Pharmacological Tools to Activate Microglia and their Possible use to Study Neural Network Patho-physiology.

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：: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：:During the past decades Neural Stem Cells have been considered as an alternative source of cells to replace lost neurons and NSC transplantation has been indicated as a promising treatment for neurodegenerative disorders. Nevertheless, the current understanding of NSC biology suggests that, far from being mere spare p...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Carletti B,Piemonte F,Rossi F

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：: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：: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 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：: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：: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：:Autophagy is a cellular quality control mechanism crucial for neuronal homeostasis. Defects in autophagy are critically associated with mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease (PD), a common and debilitating neurodegenerative disorder. Autophagic dysfunction in PD can occur at several stages of the autophagy/lysosom...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Rivero-Ríos P,Madero-Pérez J,Fernández B,Hilfiker S

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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: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：:To explore the functional consequences of cannabinoid withdrawal in the rat mesolimbic dopamine system, we investigated the anatomical morphology of the mesencephalic, presumed dopaminergic, neurons and their main post-synaptic target in the Nucleus Accumbens. We found that TH-positive neurons shrink and Golgi-stained...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Spiga S,Lintas A,Diana M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common progressive, neurodegenerative brain disease that is promoted by mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, protein aggregation and proteasome dysfunction in the brain. Compared with computer tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), non-invasive nuclear radiopharmaceu...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Wu X,Cai H,Ge R,Li L,Jia Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:The transient receptor potential (TRP) proteins are a family of ion channels that act as cellular sensors. Several members of the TRP family are sensitive to oxidative stress mediators. Among them, TRPA1 is remarkably susceptible to various oxidants, and is known to mediate neuropathic pain and respiratory, vascular a...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Kozai D,Sakaguchi R,Ohwada T,Mori Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of the movement of water through cell membranes has been greatly advanced by the discovery of a family of water-specific, membrane-channel proteins: the Aquaporins (AQPs). These proteins are present in organisms at all levels of life, and their unique permeability characteristics and distribution in ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Buffoli B

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Currently, there is a great interest in the potential medical use of cannabidiol (CBD), a non-intoxicating cannabinoid. Productive pharmacological research on CBD occurred in the 1970s and intensified recently with many discoveries about the endocannabinoid system. Multiple preclinical and clinical studies l...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Huestis MA,Solimini R,Pichini S,Pacifici R,Carlier J,Busardò FP

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of evidence indicate that rats emit ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in response to a wide range of stimuli that are capable of producing either euphoric (positive) or dysphoric (negative) emotional states. On these bases, recordings of USVs are extensively used in preclinical studies of affect, motivatio...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Simola N

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：:Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) has been classified as a disease of the central nervous system by the WHO since 1969. Many patients carrying this diagnosis do demonstrate an almost bewildering array of biological abnormalities particularly the presence of oxidative and nitrosative stres...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Morris G,Maes M

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Malignant glioma is the most common and destructive form of primary brain tumor. Along with surgery and radiation, chemotherapy remains as the major treatment modality. The emergence of drug resistance, however, often leads to a therapeutic failure in the treatment of glioma, precluding long-term survival of the patie...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Suk K

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00