Comparative study of miscellaneous properties of cysteine sulfinate transaminase and glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase in chick retina homogenate.

abstract：:T-588(R(-)-1-(benzo(b)thiophen-5yl)-2-[2(N,N-diethylamino)ethoxy]ethanol hydrochloride) is a novel compound which has been shown to exhibit a wide range of neurotrophic effects both in vivo and in vitro. This compound can slow the motor deterioration of wobbler mouse motor neuron disease. However, it is not known whet...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Iwasaki Y,Ikeda K,Ichikawa Y,Igarashi O,Kinoshita M,Marubuchi S,Ono S

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:An efficient exchange of lactate between different cell types (such as astrocytes and neurones) would require that lactate transporters are expressed in contiguous parts of the respective plasma membranes. To settle this issue we explored the subcellular expression pattern of monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) by use...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bergersen L,Rafiki A,Ottersen OP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium leprae, the causative agent of leprosy, specifically invades and destroys the peripheral nerve, which results in the main clinical manifestation of the disease. Little is known about the bacteria-nerve protein interaction. We show in the present work that M leprae binds to a 25 kDa glycoprotein from huma...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Suneetha LM,Satish PR,Korula RJ,Suneetha SK,Job CK,Balasubramanian AS

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most prevalent age-related neurodegenerative disease with physiological manifestations including tremors, bradykinesia, abnormal postural reflexes, rigidity and akinesia and pathological landmarks showing losses of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. Although the etiolo...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Miller RL,James-Kracke M,Sun GY,Sun AY

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated catecholamine levels in CSF of 15 epileptics and 75 non-neurological patients utilizing a high performance liquid chromatograph with a highly sensitive fluorometer and found the following results: The dopamine (DA) levels in males were significantly higher than those in females, while norepinephrine (NE) ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Hiramatsu M,Fujimoto N,Mori A

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that multiple forms of cyclic nucleotide phophodiesterase (PDE) activity chromatographically separated from the soluble fraction of bovine hypothalamus are co-eluted with multiple forms of 5'-nucleotidase (5'N) activity. The enzymes could not be resolved from each other by anion-exchange chromato...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Galoyan AA,Gurvitz BYa,Sharova NP

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the replication-defective adenovirus vector, we overexpressed rat glia maturation factor (GMF) in primary astrocyte cultures derived from embryonic rat brains. Among the three isoforms of MAP kinase, there was a big increase in the phosphorylation of p38, as detected with Western blotting using the phosphospecif...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zaheer A,Yorek MA,Lim R

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sandhoff disease is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in the lysosomal hydrolase β-hexosaminidase. Deficiency in this enzyme leads to excessive accumulation of ganglioside GM2 and its asialo derivative, GA2, in brain and visceral tissues. Small molecule inhibitors of ceramide-specific glucosy...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Arthur JR,Wilson MW,Larsen SD,Rockwell HE,Shayman JA,Seyfried TN

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the kappa-opioid receptor (KOR) agonist, BRL52537, has a neuroprotective effect against cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in rats and further explore the underlying mechanisms. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly assigned into sham (group A), I/R (...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fang S,Xu H,Lu J,Zhu Y,Jiang H

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro model of anoxia-induced brain damage was utilized to help elucidate the biochemical basis of cell damage due to reduced oxygen availability. Previous studies suggest that anoxia-induced damage may vary presynaptically, post-synaptically or in the cell body. Thus, the consequences of an anoxic treatment inc...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Gibson GE,Freeman GB,Mykytyn V

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suspensions of rat brain microsomes, synaptosomes, and synaptic vesicles were able to convert adenosine to inosine by means of adenosine deaminase. Isosbestic points of this transformation, at 222, 250 and 281 nm, remained unchanged with time-course. This fact suggests that adenosine deaminase (ADA, E.C. 3.5.4.4) is l...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Centelles JJ,Franco R,Canela EI,Bozal J

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximal rate of some cerebral enzymatic activities related to energy transduction (hexokinase; phosphofructokinase; lactate dehydrogenase; citrate synthase; malate dehydrogenase; total NADH-cytochrome c reductase; cytochrome oxidase), amino acid metabolism (glutamate decarboxylase; glutamate dehydrogenase) and cho...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Villa RF,Marzatico F,Benzi G

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments reported in this paper address the hypothesis that [3H]leucine enkephalin labels both mu and delta receptors. As reported by other workers, this peptide dissociates from rat brain membranes in a biphasic manner. This is consistent with a two site binding model which hypothesizes that the peptide labels...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Rothman RB,Westfall TC

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined the potential membrane retention of desipramine (DMI) following exposures of 293-hNET cells to DMI, and its effect on [3H]NE uptake. Incubation of cells with 500 nM DMI for 1 h or 1 day persistently inhibited the uptake of [3H]NE up to 7 days, despite daily repeated washing of cells with dru...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zhu MY,Kyle PB,Hume AS,Ordway GA

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have adopted the PC12 cell line as in vitro cell model for studying Dp71 function in neuronal cells. These cells express a cytoplasmic (Dp71f) and a nuclear (Dp71d) isoform of Dp71 as well as various dystrophin-associated proteins (DAPs). In this study, we revealed by confocal microscopy analysis and Western blotti...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Villarreal-Silva M,Suárez-Sánchez R,Rodríguez-Muñoz R,Mornet D,Cisneros B

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal perikarya were isolated, using bulk preparative procedures, from bovine brains. Synaptosomes, neuronal perikarya, and brain homogenates had similar ganglioside patterns, with the synaptosomes containing at least four times more total ganglioside per mg protein than the neuronal perikarya and twice that of the...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Schengrund CL,Nelson JT

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Müller cells, the predominant glial cells in the retina, are thought to play important roles in the survival of retinal neurons. Previous studies have demonstrated that Müller cells express brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which has a pronounced neurotrophic effect on retinal ganglion cells. In this study, we...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Seki M,Tanaka T,Sakai Y,Fukuchi T,Abe H,Nawa H,Takei N

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ursolic acid (UA) is a plant derived compound which is also a component of the standard human diet. It possesses a wide range of pharmacological properties, i.e., antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial and antitumor, which have been used in folk medicine for centuries. Moreover, influence of UA on central nervo...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nieoczym D,Socała K,Wlaź P

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose the following scheme for cerebral uptake and overall metabolism of glucose in vivo: that brain selects from two pools of glucose anomers in arterial blood, that it takes up excess glucose, that glucose enters the brain tissue as glucose-6-phosphate through the actions of mutarotase and hexokinase, that some...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Sacks W,Cowburn D,Bigler RE,Sacks S,Fleischer A

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic therapy for central neuralgia faces the problems of low expression and weak targeting and affects superficial but not deep neurons. In this study, we generated a lentivirus vector with human preproenkephalin gene (hPPE) expression driven by the transcriptional amplification strategy system (TAS) and establi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang J,Zhang L,Xie P,Pan M,Ma G

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia that progressively disrupts neurocognitive function, which has neither cure nor effective treatment. Hypercholesterolemia might be involved in brain alterations that could evolve into AD. The present study aims to evaluate the potential of omega-3, Co-enzyme...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Ibrahim Fouad G

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinergic muscarinic receptors, when stimulated by arecoline, can activate cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2)) to release arachidonic acid (AA) from membrane phospholipid. This signal can be imaged in the brain in vivo using quantitative autoradiography following the intravenous injection of radiolabeled AA, as a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Basselin M,Villacreses NE,Lee HJ,Bell JM,Rapoport SI

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epilepsy is one of the oldest neurological conditions known to humankind. It is known that oxidative stress and generation of reactive oxygen species are a cause and consequence of epileptic seizures. Although recent years have seen tremendous progress in the molecular biology and metabolism of selenium, we still know...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nazıroglu M

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary ganglion neurons and nonneurons can be separated from each other, based on the greater adhesivity of the nonneurons to untreated tissue culture plastic in the presence of serum. When the separation was carried out in the presence of Serum Plus (a commercially available supplemented serum), two populations of n...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Needels DL,Nieto-Sampedro M,Cotman CW

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blue light impinging on the many mitochondria associated with retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) in situ has the potential of eliciting necroptosis through an action on RIP1/RIP3 to stimulate RGC death in diseases like glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. Cells in culture die when exposed to blue light. The death process is ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Del Olmo-Aguado S,Núñez-Álvarez C,Osborne NN

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using sodium (NaN3)-induced anoxia plus aglycaemia as a model of chemically-induced ischemia, we have characterized the endogenous release of excitatory and inhibitory amino acids from superfused hippocampal slices. Chemical ischemia produced an azide (1-30 mM) dose-dependent increase in the efflux of glutamate, aspar...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Djali S,Dawson LA

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sonic hedgehog (Shh), a secreted glycoprotein factor, can activate the Shh pathway, which has been implicated in neuronal polarization involving neurite outgrowth. However, little evidence is available about the effect of Shh on neurite outgrowth in primary cortical neurons and its potential mechanism. Here, we reveal...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： He W,Cui L,Zhang C,Zhang X,He J,Xie Y

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cortical spreading depression (CSD) enhances ischemic tolerance to temporary focal ischemia. Although this effect most likely requires the expression or activation of neuroprotective factors, their identity remains relatively unknown. One important factor involved in neuroprotection is adenosine monophosphate-dependen...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Viggiano E,Viggiano D,Viggiano A,De Luca B,Monda M

更新日期：2014-12-01 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