Calcium-activated neutral protease in the peripheral nerve, which requires microM order Ca2+, and its effect on the neurofilament triplet.

abstract：:Cultures of chicken day 8 embryo retinal cells, essentially free of contaminating non-neuronal elements, were used to examine the neurotoxicity of various excitatory amino acid transmitter receptor agonists. At 7 days in vitro, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), following 24 hr exposure to 0.1-1.0 mM, destroyed 60-70% of th...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Facci L,Leon A,Skaper SD

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroid hormones triiodothyronine (T3) and L-thyroxine appear to enhance regeneration in the peripheral and central nervous system (CNS). The following experiments examine possible metabolic substrates for the action of T3 on the adult rat CNS after spinal hemisection. The protein incorporation of (3H)lysine after...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Wells MR,Lofton SA,Bernstein JJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies from our laboratory suggest that Alzheimer's disease sera contain a repertoire of antibodies to the heavy neurofilament subunit (NF-H) and that a subpopulation of these antibodies bind specifically to epitopes highly enriched in NF-H isolated from the purely cholinergic electromotor neurons of Torpedo...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Faigon M,Hadas E,Alroy G,Chapman J,Auerbach JM,Michaelson DM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin is a potent AMP kinase (AMPK) inhibitor that induces neuroprotection, neurogenesis, and angiogenesis when administered immediately after stroke. To dissociate these effects, we explored the effects of delayed administration of leptin, at 10 days after stroke onset, on neurogenesis and angiogenesis after stroke....

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Avraham Y,Dayan M,Lassri V,Vorobiev L,Davidi N,Chernoguz D,Berry E,Leker RR

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The termination of chemical neurotransmission in the CNS involves the rapid removal of neurotransmitter from synapses by specific transport systems. Such mechanism operates for the three major amino acid neurotransmitters glutamate, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glycine. To date, five different high-affinity Na(+...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Gadea A,López-Colomé AM

更新日期：2001-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Estradiol attenuates the ATP-induced increase of intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) in rat dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons by blocking the L-type voltage gated calcium channel (VGCC). Because ATP is a putative nociceptive signal, this action may indicate a site of estradiol regulation of pain. In oth...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Chaban V,Li J,McDonald JS,Rapkin A,Micevych P

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic cholinergic receptors of the M5 subtype are expressed by dopamine-containing neurons of the ventral tegmentum. These M5 receptors modulate the activity of midbrain dopaminergic neurons, which play an important role in mediating reinforcing properties of abused psychostimulants like cocaine. The potential ro...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Fink-Jensen A,Fedorova I,Wörtwein G,Woldbye DP,Rasmussen T,Thomsen M,Bolwig TG,Knitowski KM,McKinzie DL,Yamada M,Wess J,Basile A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inflammatory response involving activated microglia in neuritic beta-amyloid plaques is found in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. Because HDL lipoproteins have been shown to carry the beta-amyloid peptide (Abeta) in plasma and CSF, we have investigated the influence of plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and lipid...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Cole GM,Beech W,Frautschy SA,Sigel J,Glasgow C,Ard MD

更新日期：1999-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal degeneration has been shown to be involved in various neurological disorders. Growth/trophic factors and their receptors are known to be important for the regeneration and survival of neurons. We report here the molecular cloning of a receptor-like protein tyrosine kinase, bsk, (for brain specific kinase). Bs...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Zhou R,Copeland TD,Kromer LF,Schulz NT

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thrombospondin (TSP) family of extracellular matrix glycoproteins are widely expressed in the developing and adult central nervous system although their function remains poorly defined. We have used cell culture techniques to analyse the expression and function of TSPs in glial cells derived from myelinated region...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Scott-Drew S,ffrench-Constant C

更新日期：1997-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Grafting fetal ventral mesencephalon has been utilized to alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. One obstacle in using this approach is the limited outgrowth from the transplanted dopamine neurons. Thus, it is important to evaluate factors that promote outgrowth from fetal dopamine neurons. Proteoglycans (PGs)...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Berglöf E,Plantman S,Johansson S,Strömberg I

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autonomic neuropathy in several neurodegenerative disorders results from disturbance in physiological functions of different cell types in the central and peripheral nervous systems. For a clearer understanding of the etiology and pathogenesis of the autonomic disorders it is necessary to create animal models in which...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Sawada H,Nishii K,Suzuki T,Hasegawa K,Hata T,Nagatsu I,Kreitman RJ,Pastan I,Nagatsu T,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1998-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of the proto-oncogene product, pp60c-src, have been found in developing and adult neural tissues as well as in certain fully mature cells of the hematopoietic lineage, e.g., platelets and myelomonocytes. Adrenal medullary chromaffin cells exhibit characteristics of both types of cells, i.e., they are deriv...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Oddie KM,Litz JS,Balserak JC,Payne DM,Creutz CE,Parsons SJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if calpain-induced proteolysis was associated with retinal degeneration or dysfunction in the rat acute ocular hypertensive model. Acute glaucoma was produced by elevation of IOP to 120 mm Hg for 1 hr. Retinal degeneration was evaluated by H&E staining and apoptosis was deter...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Oka T,Tamada Y,Nakajima E,Shearer TR,Azuma M

更新日期：2006-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The close homologue of L1 (CHL1) is a member of the L1 family of cell recognition molecules. The protein is expressed by a variety of nerve cell types and subpopulations of glial cells in vivo and promotes elongation of neurites and survival of nerve cells in vitro. Here we demonstrate that glial cells up-regulate exp...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Rolf B,Lang D,Hillenbrand R,Richter M,Schachner M,Bartsch U

更新日期：2003-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal hypoxia is a major cause of neurodevelopmental deficits. Neuronal migration patterns are particularly sensitive to perinatal hypoxia/ischemia and are associated with the clinical deficits. The rat model of hypoxia/ischemia at P7 mimics that of perinatal injury in humans. Before assessing the effects of postn...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Bockhorst KH,Narayana PA,Liu R,Ahobila-Vijjula P,Ramu J,Kamel M,Wosik J,Bockhorst T,Hahn K,Hasan KM,Perez-Polo JR

更新日期：2008-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:α-Synuclein (α-syn) is the major component of pathological inclusions characteristic of several neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson's disease. The major posttranslational modification of α-syn is phosphorylation at S129, and previous studies estimate that approximately 90% of α-syn in proteinaceous, patholo...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Waxman EA,Giasson BI

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ex vivo gene therapy is emerging as a promising approach for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and central nervous system (CNS) trauma. We have shown previously that human adult astrocytes can be expanded in vitro and can express various therapeutic transgenes (Ridet et al. [1999] Hum. Gene Ther. 10:271-280;...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Ridet JL,Sarkis C,Serguera C,Zennou V,Charneau P,Mallet J

更新日期：2003-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotrophins may have a neuroprotective role and are probably involved in the control of axonal sprouting and synaptic plasticity. An antibody raised against a pro-sequence of nerve growth factor (NGF) was tested. In control undisturbed rats, a strong immunoreactivity was detected in scattered cells in and around the...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Humpel C,Ebendal T,Cao Y,Olson L

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the feasibility of cell type-specific gene expression in oligodendrocytes as a possible therapeutic approach for demyelinating diseases, the cell specificity, tissue specificity, and duration of gene expression were investigated using recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors (rAAV) carrying a green fluore...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Chen H,McCarty DM,Bruce AT,Suzuki K

更新日期：1999-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of rat C6 rat glioma cells exhibit a diminished response to isoproterenol and forskolin after being treated with phorbol 12,13-dibutyrate (PDbU). An IC50 for PDbU of 38 +/- 5 nM and 62 +/- 8 nM was observed in the isoproterenol and forskolin response, respectively. Similarly, C6 cultures exhibited a diminishe...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Bressler JP,Tinsely P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, we have shown that a traumatic lesion to the hippocampus of adult mice induces the transitory expression of TNF alpha and IL-1 alpha by neurons of different brain areas and also by glial cells at the site of injury. The aim of the present study was to establish whether the expression of TNF alpha ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Tchélingérian JL,Le Saux F,Jacque C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This Review describes some in vitro approaches used to investigate the mechanisms involved in Krabbe's disease, with particular regard to the cellular systems employed to study processes of inflammation, apoptosis, and angiogenesis. The aim was to update the knowledge on the results obtained from in vitro models of th...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Avola R,Graziano AC,Pannuzzo G,Alvares E,Cardile V

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth cones are essential for neuronal pathfinding during embryonic development and again after injury, when they aid in neuronal regeneration. This study was aimed at investigating the role of kinases in the earliest events in neuronal regeneration, namely, the formation of new growth cones from injured neuronal pro...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Geddis MS,Rehder V

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:HAND2 (also known as dHAND) is a basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factor essential for development of the heart, limbs, and neural crest-derived lineages. HAND2 expression is observed in a number of tissues derived from the neural crest, including components of the peripheral nervous system, where it has be...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Dai YS,Hao J,Bonin C,Morikawa Y,Cserjesi P

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of bilateral lesions of the ventral noradrenergic bundle (VNA) were studied in male rats. In contrast to data reported by others, hyperphagia and obesity were not observed following VNA lesions. Indeed, except for a depression during the first three postoperative days, food intake (FI) of the VNA lesioned ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Bellinger LL,Bernardis LL,Goldman JK

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc ion elevation contributes to acute excitotoxic brain injury and correlates with the severity of dementia in chronic neurodegenerative diseases. Downstream control of zinc-triggered signals is believed to be an efficient countermeasure. In the current study, we examined whether the flavonoid luteolin (Lu) could pr...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Zhou F,Qu L,Lv K,Chen H,Liu J,Liu X,Li Y,Sun X

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The olfactory ensheathing cell (OEC) is a unique glial cell able to support neurite outgrowth in the CNS throughout life. The OEC has been described as having both Schwann cell-like and astrocyte-like characteristics. The purpose of this study was to compare gap junctional communication and connexin (Cx) expression in...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Barnett SC,Thompson RJ,Lakatos A,Pitts J

更新日期：2001-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effect of induced glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) on motility, cell morphology, and proliferation of two originally GFAP-negative human glioma cell lines. Glioma cell lines U-1242 MG and U-251 MG sp subclone 3A were transfected with a vector system that allows for an inducible GFAP expressio...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Elobeid A,Bongcam-Rudloff E,Westermark B,Nistér M

更新日期：2000-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPAR-alpha) plays a key role in lipid metabolism and inflammation. Recently, we demonstrated that administration of the PPAR-alpha agonists gemfibrozil and fenofibrate, inhibit the clinical signs of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), the animal model ...

journal_title：Journal of neuroscience research

authors： Xu J,Storer PD,Chavis JA,Racke MK,Drew PD

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00