From Randomized Controlled Trials of Antidepressant Drugs to the Meta-Analytic Synthesis of Evidence: Methodological Aspects Lead to Discrepant Findings.

abstract：:Metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptors represent the largest family of glutamate receptors in mammals and act as fine tuners of the chemical transmission in central nervous system (CNS). In the last decade, results concerning the expression and the subcellular localization of mGlu receptors further clarified their ro...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Olivero G,Vergassola M,Cisani F,Roggeri A,Pittaluga A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an important complication of diabetes and is considered one of the main causes of blindness in moderate-income and highly-developed countries. As it is a major socioeconomic problem, defining all mechanisms that may lead to DR development is of great importance. In the 21st centu...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Mrugacz M,Bryl A,Bossowski A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eicosanoids are arachidonic acid (AA) derivatives belonging to a family of lipid signalling mediators that are engaged in both physiological and pathological processes in the brain. Recently, their implication in the prolonged inflammatory response has become a focus of particular interest because, in contrast to acut...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Regulska M,Szuster-Głuszczak M,Trojan E,Leśkiewicz M,Basta-Kaim A

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：:The cannabinoids, Δ9 tetrahydrocannabinol and its analogue, nabilone, have been found to reliably attenuate the intensity and frequency of post-traumatic nightmares. This essay examines how a traumatic event is captured in the mind, after just a single exposure, and repeatedly replicated during the nights that follow....

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Mamelak M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the initial characterizations of inflammatory responses in Alzheimer's disease (AD) affected brains, namely the demonstration of activated microglia and reactive astrocytes, complement system activation, increased production of proinflammatory cytokines, and evidence for microglial-produced neurotoxins, there was...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Walker D,Lue LF

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium (Ca(2+))-sensing receptor (CaR) belongs to family C of the G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). The receptor is activated by physiological levels of Ca(2+) (and Mg(2+)) and positively modulated by a range of proteinogenic L-alpha-amino acids. Recently, several synthetic allosteric modulators of the recepto...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Jensen AA,Bräuner-Osborne H

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are several studies investigating the effects of risperidone in autism, but many of these studies are contradictory or inconclusive. This systematic review and meta-analysis investigated the effects of risperidone on five domains of Aberrant Behaviour Checklist (ABC) scale on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), as w...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Mano-Sousa BJ,Pedrosa AM,Alves BC,Galduróz JCF,Belo VS,Chaves VE,Duarte-Almeida JM

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression is among the commonest of psychiatric disorders, and inflammatory mechanisms have been suggested to play a role in its pathophysiology. Interferons are a superfamily of proinflammatory cytokines that play a role in host defence mechanisms. Interferons are used in the treatment of a variety of auto...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Pinto EF,Andrade C

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：: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：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：: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：:Neurodegeneration is an initial process in the development of diabetic retinopathy (DR). High quantities of glutamate, oxidative stress, induction of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) and elevated levels of RAGE are crucial elements in the retinal neurodegeneration caused by diabetes mellitus. At least, there is emer...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Iwona BS

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:The eukaryotic voltage-gated sodium channel(e-Nav) is a large asymmetric transmembrane protein with important functions concerning neurological function. No structure has been resolved at high resolution for this protein. METHODS:A homology model of the transmembrane and extracellular regions of an Anophele...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Vinekar RS,Sowdhamini R

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The G protein-coupled receptor 55 (GPR55) is a mammalian orphan receptor that awaits a formal classification. There are an increasing number of reports directed to know the physiology and pathophysiology of this receptor. Lamentably, its functions in the central nervous system (CNS) have been scarcely elucid...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Marichal-Cancino BA,Fajardo-Valdez A,Ruiz-Contreras AE,Mendez-Díaz M,Prospero-García O

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs) are invariably fatal tumors found in the pons of elementary school aged children. These tumors are grade II-IV gliomas, with a median survival of less than 1 year from diagnosis when treated with standard of care (SOC) therapy. Nanotechnology may offer therapeutic options for ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Bredlau AL,Dixit S,Chen C,Broome AM

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs recently emerged among novel psychoactive substances (NPS) being reported as ingested for recreational purposes. Among them, benzydamine (BZY), normally prescribed as an OTC anti-inflammatory drug, is reportedly being diverted and recreationally used. OBJEC...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Stefania C,Andrea M,Alessio M,Mauro P,Amira G,Martin CJ,Giovanni M,Massimo DG,Fabrizio S

更新日期：2021-01-13 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：:The heat shock protein (Hsp) family is an evolutionarily conserved system that is charged with preventing unfolded or misfolded proteins in the cell from aggregating. In Alzheimer's disease, extracellular accumulation of the amyloid β peptide (Aβ) and intracellular aggregation of the microtubule associated protein tau...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Abisambra JF,Jinwal UK,Jones JR,Blair LJ,Koren J 3rd,Dickey CA

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been well established that there is a connection between type II diabetes (DMTII) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). In fact, the increase in AD incidence may be an emerging complication of DMTII. Both pathologies are related to estradiol (E2) exposure on the one hand, estrogen receptors (ER) are emerging as importa...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Ramírez-Expósito MJ,Martínez-Martos JM,Cantón-Habas V,Carrera González MP

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxins that pass through the blood-brain barrier put neurons and glia in peril. The damage inflicted is usually a consequence of the ability of these toxic agents to induce free radical generation within cells but especially at the level of the mitochondria. The elevated production of oxygen and nitrogen-based radical...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Reiter RJ,Manchester LC,Tan DX

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In preclinical neuropharmacological research, molecular, cell-based, and systems using animals are well established. On the tissue level the situation is less comfortable, although during the last decades some effort went into establishing such systems, i.e. using slices of the vertebrate brain together with optical a...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： V M Fde L,W H

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:Over 100 people die daily from opioid overdose and $78.5B per year is spent on treatment efforts, however, the real societal cost is multifold greater. Alternative strategies to eradicate/manage drug misuse and addiction need consideration. The perception of opioid addiction as a social/criminal problem has ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Abijo T,Blum K,Gondré-Lewis MC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD) is estimated to impose maximum debilitating effects on the society by 2030, with its critical effects on health, functioning, quality of life and concomitant high levels of morbidity and mortality. Yet, the disease is inadequately understood, diagnosed and treated. Moreover, with the re...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Athira KV,Bandopadhyay S,Samudrala PK,Naidu VGM,Lahkar M,Chakravarty S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00