prodrug which delivers a methyl group to purine bases of DNA (O6- guanine; N7-guanine and N3-adenine), is frequently used together with radiotherapy as part of the first-line treatment of high-grade gliomas. The main advantages are its high oral bioavailability (almost 100% altho...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Ortiz R,Perazzoli G,Cabeza L,Jiménez-Luna C,Luque R,Prados J,Melguizo C

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shared connections between physical activity and neuroprotection have been studied for decades, but the mechanisms underlying this effect of specific exercise were only recently brought to light. Several evidences suggest that physical activity may be a reasonable and beneficial method to improve functional ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Cobianchi S,Arbat-Plana A,Lopez-Alvarez VM,Navarro X

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep, an essential physiological process, has been divided into rapid eye movement sleep (REMS) and non-REMS (NREMS) in higher animals. REMS is a unique phenomenon that unlike other sleep-waking states is not under voluntary control. Directly or indirectly it influences or gets influenced by most of the physiological...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Mehta R,Singh A,Bókkon I,Nath Mallick B

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:General anesthetics are a class of drugs that target the central nervous system and are widely used for various medical procedures. General anesthetics produce many behavioral changes required for clinical intervention, including amnesia, hypnosis, analgesia, and immobility; while they may also induce side effects lik...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Hao X,Ou M,Zhang D,Zhao W,Yang Y,Liu J,Yang H,Zhu T,Li Y,Zhou C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ion channels are complex transmembrane proteins that orchestrate the electrical signals necessary for normal function of excitable tissues, including the central nervous system, peripheral nerve, and both skeletal and cardiac muscle. Progress in molecular biology has allowed cloning and expression of genes that encode...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Kleopa KA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease is one of the most progressive forms of dementia, ultimately leading to death in aged populations. The major hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease include deposition of extracellular amyloid senile plaques and intracellular neurofibrillary tangles in brain neuronal cells. Although there are classical th...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Singh RK

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decades, the scientific interest in chemistry and pharmacology of cannabinoids has increased. Most attention has focused on ∆(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (∆(9)-THC) as it is the psychoactive constituent of Cannabis sativa (C. sativa). However, in previous years, the focus of interest in the second plant cons...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Murillo-Rodríguez E,Sarro-Ramírez A,Sánchez D,Mijangos-Moreno S,Tejeda-Padrón A,Poot-Aké A,Guzmán K,Pacheco-Pantoja E,Arias-Carrión O

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The push-pull superfusion technique (PPST) is a procedure for in vivo examination of transmitter release in distinct brain areas. This technique allows to investigate dynamics of transmitter release both under normal and experimentally evoked conditions. The PPST can be modified so that it is possible to determine rel...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Kraus MM,Philippu A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, enormous efforts have been devoted to understand the genetics and molecular pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), which has been transferred into extensive experimental approaches aimed at reversing disease progression. The trend in future AD therapy has been shifted from traditional anti-acety...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Chen S,Zhang XJ,Li L,Le WD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate receptor, ionotropic, N-methyl-D-aspartate associated protein 1 (GRINA) is a member of the NMDA receptors (NMDARs) and is involved in several neurological diseases, which governs the key processes of neuronal cell death or the release of neurotransmitters. Upregulation of GRINA has been reported in multiple ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Chen K,Yang LN,Lai C,Liu D,Zhu LQ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) are two distinct forms of synaptic plasticity that have been extensively characterized at the Schaffer collateral-CA1 (SCCA1) synapse and the mossy fiber (MF)-CA3 synapse within the hippocampus, and are postulated to be the molecular underpinning for several ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Senter RK,Ghoshal A,Walker AG,Xiang Z,Niswender CM,Conn PJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a highly morbid pediatric psychiatric disease, consistently associated with family psychiatric history of mood disorders and associated with high levels of morbidity and disability and with a great risk of suicide. While there is a general consensus on the symptomatology of depressio...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Serra G,Uchida M,Battaglia C,Casini MP,De Chiara L,Biederman J,Vicari S,Wozniak J

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The treatment of schizophrenia is challenging due to the wide range of symptoms (positive, negative, cognitive) associated with the disease. Typical antipsychotics that antagonize D2 receptors are effective in treating positive symptoms, but extrapyramidal side-effects (EPS) are a common occurrence. Atypical...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Tuplin EW,Holahan MR

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal behavioural profiles are commonly employed to investigate new therapeutic agents to treat anxiety disorders as well as to investigate the mechanism of action of anxiolytic drugs. However, many clinically important symptoms of anxiety can not be modelled directly in animals. Human models of anxiety should bridge...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Siepmann M,Joraschky P

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes of the tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) system have been shown to be involved in the development of psychiatric disorders and are additionally associated with changes in body weight as well as endocrine and metabolic changes in psychiatric patients. TNF-alpha might, for example, contribute to the pathog...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Berthold-Losleben M,Himmerich H

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decade, several meta-analytic studies employing different methodological approaches have had inconsistent conclusions regarding antidepressant efficacy. Herein, we aim to comment on methodological aspects that may have contributed to disparate findings. We initially discuss methodological inconsistenci...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Fountoulakis KN,McIntyre RS,Carvalho AF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00