Neuronal and Extraneuronal Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors.

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：: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：:Although originally proposed as a subtype of opioid receptors, the sigma receptor is now confirmed to be a non-opioid receptor that binds diverse classes of psychotropic drugs. Sigma receptors are subdivided into two subtypes, sigma-1 and sigma-2. The sigma-1 receptor is a 25-kDa protein possessing one putative transm...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Hayashi T,Su T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Natural phenolic compounds in medicinal herbs and dietary plants are antioxidants which play therapeutic or preventive roles in different pathological situations, such as oxidative stress and inflammation. One of the most studied phenolic compounds in the last decade is chlorogenic acid (CGA), which is a pot...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Bagdas D,Gul Z,Meade JA,Cam B,Cinkilic N,Gurun MS

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Liver failure can lead to generalized hyperammonemia, which is thought to be the underlying cause of hepatic encephalopathy. This neuropsychiatric syndrome is accompanied by functional changes of astrocytes. These glial cells enter ammonia-induced self-amplifying cycle characterized by brain oedema, oxidative and osmo...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Montana V,Verkhratsky A,Parpura V

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:The use of neuroprotective agents for stroke is pathogenetically justified, but the translation of results of preclinical studies of neuroprotectors into clinical practice has been a noticeable failure. One of the leading reasons for these failures is the one-target mechanism of their activity. p-Tyrosol (Tyr), a biop...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Plotnikov MB,Plotnikova TM

更新日期：2020-05-06 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：: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：: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：: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：:Mammalian STE20-like kinase-1 (Mst1) is a generally expressed apoptosis-promoting kinase and a key bridgebuilder of apoptotic signaling in the etiology of tissue injury. Despite the fact that the biological function of Mst1 and its role in the cell's signalling network have yet to be determined, however, there is a lo...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Li D,Ni H,Rui Q,Gao R,Chen G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary cerebellar ataxias are a group of disorders characterized by heterogeneous clinical manifestations, progressive clinical course, and diverse genetic causes. No disease modifying treatments are yet available for many of these disorders. Oxidative stress has been recurrently identified in different ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Barca E,Emmanuele V,DiMauro S,Toscano A,Quinzii CM

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：: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

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：: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:Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs) are a heterogeneous group of neuromuscular disorders. Mutations of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor epsilon subunit gene (CHRNE) are the most common causes of these disorders. CMSs are gaining increasing recognition by clinicians. However, pharmacological treatment ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Huang K,Luo YB,Bi FF,Yang H

更新日期：2020-07-28 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：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：: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：: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：: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:Traumatic brain injury (TBI) constitutes the primary reason for mortality and morbidity in persons worldwide below 45 years of age. 1.7 million Traumatic events occur yearly in the United States alone, considering for 50,000 deaths. In severe traumatic brain injury sufferers, a considerable achievement attai...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Kaur P,Sharma S

更新日期：2018-01-01 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