Distribution and tissue specificity of 4-aminobutyrate-2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase.

abstract：:The immediate and long-term effects of the selective serotonergic neurotoxin 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT) on rat striatal serotonergic neurons were examined after its intracerebroventricular administration using in vivo voltammetry. Extracellular concentration of 5-hydroxyindoles increased immediately following i...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nakazato T,Akiyama A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In human pathology little is known about the activating enzymes for fatty acids of different carbon chain length. In order to have a better insight into disorders of lipid metabolism in human skeletal muscle, we studied the distribution of acyl-CoA synthetases in muscular subcellular fractions. We find that in muscle ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Trevisan C,DiMauro S

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social isolation during early development is one of the most potent stressors that can cause alterations in the processes of brain maturation, leading to behavioral and neurochemical changes that may persist to adulthood. Exposure to palatable diets during development can also affect neural circuits with long-term con...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Arcego DM,Krolow R,Lampert C,Noschang C,Pettenuzzo LF,Marcolin ML,Toniazzo AP,Dalmaz C

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have focused on a single precipitating alteration as the etiological event rather than global changes closely linked to aging. Recent evidence suggests that the most significant of these global changes are metabolic. Here we present data indicating that metabolic rate, nutritio...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Perry G,Nunomura A,Raina AK,Aliev G,Siedlak SL,Harris PL,Casadesus G,Petersen RB,Bligh-Glover W,Balraj E,Petot GJ,Smith MA

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioactive azide derivatives of tetrodotoxin (TTX) were synthesized using 2-nitro-4-azidephenyl-[3H]beta alanine for the purpose of photolabeling of the Na channel. Three azide derivatives, N1, N2 and N3, were separated by ion exchange chromatography on Bio-Rex 70 resin and reversed phase high performance liquid chro...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Uehara S,Uyemura K

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the immunoblot technique, we found that an incubation of purified human myelin in 10 mM Tris-HCl buffer at pH 7.5 resulted in the conversion of the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) to a smaller derivative (dMAG). Exogenously added 5 mM CaCl2 accelerated the conversion of MAG. In buffer containing more than 1...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Sato S,Yanagisawa K,Miyatake T

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular effects of eleven compounds including chalcone glycosides isolated from Brassica rapa L. 'hidabeni' and their synthetic derivatives were studied in rat pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. Of the compounds tested, 4'-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-3',4-dimethoxychalcone (A2) significantly increased the levels of the phosph...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Nishina A,Kimura H,Tsukagoshi H,Kozawa K,Koketsu M,Ninomiya M,Sato D,Obara Y,Furukawa S

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several methods have been described previously for the purification of the nervous-tissue specific protein kinase C substrate B-50 (GAP-43). In this paper we present a new purification method for B-50 from rat brain which employs 2-mercaptoethanol to release the protein from isolated synaptosomal plasma membranes. Mos...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： De Graan PN,Moritz A,de Wit M,Gispen WH

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined changes in neuropeptide Y (NPY) Y2 receptor binding in the brains of C57BL/6 mice in response to different levels of high-fat diets via three dietary intervention methods: high-fat diet, switching from high- to low-fat diet and finally, energy restricted high-fat diet. Forty-five C57Bl/6 male mice ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Huang XF,Yu Y,Li Y,Tim S,Deng C,Wang Q

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study demonstrates that in hippocampal neurons mitochondrial Ca(2+) processing supports Ca(2+) influx via ionotropic glutamate (Glu) receptors. We define mitochondrial Ca(2+) processing as Ca(2+) uptake via mitochondrial Ca(2+) uniporter (MCU) combined with subsequent Ca(2+) release via mitochondrial Na(+)...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Strokin M,Reiser G

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide signal transduction system, and particularly, phospholipase Cbeta isozymes, are relevant in the etiopathogeny of human neuropsychiatric pathologies such as depression. Stimulation of phospholipase Cbeta activity by muscarinic receptors and G proteins was determined in crude and synaptosomal membra...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Garro MA,López de Jesús M,Ruíz de Azúa I,Callado LF,Meana JJ,Sallés J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) inhibits carbachol-stimulated phosphoinositide breakdown in rat brain cortical slices but not in isolated membranes (1). To gain insight into the mechanisms, we examined the effects of NMDA on carbachol-stimulated [3H]inositol phosphate and intermediates of phosphatidylinositol cycle accumu...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Lee HM,Huang CL

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice infected with the Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus showed a significant decrease in the GABA content of cerebral hemispheres. Activity of the enzyme which synthetizes GABA, glutamate decarboxylase, is also reduced in whole cerebral hemispheres, neostriatum, and frontal cortex of infected animals, as comp...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bonilla E,Ryder E,Ryder S

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolipid protein (PLP) is the major intrinsic membrane protein of CNS myelin and is expressed in oligodendrocytes as part of a coordinate program of myelin-specific gene activation. In order to identify the DNA sequences and proteins involved in the regulation of PLP transcription, we have analyzed the 5' flanking ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Cambi F,Kamholz J

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient exchange of lactate between different cell types (such as astrocytes and neurones) would require that lactate transporters are expressed in contiguous parts of the respective plasma membranes. To settle this issue we explored the subcellular expression pattern of monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) by use...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bergersen L,Rafiki A,Ottersen OP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligodendrocytes (OL) are the only myelinating cells of the central nervous system thus interferences, either environmental or genetic, with their maturation or function have devastating consequences. Albeit so far neglected, one of the less appreciated, nevertheless possible, regulators of OL maturation and function ...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Colwell CS,Ghiani CA

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of Ca2+/calmodulin-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was studied in comparison with that of guanine nucleotide-stimulated cyclase activity. The distributions of these activities were similar among the crude fractions but differed among the purified subsynaptosomal fractions. The specif...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Bissen ST,Ueda T

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tumor suppressor PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10) is not only a protein, but also a lipid phosphatase that can negatively regulate the serine/threonine kinase Akt. It has been reported that PTEN can be regulated by means of phosphorylation. However, whether PTEN can be regulated by an...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Pei DS,Sun YF,Song YJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NMDA, the specific agonist of glutamate gated ion channels permeable to calcium, is implicated as a causal factor in the pathogenesis of several neurobiological disorders such as stroke, seizures, ischemia, and chronic neurodegenerative diseases. On the other hand, evidence on the roles of oxidative mechanisms involve...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Küçükkaya B,Haklar G,Yalçin AS

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 4-aminopyridine on [3H]acetylcholine release was studied in rat cerebral cortical synaptosomes in the presence of a several secretagogues that have different mechanisms of action. As found previously, 4-aminopyridine increased [3H]acetylcholine release in a concentration-dependent manner (5-10 mM); a hig...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Meyer EM,Otero DH

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for neuronotrophic factors addressing CNS neurons requires CNS neuronal cell cultures to quantitate putative effects on neuronal survival. Investigation of neurons dissociated from several embryonic CNS tissues have shown that their short-term survival requires supplementation of the culture medium with eit...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Chau RM,Skaper SD,Varon S

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is reported that CNS hemorrhage causes membrane dysfunction and may exacerbate this damage as a result of secondary ischemia or hypoxia. Since hyperbaric oxygenation improves oxygen metabolism, it may reduce this membrane damage. The present study was conducted to reveal whether hyperbaric oxygenation influences me...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Yufu K,Itoh T,Edamatsu R,Mori A,Hirakawa M

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of guanine deaminase (GAH, E.C.3.5.4.3) was lower in rat cerebellum soluble and microsomal fractions than in rat brain subfractions. Adenosine deaminase (ADA, E.C.3.5.4.4) activity was released in higher proportion than guanine deaminase, purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP, E.C.2.1.2.4), 5'-nucleotidase...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Franco R,Canela EI,Bozal J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at comparing the binding characteristics of [3H]ketanserin, a high-affinity serotonin 2A (5-HT2A) receptor antagonist, in the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and striatum of human brain post-mortem. The results indicated the presence of a single population of binding sites in all the regions investigat...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Marazziti D,Rossi A,Palego L,Giannaccini G,Naccarato A,Lucacchini A,Cassano GB

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CNTF (ciliary neurotrophic factor) has been suggested to be an important survival factor for oligodendrocytes; however, this effect is inconsistently obtained and myelination appears normal in CNTF null animals. On the other hand, CNTF stimulates astrocytes to produce growth and trophic factors. Therefore, we tested t...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Albrecht PJ,Enterline JC,Cromer J,Levison SW

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin uptake and metabolism was studied in ependymal primary cultures. Serotonin uptake was facilitated by two different systems, one of which was the neuronal serotonin transporter SERT, exhibiting a Vmax value of 3.8+/-0.1 pmol x min(-1) x (mg protein)(-1) and an apparent Michaelis-Menten constant of 0.41+/-0.03...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Verleysdonk S,Hamprecht B,Rapp M,Wellard J

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of flavonoid-rich foods, in particular fruits and vegetables, has been epidemiologically associated with a reduced risk of heart disease, neurodegenerative disease, cancer and other chronic diseases. Flavonoid glycosides, the main class of flavonoids, have been shown to exert CNS-mediated activities, p...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Fernandez SP,Nguyen M,Yow TT,Chu C,Johnston GA,Hanrahan JR,Chebib M

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that angiotensin II (Ang II) stimulates astrocyte growth through activation of ERK1/2 mitogen activated protein (MAP) kinases. In the current study, we determined whether Ang II stimulates the expression of c-fos, c-jun and c-myc in brainstem astrocyte cultures. Reverse transcriptase-PCR analy...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Delaney J,Chiarello R,Villar D,Kandalam U,Castejon AM,Clark MA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One pathway by which tryptophan is metabolized in the brain as well as in the periphery is through cleavage of the indole ring to formylkynurenine and then kynurenine. Indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase, the enzyme that catalyzes this cleavage, and kynurenine are distributed all across the different anatomic regions of brain...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Gál EM,Sherman AD

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) exert actions on the hippocampus that are important for memory formation. There are correlations between vascular dysfunctions and GR-related gene expression. Both vascular dysfunction and GR gene expression decline occur during the ageing process. Therefore, hypotensors, which have effe...

journal_title：Neurochemical research

authors： Li X,Ma J,Xu J,Zhu D,Li A,Che Y,Chen D,Feng X

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00