Optic Nerve and Cerebral Edema in the Course of Diabetic Ketoacidosis.

abstract：:Protein aggregates or inclusion bodies are common hallmarks of age-related neurodegenerative disorders. Why these aggregates form remains unclear. Equally debated is whether they are toxic, protective, or simple by-products. Increasing evidence, however, supports the notion that in general aggregates confer toxicity a...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Bossy B,Perkins G,Bossy-Wetzel E

更新日期：2008-06-01 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：:Chronic pain affects billions of lives globally and is a major public health problem in the United States. However, pain management is still a challenging task due to a lack of understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of pain. In the past decades transient receptor potential (TRP) channels have been identified as m...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Luo J,Walters ET,Carlton SM,Hu H

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Peripheral neuropathies are a heterogeneous group of diseases affecting peripheral nerves. The causes are multiple: hereditary, metabolic, infectious, inflammatory, toxic, traumatic. The temporal profile includes acute, subacute and chronic conditions. The majority of peripheral neuropathies cause mainly muscle weakne...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Marchettini P,Lacerenza M,Mauri E,Marangoni C

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood disorders such as major depression and bipolar disorder are common, severe, chronic and often life-threatening illnesses. Suicide is estimated to be the cause of death in up to approximately 10-15% of individuals with mood disorders. Alterations in the signal transduction through G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： González-Maeso J,Meana JJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:The intermediate-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channel KCa3.1 is widely expressed in cells of the immune system such as T- and B-lymphocytes, mast cells, macrophages and microglia, but also found in dedifferentiated vascular smooth muscle cells, fibroblasts and many cancer cells including pancreatic, prostat...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Brown BM,Pressley B,Wulff H

更新日期：2018-01-01 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：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：: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：:New psychoactive substances (NPS) have completely modified the drug scene and the current landscape of addiction. Synthetic substances, such as substituted or synthetic cathinones, also known as « legal highs », are often produced and used to mimic the effects of controlled drugs such as cocaine, methylenedioxymethamp...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Karila L,Megarbane B,Cottencin O,Lejoyeux M

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) belong to a super-family of Cysloop ligand-gated ion channels that respond to endogenous acetylcholine (ACh) or other cholinergic ligands. These receptors are also the targets of drugs such as nicotine (the main addictive agent delivered by cigarette smoke) and are i...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Zoli M,Pucci S,Vilella A,Gotti C

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) is a heterogeneous and complex limbic forebrain structure, which plays an important role in controlling autonomic, neuroendocrine and behavioral responses. The BNST is thought to serve as a key relay connecting limbic forebrain structures to hypothalamic and brainstem reg...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Crestani CC,Alves FH,Gomes FV,Resstel LB,Correa FM,Herman JP

更新日期：2013-03-01 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

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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:Migraine, an extremely disabling neurological disorder, has a strong genetic component. Since monogenic migraines (resulting from mutations or changes in a single gene) may help researchers discover migraine pathophysiology, transgenic mice models harboring gene mutations identified in Familial Hemiplegic Migraine (FH...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Dehghani A,Karatas H

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：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：:MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) is reportedly severely toxic to both dopamine (DA) and serotonin neurons. MDMA significantly reduces the number of DA neurons in the substantia nigra, but not in the nucleus accumbens, indicating that MDMA causes selective destruction of DA neurons in the nigrostriatal pathway,...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Takamatsu Y,Shiotsuki H,Kasai S,Sato S,Iwamura T,Hattori N,Ikeda K

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：: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：:The activity of locus coeruleus (LC) neurons has been extensively investigated in a variety of behavioural states. In fact this norepinephrine (NE)-containing nucleus modulates many physiological and pathological conditions including the sleep-waking cycle, movement disorders, mood alterations, convulsive seizures, an...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Ferrucci M,Giorgi FS,Bartalucci A,Busceti CL,Fornai F

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acronym TBI refers to traumatic brain injury, an alteration of brain function, or an evidence of brain pathology, that is caused by an external force. TBI is estimated to become the third leading cause of permanent disability and mortality worldwide. TBI-related injuries can be classified in many ways, according t...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Pinchi E,Frati P,Arcangeli M,Volonnino G,Tomassi R,Santoro P,Cipolloni L

更新日期：2020-01-01 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