Nuclear calmodulin-binding proteins in rat neurons.

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and Huntington's disease, are considered incurable and significantly reduce the quality of life of the patients. A variety of drugs that modulate neurotransmitter levels have been used for the treatment of the neurodegenerative diseases but ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Huang M,Rathore SS,Lindau M

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:In this editorial, we highlight the recent work of Dorninger et al. that demonstrates a reduction in plasmalogens in the motor end plate is associated with a reduction in motor end plate function. This reduction in function is illuminated in reduced muscle function in these mice, corresponding with the reduction in ac...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Murphy EJ

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) are characterized by an abnormal aggregation of misfolded beta-sheet rich proteins such as β-amyloid (Aβ). Various ubiquitously expressed molecular chaperones control the correct folding of cellular proteins and prevent the accumulation of harmful species. We...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hoshino A,Helwig M,Rezaei S,Berridge C,Eriksen JL,Lindberg I

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three conserved serine residues (Ser193, Ser194, and Ser197) in transmembrane spanning region (TM) V of the D2 dopamine receptor have been mutated to alanine, individually and in combination, to explore their role in ligand binding and G protein coupling. The multiple Ser -->Ala mutations had no effect on the binding ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Coley C,Woodward R,Johansson AM,Strange PG,Naylor LH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged hypoxia exerts profound effects on cell function, and has been associated with increased production of amyloid beta peptides (A beta Ps) of Alzheimer's disease. Here, we have investigated the effects of chronic hypoxia (2.5% O2, 24 h) on capacitative Ca2+ entry (CCE) in primary cultures of rat type-I cortica...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Smith IF,Plant LD,Boyle JP,Skinner RA,Pearson HA,Peers C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transamination of the branched-chain amino acids produces glutamate and branched-chain alpha-ketoacids. The reaction is catalyzed by branched-chain aminotransferase (BCAT), of which there are cytosolic and mitochondrial isoforms (BCATc and BCATm). BCATc accounts for 70% of brain BCAT activity, and contributes at least...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： García-Espinosa MA,Wallin R,Hutson SM,Sweatt AJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences in the transcribed region of the c-fos gene have been suggested to control c-fos induction following exposure of cells to mitogens or stimuli that increase intracellular calcium concentrations. Using a mutational analysis we show that putative regulatory elements present in the first intron of the human c-fo...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lange CM,Bading H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies from this laboratory have shown that synthesis of GT3, the precursor of c series gangliosides, occurs in proximal Golgi compartments, as has been shown for the synthesis of GM3 and GD3, the precursors of a and b series gangliosides, respectively. In this work we studied whether the synthesis of GM3, G...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rosales Fritz VM,Maxzúd MK,Maccioni HJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective drugs are not available to protect against beta-amyloid peptide (A beta)-induced neurotoxicity. Cortical neurons from rat embryos were treated with the toxic fragment A beta25-35 at 1 microM in the presence or absence of flupirtine, a triaminopyridine, successfully applied clinically as a nonopiate analgesic...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Müller WE,Romero FJ,Perovic S,Pergande G,Pialoglou P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently found that alternative transcripts of tissue transglutaminase (tTG or TG2) were present in hippocampal brain regions of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but not in control, non-demented, age-matched brains. Since antecedent non-severe trauma has been implicated in AD and other neurodegenerative diseases, such as ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Festoff BW,SantaCruz K,Arnold PM,Sebastian CT,Davies PJ,Citron BA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superfusion of striatal slices with a medium deficient in Ca2+ and Mg2+ caused a large and sustained increase in release of lactate dehydrogenase, a finding indicative of the disruption of plasma membranes. This was associated with an efflux of dopamine (DA) and the depletion of DA from the tissue. In addition, wherea...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lonart G,Zigmond MJ

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance P and neurokinin A both potentiated N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-induced currents recorded in acutely isolated neurons from the dorsal horn of the rat. To elucidate the mechanism underlying this phenomenon, we measured the effects of tachykinins and glutamate receptor agonists on [Ca2+]i in these cells. Subst...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rusin KI,Bleakman D,Chard PS,Randic M,Miller RJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipids are asymmetrically distributed across the mammalian plasma membrane, with phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylethanolamine concentrated in the cytoplasmic leaflet of the membrane bilayer and phosphatidylcholine in the exoplasmic leaflet. This asymmetric distribution is dependent on a group of P4 ATPa...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Yang Y,Liu W,Sun K,Jiang L,Zhu X

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dystrobrevin binding protein-1 (dysbindin-1), a candidate gene for schizophrenia, modulates cognition, synaptic plasticity and frontocortical circuitry and interacts with glutamatergic and dopaminergic transmission. Loss of dysbindin-1 modifies cellular trafficking of dopamine (DA) D2 receptors to increase cell surfac...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schmieg N,Rocchi C,Romeo S,Maggio R,Millan MJ,Mannoury la Cour C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We looked at the possible interactions between astrocytes and neurones during reperfusion using an in vitro model of ischaemia-reperfusion injury, as a controlled environment that lends itself easily to manipulation of the numerous variables involved in such an insult. We constructed a chamber in which O2 can be lower...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Griffin S,Clark JB,Canevari L

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitous polyamines spermidine and spermine are known as modulators of glutamate receptors and inwardly rectifying potassium channels. They are synthesized by a set of specific enzymes in which spermidine synthase is the rate-limiting step catalysing the formation of the spermine precursor spermidine from putres...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Krauss M,Langnaese K,Richter K,Brunk I,Wieske M,Ahnert-Hilger G,Veh RW,Laube G

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the effects of cold and isolation stress on arginine vasopressin (AVP) mRNA in the paraventricular (PVN) and supraoptic (SON) nuclei of the hypothalamus. Vasopressin mRNA levels were determined by in situ hybridization histochemistry at the cellular level. In posterior magnocellular neurons of the PVN isol...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Angulo JA,Ledoux M,McEwen BS

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:Cell culture studies have shown that the Alzheimer amyloid precursor protein (APP) is secreted after full-length APP is cleaved by a putative secretase at the Lys16-Leu17 bond (secretase cleavage I) of the amyloid peptide sequence. Because this cleavage event is incompatible with amyloid production, it has been assume...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Anderson JP,Chen Y,Kim KS,Robakis NK

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A distinctive autofluorescence under ultraviolet light has been observed in the cerebral cortex of young ruminants suffering from cerebrocortical necrosis. The fluorescence is intimately connected with structural elements of the brain and cannot be extracted into solvents by normal procedures. The work presented here ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Edwin EE,Jackman R

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disulfide-bridged S100b protein formation, aircatalyzed and induced by thiol/disulfide exchange, was studied under various ionic conditions. As native, physiological disulfide-bridged proteins are obtained easily from their reduced counterparts under appropriate redox conditions, this work was performed to determine w...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mely Y,Gérard D

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Free radicals have been implicated in the etiology of many neurodegenerative conditions. Yet, because these species are highly reactive and thus short-lived it has been difficult to test these hypotheses. We adapted a method in which hydroxyl radicals are trapped by salicylate in vivo, resulting in the stable and quan...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Giovanni A,Liang LP,Hastings TG,Zigmond MJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the relative impermeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), many drugs are unable to reach the CNS in therapeutically relevant concentration. One method to deliver drugs to the CNS is the osmotic opening of the BBB using mannitol. Hyperosmotic mannitol induces a strong phosphorylation on tyrosine residues...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wilhelm I,Nagyoszi P,Farkas AE,Couraud PO,Romero IA,Weksler B,Fazakas C,Dung NT,Bottka S,Bauer H,Bauer HC,Krizbai IA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are important in the pathophysiology of several neurodegenerative diseases, and mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), membrane depolarization, permeability changes and release of apoptogenic proteins are involved in these processes. Following brain insults, cell death often occurs in ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mattiasson G,Friberg H,Hansson M,Elmér E,Wieloch T

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of prostaglandin (PG) E2 receptors was investigated in a 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-1-propanesulfonate-solubilized fraction from the synaptic membrane of porcine temporal cortex. The fraction was preincubated with exogenous protein kinases, and then the binding of PGE2 was measured. PGE2 binding...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Morii H,Tanemura M,Watanabe Y

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metipranolol is a β-adrenergic receptor antagonist that is given orally for the treatment of hypertension and also applied topically to the cornea for treating glaucoma. It also inhibits nitrosative stress which has previously been shown to be the cause of cone photoreceptor death in retinitis pigmentosa. In this stud...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kanan Y,Khan M,Lorenc VE,Long D,Chadha R,Sciamanna J,Green K,Campochiaro PA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated mRNA expression and protein localization of equilibrative and concentrative nucleoside transporters (ENTs, CNTs) in primary cultures of rat brain endothelial cells (RBEC) and rat choroid plexus epithelial cells (RCPEC). Reverse transcriptase PCR analysis revealed that RBEC and RCPEC contained m...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Redzic ZB,Biringer J,Barnes K,Baldwin SA,Al-Sarraf H,Nicola PA,Young JD,Cass CE,Barrand MA,Hladky SB

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes considered to be markers for neurons (angiotensin converting enzyme, thermolysin-like metalloendopeptidase, alanine aminopeptidase, and glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminase), glia (glutamine synthetase, pyruvate carboxylase, and beta-glucuronidase), and endothelial cells (alkaline phosphatase and plasminogen ac...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Butterworth J

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of facilitative glucose transporter (GLUT) isoforms in human astrocytic tumors was examined. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction of a surgically biopsied glioblastoma was carried out using the degenerative oligonucleotide primers corresponding to the sequences of the human facilitative gluco...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nagamatsu S,Sawa H,Wakizaka A,Hoshino T

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00