Catalpol attenuates nitric oxide increase via ERK signaling pathways induced by rotenone in mesencephalic neurons.

abstract：:The iron siderophore binding protein lipocalin 2 (LCN2, also known as 24p3, NGAL and siderocalin) may be involved in iron homeostasis, but to date, little is known about expression of its putative receptor, brain-type organic cation transporter (BOCT, also known as BOCT1, 24p3R, NGALR and LCN2R), in the brain during n...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Chia WJ,Tan FC,Ong WY,Dawe GS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurotoxic beta-amyloid (Abeta) peptide fragment Abeta(25-35) has been suggested to exert its deleterious effects on cells via production of hydrogen peroxide. In human platelets and in the presence of DMSO to prevent production of hydroxyl radicals from hydrogen peroxide, both Abeta(25-35) and hydrogen peroxide w...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Fowler CJ,Ando Y,Tiger G

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the mechanism of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is not clearly known, its effects on hormones have been widely studied. However, there are controversies about the effect of ECT on blood glucose level. In addition, the possible effects of ECT on the blood cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and triglyceride levels are ign...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Ghanizadeh A,Issaee M,Sigaroody MO,Kaviani K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natriuretic peptides and their receptors are widely expressed in mammalian CNS and increasing evidence implicates them in the regulation of neural development, synaptic transmission and processing of information, and neuroprotection. Although the peptides have been mainly localized in neuronal populations they are als...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Prado J,Baltrons MA,Pifarré P,García A

更新日期：2010-11-01 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 protein kinase C (PKC) family of serine/threonine kinase isoenzymes are universally expressed in vertebrate tissues where they control vital cellular functioning. PKC comprises twelve currently identified mammalian isoenzymes, described in three distinct groups according to their need for different effector stimul...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Wood JP,McCord RJ,Osborne NN

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue preparations from the brain of rats and guinea-pigs were examined for their activity in binding isotopically labelled colchicine, as a measure of their content of tubulin. The amount of binding material extracted into a cold buffered solution was unaffected by keeping tissues at 0 degrees C. It diminished by on...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： McIlwain H,Poll JD

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitors (COX 2) such as parecoxib (par) and valdecoxib (val) are used in the treatment of neuropathic pain. Using the radioligand binding assay it was demonstrated that both the prodrug par as well as its active metabolite val have a specific affinity to the cannabinoid (CB) receptor measured in CB...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Schröder H,Höllt V,Becker A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coenzyme functions of the B vitamins in intermediatry metabolism are well established; nevertheless, for none of them is it possible to determine precisely the connection between the biochemical lesions associated with deficiency and the neurological consequences. Although there is convincing evidence of a neurosp...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Bender DA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions between endothelin-1 (ET)-induced phosphoinositide (PI) hydrolysis and agents that increase Ca2+ influx (i.e. A23187 and ionomycin) or induce depolarization (i.e. KCl) were investigated using C6 glioma. A23187 dose-dependently potentiated ET (30 nM)- and ATP (100 microM)-induced [3H]inositol phosphate (IP...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Lin WW,Chuang DM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical synaptic functions are important and suitable to relatively fast and discretely localized processes, but the nonclassical receptorial functions may be providing revolutionary possibilities for dealing at the cellular level with many of the more interesting and seemingly intractable features of neural and cer...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Vizi ES,Kiss JP,Lendvai B

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify molecular mechanism for sustained activation of gamma protein kinase C (gammaPKC), a neuron-specific subtype, we investigated the involvement of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) products in the membrane association of gammaPKC upon activation of G protein coupled purinoceptors in CHO-K1 and NG 108-15 cells. In addit...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Yagi K,Shirai Y,Hirai M,Sakai N,Saito N

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apart from acetyl-choline (Ach), adenosine-5'-trisphosphate (ATP) is thought to play a role in neuromuscular function, however little information is available on its cellular physiology. As such, effects of ATP and adenosine on contractility of mice diaphragmatic and skeletal muscles (m. extensor digitorum longa-MEDL)...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Grishin SN,Teplov AY,Galkin AV,Devyataev AM,Zefirov AL,Mukhamedyarov MA,Ziganshin AU,Burnstock G,Palotás A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular Ca2+ signals produced by the glutamate receptor agonist alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionate (AMPA; 5 microM) were measured in the somatic and dendritic regions of cerebellar Purkinje neurons in mature cerebellar control cultures (> or = 20 days in vitro) and cultures chronically treated...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Netzeband JG,Trotter C,Caguioa JN,Gruol DL

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative abilities of a series of local anesthetics in which either or both the ester oxygens had been replaced with sulfur or selenium to block axonal or synaptic preparations are compared with their abilities to displace (3)H-nicotine from lobster axon plasma membrane fragments. The relative affinities of a seri...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Mautner HG,Jumblatt JE,Marquis JK

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-synuclein (ASN), a 140-amino acid protein, is richly expressed in presynaptic terminals in the central nervous system, where it plays a role in synaptic vesicle function. However, if it is altered and accumulated it is involved in neurodegeneration as Parkinson's disease (PD). ASN contained 35-amino acid domain ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Adamczyk A,Kaźmierczak A,Strosznajder JB

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that histaminergic neurons in the posterior hypothalamus make connections with whole brain areas and regulate several functions. Recent evidence indicates that histaminergic neurons are heterogeneous cell group and organized into distinct circuits. However, functional circuits of histaminergic n...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Umehara H,Mizuguchi H,Fukui H

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we have demonstrated the presence of presynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors on the terminals of myenteric neurons in Auerbach's plexus of guinea-pig ileum. During these studies we observed, that the presence of hemicholinium-3, an inhibitor of the high affinity choline uptake significantly influences...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Mandl P,Kiss JP

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The less active form of human tyrosine hydroxylase has been previously reported but its physiological role is unknown. We partially purified the less active form of tyrosine hydroxylase from human adrenals, and examined differences in the properties of the active and less active forms. We succeeded in activation of th...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Ishii A,Kiuchi K,Matsuyama M,Satake T,Nagatsu T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic like microvesicles (SLMV) form a pleiomorphic population of vesicles present in neuroendocrine cells of the pituitary and the adrenal medulla. Their composition and biogenesis is very similar to small synaptic vesicles (SSV) present in nerve terminals. Membrane proteins of SSV involved in fusion (synaptotagmi...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Llona I

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Biochemical abnormalities have been implicated in possible mechanisms underlying the epileptic phenomena. Some of these alterations include changes in the activity of several enzymes present in epileptic tissues. Systemic administration of pilocarpine in rats induces electrographic and behavioral limbic seizures and s...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Fernandes MJ,Naffah-Mazzacoratti MG,Cavalheiro EA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we summarize the role of hyperglycemia during cerebral ischemia. Hyperglycemia occurring during experimental and clinical stroke has been associated with increased cerebral damage. Increased oxidative stress resulting from hyperglycemia is believed to contribute to the exacerbated damage. More specific...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Bémeur C,Ste-Marie L,Montgomery J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of mechanoreceptor stimulation and subsequent ATP release in cyclophosphamide evoked chronic bladder inflammation was examined to demonstrate: (1) whether inflammation modulates ATP release from bladder urothelium and (2) whether intravesical botulinum toxin A administration inhibits urothelial ATP release...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Smith CP,Vemulakonda VM,Kiss S,Boone TB,Somogyi GT

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain edema and the subsequent increase in intracranial pressure are the major neurological complications in fulminant hepatic failure (FHF). Brain edema in FHF is predominantly "cytotoxic" due principally to astrocyte swelling. It is generally believed that ammonia plays a key role in this process, although the mecha...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Jayakumar AR,Rao KV,Murthy ChR,Norenberg MD

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of membrane lipid disturbances induced by ischemia and exogenously added lipids on the uptake of GABA and Ca(2+) were investigated in gerbil brain synaptosomes. Ischemia was produced by bilateral ligation of common carotid arteries in Mongolian gerbil for 10 min. The level of the free fatty acids (FFA) inc...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Noremberg K,Strosznajder J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focusing on development of novel drug candidates for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, we developed and synthesized a new compound, 2-(cyclohexylamino)-1-(4-cyclopentylpiperazin-1-yl)-2-methylpropan-1-one (amido-piperizine 1). The compound demonstrated robust neuroprotective properties after both glutamate ...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Elbrønd-Bek H,Wellejus A,Kelly NM,Weidner MS,Jørgensen SH

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat brain membranes were incubated with bee venom phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) or phospholipase C (PLC) from Clostridium perfringens. PLA(2) caused a significant increase in free polyunsaturated fatty acids concomitant with membrane phospholipid degradation as monitored by HPLC and by gas chromatography. Equal concentr...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Chan PH,Chen S,Fishman RA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toluene is a commonly abused solvent found in many industrial and commercial products. The neurobiological effects of toluene remain unclear, but many of them, like those of ethanol, may be mediated by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate receptors. Chronic ethanol administration has been shown to alter levels...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Williams JM,Stafford D,Steketee JD

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine has multiple physiological and pathophysiological roles in the brain. Because of their position at the interface between blood and brain, the cerebral capillaries and the choroid plexuses that form the blood-brain barriers (BBB) and blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barriers, have the potential to influence br...

journal_title：Neurochemistry international

authors： Xiang J,Ennis SR,Abdelkarim GE,Fujisawa M,Kawai N,Keep RF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00