Recent Advancements in Pathogenesis, Diagnostics and Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over 100 people die daily from opioid overdose and $78.5B per year is spent on treatment efforts, however, the real societal cost is multifold greater. Alternative strategies to eradicate/manage drug misuse and addiction need consideration. The perception of opioid addiction as a social/criminal problem has ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Abijo T,Blum K,Gondré-Lewis MC

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eicosanoids are arachidonic acid (AA) derivatives belonging to a family of lipid signalling mediators that are engaged in both physiological and pathological processes in the brain. Recently, their implication in the prolonged inflammatory response has become a focus of particular interest because, in contrast to acut...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Regulska M,Szuster-Głuszczak M,Trojan E,Leśkiewicz M,Basta-Kaim A

更新日期：2021-01-01 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：: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：:The calcium (Ca(2+))-sensing receptor (CaR) belongs to family C of the G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). The receptor is activated by physiological levels of Ca(2+) (and Mg(2+)) and positively modulated by a range of proteinogenic L-alpha-amino acids. Recently, several synthetic allosteric modulators of the recepto...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Jensen AA,Bräuner-Osborne H

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depression is a serious psychiatric illness that affects millions of people worldwide. Weeks of antidepressant therapy are required to relieve depressive symptoms, and new drugs are still being extensively researched. The latest studies have shown that in depression, there is an imbalance between the main excitatory (...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Mlyniec K

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：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：: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：:The 'omnipresence' of adenosine in all nervous system cells (neurons and glia) together with the intensive release of adenosine following insults, makes adenosine as a sort of 'maestro' of synapses leading to the homeostatic coordination of brain function. Besides direct actions of adenosine on the neurosecretory mech...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Sebastião AM,Ribeiro JA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeting analgesic drugs for spinal delivery reflects the fact that while the conscious experience of pain is mediated supraspinally, input initiated by high intensity stimuli, tissue injury and/or nerve injury is encoded at the level of the spinal dorsal horn and this output informs the brain as to the peripheral en...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Yaksh TL,Fisher CJ,Hockman TM,Wiese AJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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 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：: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：: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：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：: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：: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: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：:Glutamate receptor, ionotropic, N-methyl-D-aspartate associated protein 1 (GRINA) is a member of the NMDA receptors (NMDARs) and is involved in several neurological diseases, which governs the key processes of neuronal cell death or the release of neurotransmitters. Upregulation of GRINA has been reported in multiple ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Chen K,Yang LN,Lai C,Liu D,Zhu LQ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Shared connections between physical activity and neuroprotection have been studied for decades, but the mechanisms underlying this effect of specific exercise were only recently brought to light. Several evidences suggest that physical activity may be a reasonable and beneficial method to improve functional ...

journal_title：Current neuropharmacology

authors： Cobianchi S,Arbat-Plana A,Lopez-Alvarez VM,Navarro X

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：: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：: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：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