Purification and partial characterization of K+ channel blockers from the venom of Dendroaspis angusticeps.

abstract：:The binding kinetics of the specific dopamine D2 antagonist [3H]raclopride to dopamine D2 receptors in rat neostriatum were studied. The pseudo-first-order rate constants of [3H]raclopride binding with these membranes revealed a hyperbolic dependence upon the antagonist concentration, indicating that the reaction had ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Lepiku M,Rinken A,Järv J,Fuxe K

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play a pivotal role in the regulation of energy metabolism and apoptotic pathways. Properties and functions of mitochondria might render subsets of selectively vulnerable neurons intrinsically susceptible to a different extent to cellular stress and degeneration. We have investigated the effect of 3-nitro...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Singh S,Misiak M,Beyer C,Arnold S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunostains of GD3, c-pathway polysialogangliosides and gangliotetraosylgangliosides belonging to the a- and b-pathways were analyzed in embryo optic lobe cells. Cells were cultured in serum free media with, and without, bovine brain ganglioside mixture (largely gangliotetraosylgangliosides). Control cells differ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Cossy-Isasi S,Panzetta P

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed at examining the effect of tamoxifen, a selective estrogen receptor modulator, on the release of endogenous glutamate in rat cerebral cortex nerve terminals (synaptosomes) and exploring the possible mechanism. Tamoxifen inhibited the release of glutamate that was evoked by the K(+) channel blocker...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Kuo JR,Wang CC,Huang SK,Wang SJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid peroxidation (LP) is a complex process which involves the formation of lipid free radicals and leads to oxidative damage. LP has also been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases as well as aging. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of the induction of LP in vitro on muscarinic cholinergic (M...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Ghosh C,Dick RM,Ali SF

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive and debilitating neurodegenerative disorder that affects over one million people in the United States. Previous studies, carried out in young adult rats, have shown that calcitriol, the active metabolite of vitamin D, can be neuroprotective in 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) models...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Cass WA,Peters LE

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variants in the gene encoding the enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase like 1 (GADL1) have been associated with response to lithium therapy. Both GADL1 and the related enzyme cysteine sulfinic acid decarboxylase (CSAD) have been proposed to be involved in the pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP)-dependent biosynthesis of taurin...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Winge I,Teigen K,Fossbakk A,Mahootchi E,Kleppe R,Sköldberg F,Kämpe O,Haavik J

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) plays an important role in synaptic plasticity and contributes to several brain functions such as memory, learning, and behaviours. Although a number of studies have demonstrated that various kinds of stimuli such as electrophysiological stimulation, excitotoxic injury, and stre...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Horii-Hayashi N,Yoshikawa M,Matsusue Y,Ishizaka S,Nishi M,Wanaka A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet activating factor (PAF) has been suggested to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of neurological disorders. We assessed the effect of PAF against the toxicity of 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP(+)), a parkinsonian toxin, in relation to apoptotic process. PAF exhibited differential effect against the MP...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Ha SW,Lee CS

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentrations of gamma-glutamylglutamate, gamma-glutamylglutamine, gamma-glutamylcysteine, glutamate, aspartate, glutamine, cyst(e)ine and glutathione (including disulfides) were determined by HPLC analysis of both the tissue and the surrounding medium of incubated rat hippocampal slices. High potassium concentra...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Li X,Orwar O,Revesjö C,Sandberg M

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:Glycine receptor (GlyR) consists of two α (1-4) and three β subunits. Considerable evidence indicates that the adult retina expresses the four types of α subunits; however, the proportion of these subunits in adult and immature retina is almost unknown. In this report we have studied mRNA and the...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Sánchez-Chávez G,Velázquez-Flores MÁ,Ruiz Esparza-Garrido R,Salceda R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dipyridamole (DPR) and nitrobenzylthioinosine (NBI) inhibition of adenosine accumulation in synaptoneurosomes derived from rat cerebral cortex, rat cerebellum, guinea pig cerebral cortex and guinea pig cerebellum was investigated. The inhibition of adenosine accumulation by NBI was observed to be distinctly biphasic i...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Morgan PF,Marangos PJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of subcutaneous (s.c.) oxytocin treatment have been investigated on various parameters of dopaminergic neurotransmission in basal forebrain structures (nucleus olfactorius posterior + nucleus accumbens + septum) of the mouse. Acute oxytocin treatment failed to influence dopamine utilization in the basal fo...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Kovács GL,Faludi M,Falkay G,Telegdy G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress-induced neuronal death due to hydrogen peroxide overload plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of numerous neurological diseases. Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) is important in maintaining neuronal survival, proliferation, and differentiation in the central nervous system. We now report that...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Zhong J,Lee WH

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A low density of brain IR2-imidazoline receptive sites has previously been linked to depression. In this study we evaluated brain IR2-binding sites in a rat model of depression, olfactory bulbectomy, and determined the effects of chronic imipramine treatment in vivo on these sites. Compared with sham-operated controls...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Zhu H,Paul IA,McNamara M,Redmond A,Nowak G,Piletz JE

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by memory decline, but is often associated with non-cognitive symptoms, including muscular dysfunction. In the majority of cases these motor disturbances are seen when other neuro-degenerative disorders such as Parkinson's disease overlap dementia, however these can also be di...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Mukhamedyarov MA,Volkov EM,Khaliullina DF,Grigoryev PN,Zefirov AL,Palotás A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we demonstrated that p53 mediates dopaminergic neurotoxicity via inducing mitochondrial burdens and proapoptotsis. However, little is known about the role of p53 in the excitotoxicity induced by psychostimulant, such as cocaine. Cocaine-induced kindling (convulsive) behaviors significantly increased p53 exp...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Mai HN,Sharma N,Jeong JH,Shin EJ,Pham DT,Trinh QD,Lee YJ,Jang CG,Nah SY,Bing G,Kim HC

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments investigated the effect of a neurotoxin purified from the venom of the spider Phoneutria nigriventer. This toxic component, P. nigriventer toxin 3-6 (PnTx3-6), abolished Ca(2+)-dependent glutamate release with an IC(50) of 74.4nM but did not alter Ca(2+)-independent secretion of glutamate when ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Vieira LB,Kushmerick C,Reis HJ,Diniz CR,Cordeiro MN,Prado MA,Kalapothakis E,Romano-Silva MA,Gomez MV

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuronal iron accumulation is thought to be relevant to the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD), although the mechanism remains elusive. We hypothesized that neuronal iron uptake may be stimulated by functional mitochondrial iron deficiency. OBJECTIVE:To determine firstly whether the mitochondrial toxi...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Carroll CB,Zeissler ML,Chadborn N,Gibson K,Williams G,Zajicek JP,Morrison KE,Hanemann CO

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alzheimer's disease amyloid protein precursor (APP) gene is part of a multi-gene super-family from which sixteen homologous amyloid precursor-like proteins (APLP) and APP species homologues have been isolated and characterised. Comparison of exon structure (including the uncharacterised APL-1 gene), construction o...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Coulson EJ,Paliga K,Beyreuther K,Masters CL

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) is a key enzyme of the NO-cGMP pathway which is believed to mediate vasoprotective actions. In cardiovascular diseases such as hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis, these important functions of the vascular endothelium are strongly impaired. One of the major reasons for this so-calle...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Francois M,Kojda G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many peripheral substances, including ghrelin, induce neuronal activation in the brain. In the present study, we compared the effect of subcutaneously administered ghrelin and its three stable agonists: Dpr(3)ghr ([Dpr(N-octanoyl)(3)] ghrelin) (Dpr - diaminopropionic acid), YA GHRP-6 (H-Tyr-Ala-His-DTrp-Ala-Trp-DPhe-L...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Pirnik Z,Bundziková J,Holubová M,Pýchová M,Fehrentz JA,Martinez J,Zelezná B,Maletínská L,Kiss A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much attention has been paid to the connection between periodontitis and Alzheimer's disease (AD). We previously showed that infection of P. gingivalis, one of major periodontal pathogen causing periodontitis, induced migration and inflammatory responses in murine microglia through gingipain-induced activation of prot...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Nonaka S,Nakanishi H

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapid eye movement sleep deprivation is associated with an increase in Na-K ATPase activity. In order to understand the possible biochemical mechanism of this increase, the kinetics of Na-K ATPase was studied. Although the enzyme activity increased after the deprivation, the catalytic efficiency of the enzyme remained...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Adya HV,Mallick BN

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glial (GLT-1 and GLAST) and neuronal (EAAC1) high-affinity transporters mediate the sodium dependent glutamate reuptake in mammalian brain. Their dysfunction leads to neuronal damage by allowing glutamate to remain in the synaptic cleft for a longer duration. The purpose of the present study is to understand their con...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Raghavendra Rao VL,Rao AM,Dogan A,Bowen KK,Hatcher J,Rothstein JD,Dempsey RJ

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing incidence of autism suggests a major environmental influence. Epidemiology has implicated many candidates and genetics many susceptibility genes. Gene/environment interactions in autism were analysed using 206 autism susceptibility genes (ASG's) from the Autworks database to interrogate ∼1 million chemi...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Carter CJ,Blizard RA

更新日期：2016-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Excessive glucocorticoid levels in depressed patients have been associated with atrophic changes in some brain regions, but only few studies suggest that some antidepressants can interfere with deleterious effect of glucocorticoids on neuronal cells. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of dexamethas...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Leskiewicz M,Jantas D,Regulska M,Kaczanowska J,Basta-Kaim A,Budziszewska B,Kubera M,Lason W

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel copper-containing protein has been isolated in electrophoretically homogeneous state from bovine brain extracts. Some physico-chemical properties of the protein are determined (molecular weight, copper content, isoelectric point, amino acid composition, optical and EPR spectra), and they are compared with thos...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Mikaelyan MV,Nalbandyan RM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose is the preferred energy substrate for the adult brain. However, during periods of fasting and consumption of a high fat, low carbohydrate (ketogenic) diet, ketone bodies become major brain fuels. The present study was conducted to investigate how the ketogenic diet influences neuronal-glial interactions in ami...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Melø TM,Nehlig A,Sonnewald U

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is experimental evidence from radioligand binding experiments for the existence of strong antagonistic interactions between different subtypes of adenosine and dopamine receptors in the striatum, mainly between adenosine A1 and dopamine D1 and between adenosine A2A and dopamine D2 receptors. These interactions s...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Lillrank SM,Lipska BK,Weinberger DR,Fredholm BB,Fuxe K,Ferré S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00