A validated quantitative method for the assessment of neuroprotective barrier impairment in neurodegenerative disease models.

abstract：:Melatonin and 5-methoxytryptamine inhibited forskolin-stimulated cyclic AMP formation in cultured neural cells prepared from embryonic chick retina. Both methoxyindoles exhibited similar potency and efficacy, with EC50 values of 0.8 nM for melatonin and 7.2 nM for 5-methoxytryptamine. Inhibition of cyclic AMP formatio...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Iuvone PM,Gan J,Alonso-Gómez AL

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for the nerve growth factor protein (NGF) have been isolated from three cell types [embryonic chicken sensory neurons (dorsal root sensory ganglia; DRG), rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) and human neuroblastoma (LAN-1) cells] and have been shown to be similar with respect to equilibrium dissociation constants. Th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Stach RW,Lyons CR,Perez-Polo JR

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found in cultured glioma (C6BU-1) cells that excitatory amino acids (EAAs) such as glutamate, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), aspartate, and metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist trans-(+/-)-1-amino-1,3-cyclopentanedicarboxylate caused an increase in the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate formation and the intracellular C...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Shinno H,Mikuni M,Saitoh K,Tomita U,Yamawaki S,Takahashi K

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, neuronal and Schwann cell marker proteins were used to biochemically characterize the spatiotemporal progress of degeneration/regeneration in the silicone chamber model for nerve regeneration. Rat sciatic nerves were transected and the proximal and distal stumps were inserted into a bridging sili...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Karlsson JE,Rosengren LE,Wang S,Danielsen N,Haglid KG

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of heat stress on protein synthesis and fast axonal transport were examined in an in vitro bullfrog primary afferent neuron preparation. The magnitude of effect was determined for individual [35S]methionine-labelled protein species separated via two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Elevation of temperature...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Stone GC,Dougher MM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidases (MAOs) are mitochondrial enzymes which control the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain and dietary amines in peripheral tissues via oxidative deamination. MAO has also been implicated in cell signalling. In this study, we describe the MAO-A isoform as functional in apoptosis induced by staurosp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fitzgerald JC,Ufer C,De Girolamo LA,Kuhn H,Billett EE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) activates a variety of signaling molecules to exert various functions in the nervous system, including neuronal differentiation, survival, and regulation of synaptic plasticity. Previously, we have suggested that BIT/SHPS-1 (brain immunoglobulin-like molecule with tyrosine-base...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Araki T,Yamada M,Ohnishi H,Sano SI,Hatanaka H

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide is the major constituent of the extracellular amyloid plaques deposited in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients and is central to the pathogenic pathway causing this disease. The identity of the neurotoxic Aβ species remains elusive. We previously reported that Aβ toxicity correlates st...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jana MK,Cappai R,Pham CL,Ciccotosto GD

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human NMDAR2D subunit was cloned, and the pharmacological properties of receptors resulting from injection of transcripts encoding human NMDAR1A and NMDAR2D subunits in Xenopus oocytes were characterized by profiling NMDA receptor agonists and antagonists. We found that glutamate, NMDA, glycine, and D-serine were ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hess SD,Daggett LP,Deal C,Lu CC,Johnson EC,Veliçelebi G

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the axonal transport of actin and its monomer binding proteins, actin depolymerizing factor, cofilin, and profilin, in the chicken sciatic nerve following injection of [35S]methionine into the lumbar spinal cord. At intervals up to 20 days after injection, nerves were cut into 1-cm segments and separated i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mills RG,Minamide LS,Yuan A,Bamburg JR,Bray JJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro, the transport into and release of [3H]deoxycytidine from the isolated choroid plexus, the anatomical locus of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, were studied separately. By use of the ability of nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBTI) to inhibit deoxycytidine efflux from choroid plexus, the transport of 1 microM [...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Spector R,Huntoon S

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of the biologically uncommon D-aspartic acid (D-aspartate) in human brain white matter has been previously reported. The earlier study has now been expanded to include D/L-aspartate ratios from 67 normal brains. The data show that the D-aspartate content increases rapidly from 1 year to approximately 35 y...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Man EH,Fisher GH,Payan IL,Cadilla-Perezrios R,Garcia NM,Chemburkar R,Arends G,Frey WH 2nd

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tau is a microtubule-associated protein whose transcript undergoes complex regulated splicing in the mammalian nervous system. Exon 6 of the gene is an alternatively spliced cassette whose expression pattern and splicing regulation had not been previously analyzed in the human. The expression profile of exon 6 is comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wei ML,Andreadis A

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gliosis is commonly observed in the CNS following tissue damage, and it also occurs in aging and in many neurodegenerative diseases. Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) accumulation is a prominent feature of astrocytic gliosis. An inhibition or delay in GFAP synthesis could mitigate scar formation and thus reduce t...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li XM,Qi J,Juorio AV,Boulton AA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epitope for HNK-1 and patient's monoclonal autoantibodies in demyelinating polyneuropathy associated with immunoglobulin M gammopathy is borne by different types of N-linked oligosaccharide structures in human P0 and myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG). Fourteen glycopeptide fractions bearing different oligosacch...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Burger D,Perruisseau G,Simon M,Steck AJ

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental stress can interact with genetic predisposition to increase the risk of developing psychopathology. In this work, we tested the hypothesis that social isolation stress interacts with impaired glutathione synthesis and have cumulative effects on the neurochemical profile of the frontal cortex. A mouse mod...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Corcoba A,Gruetter R,Do KQ,Duarte JMN

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the effect of cocaine on the brain histamine neuron system, histamine levels and histamine N-methyltransferase activity in the rat brain were measured after the administration of cocaine. Moreover, we examined the effect of L-histidine on cocaine-induced wheel-running behavior. The administration of cocaine...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ito C,Onodera K,Sakurai E,Sato M,Watanabe T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all the species examined thus far, the behavior of microglia during development appears to be highly stereotyped. This reproducibility supports the notion that these cells have a physiological role in development. Microglia are macrophages that migrate from the yolk sac and colonize the central nervous system early...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pont-Lezica L,Béchade C,Belarif-Cantaut Y,Pascual O,Bessis A

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:S-100 proteins are a group of three 21-kilodalton, acidic, Ca2+-binding proteins of the "E-F hand" type shown to regulate several cell activities, including microtubule (MT) assembly-disassembly. We show here that S-100 proteins interact with MTs assembled from either whole microtubule protein or purified tubulin, bot...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Donato R,Giambanco I

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Alzheimer's disease, the neuritic or senile amyloid plaques in hippocampus and association cortex, the diffuse plaques in brain areas such as the cerebellum and sensorimotor cortex, and the amyloid deposits in the walls of pial and parenchymal blood vessels are mainly composed of amyloid beta-peptides. In the prese...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ghersi-Egea JF,Gorevic PD,Ghiso J,Frangione B,Patlak CS,Fenstermacher JD

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RGS (regulators of G-protein signaling) proteins comprise a large family that modulates heterotrimeric G-protein signaling. This protein family has a common RGS domain and functions as GTPase-activating proteins for the alpha-subunits of heterotrimeric G-proteins located at the plasma membrane. RGS8 was identified as ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Masuho I,Itoh M,Itoh H,Saitoh O

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine stimulates cyclic AMP accumulation in astrocyte-enriched and neuronal primary cultures from rat brain in the presence of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor isobutylmethylxanthine. The response in the astrocyte cultures (Emax = 304 +/- 44% over basal, EC50 = 43 +/- 5 microM) was much higher than in neuronal cult...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Agulló L,Picatoste F,García A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the free radical-scavenging enzyme copper/zinc superoxide dismutase (Cu/Zn-SOD) are associated with neuronal death in humans and mice. Here, we examine the effects of human wild-type (WT SOD) and mutant (Gly93 --> Ala; G93A) Cu/Zn-SOD enzyme on the fate of postnatal midbrain neurons. One-week-old cultures...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mena MA,Khan U,Togasaki DM,Sulzer D,Epstein CJ,Przedborski S

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor complex as defined by the binding of [3H]MK-801 has been solubilized from membranes prepared from both rat and porcine brain using the anionic detergent deoxycholate (DOC). Of the detergents tested DOC extracted the most receptors (21% for rat, 34% for pig), and the soluble com...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： McKernan RM,Castro S,Poat JA,Wong EH

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although alterations in serotonin levels and neurotransmission are associated with depressive disorders and effective antidepressant therapy, the exact cause of these disorders and the mode of action of antidepressant drugs are poorly understood. In a genetic rat model of depression [Flinders sensitive line (FSL) rats...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zangen A,Overstreet DH,Yadid G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total pellet from pig forebrain (from which the cytosolic sialidase was completely washed out) was treated with phosphatidylinositol phospholipase C (PIPLC) and centrifuged at high speed. The supernatant contained sialidase and 5'-nucleotidase activities. The greatest liberation of sialidase was obtained after inc...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Chiarini A,Fiorilli A,Siniscalco C,Tettamanti G,Venerando B

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine A(1) receptors (A(1)Rs) have been characterized in primary cultures of neurons from cerebral cortex. The specific adenosine A(1) antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-[(3)H]dipropylxanthine bound to both membranes and intact cells. When saturation experiments were performed in membranes, a K(D) value of 0.76 nM and a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ruiz MA,Escriche M,Lluis C,Franco R,Martín M,Andrés A,Ros M

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cholinergic vesicles to incorporate acetylcholine (ACh) was studied using highly purified synaptic vesicles from Torpedo electric organ. Depleted vesicles were capable of rapidly taking up exogenous ACh. Evidence that this represented true incorporation was that labelled ACh comigrated with vesicular AT...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Diebler MF,Morot-Gaudry Y

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increase in oxidative stress has been postulated to play an important role in the pathogenesis of a number of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer's disease. There is evidence for involvement of amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta) in mediating the oxidative damage to neurons. Despite yet unknown mechanism, Abeta ap...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Shelat PB,Chalimoniuk M,Wang JH,Strosznajder JB,Lee JC,Sun AY,Simonyi A,Sun GY

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed that a very early step in the pathogenesis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease is the elevated translocation of L-cysteine into neuromelanin-pigmented dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra. This influx of L-cysteine was proposed to divert the normal neuromelanin pathway by scavenging dopamine-o-q...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li H,Shen XM,Dryhurst G

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00