Sodium Benzoate, a Metabolite of Cinnamon and a Food Additive, Upregulates Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor in Astrocytes and Oligodendrocytes.

abstract：:Salsolinol, an endogenous neurotoxin, is known to be involved in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). In the present study, we have investigated the effects of salsolinol on the activation of two different signaling pathways that involve c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), and nuclear factor-kappaB, (NF-kappaB) in...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Wanpen S,Kooncumchoo P,Shavali S,Govitrapong P,Ebadi M

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review article, we summarize recently accumulated knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms, which control retinal development. Retinal neurons are born in two waves of cytogenesis. In the first wave, neurons of cone circuitry are generated, whereas in the second wave, rod circuitry is added. Neurons genera...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Sharma RK,Johnson DA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single exposure of adult male rats to low environmental temperature (LET, 12 +/- 0.5 degrees C) for 2 h significantly increased the hypothalamic and striatal GABA levels without affecting those in other regions of brain. The activity of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) was elevated in hypothalamus (H) and corpus striatum...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Biswas S,Poddar MK

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been established that oligodendrocytes, the myelin forming cells, participate in iron homeostasis through the synthesis and secretion of transferrin. Here we investigated whether a correlation exists between myelination, the commonly studied function of oligodendrocytes, and that of transferrin synthesis and se...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Espinosa de los Monteros A,Kumar S,Zhao P,Huang CJ,Nazarian R,Pan T,Scully S,Chang R,de Vellis J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wobbler mouse suffers an autosomal recessive mutation producing severe neurodegeneration and astrogliosis in spinal cord. It has been considered a model for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. We have studied in these animals the expression of two proteins, the growth-associated protein (GAP-43) and the NADPH-diaphoras...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： González Deniselle MC,González SL,Lima AE,Wilkin G,De Nicola AF

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age related changes in brain cortex NO metabolism were investigated in mitochondria and cytosolic extracts from youth to adulthood. Decreases of 19%, 40% and 71% in NO production were observed in mitochondrial fractions from 3, 7, and 14 months old rats, respectively, as compared with 1-month-old rats. Decreased nNOS ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bustamante J,Czerniczyniec A,Cymeryng C,Lores-Arnaiz S

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of Ca2+/calmodulin-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was studied in comparison with that of guanine nucleotide-stimulated cyclase activity. The distributions of these activities were similar among the crude fractions but differed among the purified subsynaptosomal fractions. The specif...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bissen ST,Ueda T

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin (SS) is an inhibitory regulator of secretory and proliferative responses that activates a group of receptors in the plasma membrane termed SSR1-5. SSR2 is one of the most abundant SSR, which also is expressed in high numbers in many neuroendocrine tumor types. Here, we describe a study of the presence and...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hashemi SH,Li JY,Ahlman H,Dahlström A

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phenobarbital (100 mg/kg i.p.) and 6-aminonicotinamide (6AN) (35 mg/kg i.p.) on enzyme activities related to energy transduction was investigated on the homogenate "in toto", non-synaptic mitochondrial fraction and synaptosomal fraction isolated from different rat brain areas (cerebral cortex, hippocampu...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Marzatico F,Dagani F,Curti D,Benzi G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin is the most frequently used drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes in humans. However, only little is known about effects of metformin on brain metabolism. To investigate potential metabolic consequences of an exposure of brain cells to metformin, we incubated rat astrocyte-rich primary cultures with this...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Westhaus A,Blumrich EM,Dringen R

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of flavonoid-rich foods, in particular fruits and vegetables, has been epidemiologically associated with a reduced risk of heart disease, neurodegenerative disease, cancer and other chronic diseases. Flavonoid glycosides, the main class of flavonoids, have been shown to exert CNS-mediated activities, p...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fernandez SP,Nguyen M,Yow TT,Chu C,Johnston GA,Hanrahan JR,Chebib M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of endogenous amino acids from depolarized rat hippocampal mossy fiber synaptosomes was investigated to assess the possible role(s) of glutamate and aspartate in mediating the excitatory mossy fiber synaptic input. The relative proportions of prodynorphin-derived peptides concomitantly released with amino ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Terrian DM,Gannon RL,Rea MA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative structure-function studies have been carried out for alpha-conotoxin GI acting on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChR) from mammalian muscles and from the electric organ of the Torpedo californica ray and for alpha-conotoxin ImI, which targets the neuronal alpha7 AChR. A series of analogs has been prep...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Kasheverov IE,Zhmak MN,Maslennikov IV,Utkin YN,Tsetlin VI

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-eclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy complicated syndrome that affects multiple organs including the brain that continue post- delivery in both mother and the offspring. We evaluated the expression of oligodendrocytes in the brain of PE rat model through development as well as the cognitive changes and other behavioural ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ijomone OK,Shallie PD,Naicker T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One pathway by which tryptophan is metabolized in the brain as well as in the periphery is through cleavage of the indole ring to formylkynurenine and then kynurenine. Indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase, the enzyme that catalyzes this cleavage, and kynurenine are distributed all across the different anatomic regions of brain...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Gál EM,Sherman AD

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic agonists stimulate 22Na flux in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. The stimulatory effect of carbamylcholine is maximal at 1 mM, while the stimulatory effect of nicotine and anatoxin maximize at the same level at 100 microM and 10 microM, respectively. The tertiary amines arecolone and isoarecolone have no eff...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Daly JW,Nishizawa Y,Edwards MW,Waters JA,Aronstam RS

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and specific method for assaying 4-aminobutyrate-2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase was developed. The method was based on the selectivity of ion exchange resin and the speed of vacuum filtration. With this new method, the aminotransferase activity in various tissues has been determined as follows: brain, 10.2; s...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Wu JY,Moss LG,Chude O

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Propofol and ketamine may provide certain degree of neuroprotection, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear to date. The cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) was proposed that its phosphorylation at Ser133 (P-CREB) constituted a convergence point involved in neuroprotection. The purpose of this study was...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shu L,Li T,Han S,Ji F,Pan C,Zhang B,Li J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive and lethal form of brain tumor. However, therapeutic strategies against malignant gliomas have not been completely established. Runt-related transcription factor 2 (Runx2) is an essential gene for skeletal development but its regulatory role in the malignant progression of gli...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yamada D,Fujikawa K,Kawabe K,Furuta T,Nakada M,Takarada T

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we propose a powerful procedure to measure functional activation of the mouse delta-opioid receptor transiently expressed in mammalian cells. Receptor stimulation was assessed using a population of electroporated COS cells, transfected at a 50% efficiency. Under those conditions, agonist-promoted activat...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Befort K,Tabbara L,Kieffer BL

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine synthetase (GS) is the key enzyme in cerebral glutamine production. Understanding the regulation of the expression of GS is important for definition of the control of glutamine metabolism in brain. Therefore, we studied the control of GS expression by 8-bromo cyclic AMP in primary cultures of astrocytes prep...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Max SR,Landry ME,Zielke HR

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence that brain glutamatergic activity is pathologically elevated in bipolar disorder suggests that mood stabilizers are therapeutic in the disease in part by downregulating glutamatergic activity. Such activity can involve the second messenger, arachidonic acid (AA, 20:4n - 6). We tested this hypothesis with rega...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Basselin M,Chang L,Chen M,Bell JM,Rapoport SI

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimentalists would like to perform large-scale expression analysis on samples drawn from small cell populations and even single cells. Amplification of the source material is required to assay such small samples under all existing array technologies. In this report we consider the very different theoretical proper...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shaw CA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that chronic administration of SR-3 (a 1:4 mixture of alpha-linolenic and linoleic acid) affects spatial learning, thermoregulation, pain threshold and protection from seizures. The mode of action is unknown. One possible explanation is that the preparation induces changes in the fatty acid...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yehuda S,Rabinovitz S,Mostofsky DI

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tamoxifen and toremifene are antiestrogenic drugs successfully used in the therapy of breast cancer. Rheumatoid arthritis and malaria have been treated with chloroquine for decades. Unfortunately, tamoxifen and chloroquine are reported to induce retinal changes as a side effect. We now studied the effects of tamoxifen...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Mäenpää H,Toimela T,Mannerström M,Saransaari P,Tähti H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen is the main storage form of glucose in the brain. In contrast with previous beliefs, brain glycogen has recently been shown to play important roles in several brain functions. A fraction of metabolized glucose molecules are being shunted through glycogen before reentering the glycolytic pathway, a phenomenon ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Jakobsen E,Bak LK,Walls AB,Reuschlein AK,Schousboe A,Waagepetersen HS

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphohydrolase (CNP) was phosphorylated in vivo, in brain slices and in a cell free system. Phosphoamino acid analysis of immunoprecipitated CNP labeled in vivo and in brain slices revealed phosphorylation of phosphoserine (94%) and phosphothreonine (5%) residues. Phosphorylation of CNP in...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Agrawal HC,Sprinkle TJ,Agrawal D

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ménière's disease (MD) is characterized by the triad of fluctuating hearing loss, episodic vertigo and tinnitus, and by endolymphatic hydrops found on post-mortem examination. Increasing evidence suggests that oxidative stress is involved in the development of endolymphatic hydrops and that cellular damage and apoptot...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Calabrese V,Cornelius C,Maiolino L,Luca M,Chiaramonte R,Toscano MA,Serra A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferrin (Tf), the iron-transport protein of vertebrate serum, is mainly synthesized in hepatocytes but is also found in other cell-types including oligodendrocytes. Our laboratory has characterized in a human oligodendrial cell line the presence of a new Tf transcript containing an alternative exon 1b replacing th...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Duchange N,Saleh MC,de Arriba Zerpa G,Pidoux J,Guillou F,Zakin MM,Baron B

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major glycoproteins, P0 and PASII/PMP22, are specifically expressed in peripheral myelin. Point mutations of these proteins and over or under expression of PASII/PMP22 cause various hereditary peripheral neuropathies. P0 is well characterized as a major adhesion molecule in PNS myelin, but the function of PASII/PM...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Takeda Y,Notsu T,Kitamura K,Uyemura K

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00