Role of acetyl-L-carnitine in rat brain lipogenesis: implications for polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis.

abstract：:We examined the axonal transport of actin and its monomer binding proteins, actin depolymerizing factor, cofilin, and profilin, in the chicken sciatic nerve following injection of [35S]methionine into the lumbar spinal cord. At intervals up to 20 days after injection, nerves were cut into 1-cm segments and separated i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mills RG,Minamide LS,Yuan A,Bamburg JR,Bray JJ

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors play important roles in numerous cognitive processes as well as in several debilitating central nervous system (CNS) disorders. In order to fully elucidate the diverse roles of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in CNS function and dysfunction, a detailed knowledge of their cellular an...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Moser N,Mechawar N,Jones I,Gochberg-Sarver A,Orr-Urtreger A,Plomann M,Salas R,Molles B,Marubio L,Roth U,Maskos U,Winzer-Serhan U,Bourgeois JP,Le Sourd AM,De Biasi M,Schröder H,Lindstrom J,Maelicke A,Changeux JP,Weve

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:gamma-Aminobutyric acidB (GABAB) receptor recognition sites that inhibit cyclic AMP formation, open potassium channels, and close calcium channels are coupled to these effector systems by guanine nucleotide binding proteins (G proteins). These G proteins are ADP-ribosylated by islet-activating protein (IAP), also know...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wojcik WJ,Ulivi M,Paez X,Costa E

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attempts were made to label tachykinin NK2 binding sites in the adult rat brain using [125I]neurokinin A (NKA) as ligand in the presence of NK1 and NK3 agonist or antagonist to avoid labelling of NK1 and NK3 binding sites, respectively. A high-affinity, specifically NK2-sensitive, [125I]NKA-binding, temperature-depend...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Saffroy M,Torrens Y,Glowinski J,Beaujouan JC

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Ion channels are classically understood to regulate the flux of ions across the plasma membrane in response to a variety of environmental and intracellular cues. Ion channels serve a number of functions in intracellular membranes as well. These channels may be temporarily localized to intracellular membranes as a func...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Dong XP,Wang X,Xu H

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the effect of signalling through muscarinic acetylcholine receptors on two transcription factors implicated in long-term synaptic plasticity and memory formation, EGR1 and the cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB). In SK-N-SH neuroblastoma cells, treatment with the cholinergic agonist...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Greenwood JM,Dragunow M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During CNS injury and diseases, nitric oxide (NO) is released at a high flux rate leading to formation of peroxynitrite (ONOO(*)) and other reactive nitrogenous species, which nitrate tyrosines of proteins to form 3-nitrotyrosine (3NY), leading to cell death. Previously, we have found that motor neurons exposed to low...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Bishop A,Gooch R,Eguchi A,Jeffrey S,Smallwood L,Anderson J,Estevez AG

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degeneration of nigral dopamine neurons in Parkinson's disease (PD) reportedly involves a defect in brain mitochondrial complex I in association with the activation of nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) and caspase-3. To elucidate molecular mechanisms possibly linking these events, as well as to evaluate the neurop...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Wang X,Qin ZH,Leng Y,Wang Y,Jin X,Chase TN,Bennett MC

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local cerebral glucose utilization (LCGU) was measured, using the quantitative autoradiographic [14C]2-deoxy-D-glucose method, in 56 brain regions of 3-month-old, awake Fischer-344 rats, after intraperitoneal administration of sulpiride (SULP) 100 mg/kg. SULP, an "atypical" neuroleptic, is a selective antagonist of D2...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pizzolato G,Soncrant TT,Larson DM,Rapoport SI

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglial activation can lead to microglial apoptosis, which may serve to remove highly reactive and possibly neurotoxic microglia. However the loss of microglia may have consequences for future recovery, protection and repair. P53, a nuclear phosphoprotein transcription factor, is critical for activating the express...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Davenport CM,Sevastou IG,Hooper C,Pocock JM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of attachment of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) to neuronal membranes in interneuronal synapses is poorly understood. We have isolated, sequenced, and cloned a hydrophobic protein that copurifies with AChE from human caudate nucleus and that we propose forms a part of a complex of membrane proteins attached...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Navaratnam DS,Fernando FS,Priddle JD,Giles K,Clegg SM,Pappin DJ,Craig I,Smith AD

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulatory effect of cysteine sulfinic acid on cyclic AMP formation was examined in slices from three different regions of guinea pig brain. The inhibitory effect of taurine on the stimulated formation of cyclic AMP was also studied. Cysteine sulfinic acid (1--10 mM) greatly increased the cyclic AMP level in stri...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Baba A,Lee E,Tatsuno T,Iwata H

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The olfactory bulb is one of the most vulnerable brain regions in age-related proteinopathies. Proteinopathic stress is mitigated by the heat shock protein (Hsp) family of chaperones. Here, we describe age-related decreases in Hsc70 in the olfactory bulb of the female rat and higher levels of Hsp70 and Hsp25 in middle...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Crum TS,Gleixner AM,Posimo JM,Mason DM,Broeren MT,Heinemann SD,Wipf P,Brodsky JL,Leak RK

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative condition with no therapeutic intervention known to alter disease progression, but several trials are ongoing and biomarkers of disease progression are needed. Tau is an axonal protein, often altered in neurodegeneration, and recent studies pointed out its ro...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rodrigues FB,Byrne L,McColgan P,Robertson N,Tabrizi SJ,Leavitt BR,Zetterberg H,Wild EJ

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA)-producing neurons in the ventral midbrain are generated from a specified neuronal lineage and form selective axonal pathways that mediate multiple CNS functions. Expression of the gene encoding tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), which is a key enzyme of catecholamine biosynthesis, is regulated during the develop...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Matsushita N,Okada H,Yasoshima Y,Takahashi K,Kiuchi K,Kobayashi K

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro and ex vivo effects of lithium on muscarinic cholinergic inositol phospholipid hydrolysis and muscarinic cholinergic inhibition of dopamine D1-receptor-stimulated cyclic AMP formation were examined in rat brain slices. Following chronic lithium feeding, carbachol-stimulated inositol phosphate accumulation...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Whitworth P,Kendall DA

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) which is primarily associated with neuronal survivability, differentiation and synaptic plasticity has been reported to mediate neurodegeneration in hypoxia through its p75 Neurotrophin receptors (p75NTR). The molecular events promoting BDNF-mediated pro-death signalling in hyp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sharma D,Barhwal KK,Biswal SN,Srivastava AK,Bhardwaj P,Kumar A,Chaurasia OP,Hota SK

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson disease (PD) is a prevalent neurodegenerative disease, in which the formation of misfolded and aggregated α-synuclein is a key neuropathological hallmark. Recent studies reveal that extracellular vesicles such as exosomes present a potential mechanism for propagation of pathological α-synuclein throughout th...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Pinnell JR,Cui M,Tieu K

更新日期：2020-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:A photolabile trifluoromethyldiazoketone derivative of kainate (KA), (2'S,3'S,4'R)-2'-carboxy-4'-(2-diazo-1-oxo-3, 3,3-trifluoropropyl)-3'-pyrrolidinyl acetate (DZKA), was synthesized and evaluated as an irreversible inhibitor of the high-affinity KA site on rat forebrain synaptic plasma membranes (SPMs). In the absen...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Willis CL,Wacker DA,Bartlett RD,Bleakman D,Lodge D,Chamberlin AR,Bridges RJ

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-glutamate (Glu) is the predominant excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. It plays major roles in normal neurophysiology and many brain disorders by binding to membrane-bound Glu receptors. To overcome the spatial and temporal limitations encountered in previous in vivo extracellular Gl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Day BK,Pomerleau F,Burmeister JJ,Huettl P,Gerhardt GA

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoamine oxidases (MAOs) are mitochondrial enzymes which control the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain and dietary amines in peripheral tissues via oxidative deamination. MAO has also been implicated in cell signalling. In this study, we describe the MAO-A isoform as functional in apoptosis induced by staurosp...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Fitzgerald JC,Ufer C,De Girolamo LA,Kuhn H,Billett EE

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A loss of balance between excitatory and inhibitory signaling leads to excitoxicity, and contributes to ischemic cell death. Reduced synaptic inhibition as a result of dysfunction of the ionotropic GABAA receptor has been suggested as one of the major causes for this imbalance, although the underlying mechanisms remai...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Mielke JG,Wang YT

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Pilocarpine-induced seizures are mediated by the M(1) subtype of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR), but little is known about the signaling mechanisms linking the receptor to seizures. The extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling cascade is activated by M(1) mAChR and is elevated during status epi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Berkeley JL,Decker MJ,Levey AI

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the jimpy mutant mouse, as well as in many other animals with mutations in the myelin proteolipid protein (PLP) gene, oligodendrocytes degenerate before their maturation. To analyze whether this degeneration is caused by the loss of function of PLP gene products related to oligodendrocyte maturation/survival acting...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kagawa T,Nakao J,Yamada M,Shimizu K,Hayakawa T,Mikoshiba K,Ikenaka K

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein kinase C γ (PKCγ) undergoes multistep activation and participates in various cellular processes in Purkinje cells. Perturbations in its phosphorylation state, conformation or localization can disrupt kinase signalling, such as in spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14) that is caused by missense mutations i...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jezierska J,Goedhart J,Kampinga HH,Reits EA,Verbeek DS

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tan-67 is a selective non-peptidic δ-opioid receptor (DOR) agonist that confers neuroprotection against cerebral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-caused neuronal injury in pre-treated animals. In this study, we examined whether post-ischemic administration of Tan-67 in stroke mice is also neuroprotective and whether the tre...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Min JW,Liu Y,Wang D,Qiao F,Wang H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-day-old rats subjected to prolonged asphyxia at 37 degrees C show a slower rate of synthesis of 5-HT as measured by the accumulation of the amine after inhibition of monoamine oxidase. During recovery from asphyxia 5-HT synthesis is markedly stimulated when measured over a 50 or 90 min period. No change in 5-HT s...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tricklebank MD,Pickard FJ,Dobbing J

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that mast cells (MCs) are present in rat brain, that they have a predominantly thalamic localization, and that they contain histamine (HA). However, the degree to which these cells contribute to brain HA levels has remained unclear. Our recent studies of the precise distribution of rat brain ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Goldschmidt RC,Hough LB,Glick SD

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00