N-Acetylation of L-aspartate in the nervous system: differential distribution of a specific enzyme.

abstract：:The glial glutamate transporter EAAT2 (excitatory amino acid transporter 2) is the major mediator of glutamate clearance that terminates glutamate-mediated neurotransmission. Loss of EAAT2 and associated glutamate uptake function has been reported in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). We previously ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tian G,Kong Q,Lai L,Ray-Chaudhury A,Lin CL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) has protective effects against beta-amyloid (Abeta)-induced neuronal cell death. Because alterations of the somatostatinergic system have been described in Alzheimer's disease, we investigated the effects of the Abeta peptide and the possible protective role of IGF-I on the somatos...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Aguado-Llera D,Arilla-Ferreiro E,Campos-Barros A,Puebla-Jiménez L,Barrios V

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic Huntington's disease (HD) mice, expressing exon 1 of the HD gene with an expanded CAG repeat, are totally resistant to striatal lesion induced by excessive NMDA receptor activation. We now show that striatal lesions induced by the mitochondrial toxin malonate are reduced by 70-80% in transgenic HD mice comp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hansson O,Castilho RF,Korhonen L,Lindholm D,Bates GP,Brundin P

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a novel mouse gene named pancortin that is expressed dominantly in the mature cerebral cortex. This gene produces four different species of proteins, Pancortin-1-4, sharing a common region in the middle of their structure with two variations at the N-terminal (A1 or A2 part) and C-terminal (C1 or C2...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nagano T,Nakamura A,Konno D,Kurata M,Yagi H,Sato M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine is an important neurotransmitter implicated in the regulation of mood, motivation and movement. We have reviewed here recent data suggesting that dopamine, in addition to being a neurotransmitter, also plays a role in the regulation of endogenous neurogenesis in the adult mammalian brain. In addition, we appr...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Borta A,Höglinger GU

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-amyloid peptides (A beta) are deposited in an aggregated fibrillar form in both diffuse and senile plaques in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease. The neurotoxicity of A beta in cultured neurons is dependent on its aggregation state, but the factors contributing to aggregation and fibril formation are...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Du Y,Bales KR,Dodel RC,Liu X,Glinn MA,Horn JW,Little SP,Paul SM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calmodulin (CaM)-dependent enzymes, such as CaM-dependent phosphodiesterase (CaM-PDE), CaM-dependent protein phosphatase (CN), and CaM-dependent protein kinase II (CaM kinase II), are found in high concentrations in differentiated mammalian neurons. In order to determine whether neuroblastoma cells express these CaM-d...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pennypacker KR,Kincaid RL,Polli JW,Billingsley ML

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elongation of arachidoyl-CoA (20:0-CoA) yielded 22:0 and 24:0 concomitantly, whereas the elongation of behenoyl-CoA (22:0-CoA) yielded only a negligible amount of 24:0 in adult swine cerebral microsomes. The dependence on time, pH, and the substrate concentrations were examined for the synthesis of 22:0 and 24:0 f...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yoshida S,Takeshita M

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the leading genetic cause for infantile death, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) has been extensively studied since its first description in the early 1890s. Though today much is known about the cause of the disease, a cure or effective treatment is not currently available. Recently the short chain fatty acid valproic ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lunke S,El-Osta A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) stimulates rat retinal adenylate cyclase activity in a concentration-dependent manner. The half-maximal effect is obtained at 50 nM CRF and the maximal stimulation corresponds to approximately 90% increase of basal enzyme activity. The CRF effect is counteracted by the CRF antagoni...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Olianas MC,Onali P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Portocaval anastomosis (PCA) in the rat leads, within 4 weeks, to severe liver atrophy, sustained hyperammonemia, and increased brain ammonia. Because brain is not equipped with an effective urea cycle, removal of ammonia involves glutamine synthesis and PCA results in significantly increased brain glutamine. Glutamin...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Butterworth RF,Girard G,Giguère JF

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Summary During hypoxia, ATP was released from type I (glomus) cells in the carotid bodies. We studied the action of ATP on the intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) of type I cells dissociated from rat carotid bodies using a Ca(2+) imaging technique. ATP did not affect the resting [Ca(2+)](i) but strongly s...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Xu J,Xu F,Tse FW,Tse A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existence of microtubule cytoskeleton at the membrane and submembranous regions, referred as 'membrane tubulin' has remained controversial for a long time. Since we reported physical and functional interaction of Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Sub Type 1 (TRPV1) with microtubules and linked the importance of T...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Goswami C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the cell membrane there exist various microdomains (lipid rafts) in which specific lipids and proteins are assembled and these microdomains are recovered in the detergent-resistant low-density membrane fraction (DRM). Septin is a novel GTP-binding, cytoskeletal protein having various isoforms that assemble into...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Maimaitiyiming M,Kumanogoh H,Nakamura S,Nagata K,Suzaki T,Maekawa S

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism and blood-brain transport of choline (Ch) were investigated in perfused canine brain under control conditions and for 60 min after inhibition of brain cholinesterases by the organophosphorus (OP) compounds soman (pinacolylmethylphosphonofluoridate). Ch and acetylcholine (ACh) in blood and brain samples ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Drewes LR,Singh AK

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the consequences of transient application of specific stimuli mimicking inflammation to hippocampal tissue on microglia activation and neuronal cell vulnerability to a subsequent excitotoxic insult. Two-week-old organotypic hippocampal slice cultures, from 7-day-old C57BL/6 donor mice, were exposed for...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bernardino L,Balosso S,Ravizza T,Marchi N,Ku G,Randle JC,Malva JO,Vezzani A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphorylation of microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) by four different kinases was studied in vitro to determine whether MAP2 is phosphorylated in its tubulin binding region or in the microtubule projection portion. Fragments corresponding to both regions of MAP2 were produced not only by chymotrypsin or try...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hernández MA,Wandosell F,Avila J

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein that binds vesamicol has been purified from a soluble fraction of the Torpedo electric organ homogenate that does not contain synaptic vesicles. The purified vesamicol-binding protein (VBP) has a molecular mass of 470 kDa composed of 30- and 24-kDa subunits. Chemical deglycosylation yielded a single, heterog...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hicks BW,Rogers GA,Parsons SM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartic acid (Asp) undergoes l-isomer-selective efflux transport across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). This transport system appears to play an important role in regulating l- and d-Asp levels in the brain. The purpose of this study was to identify the responsible transporters and elucidate the mechanism for l-isomer...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tetsuka K,Takanaga H,Ohtsuki S,Hosoya K,Terasaki T

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The orphan nuclear receptor estrogen-related receptor gamma (ERRγ) is highly expressed in the nervous system during embryogenesis and in adult brains, but its physiological role in neuronal development remains unknown. In this study, we evaluated the relevance of ERRγ in regulating dopaminergic (DAergic) phenotype and...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lim J,Choi HS,Choi HJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that neuronal apoptosis is the consequence of an inappropriate reentry into the cell cycle. Expression of the cell cycle gene cyclin D1, a G1-phase cell cycle regulator, was examined in primary cultures of murine cerebellar granule cells (CGCs) during kainate (KA)-mediated apoptosis. Using cul...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Giardina SF,Cheung NS,Reid MT,Beart PM

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-amyloid accumulates in cerebral deposits in Alzheimer's disease, so to test the correlation between the neurotoxic and fibrillogenic capacity of beta-amyloid, we synthesized a peptide homologous to fragment 25-35 of beta-amyloid (beta25-35) and amidated at the C-terminus (beta25-35-NH2). As the amidation strongly...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Forloni G,Lucca E,Angeretti N,Della Torre P,Salmona M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl 4-hydroxylases (HIF-PHDs) are important targets against oxidative stress. We hypothesized that inhibition HIF-PHD by adaptaquin reduces hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in a neonatal mouse model. The pups were treated intraperitoneally immediately with adaptaquin after hypoxia-ischemia (HI...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Li K,Li T,Wang Y,Xu Y,Zhang S,Culmsee C,Wang X,Zhu C

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracerebroventricular injection of pyridoxal phosphate (PLP, 0.125-1.25 mumol/rat) causes epileptic seizures (4 min leads to 1 min) that are preventable or reversible by GABA (1 mumol/rat), by muscimol (0.025 mumol/rat), or by diazepam (1.75 mumol/rat). At the peak of PLP-induced convulsions, the activities of G...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kouyoumdjian JC,Ebadi M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity-dependent plasticity in nociceptive pathways has been implicated in pathomechanisms of chronic pain syndromes. Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), which is expressed by trigeminal nociceptors, has recently been identified as a key player in the mechanism of migraine headaches. Here we show that CGRP is co...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Buldyrev I,Tanner NM,Hsieh HY,Dodd EG,Nguyen LT,Balkowiec A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been established that neurosteroids can either inhibit or enhance GABA(A) receptor activity. Although GABA is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian retina, the effects of neurosteroids on retinal GABAergic activity have not been investigated. The aim of this work was to study the neurochemical a...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jaliffa CO,Howard S,Hoijman E,Salido E,Sarmiento MI,Arias P,Rosenstein RE

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a developmental disorder caused by the loss of Fragile X Mental Retardation 1 (FMR1) gene function because of a CGG repeat expansion (> 200 repeats) in the gene. The molecular mechanism(s) linking loss of FMR1 function to the molecular pathology and cognitive/behavioral disability remain un...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wang X,Snape M,Klann E,Stone JG,Singh A,Petersen RB,Castellani RJ,Casadesus G,Smith MA,Zhu X

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of endogenous and exogenous stimulators of innate immunity was examined in primary cultures of mouse microglial cells and macrophages after application of defined Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists [lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (TLR4), the synthetic lipopeptide Pam3Cys-Ser-Lys4 (Pam3Cys) (TLR2) and single-s...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lotz M,Ebert S,Esselmann H,Iliev AI,Prinz M,Wiazewicz N,Wiltfang J,Gerber J,Nau R

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using nuclear reaction 6Li(n, alpha)3H and dielectric detectors, we have studied the distribution of Li in the brain of adult mice, following Li treatment of the animals. Two strains of animals were used in parallel: "quaking" dysmyelinating mutants and normally myelinated controls. The distribution appeared to be sha...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Heurteaux C,Baumann N,Lachapelle F,Wissocq JC,Thellier M

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) catalyzes the reaction between choline and acetylcoenzyme A (AcCoA) to form acetylcholine (ACh) in nerve terminals. ACh metabolism has implications in numerous aspects of physiology and varied disease states, such as Alzheimer's disease. Therefore a specific, sensitive, and reliable me...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bailey JA,Lahiri DK

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00