Binding characteristics of a monoclonal beta-endorphin antibody recognizing the N-terminus of opioid peptides.

abstract：:delta 1-Pyrroline, 5-methyl-delta 1-pyrroline, and 5,5-dimethyl-delta 1-pyrroline have been identified as substances metabolized to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), 4-aminopentanoic acid (methylGABA), and 4-amino-4-methylpentanoic acid (dimethylGABA), respectively. An enzyme system residing in the soluble fraction of r...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Callery PS,Geelhaar LA,Nayar MS,Stogniew M,Rao KG

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major component of the amyloid deposition that characterizes Alzheimer's disease is the 4-kDa beta A4 protein, which is derived from a much larger amyloid protein precursor (APP). A procedure for the complete purification of APP from human brain is described. The same amino terminal sequence of APP was found in tw...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Moir RD,Martins RN,Bush AI,Small DH,Milward EA,Rumble BA,Multhaup G,Beyreuther K,Masters CL

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-thyrotropin-releasing hormone (proTRH) is the precursor to thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH; pGlu-His-Pro-NH2), the hypothalamic releasing factor that stimulates synthesis and release of thyrotropin from the pituitary gland. Five copies of the TRH progenitor sequence (Gln-His-Pro-Gly) and seven cryptic peptides ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nillni EA,Friedman TC,Todd RB,Birch NP,Loh YP,Jackson IM

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much evidence to suggest that G protein coupled receptors exist as oligomers but the relevance to their function is unclear. We have, therefore, examined the binding of the radiolabelled agonist [(3)H]NPA to membranes of CHO cells expressing the D(2) dopamine receptor in dissociation rate experiments. When [(...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kara E,Lin H,Strange PG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenobam [N-(3-chlorophenyl)-N'-(4,5-dihydro-1-methyl-4-oxo-1H-imidazole-2-yl)urea], a clinically validated non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic, has been shown to be a potent and non-competitive metabotropic glutamate (mGlu)-5 receptor antagonist. In the present study, we have used the site-directed mutagenesis coupled with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Malherbe P,Kratochwil N,Mühlemann A,Zenner MT,Fischer C,Stahl M,Gerber PR,Jaeschke G,Porter RH

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extralysosomal proteolysis by multicatalytic complexes such as the 26S proteasome produces large amounts of peptides in the cytosol, mitochondria and nuclei of eukaryotic cells, and there is increasing evidence that the resulting free intracellular peptides can modulate specific protein interactions. The demonstration...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ferro ES,Hyslop S,Camargo AC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In heterologous expression systems, dopamine transporter (DAT) cell-surface localization is reduced after relatively prolonged exposure to d-amphetamine (AMPH) or dopamine (DA), suggesting a role for substrate-mediated regulation of transporter function. Here, we investigated whether brief, repeated periods of substra...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Gulley JM,Doolen S,Zahniser NR

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we show that embryonic neurite growth-promoting protein amphoterin binds to carboxylated N -glycans previously identified on mammalian endothelial cells. Since amphoterin is a ligand for the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE), and the ligand-binding V-domain of the receptor contains two ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Srikrishna G,Huttunen HJ,Johansson L,Weigle B,Yamaguchi Y,Rauvala H,Freeze HH

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have tested the hypothesis that exocytosis is a possible export route for calcium from bovine adrenal medullary cells. After prelabelling cells in primary tissue culture with 45Ca, evoked 45Ca export and catecholamine secretion show the same time course, a similar fraction of the total pool of 45Ca and catecholamin...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： von Grafenstein HR,Powis DA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat hippocampal glutamatergic terminals possess NMDA autoreceptors whose activation by low micromolar NMDA elicits glutamate exocytosis in the presence of physiological Mg(2+) (1.2 mM), the release of glutamate being significantly reduced when compared to that in Mg(2+)-free condition. Both glutamate and glycine were ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Musante V,Summa M,Cunha RA,Raiteri M,Pittaluga A

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autoradiographic method with L-[35S]methionine was used to determine the effects of an n-3 fatty acid deficiency on brain protein synthesis. Brain protein synthesis was significantly increased (from 50 to 150%) in 45 of the 52 brain structures studied in n-3 fatty acid-deficient rats as compared with control anima...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Giaume M,Gay N,Baubet V,Gharib A,Durand G,Bobillier P,Sarda N

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to cocaine-associated conditioned stimuli elicits craving and increases the probability of cocaine relapse in cocaine users even after extended periods of abstinence. Recent evidence indicates that cocaine seeking can be inhibited by disrupting the reconsolidation of the cocaine cue memories and that basolate...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wu P,Xue YX,Ding ZB,Xue LF,Xu CM,Lu L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptosomes (vesicles of nerve endings) isolated from rabbit brain were studied as a model system for the uptake of inorganic phosphate. The phosphate uptake showed a sodium-dependent, saturable component with a Kt of 0.29 mM. The sodium-dependent component was larger at pH 6 than at pH 7.4 or 8. Application of potas...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Salamin A,Deshusses J,Straub RW

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Good buffers (MOPS, ACES, BES, HEPES, ADA, and PIPES) competitively inhibited both high-affinity and low-affinity [3H]gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor binding to rat brain synaptic membranes. The most potent inhibitor was MOPS, which had Ki values of 180 nM and 79 nM for the high- and low-affinity binding site...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tunnicliff G,Smith JA

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diminished energy metabolism and reduced activity of brain alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGDHC) occur in a number of neurodegenerative diseases. The relation between diminished KGDHC activity and altered energy metabolism is unknown. The present study tested whether a reduction in the KGDHC activity would...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Shi Q,Risa Ø,Sonnewald U,Gibson GE

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements were made of the amino acid content of a cellular clone (K55) derived from mouse cerebellar cultures transformed in vitro by simian virus-40 (Alliot and Pessac, 1981) and that appears to be astroglial. Both the total amount of amino acids as well as the percentage of glycine in K55 cells were higher than ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cambier D,Alliot F,Pessac B

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rat mesencephalic cell cultures, L-glutamate at concentrations ranging from 100 microM to 1 mM stimulated release of [3H]dopamine that was attenuated by the non-N-methyl-D-aspartate (non-NMDA) receptor antagonist 6,7-dinitroquinoxalinedione, but not by the selective NMDA receptor antagonists (+)-5-methyl-10,11-dihy...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mount H,Quirion R,Chaudieu I,Boksa P

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recycling of synaptic vesicles in nerve terminals involves multiple steps, underlies all aspects of synaptic transmission, and is a key to understanding the basis of synaptic plasticity. The development of styryl dyes as fluorescent molecules that label recycling synaptic vesicles has revolutionized the way in whi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cousin MA,Robinson PJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscarinic receptors mediate metabotropic actions of acetylcholine in the CNS and PNS and autocrine functions of acetylcholine in non-neuronal systems. Because of the lack of highly selective muscarinic ligands, the precise location, functional role, and roles in various diseases of the five muscarinic receptor subtyp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Servent D,Fruchart-Gaillard C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently isolated from bovine adrenal medulla a novel C-terminally amidated opioid peptide, amidorphin, which derives from proenkephalin A. Amidorphin revealed a widespread distribution in bovine, ovine, and porcine tissue. Particularly high concentrations of amidorphin immunoreactivity were detected in adrena...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Liebisch DC,Seizinger BR,Michael G,Herz A

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain-specific protein p42IP4, also called centaurin-alpha1, specifically binds phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate [PtdIns(3,4,5)P3] and inositol 1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate [Ins(1,3,4,5)P4]. Here, we investigate the interaction of p42IP4/centaurin-alpha1 with nardilysin (NRDc), a member of the M16 family of z...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Stricker R,Chow KM,Walther D,Hanck T,Hersh LB,Reiser G

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of the positron-emitting compound [18F]6-fluoro-L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (*F-DOPA) was studied in carbidopa-pretreated male hooded rats. Thirty minutes following carbidopa administration (5 mg/kg i.p.), animals received *F-DOPA (500 micrograms/kg; specific activity, 175-230 Ci/mol) as an intrajugula...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cumming P,Boyes BE,Martin WR,Adam M,Grierson J,Ruth T,McGeer EG

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide extracts of rat brain powerfully inhibited the cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity of rat brain homogenate. Similar extracts of ox brain showed comparable although less potent activity. Preliminary investigation of the physicochemical properties of brain extracts indicated that the rat brain extract containe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Collier HO,Butt NM,Saeed SA

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysophosphatidic acid receptor (LPA(1)) signaling initiates neuropathic pain through demyelination of the dorsal root (DR). Although LPA is found to cause down-regulation of myelin proteins underlying demyelination, the detailed mechanism remains to be determined. In the present study, we found that a single intrathec...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Xie W,Uchida H,Nagai J,Ueda M,Chun J,Ueda H

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic pathway of inositol phospholipids represents a series of synthetic and hydrolytic reactions with inositol as a by-product. Hence, the rate of [3H]inositol release from prelabeled phospholipids can be used as a reflection of activity of this pathway. In the frog sympathetic ganglion prelabeled with [3H]in...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rubio R,Bencherif M,Berne RM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A glycoprotein ATPase in cholinergic synaptic vesicles of Torpedo electric organ was solubilized with octa-ethylene glycol dodecyl ether detergent. Study of potential stabilizing factors identified crude brain phosphatidylserine, glycerol, dithiothreitol, and protease inhibitors as of value in maintaining activity. Th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yamagata SK,Noremberg K,Parsons SM

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rat cerebral cortex slices when incubated in media in increasing K+ concentrations, from 3 to 20 mM ("physiological" conditions), exhibited an increase of Ki+ and a decrease of Nai+ and Cli-. This phenomenon appeared at 30 days postnatally, which is fairly late during development. Over 20 mM-K+ ("pathological" c...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Grisar T,Franck G

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases are a worldwide health problem and are a major cause of death and disability. A progressive loss of defined neuronal populations is triggered by a diverse array of stimuli that converge in deficient neurotrophic signaling. Therefore, much effort has been placed in recent years in the charact...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hernández-Kelly LC,Ortega A

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraction of rat brain membrane-associated protein kinase C with high specific activity was obtained by applying benzyl alcohol (a membrane fluidizer), EDTA, and high hydrostatic pressures. Approximately 50% of total brain-associated activity was extracted from membranes. The pressure-extracted activity had an eightf...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lester DS

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuromelanin is a dark brown pigment present at high concentrations in dopaminergic neurones of the human substantia nigra (SN). Early electron microscopic examinations of neuromelanin fine structure revealed a significant neutral lipid component; however, the identity of this lipid has remained unknown. Here we show ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fedorow H,Pickford R,Hook JM,Double KL,Halliday GM,Gerlach M,Riederer P,Garner B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00