In vivo and in vitro effects of diisopropyl phosphorofluoridate (DFP) on the rate of hen brain tubulin polymerization.

abstract：:The potassium A-current (IK(A)) is important in regulating the membrane potential between action potentials. The whole-cell patch-clamp technique was applied to cultured Drosophila neurons derived from embryonic neuroblasts. IK(A) was measured from neurons before and after application of 0.1 mM lanthanum to the extern...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Alshuaib WB,Mathew MV

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) regulates numerous physiological process and is the main source of reactive nitrogen species (RNS). NO promotes cell survival, but it also induces apoptotic death having been involved in the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases. NO and superoxide anion react to form peroxynitrite, which...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Olguín-Albuerne M,Ramos-Pittol JM,Coyoy A,Martínez-Briseño CP,Domínguez G,Morán J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen is the main storage form of glucose in the brain. In contrast with previous beliefs, brain glycogen has recently been shown to play important roles in several brain functions. A fraction of metabolized glucose molecules are being shunted through glycogen before reentering the glycolytic pathway, a phenomenon ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Jakobsen E,Bak LK,Walls AB,Reuschlein AK,Schousboe A,Waagepetersen HS

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxysafflor yellow A (HSYA) is a component of the flower Carthamus tinctorius L. that elicits neuroprotective effects in vivo and in vitro. The purpose of this study was to investigate pharmacological properties of HSYA on neurotoxicity of glutamate in primary cultured rat cortical neurons along with its possible m...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang Q,Yang ZF,Liu SB,Zhang XN,Hou Y,Li XQ,Wu YM,Wen AD,Zhao MG

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary objective of this investigation was to assess the neuroprotective efficacy of spice active principles namely Eugenol (Eug) and isoeugenol (IE) in an acrylamide (ACR) neuropathy model in rats. In the present study, ACR administration (50 mg/kg bw, i.p. 3 times/week) for 5 weeks to growing rats caused typica...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Prasad SN,Muralidhara

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review properties of lipid acetyltransferase enzymes are outlined. The three activities of interest are lyso PAF acetyltransferase (acetyl CoA: 1-alkyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine acetyltransferase), AGP acetyltransferase (acetyl CoA: 1-alkyl sn-glycero-3-phosphate acetyltransferase) and a transacetylase activ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Baker RR

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the replication-defective adenovirus vector, we overexpressed rat glia maturation factor (GMF) in primary astrocyte cultures derived from embryonic rat brains. Among the three isoforms of MAP kinase, there was a big increase in the phosphorylation of p38, as detected with Western blotting using the phosphospecif...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Zaheer A,Yorek MA,Lim R

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study addressed the hypothesis that the DA transporter ligand, [3H]mazindol, labels multiple sites/states associated with the dopamine (DA) transporter in striatal membranes. Incubations with [3H]mazindol proceeded for 18-24 hr at 4 degrees C in 55.2 mM sodium phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, with a protease inhi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Dersch CM,Akunne HC,Partilla JS,Char GU,de Costa BR,Rice KC,Carroll FI,Rothman RB

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the unrestrained rat, the hyperphagic-like ingestion of food evoked by the sustained elevation of neuropeptide-Y (NPY) in the hypothalamus was correlated with the release and turnover of monoaminergic transmitters in this structure. A single guide tube was implanted stereotaxically in the perifornical region of the...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Myers RD,Lankford MF,Paez X

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary ganglion neurons and nonneurons can be separated from each other, based on the greater adhesivity of the nonneurons to untreated tissue culture plastic in the presence of serum. When the separation was carried out in the presence of Serum Plus (a commercially available supplemented serum), two populations of n...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Needels DL,Nieto-Sampedro M,Cotman CW

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turmeric has been in use since ancient times as a condiment and due to its medicinal properties. Curcumin, the yellow colouring principle in turmeric, is polyphenolic and major active constituent. Besides anti-inflammatory, thrombolytic and anticarcinogenic activities, curcumin also possesses strong antioxidant proper...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shukla PK,Khanna VK,Ali MM,Khan MY,Srimal RC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of mouse monoclonal antibodies to rat and human myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) was developed. Normal mice were unresponsive to rat MAG, and successful immunization with rat MAG was only achieved in autoimmune NZB mice. By contrast, all strains of mice were responsive to human MAG. The monoclonal antibodi...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Dobersen MJ,Hammer JA,Noronha AB,MacIntosh TD,Trapp BD,Brady RO,Quarles RH

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversification of neuronal subtypes during corticogenesis is fundamental to the establishment of the complex cortical structure. Although subtype specification has been assumed to occur in neural progenitor cells, increasing evidence has begun to reveal the plasticity of subtype determination in immature neurons....

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Oishi K,Nakajima K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylphenidate is commonly used for the treatment of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. There are still few works regarding the effects of methylphenidate on brain energy metabolism. Thus, in the present study we evaluated the effect of chronic administration of methylphenidate on the activities of mitochondri...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fagundes AO,Aguiar MR,Aguiar CS,Scaini G,Sachet MU,Bernhardt NM,Rezin GT,Valvassori SS,Quevedo J,Streck EL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimentalists would like to perform large-scale expression analysis on samples drawn from small cell populations and even single cells. Amplification of the source material is required to assay such small samples under all existing array technologies. In this report we consider the very different theoretical proper...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Shaw CA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that acute ammonia toxicity is mediated by activation of the NMDA type of glutamate receptors. Although it is well known that L-carnitine prevents acute ammonia toxicity, the underlying molecular mechanism is not clear. We suspected that L-carnitine would prevent ammonia toxicity by preventing the toxic ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Felipo V,Miñana MD,Cabedo H,Grisolía S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human neuroblastoma cholinergic LA-N-2 cells were used as an experimental model to test the possibility that the methylation of phosphoethanolamine (PEtn) to phosphocholine (PCho) and free choline (Cho) (Andriamampandry et al. 1989) could contribute to acetylcholine (AcCho) synthesis. LA-N-2 cells were incubated with ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Haidar NE,Carrara M,Andriamampandry C,Kanfer JN,Freysz L,Dreyfus H,Massarelli R

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because it appears that oxidative stress and inflammation are implicated with disease pathogenesis in the diabetic brain, many researchers have used streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic animals to study superoxide production and the effects of superoxide scavengers like Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase (SOD1). However, man...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yi SS,Hwang IK,Kim DW,Shin JH,Nam SM,Choi JH,Lee CH,Won MH,Seong JK,Yoon YS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes transport the monocarboxylate acetate, but synaptosomes do not. The reason for this is unknown, because both preparations express monocarboxylate transporters (MCT). The transport and metabolism of lactate, another monocarboxylate, was examined in these two preparations, and the results were compared to tho...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Waniewski RA,Martin DL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitotoxicity has been associated with the loss of medium spiny neurons (MSN) in Huntington's disease (HD). We have previously observed that the content of the glial glutamate transporters, glutamate transporter 1 (GLT-1) and glutamate-aspartate transporter (GLAST), diminishes in R6/2 mice at 14 weeks of age but not ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Estrada-Sánchez AM,Montiel T,Massieu L

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TRH-like immunoreactivity distinct from TRH is present in various tissues and fluids. In order to determine whether TRH-like molecules are secreted by the hypothalamus, we analyzed tissues and media from hypothalamic slices incubated in Krebs Ringer bicarbonate. Media from basal or high KCl conditions contained 3 TRH-...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Méndez M,Cisneros M,Baez A,Joseph-Bravo P,Charli JL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the action of the new hypothalamic proline-rich peptide (PRP-1), normally produced by neurosecretory cells of hypothalamic nuclei (NPV and NSO), 3 and 4 weeks following rat sciatic nerve transection. The impulse activity flow of interneurons (IN) and motoneurons (MN) on stimulation of mixed (n. ischiad...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Galoyan AA,Sarkissian JS,Sulkhanyan RM,Chavushyan VA,Avetisyan ZA,Avakyan ZE,Gevorgyan AJ,Abrahamyan DO,Grigorian YKh

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triptolide (T10), an extract from the traditional Chinese herb, Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F (TWHF), has been shown to attenuate the rotational behavior induced by D: -amphetamine and prevent the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra in rat models of Parkinson's disease. To examine if the neuroprotecti...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Xue B,Jiao J,Zhang L,Li KR,Gong YT,Xie JX,Wang XM

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The folate cycle, which has a close correlation with nucleic acid synthesis as well as with sulfur amino acid metabolism, may have some bearing on the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The folate cycle hypothesis offers a unified explanation of the reduction of RNA and the elevation of taurine in nervous ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yoshino Y

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analytical method for the determination of saturated very long chain (VLC) fatty acids in the serum has been devised. Free fatty acids obtained after hydrolysis of total lipid extracts were converted into p-bromophenacyl esters. The derivatives were purified in two sequential steps by clean-up on C18 reversed-phase...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Alberghina M,Fiumara A,Pavone L,Giuffrida AM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral lesion of the nucleus basalis with ibotenic acid infusions in young and aged rats results in the degeneration of cholinergic neurons which innervate the cortex. As expected, high-affinity uptake of choline was decreased in the frontal cortex subsequent to the lesion. Twenty one days after surgery there was a...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Gomeza J,Aragón C,Giménez C

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is an honour to have this opportunity write an article in recognition of the immense contributions of Bruce Ransom to the field of glial research. For me (BAM) personally there are many highlights both as a colleague and a friend that come to mind when I reflect on the many years that I have known Bruce. My own ent...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： MacVicar BA,Choi HB

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesions of the nigrostriatal pathway are known to induce a compensatory up-regulation of various neurotrophic factors. In this study we examined protein content of basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) in tissue samples taken from the ventral midbrain and striatum at two different time points following a neurotoxic l...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yurek DM,Fletcher AM,Peters LE,Cass WA

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence suggests that apoptosis contributes significantly to cell death after cerebral ischemia. Our recent studies that utilized human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hUCBSCs) demonstrated the potential of hUCBSCs to inhibit neuronal apoptosis in a rat model of CNS injury. Therefore, we hypothes...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chelluboina B,Klopfenstein JD,Pinson DM,Wang DZ,Veeravalli KK

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emerging data suggests that mitochondrial dysfunction is prominently involved in Alzheimer disease (AD) progression. Sirtuin-3 (Sirt3) is a member of the sirtuin family of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dependent deacetylases that regulates a variety of mitochondrial functions and suppresses mitochondria-related ph...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yang W,Zou Y,Zhang M,Zhao N,Tian Q,Gu M,Liu W,Shi R,Lü Y,Yu W

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00