ET(A) and ET(B) specific ligands synergistically antagonize endothelin-1 binding to an atypical endothelin receptor in primary rat astrocytes.

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang II) interacts with the neuronal AT1 receptor subtype and initiates a cascade of signaling events involving activation of Ras-Raf-1-MAP kinase. Raf-1-dependent activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) is the key in the chronic norepinephrine neuromodulatory actions of Ang II and is asso...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lu D,Yang H,Raizada MK

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mu-opioid receptor agonists have a preferential effect on nociception in adults but their analgesic effect is less selective in neonates. Here we presented our finding that the mu-opioid receptor agonists had no effect on high voltage-activated Ca(2+) channels (HVACCs) in adult dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons t...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wu ZZ,Cai YQ,Pan HL

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of choline acetyltransferase (CAT) and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), markers of cholinergic and GABAergic terminals, were measured in growing and adult Gunn rats, which possess an autosomal recessive gene for jaundice or kernicterus. In the olfactory tubercle, hippocampus, neostriatum, thalamus, an...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ohno T

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetyl-L-carnitine (ALCAR) is an endogenous metabolic intermediate that facilitates the influx and efflux of acetyl groups across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Exogenously administered ALCAR has been used as a nutritional supplement and also as an experimental drug with reported neuroprotective properties and effe...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Scafidi S,Fiskum G,Lindauer SL,Bamford P,Shi D,Hopkins I,McKenna MC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade and phospholipase A2 (PLA2) are involved in the signal transduction mechanism of the opioid receptor, the delta-, mu-, and kappa-opioid receptors were stably expressed from cDNA in Chinese hamster ovary cells. Activation of the delta-, mu-, and kap...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fukuda K,Kato S,Morikawa H,Shoda T,Mori K

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies examining age differences in membrane fluidity and cholesterol content have reported on the average or total change in membrane structure, respectively. However, a membrane consists of an exofacial leaflet and a cytofacial leaflet that differ in fluidity and cholesterol distribution. The purpose of th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Igbavboa U,Avdulov NA,Schroeder F,Wood WG

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular dopamine (DA) concentrations estimated by transcerebral dialysis and D1-dependent c-fos expression, as demonstrated by Fos immunohistochemistry, were studied after blockade of DA reuptake by GBR-12909. Rats implanted with dialysis probes in the dorsal caudate-putamen did not show any Fos-positive neurona...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Morelli M,Carboni E,Cozzolino A,Tanda GL,Pinna A,Di Chiara G

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diadenosine tetraphosphate (Ap4A) and diadenosine pentaphosphate (Ap5A) have been identified in bovine adrenal medullary tissue using an HPLC method. The values obtained were 0.1 +/- 0.05 mumol/g of tissue for both compounds. The subcellular fraction where Ap4A and Ap5A were present in the highest concentration was ch...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rodriguez del Castillo A,Torres M,Delicado EG,Miras-Portugal MT

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study, interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) has been shown to induce matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) expression through mitogen-activated protein kinases and nuclear factor-kappaB pathways in rat brain astrocytes. Moreover, transactivation of growth factor receptors and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wu CY,Hsieh HL,Sun CC,Tseng CP,Yang CM

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the amyloid hypothesis, accumulation of amyloid beta-peptide (A beta) in the brain is the primary pathogenic event in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Recent evidence indicates that A beta within the intravascular space is linked to A beta deposited in the brain suggesting that transport of A beta between the br...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zlokovic BV

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse monoclonal B-50 antibodies (Mabs) were screened to select a Mab that may interfere with suggested functions of B-50 (GAP-43), such as involvement in neurotransmitter release. Because the Mab NM2 reacted with peptide fragments of rat B-50 containing the unique protein kinase C (PKC) phosphorylation site at serine...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Oestreicher AB,Hens JJ,Marquart A,Mercken M,De Graan PN,Zwiers H,Gipsen WH

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD) activities were measured in the ovary and the Fallopian tube of rats and compared with brain values. GABA levels in the Fallopian tube were about twice as high as in the brain, while in the ovary they represented only about 5% of the amino acid conte...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Apud JA,Tappaz ML,Celotti F,Negri-Cesi P,Masotto C,Racagni G

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular prion protein (PrP(c)) is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored plasma membrane protein whose conformational altered forms (PrP(sc)) are known to cause neurodegenerative diseases in mammals. In order to investigate the intracellular traffic of mammalian PrP(c) in living cells, we have generated a ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lee KS,Magalhães AC,Zanata SM,Brentani RR,Martins VR,Prado MA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-synuclein (ASYN) is a major constituent of the typical protein aggregates observed in several neurodegenerative diseases that are collectively referred to as synucleinopathies. A causal involvement of ASYN in the initiation and progression of neurological diseases is suggested by observations indicating that sin...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schildknecht S,Gerding HR,Karreman C,Drescher M,Lashuel HA,Outeiro TF,Di Monte DA,Leist M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nerve growth factor (NGF) plays a key role in the differentiation of neurons. In this study, we established three NGF-induced neurite-positive (NIN+) subclones that showed high responsiveness to NGF-induced neurite outgrowth and three NGF-induced neurite-negative (NIN-) subclones that abolished NGF-induced neurite out...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Oe T,Sasayama T,Nagashima T,Muramoto M,Yamazaki T,Morikawa N,Okitsu O,Nishimura S,Aoki T,Katayama Y,Kita Y

更新日期：2005-09-01 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：:Functional regeneration in a complete T8 transection model Cheng et al. (1996) and most recently, acidic fibroblast growth factor (aFGF; also known as FGF-1) involved in the repair process of the spinal cord injury (SCI) rat Tsai et al. (2008) have been reported. To further reveal the mechanism of the repair process o...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Shen LF,Cheng H,Tsai MC,Kuo HS,Chak KF

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:The effect of depolarizing concentrations of potassium (56 mM) on the release of [3H]taurine was examined in two types of cultured neurons from mouse brain: cerebral cortex neurons, which are largely GABAergic, and cerebellar neurons, which after treatment with kainate consist almost entirely of glutamatergic granule ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schousboe A,Pasantes-Morales H

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine neurons have been suggested to use glutamate as a cotransmitter. To identify the basis of such a phenotype, we have examined the expression of the three recently identified vesicular glutamate transporters (VGLUT1-3) in postnatal rat dopamine neurons in culture. We found that the majority of isolated dopamine...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dal Bo G,St-Gelais F,Danik M,Williams S,Cotton M,Trudeau LE

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have screened a human cDNA library using an expressed sequence tag related to the BM-40/secreted protein, acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC)/osteonectin family of proteins and isolated a novel cDNA. It encodes a protein precursor of 424 amino acids that consists of a signal peptide, a follistatin-like domain, a Ca...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Vannahme C,Schübel S,Herud M,Gösling S,Hülsmann H,Paulsson M,Hartmann U,Maurer P

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated hippocampal hyperglutamatergic signaling occurs prior to plaque accumulation in AβPP/PS1 mice. Here, we evaluate 2-Amino-6-(trifluoromethoxy) benzothiazole (riluzole) as an early intervention strategy for Alzheimer's disease (AD), aimed at restoring glutamate neurotransmission prior to ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hascup KN,Findley CA,Britz J,Esperant-Hilaire N,Broderick SO,Delfino K,Tischkau S,Bartke A,Hascup ER

更新日期：2020-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) is toxic to chick peripheral sympathetic neurons maintained in culture in the presence of nerve growth factor (NGF). When MPP+ was added to the culture medium at the time the neurons were plated, cell loss after 3 days in culture was evident at concentrations as l...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bhave SV,Johannessen JN,Lash LH,Wakade TD,Wakade AR

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The long-term regulation of tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) by serotonin has been studied with cultures of newborn rat locus ceruleus explants. The presence of serotonin in the culture medium for a 24-h period was followed by an inhibition of TH activity in the explants. This effect lasted several days, with a maximal effec...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Devau G,Multon MF,Pujol JF,Buda M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of hypoxia and hypoglycaemia on the redox state in vitro have been studied. NADH and NAD+ were extracted simultaneously from superfused cerebral cortex slices and assayed by bioluminescence. The results show a nonsignificant increase in NADH and the redox ratio in "mild hypoxia," whereas "severe hypoxia" p...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Garofalo O,Cox DW,Bachelard HS

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocytes remove glutamate from the synaptic cleft via specific transporters, and impaired glutamate reuptake may promote excitotoxic neuronal injury. In a model of viral encephalomyelitis caused by neuroadapted Sindbis virus (NSV), mice develop acute paralysis and spinal motor neuron degeneration inhibited by the AM...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Prow NA,Irani DN

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Networks of neurons express persistent spontaneous network activity when maintained in dissociated cultures. Prolonged blockade of the spontaneous activity with tetrodotoxin (TTX) causes the eventual death of the neurons. In this study, we investigated some molecular mechanisms that may underlie the activity-suppresse...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Schonfeld-Dado E,Fishbein I,Segal M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation pattern and rate of [Ile5]-Angiotensin (Ang) I, II, and III were studied in neuron-enriched and glia-enriched cells in primary cultures from rat brain. Metabolites were separated by HPLC, and their identities were evaluated by comparison of their retention times with those of synthetic Ang peptide frag...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hermann K,Phillips MI,Raizada MK

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has demonstrated that there is a selective increase in extracellular taurine in the brain during acute water intoxication. One aim of the present study was to investigate whether plasma taurine contributes to this increase. To this end, the concentrations of taurine, other amino acids, and ethanolamine (...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lehmann A,Carlström C,Nagelhus EA,Ottersen OP

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphodiesterase (PDE) 7B, a cAMP-specific PDE which is dominantly expressed in striatum, is expected to be involved in dopaminergic signaling in striatal neurons. Here we show, for the first time, the involvement of the dopaminergic signaling pathway in transcriptional activation of rat PDE7B in primary striatal cul...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sasaki T,Kotera J,Omori K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00